From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-140-may-at-the-bainbridge-library/

Here's a sampling of what's up at the Bainbridge Library this month:

Saturday, May 2, 3-4PM--TAMES ALAN: WOMEN AT THE WESTERN FRONT - WWI

Ever wonder what hello girls, canaries, and the rose of No Man’s Land have to do with World War I? Dressed as an ambulance driver for the Motor Corps, historian and actress Tames Allen will discuss the various work women did at the Western Front in WWI.

Tames, who studied theater and history at Willamette, at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Dell Arte School in California, taught fashion history at the Art Institute of Seattle. She is a historical consultant to museums, libraries, and historical festivals throughout the Pacific Northwest, and is is the most popular speaker in the history of the Washington Commission for the Humanities Inquiring Mind program.

Wednesday, May 20, 7:30-9pm - TRAVELOGUE: ADVENTURES IN SPAIN

Barbara & Grant Winther have traveled to Spain five times, starting with the first election after Franco died. Whether they traveled by car, train or foot, they always found adventures worth remembering. For fifteen years Barbara has written travel articles, illustrated with Grant’s photographs. Their talk is sponsored by Kitsap Regional Library, Bainbridge Island, and the Traveler

Friday, May 22, 1:30-3pm THE SALON - A FORM FOR CONVERSATION

The Salon is for men and women who enjoy stimulating conversation and wish to learn from others in civil dialogue. Topics will vary, but the mode will be general interest subjects that impact the public. The Salon meets May-October. The monthly gatherings provide opportunities to talk with one another about what matters to us, listen to what matters to others, and expand our own viewpoints in a respectful environment. We envision conversations that are fun, informative and thought provoking. Discussions are informal and conversational with two facilitators.

Wednesday, May 27, 7-9pm - WHAT DO YOU KNOW: KNOWLEDGE EXPLORATIONS LED BY COMMUNITY EXPERTS - Mandatory Boater Education Card Basics with the USCG Auxiliary.

State law requires operators of motorboats with 15 horsepower or greater to take a safety education course and obtain a boater education card to operate a boat in Washington. Get started at the library with a presentation on boater safety by the members of the local USCG Auxiliary, an all-volunteer, non-military organization serving Kingston, Poulsbo, Silverdale, and Bainbridge Island. Activities include: Boater Education, Vessel Safety Checks, On-water patrols requested by the Coast Guard.

Credits: BCB host and audio editor Joanna Pyle; BCB social media publishers: Diane and Chris Walker.

In a podcast interview recorded on Earth Day (April 22, 2015), experts on financing and installing solar panels explain why there has never been a better time for homeowners or business owners to install solar panels on their rooftop.

Our guests explain that you can both counteract climate change AND save money with a relatively quick payback period.

In this interview, we meet Anders Hellum-Alexander, a representative from solar panel installation company A&R Solar (a-rsolar.com), and Shannon Ellis-Brock, chief operating officer from Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union (psccu.org).  Our third guest is Kellie Stickney, the community engagement specialist from the City of Bainbridge Island.

Our guests were on their way to the dedication of an array of newly installed rooftop solar panels at the City’s Waterfront Community Center, where Puget Sound Energy funded the project as an award for the Bainbridge community’s high rates of adoption of PSE’s "Green Power" Program.

A&R Solar installed panels at Waterfront Community Center, and also at the Grow Community, which has solar on 100% of the neighborhood roofs and has won several awards for its green buildings.

This 25-minute podcast provides details of the many financial and technical advantages that are now available for owners considering solar installations:

• the availability of low-interest loans (currently, as low as 4.25%) from the Credit Union for the full amount of the project, with up to 15 years to repay
• simple flexible terms on Credit Union loans, often with same-day decision-making
• Washington State incentive payments that pay a property owner as much as 54 cents for each kilowatt hour produced by panels and inverters made in Washington
• waiver or reduction of state sales tax on solar installations
• federal tax credit that currently reduces the overall project cost by 30%
• the State’s “net metering” allowance that lets you credit surplus solar energy to days in the year that are less sunny
• new types of inverters that make panels effective on rooftops that are partly shaded
• the significant decline in the price of panels in recent years; and
• the greater efficiency of installation techniques.

Credits:  BCB host, editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters.

“Life is not something we go through or that happens to us; it’s something we create by our decisions," says OSU Professor Kathleen Dean Moore in her latest book, Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril.

