voice of bainbridge

Rod asks: What do you (we) value here on Bainbridge?

Rod Stevens sent this email he allowed me to post on the blog. It was titled "What do you value here on Bainbridge?" Read his choice and figure out yours.

One of the key challenges in making any community work is deciding on priorities, on what people value most, and in defining these in day-to-day terms that make these unimpeachably clear to elected decision makers and the government staff who carry out the laws.  Planning is a mess here on Bainbridge Island, and unless we agree on what we value, we will lose this place.

A perfect demonstration that the community knows better than the City's bureaucracy

Thank you Gerry for giving us this excellent report about the second hearing about what should be done with Strawberry Park. I wonder: were any members of the City Council attending? What is the position of the candidates for City Council, to be elected in the Fall, on this issue? Meanwhile go and enjoy the park... and laugh aloud at the opinions of Mr Best -the City's project manager- (at the very end of Gerry's report). There will be a last hearing on July 10 with a visit to the site.

Photomatopeia: one photo a day on Mark Gsellman's blog

Mark's pictures capture the moment and make us dream. If you click on the picture you can be taken to a picasa album where you can see more (for instance the graduation ceremony for West Sound Academy).

Unable to attend the Hearing Examiner's meeting about the future of the Strawberry Plan Park

I used email as you can read below if you are so inclined. Yes it is the same rant against the way the City (one employee in charge of this project) pushes its plan against the will of the community. I invite you to visit the park as it is now a really inspiring place that the city plan would largely destroy. Enough public protest can still kill it, as we did for Grow Avenue.

From the Methow Valley, this great text about community

Thanks to John Bonica for his text. The comments are also very interesting.