Comments for Bainbridge Notebook

Comment on Friendships planted in the garden by Accessible Gardening

Accessible Gardening — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:08:08 +0000

Cool!, I’ve just started gardening from my wheelchair, so found this quite an interesting read!

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by Still no real concern from HRB

Still no real concern from HRB — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:34:37 +0000

RIP Ronnie. So sad.

Comment on Island family wiped out by meth house nightmare by Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:46:34 +0000

Patrick- contact Able RTW Corp. in Tacoma. They will test, and Heidi, the owner, is fantastic!

Comment on Island family wiped out by meth house nightmare by Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:54:03 +0000

There’s a house I’m negotiating for that may have been used for meth. Where can this $283 drug-making chemicals test be found?

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by The Unwashed Masses

The Unwashed Masses — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:11:40 +0000

I understand that you are probably very busy this summer, but I wanted to let you know that many of us miss your posts. Mornings are just not the same.

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by Penny Wise

Penny Wise — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:22:03 +0000

Ezra Pound Foolish loves parks! He nominated a property for parkland, otherwise there would be a paltry 69 suggestions for new parks.

The Italians love parks, private parks, gated parks and limited access waterways. The Italians have style!

I’m flipping through my copy of the Bainbridge Review airmail international edition and I see no nominations for housing for the poor and the disabled. I think it’s an outrage. Ezzie says it’s parks politics.

“We can’t have parks AND equal access to housing,” Ezra said. “We’d have poor disabled people all over the parks. It’s bad for tourism”, he says. I told him a theme park economy is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I told Ezzie that because he writes for the government, doesn’t mean he knows anything except what they tell him. He said I should join a public land trust if I want justice. I told him he should go skeet shooting with Dick Cheney if he wants amusement.

Ciao from Navels, Penny and Ezzie

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by Harry Plotter

Harry Plotter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:22:39 +0000

Follow the pecuniary considerations… No one in the Ministry has learned how to disappear a paper trail. Yet.

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by The Unwashed Masses

The Unwashed Masses — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:23:47 +0000

Has Shining City merged with the Sun?

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by Robert Dashiell

Robert Dashiell — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:33:47 +0000

It MIGHT just be a coincidence, but on 10 April 2009, the major land owners and developers of Lynnwood Center sent a letter to the city requesting NSC’s be included in the new High Density Housing Development ordinance the city has been crafting for the past year. Included in the letter was a statement on the Serenity property, stating it would be a candidate for such housing density increases. In all fairness, rebuilding a Serenity type structure was mentioned as a possibility to be included in the increased density, but not knowing the players, I don’t know if that is being said with meaning or if it’s just a politically correct statement that has no real intention of being implemented.

But the timing of when the HDDP was conceived and the still unexplained Serenity House closing with little HHHS or HRB support seems strange. And of course, HRB would get more affordable housing built if the property was included in HDDP … maybe a long stretch on why HRB didn’t seem to get involved in saving Serenity, but then again, maybe not.

And since HDDP is designed for easy integration into future land use code after the interim ordinance expires (that’s been stated Planning and Land Use meetings), there may be a long range land use strategy at play in Serenity’s demise.

Comment on Serenity House’s sad ending by James M. Olsen, Shining City Media

James M. Olsen, Shining City Media — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:46:18 +0000

WASTE NO TIME : RIP

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND

The Serenity House is no more.

A fixture in the south island community of Lynwood Center for nearly a century, much of the group home for developmentally disabled adults was torn down Wednesday by the property’s new owner.

Serenity House closed in March after its 17 residents were moved to care facilities and group homes around Kitsap County. The Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority, which owned the 3.4-acre property, could no longer afford to subsidize Serenity’s operating costs, which amounted to about $16,000 a month.

KCCHA abandoned plans to redevelop the property with new assisted-living homes.

Built as a public school in 1914, the 11,000-square-foot facility had fallen into disrepair.

The building also served as a sanitarium and, for the last 40 years, a home for developmentally disabled adults and others in need of full-time care.

KCCHA listed the property in March for $1.95 million. A development company led by island resident Steve Romein purchased the property last month. Romein could not be reached for comment.

The property boasts panoramic views of Rich Passage and sits across the street from the theater property, which is also owned by Romein.

Tristan Baurick, Kitsap Sun