In this podcast -- by skype from her home in Corvallis, Oregon -- Professor Moore talks with BCB host Barry Peters about her upcoming presentationat Grace Church on Saturday, May 2nd on: “Red Sky in Morning: Ethics and Climate Change.” The themes of her talk come from her book, which gathers testimonies from a hundred of the world’s moral leaders calling us to honor our obligations to future generations.

Moore is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, where she teaches environmental ethics, philosophy of nature and other courses in OSU’s new MA program in Environmental Leadership.

The talk will be sponsored by a large number of community organizations.  Patrons include: Interfaith Council; Malone Environmental Consulting; North Kitsap UU Church; Port Gamble S’Klallam Foundation; Stillwaters Environmental Center; and Sustainable Bainbridge (the parent of BCB).

Sponsors of the talk include: CommonHouse; Earth Ministry; Grace Episcopal Church; Sound Spirit - Suquamish UCC Church; and Unity of North Kitsap.

The event is open to the public, with a $5 suggested donation at the door.

Credits: BCB host: Barry Peters; BCB audio editor: Chris Walker; BCB social media publisher: Diane Walker.

In this 15-20 minute episode of Who's On Bainbridge, Chris Snow shares anecdotes about what brought him to Bainbridge from his lifelong career in the US Foreign Service, what has kept him here for so long, and his leading role in community life since he and his wife Cameron settled here in the late 1990s.

Chris speaks with BCB host Jack Armstrong about:

• what attracted him and Cameron to the island;
• how he became engaged in community organizations;
• his leading role on the board of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) during the years of building and starting up the museum;
• his service with the Bainbridge Community Foundation (BCF) and the importance of philanthropy to our community's many nonprofits;
• his 2006 to 2009 term on the Bainbridge Island City Council
• memories of speaking engagements at the "Oatmeal Breakfast Club"; and
• his thoughts about what makes Bainbridge special.

Chris was interviewed in the BCB studio in late March 2015.

Credits: BCB host: Jack Armstrong; BCB editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-138-fish-derby-april-25/

It’s all about Huck Finn and great family fun!  For about 40 years (no one remembers for sure), the BI Sportsmen’s Club has organized an annual Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher fish derby for kids under 14 years old.  

In this podcast, Alan Kasper, club president, describes this beloved community event: families bring their kids to fish, and in the spirit of Huck Finn, the kids are only allowed to use the cane fishing rods (loaded up with worms) provided by the Sportsmen’s Club.  

Prizes are given for various fish-related criteria, and the competition is serious.  The kids can take their fish home in buckets, bags or whatever they’ve got with them (might be good to bring a container).

Each year, the Fish & Wildlife Dept. donates between 350-400 fish with which to stock the pond, so there are plenty of fish for everyone.  Imagine seeing the joy of a 5-year old catching her first fish!

Families can park along the side of Sportsmen’s Club Rd or up in the club parking lot.

To get a feel for the event and to view photos of previous Fish Derbies, visit

http://biscwa.org/fishing-pond-kids-at-bisc/nggallery/page/2

Credits:  BCB Host Channie Peters; BCB audio editor Tim Bird; BCB publishers Chris and Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-137-kay-sakai-nakao-movie-april-25/

At 9 am on Saturday April 25 at the Community Center, the final stage of our two-month reflection on the Japanese Exclusion will occur as Island filmmaker Cameron Snow unveils her movie about the life of community member Kay Sakai Nakao. 

This wrenchingly honest movie begins by chronicling Kay's pre-war experience during the first 22 years of her life here on the island. It then examines her internment at an American concentration camp, and follows her return to Bainbridge Island. 

After the movie there will be a post-film discussion led by Professor David Schulz, co-author of The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control. Professor Schulz chairs the Communication Department at Trinity Lutheran College in Everett, WA, and his discussion will focus on how communal memory is formed, how it is vulnerable to manipulation, and finally, how it can be restored to reflect a more accurate, objective truth. 

It is hoped that through this thoughtful “summary conversation” to the Snow Falling on Cedars community activities our attention will turn toward what lessons we have learned and how we, as a community, can move gracefully forward from this point.

Doors will open for this free event at 8:45, Saturday, April 25. Movie begins at 9 am, No reservation required. Complimentary popcorn included!! For more information, call 206 842-1616 or visit www.biparks.org.

