Project: The Nutrition Coalition
Alan Hoffman, Blaine Hardy, Gena Wales, Laura Melrose, Bud Price, Patty Henderson
The Nutrition Coalition will introduce children enrolled in the Head Start program to fruits and vegetables in a fun and interesting way. Through a series of lesson plans, preschool-age children will be presented with a hands-on experience that introduces the assortment of fruits and vegetables available and encourages children and teachers to the benefits of eating healthy.

Project: Born Learning Trail
Brenda McDaniels, Jennifer Forbes, Staci Fuller, Beth Leone-Mullins, Jeff Pfost, Carl Borg
The Marksmen will establish a Born Learning Trail at the Naval Avenue Early Learning Center. The trail will feature 9 different and interactive signs and stations for children, youth, and adults that encourage every day, teachable moments with young children. This kid-friendly trail encourages physical and mental development with fun and interactive learning games that parents, grandparents, and caregivers can play with children.

Project: Kids Get Active
Anthony Strickland, Kathleen Hackney, Chris Rowland, Valerie Oas, Angie Silva, Sid Williams, Debbie Laudenslager
Kids Get Active will partner with the Kitsap Gets Active Coalition and work with Cottonwood Elementary School 5th and 6th grade students to reduce childhood idleness through a rewards-based activity program. The students will be educated on the health benefits of daily exercise and encouraged to engage in physical activity and track their progress.

Project: Bicycle Rodeo
Marie Singleton, Gina Beckwith, Elaine Williams Bryant, Laurie Hoskinson, Carly Michelson, Chris Warthen, Rob Hopkins
The Crash Test Dummies will organize and participate in a Bicycle Rodeo at the Kitsap Youth Expo on April 25, 2009 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds. The event will encourage bicycle use, promote safety, environmental awareness, and encourage education for all ages. Participants will be given a passport and travel to different stations learning about bike safety, rules of the road, proper helmet fitting, local bike trails and how bicycling benefits the environment



Class of 2008

Project: KIDSERVE
Nancy Austin, Allen Banks, Irene Carper, Pat Murray, Kathryn Quade, Opal Robertson, Jessica White
KIDSERVE is an event to draw over 100 Kitsap County teens and their family to support the 19th annual Global Youth Service Day on Saturday, April 26, 2008. KIDSERVE will create the venue for the County's future leaders to engage in a successful volunteer effort, make valuable connections and, most importantly, learn the importance of service and civic engagement.

Project: Teens4Teens
Tricia Hamill, Stormie Long, Jessie Palmer, Rand Riedrich, Jackie Siler, Theresa Smith
Teens4Teens partners with Stand Up For Kids (SUFK) to provide a form of respite to teens who may have to leave behind personal items when unforeseen circumstances cause them to suddenly leave their homes (e.g. emergency foster care). The project will assemble backpacks stocked with essential personal items that are distributed through SUFK partners.

Project: Project Homeless Resources
Debbie Brockman, Amanda Cheatham, Kelly Fisk, Audranne Mixon, Terri Porter, Andrea Spencer
Project Homeless Resources will partner with law enforcement agencies to create a resource handout for homeless individuals, and with public television station, BKAT, to create an awareness video about homelessness in Kitsap County. BKAT will air the video and encourage local businesses and service organizations to host “donation stations” to collect items for the homeless.

Project: Speak Out for Education
Jeff Bauman, Olga Fedorovski, Lucy Leu, Michelle Miller, Teresa Osinski, Dave Rosenberg
Speak Out for Education partners with the Kitsap Regional Library and the South Kitsap School District to bring local professional speakers into the classroom that answer the question students often ask, “Why do I have to know that?” It is a program that will connect classroom concepts to reallife examples.

Project: Smile Kitsap
Nathaniel Berwind, Brandy Fend, Patricia Hubler, Gina Huston, Chris Lee, Barb Sykes, Aimee Warthen
Smile Kitsap is a children’s dental health outreach campaign that will partner with Peninsula Community Health Services and provide on-site education to grades K through 3 with hands-on learning activities about dental health and proper dental care.