Credits:  BCB Host, audio tech, and audio editor Joanna Pyle; assistant audio editor Chris Walker; BCB publisher Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/cafe-014-bcb-first-anniversary-party-may-2/

Door Prizes! Cake!  A chance to do your own podcast! Bainbridge Community Broadcasting is offering all of the above at their Open Studio Birthday Party on Saturday, May 2nd from 10 am to 4pm.

Yes, it's BCB's first birthday -- where has the time gone? In this podcast, BCB manager Barry Peters looks back over the year's accomplishments and discusses the group's plans for the year to come.

As you might have guessed, with so much to celebrate (180 podcasts! 70 organizations served! 15,000 downloads!) we are definitely planning to party!  So please -- stop by 325 Tormey Lane #144 (next to Silver Screen Video) on Saturday May 2nd and celebrate with us.  Enjoy birthday cake and tasty treats from Jake's Pickup, and don't forget to enter for your chance to win one of our elegant door prizes, handcrafted by local artisans!

Credits:  BCB Host and audio tech Sandy Schubach; BCB audio editor Barry Peters; BCB publisher Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-136-interfaith-concert-april-19/

Music has traditionally been a way to express and honor faith, whatever your faith may be.  Bainbridge Island is host to a variety of faith groups; have you ever wondered what kinds of music each uses in their worship? Come to the Interfaith Music Festival Sunday, April 19, to find out!

At least ten different groups will come together at the festival, expressing their faiths in voice, harmony, dance, and musical interpretation. In this podcast, Tiffny Weighall, Music Festival Event Coordinator for the Bainbridge Island Interfaith Council, talks with BCB host Sandy Schubach about this exciting upcoming event and special guest appearances.

Tiffny also explains how the event first started, the directors involved, and what kind of music and performance you can expect at this concert. 

The Interfaith Music Festival will be held, free of charge, on Sunday, May 19th, at 3pm in the Bethany Lutheran Church. Come listen to the sounds of faith!

Credits:  BCB Host, audio tech, and audio editor Sandy Schubach; BCB publishers Diane and Chris Walker.

Kellie Stickney, the Community Engagement Specialist for the City of Bainbridge Island, describes four ways the City will commemorate the Earth Day during the 4th week of April.

1. Goals for Bees and Lighting: The City will join the 4 other local governments (Schools, Fire, Parks and Library) in signing a proclamation committing to two environmental goals. For the City, the goals are: supporting bee pollination pathways on the island; and converting 80% of the City's own lighting to energy-efficient LED bulbs.

2. BI Ride: a ride when and where you need it:  On April 21, the City staff "Green Team" will encourage the public to try Kitsap Transit's convenient new "BI Ride" on-demand service.  For residents of any age, it's easy to call in advance for door-to-door service on a small van to any island destination. There's also a daily scheduled route.

3. Solar Panels: On April 22nd (Earth Day, nationally), the ribbon will be cut for the rooftop solar panels at the Waterfront Park Community Center.  There will be experts from PSE, a credit union, and a solar installation contractor, to explain our generous WA state and Federal financial incentives, and explain why this is an excellent time to install solar panels on your home or business. A PSE Foundation grant financed the panels.

4. Farmers Market: On Saturday April 25th, the City will join several nonprofits with booths at the Farmers Market to educate and inform. The City will describe water conserving plantings for your yard, and how to attract bees.

Sustainable Bainbridge (including BCB) will be at the Farmers Market with tables and information to commemorate Earth Day.

Credits: BCB host and publisher: Barry Peters; BCB audio editor: Tim Bird.

In this episode of Bainbridge On Campus, Jonathan Coonan interviews Aila Ikuse and Clio Batali about the Bainbridge Island High School Robotics team, Spartronics 4915. They discuss their 2015 season, as well as their individual experiences on the robotics team. 

A year and a half ago STEM outreach grew at the high school due to the formation of Spartronics Team 4915. The robotics club participates is an FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) team and have been working hard to get ready for this years competition season. FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an umbrella organization that is also in charge of FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge.

Spartronics Team 4915 had an amazing season last year. Their robot, ATLaS, made it to World Championships and finished in the top 5% worldwide.

What makes robotics so unique is the presence of 13 professional mentors at every meeting. These mentors are engineers, programmers, and marketers who work in the professional world and live on the island. They teach team members about their respective fields, and help them build the robot.

Due to last year’s success, the team has grown significantly. This year they have 50 members, twice the size of last years team. They also have 16 girls, quadruple the number last year. In fact, there were enough girls to attend the Girls Generation Competition, a competitions run by and for girls. The ladies fixed, drove, and cheered ATLaS on as they won 2nd place.

This year’s challenge has been difficult to solve, but with tons of support and a successful season behind them, Spartronics 4915 has placed well in competitions at Glacier Peak, Shorewood, and their regional competition in Cheney. Due to the success of the team throughout this year’s season, they have qualified for another trip to World Championships with GAEA.

On April 9th, 2015 the team is hosting a fundraiser all over the island celebrating STEM, and teamwork in the hopes of sharing their excitement about the world of robotics as well as raising money to send their robot across the country to the World Championships in St. Louis.

They did not choose April 9th for no reason, in fact April 9th, 2015 is a once in a lifetime day for Spartronics team 4915, as 4/9/15 is the same number as their team number.

Join the team for 49 minutes and 15 seconds at ACE Hardware, Town & Country, the Pavilion (where their robot ATLaS will be demoed!), Westside Pizza, and Safeway.

Credits: BHS-BCB host: Jonathan Coonan; BHS-BCB audio editor: Finn Mander; authors of podcast notes: Finn Mander and Aila Ikuse; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters.

Listen to this in-depth 30-minute interview with Bainbridge resident and world-renown author, David Korten, at BCB's studio.

David discusses his just-published book: “Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth,” available from Eagle Harbor Books.

The interview also reveals David’s passionate commitment to local community. David expresses the many ways in which Bainbridge Island is, and could increasingly be, an outstanding example of a community seeking to achieve social and economic well-being -- with locally owned main street businesses and city policies that preserve a healthy natural environment -- rather than succombing to outside pressures for big-money exploits.

And David explains how one local Bainbridge nonprofit business, Yes! Magazine, is telling the stories of people and places that offer hope for change amidst the challenges of our times.

David Korten, an internationally-published author and engaged citizen, is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-founder and co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the Living Economies Forum. A 20th anniversary edition of his classic best seller When Corporations Rule the World will launch in June 2015. In 2010, inspired by the Occupy movement, he published Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.

David’s April 2006 talk to a standing-room audience at the Bainbridge Performing Arts playhouse, on his then-newest book: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, was the first event hosted by the then-new nonprofit, Sustainable Bainbridge.

David has MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, and in his earlier career served as a captain in the US Air Force, a Harvard Business School professor, a Ford Foundation project specialist, and has decades of fieldwork seeking economic development in countries such as Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Philippines, and Indonesia.

Credits: BCB host, editor and publisher: Barry Peters

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-134-bruce-barcott-launches-weed-book-april-16/

"Pot is really not my thing," says award-winning science author and Bainbridge Islander Bruce Barcott.  As the father of two teenagers, he had serious reservations about the wisdom of legalizing marijuana, and in 2012 he almost voted against it.

When the vote passed he began to wonder, "What in the world have we done?" and ended up spending the next two years researching the subject.  The resulting book, Weed the People: The Future of Legalized Marijuana in America, will be officially published on April 6, and Barcott will be launching and signing books Thursday, April 16; 7:30 pm at the Treehouse Cafe in Lynwood.

In this podcast BCB host Channie Peters asks Barcott how he feels about marijuana now after studying the problem.  "What we have here," says Barcott, "is one of the most unusual social experiments of the 21st century."  Whether or not that experiment fails, he finds his thinking now about the drug has changed.  He's come away with a more open mind, and sees the drug as basically a mild intoxicant, like alcohol, and one that should be treated as such.

And, says Barcott, as a result of his research, he finds it much easier now to talk about it with his kids, and with other parents of teenagers.

To meet Bruce Barcott and hear more of what he's learned about Marijuana and legalization, come to his book launch at the Treehouse April 16th, which is sponsored by Eagle Harbor Books.

Credits:  BCB Host Channie Peters; BCB audio tech Barry Peters; BCB audio editor Tim Bird; BCB publishers Diane and Chris Walker.

For a community like ours with more than 200 nonprofits, volunteers are the life-blood of many local organizations -- including us at Bainbridge Community Broadcasting (BCB), an all-volunteer project.

The City of Bainbridge Island (COBI) and the Bainbridge Community Foundation (BCF) are teaming up to co-host the second annual Volunteer Week celebration.

In this podcast, we talk about the vital importance of volunteers with Jim Hopper, Excecutive Director of BCF, and Kellie Stickney, Community Engagement Specialist for COBI.