Class of 2007

Project: Volunteer Kitsap!
Kathleen Cahall, Abby Crisp, Dave Finley, Art Malgapo, Charisse Ritzman, Sara Simrell
The Volunteer, Kitsap! team designed and implemented a public outreach campaign to launch Kitsap County's new web-based Volunteer Center - www.volunteerkitsap.org This Volunteer Center supports all organizations in Kitsap County that utilize volunteers by improving the infrastructure that connects volunteers to organizations. A Volunteer Center is a convener for the community, a catalyst for social action, and a key resource for volunteer involvement. As more people volunteer, they make positive connections within our community. This new site joins over a hundred Volunteer Centers across the nation now using 1-800-Volunteer.org; a bilingual web-based portal where volunteers can find volunteer opportunities in their communities to use their skills to assist or to address year-round community-based needs. The Washington Alliance for Volunteer Engagement (WAVE) is funding the Center. The Volunteer, Kitsap! team participated in the vital drive to organize and recruit volunteers to meet the local community needs throughout Kitsap County. The team used a variety of methods to reach potential volunteers such as booths at the Kitsap Mall and other community events, newspaper articles, cable access television, presentations, pens and bookmarks, and even a highway reader board. Over 400,000 outreach contacts were made by the team through these methods. The goal was to recruit as many volunteers as possible through the website where a database is used to store records of volunteers’ account information. Recruitment of 1,000 volunteers averaging 5 hours per month would translate into a potential community benefit of over $1 million per year. The Volunteer Center database will be an ongoing endeavor overseen by the United Way and Kitsap County. This database will provide a long term tool that will benefit the Kitsap community for years to come by providing an ongoing pool of volunteers.

Project: Operation: Disaster Prep
Les Lee Arriza, Claire Bradley, Carolyn Day, Greg Hunt, John Rykala, Pam Townsend, Rachel Wellman
The Operation: Disaster Prep team partnered with local emergency management, housing authorities, the American Red Cross, the Chuck Wagon Senior Nutrition Program and Kitsap Community Resources and held a Disaster Preparedness Fair on April 14. The event took place at the West Park Family Housing Community Center with predetermined families. The fair included opportunities for individuals to receive emergency training while assembling 72-hour disaster preparedness kits. In addition to receiving the kits, all the adults were given important survival information by Phyllis Mann, Executive Director of Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management. At the same time, children ages 7-14 were taught basic first aid by the American Red Cross. Everyone learned important ways to protect themselves and their families and had the opportunity to pick up vouchers to attend additional Red Cross classes.

Project: Hunger Fighters Special Unit
Stephanie Charbonneau, Patricia Hennessy, Faithe Lester, Wanda Moore, Luke Morscheck, Roger Zabinski
The Hunger fighters Special Unit partnered with members of the Kitsap County Food Bank Coalition, United Way of Kitsap County, Parametrix and Rice Fergus Miller to lead a campaign designed to increase awareness about hunger in Kitsap County. The Hunger Fighters produced a brochure and video for the Food Bank Coalition and hosted an outreach event at the Kitsap Mall in early May. At this event, they built an eight-foot tall food pyramid out of 971 cans, promoted the annual Letter Carriers Food Drive and provided families with information about food assistance programs available in our community. In addition, the Hunger fighters teamed up with junior high school students in South Kitsap to collect more than 8,000 individual diapers and worked with the Soroptomists to collect feminine hygiene products. These products, along with the 1,300 pounds of food used to create the food pyramid, were donated to the eight food banks in Kitsap County. Because of the generosity of so many individuals and businesses the Hunger Fighters special Unit also mad a $500.00 donation to the Kitsap County Food Bank Coalition.

Project: Connecting Kitsap
Kevin Buyer, Kathy Collings, Brennan Dobbins, Jill Johnston, Bonnie Michal, Chuck Sanders
Connecting Kitsap successfully placed twenty four donated and refurbished computers into the community. The computers have been placed at three different Kitsap County Consolidated Housing facilities, Martha and Mary Nursing Home, and Park Vista Assisted Living facility. In addition, computers were also placed with two individual seniors in the Central Kitsap area, the Friends of Avery, the Boys and Girls Club of Bainbridge Island, a Silverdale Kiwanis sponsored individual and Kitsap Community Resources Learning Center. Kitsap Computing Seniors will take over the project beginning July 2007. They will be using the resources that the team has gathered, including a storage unit which was donated for one year to hold computers until they are repaired and placed. Connecting Kitsap, "Linking the wisdom of the past to the technology of the future through community involvement", would like to express sincere thanks and appreciation to our community sponsors and participants for the success of this project.

Project: Teen$ense
Jill Brenner, Peter Denis, Shannon Doran, John Forsman, Katy Kingsbury, May Westerback, Robin Williams
Teen$ense is a project that focused on making financial literacy fun for adolescents. Sponsored by CFA NW Mortgage Professionals and the Clearwater Casino, Teen$ense was able to put together a sustainable financial literacy program with the Suquamish Tribe. The project included a Train the Trainer session on Saturday, April 21. The Teen$ense team left the training session with several learning points. For example, one curriculum item the teens particularly connected with was a discussion called “Circle of Life.” They related to the historical self-reliance of traditional native communities; the understanding and respect for natural resources; and the ability to manage those resources by budgeting and saving them to address the needs of their people throughout the seasons. The teachers at the Tribal School plan to turn the Teen$ense project into a 40 hour math class this summer with the goal of increasing to a full semester in the fall.



Class of 2006

Project: Raising Kitsap
Debbie Austin, Scott Bosch, Jay Burghart, Lea Duffy, Gretchen Olsen, Joe Payne, and Lene Price
The Raising Kitsap project involves the production of a marketing video and brochure to raise the community awareness of The Parenting Place program at Kitsap Community Resources (KCR). The 10-minute video explains the current and future needs within our county for The Parenting Place and how individuals can assist with volunteerism or monetary contributions. It highlights the variety of programs offered and links the program’s outcomes directly with building a healthy, successful community through strengthening families. Leadership Kitsap team members are also raising funds to support The Parenting Place and giving presentations at service organizations throughout the county including Bremerton Rotary on April 17, Soroptimists on April 18, and the East Bremerton Rotary on May 31. To date, over $2000 has been donated for supplies supporting children’s programs. Video footage was obtained by filming staff, participants, and volunteers in individual interviews, several classes, and general footage of Kitsap County provided by the Rice Fergus Miller VisLAB Film Crew and Harrison Medical Center. The video will be provided in VHS and DVD format to KCR for their future use and a version will also be prepared to air on BKAT. Production support for the video was provided by Rice Fergus Miller VisLAB, while Harrison Medical Center donated funds to produce the complimentary brochure.

Project: Hang On Kitsap
Gregory Platz, Scott Daniels, Jennifer Hayes, Sandy Scott, Ken Bagwell, Randy Corbell, and Barb Santos
Hang on Kitsap has devised a plan to help the older adults of Kitsap County stay safe with great success so far. Emails and phone calls flew between the team members as the two installation days were arranged. News releases, hand outs and community partners such as Catholic Community Services sent almost 100 names to the Kitsap County Health District which acted as the collection agency. Homes were personally visited by the members of the team to determine the scope of the help that could be given. Legal, liability and volunteer issues were all worked out without a single “Chocolate” - the teams’ predetermined code word for help. On March 25th and April 22nd the team assembled with their other partners from Lowe's and the Fire Departments to make the final grab bar installations, check/install fire detectors and provide other safety information. When the blue T-shirt clad Hang On Kitsap team arrived, it was a mini Extreme Makeover team all the way to hugs and smiles of gratitude. The team is not about to rest yet. They have visions and have already completed serious leg work to leave a legacy. They are looking to provide the infrastructure so that more senior adults can benefit from an on going program. More to follow as Hang On Kitsap celebrates incredible days making a difference in the lives of Kitsap’s older adults.

Project: Sound Challenge
Jacquelyn Aufderheide, Bill Carlson, Troy Crisp, Mitch Gillen, Mindy Hager,
Sauni Holt
Sound Challenge, held its kick off event on June 3, 2006, at the Silverdale Waterfront Park. The “Sound Challenge Regatta” was held from 10-4 p.m. and included participation by local business, sailing clubs, and others. The event was designed to be a fundraising opportunity for the Kitsap Sailing and Rowing Foundation as well as the official turn over of the Sound Challenge Youth Sailing program to the Kitsap County Parks and Recreation department. Demonstrations by the Kitsap County Search and Rescue team and the Suquamish tribe large canoes were planned. Local yacht clubs brought several full size sailboats to the marina for tours and display. Information and points of contact can be found at www.soundchallenge.org.

Project: Spoons Across Kitsap
Shauna Washburn, Eric Pickard, Michelle Cartwright, Ty Tabor, Jenny Sellar and Rick Schulgen
Spoons Across Kitsap Project Team presented a dinner party for children and their families on April 1 at Harrison Hospital in Silverdale. Spoons Across America is a program that provides and promotes food and nutrition education to children, families and teachers, through classroom, after-school, and community-based activities. The children arrived early to help set tables, decorate the room, and observe the chef as he prepared the meal. They were dressed in semiformal attire and many of the girls had had their hair done. The children helped the wait staff serve the meal and clear the tables for this event. Family members made comments that since their kid’s involvement in the Spoons program they were helping with dinner preparation at home and that they were paying more attention to the nutritional value of the meal.



Class of 2005

Project: Mentoring
Skip Beahm, Joseph Gray, Leanne Ryan, Paula Florence, and Denise King
January is National Mentoring Month! On January 11th members of Leadership Kitsap’s Class of 2005 and project team one helped sponsor a Kick-Off Event for the Kitsap Youth Mentoring Consortium. The event was held at the Norm Dick’s Government Center in Bremerton and was attended by individuals from all over Kitsap County. The evening’s theme was “Pass It On,” and the event’s speakers shared stories of their own experiences as mentees and how they are now “passing on” those experiences as mentors, each in their own individual way. The event provided information about local mentoring opportunities and how community members can become involved in the youth mentoring consortium. The evening was highlighted with artwork from local elementary school children depicting their mentor experience as well as quotes being read by various presenters which expressed the impact of mentoring on Kitsap County’s youth. The attendants were encouraged to participate in the Consortium’s upcoming Pledge Walk that will take place on March 12th and will be held at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale. The proceeds will benefit the Consortium’s Endowment Fund. Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Debbie Rowe, and the speakers included Chris Endresen, Chair of the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, Mayor Cary Bozeman, Mary Ellen de la Pena, Coordinator of Kitsap Youth Mentoring Consortium, Jennifer Green of the Kitsap Community Foundation, and Joey Gray, a current member of Leadership Kitsap Class of 2005. Leadership Kitsap Team ONE members include: Skip Beahm, Silverdale Water District, Joseph Gray, Lockheed Martin, April Mills, PSNS&IMF, Leanne Ryan, Sanchez Paulson Mitchell & Schock, Paula Florence, KCCHA, and Denise King of Olympic College. If you are interested in participating in the Pledge Walk, or would like more information about the Consortium program please call (360) 337-4878.

Project: Helping Homeless Men
Greg Fields, Michelle Hansen, Dan Schremser, Charmaine Scott, Kathy Thompson, and Susan Longstreth
Team 4 - Attacking the need for more homeless shelters for men and men with families. Team Four has partnered with Catholic Community Services and The Suquamish Tribe to increase awareness of homeless men and their families in Kitsap County. The most recent homeless census completed in 2001, estimated there are approximately 621 homeless individuals and families in Kitsap County; 176 of them are single men. There are resources scattered throughout the County to help the homeless, however, there are no resources for single homeless men or single homeless men with families. That is unless you count the four rooms available to men at The Suquamish Tribe located in the North end of the County. This transitional housing is not well known. If homeless men are aware of this housing they are under the false impression it is available only to tribal members. All men are welcome as long as the space is available. In January of 2005, Catholic Community Services will have a ground breaking for a new transitional housing facility for men and it will be called the Benedict House. The Benedict House will have 25 rooms available, one of which will be for men with children. There will be a training room with five computers to assist these men in taking online classes, acquiring GED's, writing resumes, and many other necessary requirements for employment and housing. The goal of the Benedict House and The Suquamish Tribal housing program is to assist men in getting out of the vicious circle of homelessness and unemployment. You cannot get a job without an address and you cannot get an address without a job. Our Leadership Kitsap team has secured the maximum monetary donations as set forth by the Leadership Kitsap Foundation. Our sponsors are The Suquamish Tribe, KPS Health Plans, Air Management Services and Kitsap Xerographix. We have also secured in kind printing donations from Pollard Group, Inc, and we will be purchasing informational displays from Impressions Group. It is our intent to have the graphics provided for both the posters and displays by one of three school districts. We are having students of high school art classes compete for the marketing design. Winners will be awarded bonds from Kitsap Bank. We are also attempting to acquire the five training computers needed for the Benedict House training room. Team Four Project Members: Greg Fields, KPS Health Plans, Michelle Hansen, The Suquamish Tribe, Dan Schremser, PSNS&IMF, Charmaine Scott, Kitsap Community Resources, Kathy Thompson, Kitsap Credit Union and Susan Longstreth, Bremerton School District.

Project: TeenFest
Adam Brockus, Harriette Bryant, Alene Evans, Grace Greenside, Keith Hazen, Kelly Woodward
Team 2’s project is to develop and implement The Kitsap TeenFest, which is an all-in-one community event on many relevant and timely topics, products and services that can help teens deal with important teen issues, problems and challenges. The fair includes exhibits, mini workshops, demonstrations, and screenings. Teens can learn about the risks of romance and dating, how to register as a voter, how to fill out an income tax form, financial planning or how to fight fat and eating disorders to name a few. We hope to attract at least 100 teenagers and we will be providing incentives to motivate teens to visit each exhibitor’s booth. The Team is getting expert advice from Central Kitsap High School students. The TeenFest is scheduled for Friday, April 29th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm in the Kitsap Mall, Silverdale. Thanks to generous in-kind donations, our fair is fully funded. Admission to the event is free to the public.

Project: Reuse-A-Shoe
Terri Washburn, Randy Crenshaw, John Hudson, Diane Jennings, Melissa Tippets, Cameron Teller
Team Triple Play needs your help with a great community project! Team players include: Consider what happens when athletic shoes are ready to be retired. What if there was a way to keep old, tired and worn-out shoes out of landfills and convert them to basketball courts, tennis courts, athletic fields, running tracks, or playground surfaces? There is! It’s called Reuse-A-Shoe. This program, developed by Nike and the National Recycling Coalition, gets all brands of worn-out athletic shoes “back into the game” through a product containing NikeGrind. Our goals are to: collect a minimum of 5,000 pairs of shoes; apply to Nike for a grant to put a NikeGrind play surface at a County park to complete the recycling loop; and teach students the impact their purchasing decisions have on the environment through the Air to Earth curriculum used by Public Works. Shoe collection begins January 24 at twenty-six collection sites located throughout the county and runs through April 21. A complete list of collection sites is listed on our project’s website www.kitsapreuseashoe.org Not only are there community drop-off sites, individual companies (i.e. Manchester EPA Lab, Parametrix) and schools are collecting shoes from their staffs and families and charitable organizations (St. Vincent DePaul, Goodwill, food banks) are diverting unusable athletic shoes to our project thereby decreasing their disposal costs. Our project culminates in a collection event over Earth Day, April 23-24, in the Kitsap Mall parking lot under the big top. Our community partners include Kitsap Co. Public Works (insurance, printing, advertising, shipping materials, classroom presentations), DONOBi (development and hosting the website), Waste Management (collection bins), United Moving and Storage (storage of HUGE boxes of shoes), SWFPAC (collection and delivery of shoes), the US Navy Brig (shoe processing), and Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts (collection event help). Pepsi, Roundtable Pizza, and Albertson’s are donating food during the collection event. We are on the move and invite you to join us as we get Kitsap’s old, tired shoes “back in the game!”



Class of 2004

Project: Bremerton ALIVE Shelter and Garden Place
Julie Johnson, Wendy Priest, VernaRae Oraker, Rob Henry, Damon McAlister, Lowell Sweet
The Bremerton ALIVE Play and Garden Place is an enhancement project that will provide a beautiful, safe, nurturing, fun garden and play area for women and children at the YWCA ALIVE Shelter. The project includes upgrading the children’s play area by providing a missing swing and slide and replacing wood chips with pea gravel. Landscaping will include planting several large shrubs for privacy, several small plants and a raised pea-patch garden for the children.

Project: Non-Profit Directory
Roger Gay, Debora Juarez, Matthew Keough, Kathy Nelson, Greg Roberts, April Stevens-Meyers
A spirit of collaboration and much brainstorming led us to one conclusion: Worthy organizations need funds and support to get their work done! Our project, “Resources: A Directory for Kitsap County Non-Profits and Community Project Volunteers,” will be a handy reference, listing local service organizations and companies wishing to make the most difference possible by investing in our community. Our community partner is Kitsap Community Foundation. As with any community project, there is a wide group of participants who made this book possible - THANK YOU!

Project: A New Start
John Gese, Judy Henry, Jodi Hultquist, Tamra Ingwaldson, Morgan Johnson, Tommy Rayfield
We partnered with Kitsap County Consolidated Housing, North Kitsap/Poulsbo Rotary, and North Kitsap/Bainbridge Island YWCA Alive Shelter. With the combined project the group took on the responsibility of developing a safe play area and play set for a newly renovated property to be used as a safe home for families leaving a domestic violence situation. The group’s goal was to make the families New Start more complete for the children by bringing the joy of play back into their lives.

Project: Bremerton Revitalization and Historical Monument
Kim Churchill, Larry DeBarthe, Don Thornton, Kyle Welling, Michelle Yeoman
We partnered with The Murals of Bremerton and the City of Bremerton to create an Art Deco themed portrait of Bremerton during the Harry Truman visit. The mural is located on the outside wall of the Soriano building and also commemorates on open air market operated by the Soriano Brothers. The team also has three benches donated by JPL Habitability. These benches are to be placed strategically by the City of Bremerton.



Class of 2003

Project: Community Garden & Pea Patch
Deanna Peck, Tim Drury, Lois Bubong, Karen McNamara, Ed Szlosek
Leadership Kitsap team two partnered with the Port Orchard Care Center to transform a barren lot next to the Care Center on Pottery Avenue, into an attractive garden and gathering place that the community will be able to enjoy for years to come. Handicapped-accessible raised beds enable Care Center residents to grow their own fresh vegetables and flowers. Pea Patches are available to the public for a nominal fee.

Project: Bridge Partners
Jeff Black, Sandy Atkins, Linda Brown, Claudia Peetz, Denise Nesham, Denise Feldbush
This LK team partnered with Julie Johnson, Bridges to Success Displaced Homemaker Program Coordinator and Laurie Adamson, Olympic College Women's Program Manager to develop a one-on-one mentoring service called Bridge Partners. Volunteers participate in the classroom, sharing stories of successful career transitions and listening to the challenges facing participants. Volunteers also provide curriculum support in areas needed by the program such as computer skills training. At the end of each quarter mentors are assigned to class participants for assistance with resume reviews, interview skills parctice, networking development and moral support for women who are transitioning back into the work place. This program assists Kitsap families in reestablishing a sound economic foundation where children can thrive.

Project: Service With a Smile
Jamie Estill, Connie Merrill, Marci Pinkerton, Denise Ledingham, Susan Chesbrough, David Walters
This Leadership Kitsap team partnered with Peninsula Community Health Plans. The team facilitated creation of a pilot program to provide affordable dental care services with the opportunity for participants to serve the community. PCHS provides these services on a sliding fee scale based on family income and size. Patients who choose to participate in the Service with a Smile program receive the dental servies they need by paying a set fee in combination with pre-determined volunteer hours contributed to various community organizations. The team obtained the assistance and support of community organizations willing to utilize volunteers and track hours for the specific purpose of obtaining dental care services.

Project: Kitsap County Foodbank Olympics
Mike Heesacker, Janell Whiteley, Donna Zajonc, Jill Miller, Chad Solvie
This LK team partnered with Kitsap Mall and local foodbanks to create an "Olympics" style event to educate , inform and promote giving to local foodbanks while having fun. Teams were formed from local businesses and Rotary Clubs by people who wanted to step up to the challenge of fighting hunger in Kitsap County. The project group enabled distribution of 14,000 pounds of food and more than $3000 in cash donations to local food banks as a result of this event.



Class of 2002

Project: Lent Landing Flag Pole
Melinda Anthony, Eva Hornbeak, Shawn Embree, Gail Sackman
This team partnered with the East Bremerton Rotary and the Bremerton Parks Department to place a flag pole and a marble plaque at Lent Landing Bremerton Park. The flag and flagpole were dedicated June 26, 2002 to John "Bud" Hawk, 90th Infantry Division, World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.

Project: Military Memorial at Evergreen Rotary Park
Bruce Bordenick, Peter Battuello, Melinda Earl, Pamela Zoeller, Ned Newlin, Dave Bartoldus
This team partnered with the Bremerton Parks and Recreation Department to renovate and improve the Evergreen Rotary Park military memorial. The site was cleaned, planters were replanted, and a plaque was added to identify the purpose of the site. A World War I veterens memorial. The plaque reads, "In memory of the local men who bravely fought and died in World War I to preserve freedom."

Project: Community Leadership Scholarship
Louann Bean, Carl Tonge, Doug Earl, Lynne Lance, Diane Manning, Jan West
This team partnered with the Leadership Kitsap Foundation and the Olympic College Foundation. A scholarship was created for a deserving Kitsap-area graduating high school student planning to attend Olympic College. The scholarship of $1425 was awarded to Klahowya Secondary School senior A.J. Barse, based on his application which included his essay on how he has made a difference in his community.

Project: Kid City Playhouse
Maurice Correia, Diane Lenius, Shelley Kneip, Suzanne Plemmons, Chop Llamzon
This Leadership Kitsap team partnered with Holly Ridge to construct a quality cedar playhouse for the Kid City Child development center in Bremerton. Kid City provides quality child care for working families.



Class of 2001

Project: Volunteer Gazebo
Annette Atkinson, Eileen Schock, Marilyn Rumble, Ken Collette, Roy Okamoto
Leadership Kitsap partnered with the Bremerton Parks and Recreation Department to construct the "Volunteer Gazebo" at Lent's Landing Park. This gazebo symbolizes what can be accomplished through volunteer participation. Home Depot, Olympus Contractor, West Sound Technical Skills Center, and the Rotary Club of East Bremerton were active participants in the construction of the gazebo through donation of material, labor or funding for the project.

Project: KitsapVolunteers.org
Nancy Olson, Paulette DeGard, Wendy Kelly, Dave White, Kathrin Fortner
Leadership Kitsap partnered with Concurrent Technologies Corporation and United Way of Kitsap County to develop KitsapVolunteers.org, an interactive web site, designed to house a database of volunteer opportunities for citizens of Kitsap County. Prospective volunteers may choose areas of interest, times and locations of volunteer opportunities that meet their needs. Through the interactive web site, they are presented with available volunteer opportunities that meet their search requirements. Agency contacts are provided for volunteers on the web site to complete the information exchange circle. KitsapVolunteers.org puts volunteers in touch with agencies who need volunteers. Organizations may submit volunteer opportunities on the KitsapVolunteers.org Information Form electronically or by hard copy directly to United Way of Kitsap County. The web site and database were developed by Concurrent Technologies Corporation and is hosted by United Way of Kitsap County.

Project: Mosquito Fleet Historic Monuments
Ron Selvidge, Sara Scribner, Bob Cassis, Deb Howard, Connie Mueller
Leadership Kitsap partnered with the Kitsap County Commissioners to have ceramic monument plaques erected at sites where the Mosquito Fleet ported in Kitsap County. The project will benefit the entire County and will enhance the public experience of enjoying existing pedestrian paths, and will also mark a physical and significant start of the planned Mosquito Fleet Trail. Once the Monuments are erected, they will educate citizens of all ages about the local history of Kitsap County.

Project: Eye of Kitsap
Greg Leicht, Robyn Nagli, Larry Schoeberl, Tracy Thompson, Jan Williams
Leadership Kitsap partnered with Sinlcair Landing Association to install no-fee telescopes and donor plaques at the Bremerton Transportation Center and viewing platform in Port Orchard. The telescopes will enhance the livability of the two cities. The following organizations contributed to the $6,000 project cost or provided other support: Port of Bremerton, City of Port Orchard, Kitsap Transit, Bremerton Central Lions Club, Port Orchard Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club of Bremerton, Rotary Club of Port Orchard, URS Corporation.



Class of 2000

Project: Kitsap County Time Capsule
Judith Rammel, Dianna Blom, Earl Smith, Michael Dill, Mary Anne Mascianica
Leadership Kitsap worked with the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners to develop a historic picture of the critical issues, events and culture of Kitsap County and place it in a time capsule to be opened in 50 years. Issues include growth management, environment, parks and recreation, education, transportation, and business.

Project: Garden in a Box (Urban Beautification)
Monique Bartoldus, Jennifer Stowell, Terrie O'Neill, Linda Joyce, Bob Simonoff, Rick Tift
Leadership Kitsap worked with the City of Bremerton to complete a beautification project in the gateway area (a 10x10 garden); and create a systematic manual and instructional video on how other interested groups can duplicate similar beautification projects in the future.

Project: Tax Aid Program Enhancement
Thomas Drake, Dawn Dressler, Laurie Cook, Bryan Moore, Sandra Van De Putte
Leadership Kitsap worked with VITA (Voluntary Income Tax Assistance) to recruit 150 volunteer tax preparers for the 1999-2000 tax season to prepare returns for elderly, low income, young and other persons who lack the skills and resources to prepare their own taxes. The group created a web site that solicits the help of volunteer tax preparers and advertises the nature and location of the tax preparation service.

Project: Community and Restorative Justice Survey
Mona Caler, Kristine Cowan, Karen Mason, David Smith, Scott Thompson, June Watterson
Leadership Kitsap Collected data through surveys for the Restorative Justice Project. The Restorative Justice Project receives federal funding to implement restorative justice in the Juvenile Justice Center and the broader community of Kitsap County. The data from the surveys will be used for program development, funding allocation, and evaluation.



Class of 1999

Project: 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Jim Alvarez, Greg Belding, Kelly Gardner, Mark Hartman, Shirley Johnson, Rob Ruiz, Trudy Thuring
Leadership Kitsap partnered with the South Kitsap School District and the Juvenile Department to develop an after school program that would be incorporated into a grant proposal for the 21st Century Learning Centers Funding.

Project: Community School Speaker's Bureau
Allan Butler, Eddie George, Marie La Marche, Pamela Martin, Brian Stengele, Laurie Strange
Leadership Kitsap and West Sound Human Resources Management developed a volunteer speaker's bureau for community schools. Area teachers will access the bureau to find speakers for their junior or senior high school classes of activity groups. In this time of rapidly changing business trends, teacher, student, and community interaction is a necessary part of education.

Project: Welfare Reform Impact Survey in Kitsap County
Julie Graves, Dave Foote, Timothy Knapp, Janet Mayberry, Greg Steiger, Mark Summers
Leadership Kitsap and the Washington Welfare Reform Coalition gathered statistics reflecting how recent changes in law are directly affecting low-income families in Kitsap County.



Class of 1998

Project: Mapping Kitsap County
Michelle Beardsley, Mike Botkin, Steve Boyer, Janis Castle, Linda Lay, Robert Seader, Diane Sugzda
This Leadership Kitsap project team partnered with the Kitsap Peninsula Visitor & Convention Bureau and the Kitsap County Historical Museum to create a tourist map of historical sites in Kitsap County.

Project: Educational Forum
Ione George
The forum linked the EDC with Schools

Project: United Way Survey
Laura Jull
Leadership Kitsap and United Way developed a survey that went to all United Way agencies and other key users of what is now United Way InfoLink. Our goal was to recommend to the steering committee working on InfoLink the key fields that should be used in the database.



Class of 1997

Project: Business Educating Students and Teachers (B.E.S.T.)
Christine Avella, Steve Gunderson, Tim Lavin, Terry Madigan, Preston Prince, Arthur Wuerth
Leadership Kitsap and the Kitsap Chambers of Commerce developed and distributed a survey to determine if and to what extent Kitsap County businesses are interested in collaborating with Kitsap School Districts.

Project: Employability Education
Carol Blakley, Bob Brott, Irmgard Davis, Dan Hendricks, Ed Marquardt
Leadership Kitsap and the Economic Development Council held an employability education forum to establish communications among local businesses and organizations on issues related to employability.

Project: Environmental Resource Guide for Kitsap County
Redge Campbell, Robert Ferguson, Karla Moore, Clarence Nelson, Gary Simpson, Stacy Tucker, Tom Weed, Carol Whitehead
Leadership Kitsap, Electronic Commerce Resource Center, Bremerton High School, Kitsap County Information Services, and the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce provided Kitsap County residents with a data resource guide available.

Project: Mentoring Video
Roxanne Bryson, Linda Kroum, Joyce Montgomery, Marie Mulroy, Linda Yerger



Class of 1996

Project: Research and Design of a Volunteer Referral Database
Mike Davis, Lynn Fleischbein, Brian Stallcop, Sean Hoynes, Stacy Dore', Linda Miller, Joann Johnson, Marla Brady, Dan Weedin, Merri Rieger, Deborah Horn, Darlene Norris-Cook, Socorra Daluria
To create a way for volunteers to access volunteer opportunities that would suit them and a way for non-profits to solicit volunteers based on their needs. The project developed a database of volunteer opportunities accessible through the United Way office.



Class of 1995

Project: Follow the Leader
Dave Olson, John Carlson, John Denis, Dianne Goebel, Mary Ann Harris, Mick McKinley
Leadership Kitsap, with the Bon Marche and The Sun, collaborated to provide an opportunity for youth (junior and senior high school students) to express their thoughts about leadership through an essay contest. The focus was on answering questions about the leadership qualities, especially as exemplified by a selected list of local leaders, The authors of the outstanding essay written about each of the leaders were invited to shadow the leader for a day at work to gain an even better understanding of the person's leadership and role.

Project: Promoting Volunteerism is Kitsap County
John Denis, Mick McKinley, Steven Screen Angela Sell, Becky Wiles
Leadership Kitsap, with the local school districts, Port Orchard Foodline, Bremerton Parks and Recreation, and Kitsap Community Action Program collaborated to introduce volunteerism to students.