Two workshops that week will be held at the Council Chambers room at City Hall:

 - Tuesday, 4/14, Noon to 1pm: Brown Bag Lunch: Legal Tools for Effective Volunteer Programs, moderated by John Fossett of Bainbridge Public Library, with attorney Yolanka Wolff of Apex Law Group.

 - Tuesday, 4/14, 3:30 to 5pm: Engaging Volunteers Across Generations, hosted by Susie Burdock, Executive Director, KiDiMu children's museum.

The week's major festive celebration will be on the afternoon of Thursday, 4/16, from 5 to 7pm, at the Commons of the Bainbridge High School. There, nonprofit groups will honor their volunteers and share stories of what volunteers do for their organization. There will be food and festivities, and volunteers can pick up a free button celebrating their work.

On social media, share your stories about the difference that volunteers make, using the hashtag #BIVolunteerWeek

Credits:  BCB host, editor and publisher: Barry Peters.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-132_shakespeare_concert-apr-18-19-at_bpa/

Shakespeare: Comedy and Tragedy with the BPA Shakespeare Society, to be performed at 7:30 pm Saturday April 18 and 3:00 pm Sunday April 19 at BPA, will feature the Bainbridge Symphony and Youth Orchestras and members of the BPA Shakespeare Society.  

In this podcast, BSO conductor Wes Schultz joins Tom Challinor, Director of the BPA Shakespeare Society, to tell BCB host Channie Peters about their upcoming concert.  The program will feature readings from complementary plays, Shakespeare-inspired pieces from a wide range of composers from different periods and genres, and BSO's 1st Place Young Artist Concerto Competition Winner Andrew Barnwell performing Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.  

The runner-up in that competition, Shintaro Taneday, will perform Lalo's Symphonie Espqgnole, 1st movement, and the Sunday concert will include a pre-concert chat at 2:15.

The Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra's Youth in Music initiative is sponsored by Wicklund Dental. Tickets for these exciting events may be purchased at the BPA box office or online at bainbridgeperformingarts.org. 

Credits:  BCB Host Channie Peters; BCB audio tech and editor Barry Peters; BCB publishers Diane and Chris Walker.

It's time to talk trash with award winner Diane Landry of the Bainbridge Island Zero Waste project.

In this episode, BCB host Miles Schneiderman is joined by Diane Landry and Regina Spoor of Sustainable Bainbridge's Zero Waste Initiative to discuss their work to improve and maintain Bainbridge Island's practices of waste management and recycling.

Diane is the coordinator of the Zero Waste initiative, and her efforts have just resulted in her being named the Kitsap Community Foundation's 2015 Outstanding Citizen of the Year. 

Regina is a Zero Waste volunteer and a founding member of Bainbridge Island's original Friends of Recycling organization.

During the conversation, Diane and Regina talk about what the Zero Waste Initiative does, how it got started, and how each of them became involved. They discuss past actions, such as their efforts to recycle political campaign signs. The Zero Waste team voluntarily manages recycling at the Island's Grand Old Fourth of July festivities hosted annually by the local Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber also honored Diane recently with their annual citizenship award. 

Miles also asks Diane and Regina how Bainbridge can do better in terms of recycling, how much progress they have seen since their initial respective sparks of passion, and what keeps them inspired to volunteer for such an important cause. Finally, they reveal how Bainbridge Island residents can get involved in the Zero Waste Initiative.

Check out this fun 20-minute conversation to learn what it takes to become Outstanding Citizen of the Year!

Credits: BCB host and audio editor: Miles Schneiderman; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters.

What is Hakomi and how can it help me?

In this podcast, Lynn Morrison, therapist, teacher and senior certified trainer of Hakomi, answers those questions and provides enticing information about the upcoming Hakomi workshop on the weekend of April 11-12.

Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy, an experiential therapeutic method originated by Ron Kurtz, is often described as assisted self-discovery.  It can be experienced in one-on-one therapeutic sessions, weekend workshops, or as an extended training.  Hakomi workshops and trainings are given in a number of cities in the US and internationally. For more information about Hakomi, visit the Seattle and national websites of the Hakomi Education Network.

This April 11-12 workshop will be at the Bainbridge Bodhi Center.  The workshop has been conducted several times on Bainbridge.

For more information and registration, visit the Bainbridge Bodhi Center website.  The center is located at 6717 Marshall Road.  A map and directions are also available on the website.

Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor: Tim Bird; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters.