Meet Allison Shirk, Americana singer-songwriter, at Eleven Winery on Day Road, Saturday, November 7th.

In this interview, Allison tells BCB about her music and her band. In this podcast, she also plays, “Comfort You”, a beautiful new song that will be on her second CD soon to be released, and that she will perform at Eleven Winery next Saturday from 1pm to 4pm.

Originally from Texas, Allison now lives on Vashon Island where she performs frequently with her band, all of whom love to sing harmony with her. She refers to her musical style as "alt country" because of it's a little jazzy.

See her website to learn more about Allison, her music, and her upcoming gigs. For example, she will be playing at Seattle's well-known Triple Door on Tuesday Nov 10th at 6 and 9pm (no cover).

Hear her perform on Saturday afternoon, November 7th at Eleven Winery, at 7671 NE Day Road. [map]

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

“Climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to a future generation.” - Pope Francis.

The recent October 27th panel discussion by five local clergy -- and their responses to the Pope’s recent encyclical on climate change -- help make us more aware how many clergy, especially on Bainbridge Island, have long stood up to address climate change among their congregations and in public.

This podcast is a recording of “Faith and Climate Change — Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Act.” That topic was the subject of a panel of local clergy at Eagle Harbor Congregational Church on Bainbridge Island on Tuesday, October 27th.

The event was co-sponsored by the Interfaith Council of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap, the Bainbridge Island Citizens’ Climate Lobby, and Climate Action Bainbridge.

The podcast includes:

0:00 Event introduction - by Peggy Erickson, co-chair of Bainbridge Citizens’ Climate Lobby

2:15 Introduction to clergy panel discussion, by Erika Shriner, board member of Climate Action Bainbridge, who moderated the clergy panel discussion

5:26 Question 1: What does your faith believe about humanity’s relationship to the earth, and is there a moral imperative to care for the earth?

5:50 Response by Rev. Dee Eisenhauer, minister of Eagle Harbor Congregational Church, United Church of Christ

8:28 Response by Rabbi Paul Strasko, Congregation Kol Shalom

12:45 Response by Rev. Paul Stumme-Diers, Bethany Lutheran Church

15:15 Response by Rev. Eric Mason, Grace Episcopal Church

18:18 Response by Assemblyman Stan Brown, Baha’is of Bainbridge Island

20:30 Question 2: What has your faith community done, or planned to do, to incorporate climate action into your collective work and the lives of your members?

20:46 Dee Eisenhauer23:30 Paul Strasko26:48 Paul Stumme-Diers29:30 Eric Mason31:42 Stan Brown

33:45 Question 3: With lots going on, are we getting real results? How can we engage more people of faith to accept the science of climate change, and to act on it?

34:48 Dee Eisenhauer37:43 Paul Strasko42:10 Paul Stumme-Diers44:56 Eric Mason47:12 Stan Brown

51:51 Question 4: How do we mobilize massive numbers of people to do something constructive about climate change as soon as possible?

53:20 Dee Eisenhauer54:40 Paul Strasko55:24 Paul Stumme-Diers56:08 Eric Mason56:58 Stan Brown

57:45 Moderator closing remarks

58:51 Transition to presentations by climate change activists

59:05 How to share this BCB recording with your friends

59:40 Stacey Nordgren describes a Nov 18th workshop by EcoAdapt to enable the public to address climate change responses in the City of Bainbridge Island Comprehensive Plan update.

1:02:12 Dr. Michael Soman describes Citizens Climate Lobby

1:05:10 Brian Anderson describes Climate Action Bainbridge

1:09:11 Erika Shriner, describes Carbon Washington

1:12:42 Peggy Erickson wrap up, with mention of Earth Art Bainbridge.

Please note that, for your listening convenience, this recording of the 100-minute October 27 event was shortened to 73 minutes by eliminating the Q&A session and editing the activist presentations.

Credits: BCB recording technician, audio editor and publisher: Barry Peters

In this month's BARN podcast, board member Catherine Camp recaps some of the strategic planning in which the board is exploring some fascinating alternatives for BARN's future.

In addition, Catherine reminds us of the dates for several of the popular studio groups at the BARN's current studios in Rolling Bay:

• the Fiber Arts studio group meets Tuesday, November 10 from 7 to 9pm;
• the Woodshop group meets Saturday, November 14 from 9 to 11am; and
• the monthly Book Arts gathering will be Wednesday November 18 from 7 to 9pm.

Catherine also mentions a few classes during the upcoming holiday season that may help you with your holiday gifting needs:

• the "Spindle Turning Intro" presents gift-making opportunities in wood with Jeff Williams, on Wednesday Nov 9 from 6 to 8pm, where you can use a lathe to make a bottle opener, pizza cutter, ice cream scoop, or bottle stopper;
• the workshop on Fused Glass Frames with Elaine Greene on Wednesday November 11 from 10am to 1pm, will offer a chance to make gifts in beautiful colored glass; and
• the session on Tassel and Macrame Bracelets on Friday November 20 from 10am to 1pm with Amy Margaret will show you how to design bracelets with gemstones, charms, sparkly glass and macrame.

Credits: BCB host: Joanna Pyle; BCB audio editor and publisher: Barry Peters.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/tast-010-farmers-market-october-24/

This week at the Farmers Market, BCB Host Bob Ross talks with Bainbridge Islander Paul Svornich, who operates the smallest boat in the commercial Pacific Ocean albacore fleet. A Bainbridge Island resident when he's not on the open seas, Svornich comes from a long line of Croatian fishermen and built his boat himself.

Commercial fishing is in Svornich's blood. Both his grandfathers arrived in Puget Sound from Croatia sometime between 1907 and 1910 to do salmon seining here and in Alaska. 

Svornich's father also was a salmon seiner, but Paul is the only one of four kids who really loved fishing and stuck with it. He's been aboard ships since early childhood and worked his first full summer as a deckhand when he was 13.

Patterned after a traditional Croatian sailboat, Svornich's 38-foot wooden sloop, OCEAN, is powered by a pair of gaff-rigged sails and a one-cylinder engine fueled with soybean oil bio-diesel. Designed and built by Svornich in a little over three years right here on Bainbridge, OCEAN was launched in 1987 and has been running ever since.

Credits: BCB host Bob Ross; audio tech: Chris Walker; publisher Diane Walker.

Victoria Robertson is coming back to Bainbridge Island this month from San Diego -- a route she has traveled frequently for five years.

As described in this podcast with BCB host Carrie West, Victoria is returning for two special events, and to visit a person significant to her professional operatic and concert career.

First, Victoria is offering a voice workshop on October 31st. She loves to share what she knows and loves to do including how to breathe deeply and how to freely project the voice. And boy, can she sing!

Victoria is offering a breath and voice workshop for professional and amateur singers, public speakers, and anyone with a desire to learn some techniques and tricks (it’s Halloween after all) on how to release your inner voice. She will be focusing on ways to access the full air column of the body and how to best produce vowels.

The workshop is on October 31st, 9am-12noon, at Grace Episcopal Church, 8595 Day Rd., Bainbridge Island. See map. RSVP soon to hold a spot on her website.

Second, she is returning to Bainbridge for her premier with the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra (BSO) on November 14th at 7:30pm and the 15th at 3 pm. This is her first time performing with BSO and she is very excited about working with Maestro Wesley Schulz.

Victoria will be the soprano soloist in Carl Nielsen’s "Symphony No. 3," and will be performing alongside baritone Charles Robert Stephens. This piece will be the finale of an evening of amazing music under the title of the featured piece, Piano Concerto Number 4, featuring Rick Rowley on piano.

For details, visit Victoria’s website or purchase tickets from the Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA) webpage. The performance will be held at BPA in Winslow.

The third (and continuing) reason for her frequent visits to Bainbridge involves her master teacher. As a professional opera and concert singer, Victoria trains with renowned opera master teacher, Michael Trimble, who is now semi-retired and lives on the island.

Credits: BCB host: Carrie West; BCB audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters.

There is more to Halloween than treats and costumes!

"Day of the Dead" or “Dios de los Muertos” is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and also around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to remember and honor friends and family members (including pets) who have died, and to help support their spiritual journey. Good food is always involved!

In this podcast, Education Director Kristin Tollefson describes how Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) helps our community celebrate this occasion this year - as it did last year - with a festival on Sunday, November 1st.

The celebration at BIMA will include a brief ceremony at 10:30AM followed by individual offerings to the dearly departed at an altar (offrenda). There will also be face painting, crepe paper flower making and other activities for the children.

And of course, there will be great Mexican snacks prepared by Chef Melinda Lucas from old family recipes.

Festivities will continue all day at BIMA on November 1st, and the altar will continue to be accessible during the week until November 7th for offerings to be brought in by anyone unable to come on November 1st.

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

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/who-019-locals-producing-new-rockaway-series/

Local filmmaker Garrett Bennett, the creative force behind three award-winning features for the big screen, is turning his talents to the small screen with the announcement of his newest project: ROCKAWAY, a half-hour dramatic series to be set and shot on and around Bainbridge Island.

ROCKAWAY will star island native Meredyth Yund, whose acting credits include Bennett’s A Relative Thing and George Clooney’s Unscripted on HBO, and local actor Ted Dowling, best known for his recent performances in HAIR and THE KENTUCKY CYCLE.

In this podcast, Bennett, Yund and Dowling talk with BCB host Diane Walker about their connections to Bainbridge Island, their plans for the Rockaway project, and the IndieGogo fundraising campaign they've launched to generate the $80,000 they’ll need to film a pilot episode.

The series, which will be shot on Bainbridge Island, tells the story of Jack Bonebright Winter (Dowling), a burned-out theater director who retreats to the island to restore his inheritance: an abandoned house. But a mystery in town, possibly connected to disturbing paranormal occurrences inside the old structure, unsettles his forced idyll. And hiring a “volatile, inappropriate,” blacksheep trust-fund princess named Maybelle (Yund) does even less to keep his life on an even keel.

Cast members for the series will also include Cynthia Geary of Northern Exposure fame and Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts. The creative team for ROCKAWAY includes art director Brian Felty, who served in the same function for the recent Johnny Depp film Black Mass; island native Mallory Yund, an associate producer and postproduction supervisor with a wealth of experience on HBO productions, ; and Franklyn Gottbetter, unit production manager on Scrubs, Episodes and The Mindy Project.

To learn more about ROCKAWAY, go to the series’ website (http://www.rockawayseries.com) and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RockawaySeries?ref=hl).

Credits: BCB host and publisher: Diane Walker; audio tech: Barry Peters; audio editors Chris and Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-193-november-at-the-library/

November at the library brings us a whole new slate of events.

Library U returns this month as retired US diplomat Laurence Kerr presents a three part Saturday morning on WWII in Europe, the Western Front at Bethany Lutheran Church.

Come join us for the Art Walk Friday November 6 as Neil Johannsen returns for his third visit with a whole new roomful of paintings for us.

On Monday, November 9, from 7-9 pm, Buddy Bassett from Compass Vocational Services will share his thoughts on Resumes that Get Noticed.

A new lecture Series on Building a Sustainable Economy will begin Friday, November 13 from 5:30 -7pm, and the focus for this session will be diversity and social justice.

Also on Friday the 13th -- Robert Louis Stevenson Day -- author Nancy Horan will celebrate her latest book, a novel about Stevenson (black mustaches for everyone!)

And, on Wednesday, November 18 from 7:30 -9, come learn about biking the Continental Divide with BI Cycle owner Tom Clune,

... and for more information, pick up one of the library's Inspire Magazines, the library’s quarterly programing guide or visit online at WWW.KRL.ORG

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

BCB, in collaboration with the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum and the Bainbridge Island Senior and Community Center, is a partner in the StoryShare Project. Each of the participating organizations is reaching out to the community in its own way to find, and to tell, the stories of Bainbridge Island.

In recent decades, the island has grown and evolved from a population of a few thousand people living in small and rather isolated villages around the island to a current population estimated at 26,000 and has developed in a way its early settlers probably never would have imagined.

BCB’s role in StoryShare is to interview longtime residents of the island to hear their stories and to ask about their memories and their personal perspectives on the changes they’ve experienced.

In this first program of what will be an ongoing series of conversations about the history of Bainbridge Island, host Jack Armstrong visits with Reid Hansen, who was born here in 1929 in a house his grandfather had built after moving here from Norway – and is the same house he lives in today.

Reid, who is a noted island historian and who conducts tours each year of Old Bainbridge, talks about  some of the small villages that grew up around the island, the ethnic diversity of the early settlers, and his recollections about the evacuation of Japanese American residents in 1942.

BCB host: Jack Armstrong; BCB audio editor: Barry Peters; BCB social media publisher: Valerie Adkins.

Listen here as BCB host Bob Ross heads down to this week's Bainbridge Island Farmer's Market to talk with Gayle Bair about her beautiful and delightfully practical pottery.

Inspired by her background in two dimensional art, Gayle took up pottery  in 1996 and did not look back. Her amazing teapots, French butter dishes, bowls and pitchers are collector pieces each and all. But at the same time they are durable, lead free, and dishwasher safe!

Gayle applies an oxide-rich slip to her pieces prior to firing. Allowing it to dry slightly, she applies designs inspired largely by environments she has known or visited using a labor intensive process called Sgraffito.  After being fired in an electric kiln to over 2200F, the resulting pieces emerge to enchant discriminating buyers across the Northwest.

So come on down to this week's Farmer's Market: there's still time to take a look at Gayle Bair's fabulous and highly functional pottery.

Credits: BCB host: Bob Ross; audio editor: Chris Walker; publisher Diane Walker.

Wrapping up BCB’s Election 2015 podcast series, we have a lively and enlightening conversation with unopposed Fire Department commissioner candidates, Scott Isenman and Tim Carey. Scott is running for re-election to Position 1 and Tim for his first elected 6-year term for Position 5 on the 5-member board.

Commissioner Isenman has been on the commission for eight years. He is a healthcare project manager for hospital systems, and lives on a boat in our harbor with his wife, 17-year old son, and 10-year old cocker spaniel. He has been an EMT with Bainbridge Ambulance for many years.

Candidate Tim Carey has been involved with the Fire District (Dept.) for six years, including as a volunteer responder and an interim Fire Commissioner for six months in 2013. He lives on BI with his wife and two children, and is a soccer coach.

In this 30-minute podcast, each candidate was given two minutes to answer each of the following six questions that they had been given in advance.

• Why did you decide to run (or run for re-election) for Fire Commissioner?
• What relevant experience and skills do you bring to the position?
• How is the Fire District (Dept.) doing? What are some of its unsolved problems?
• What are some key challenges that you believe will face the Fire District in the next six years?
• What are the most important outcomes you’d like to accomplish during your 2016-21 term?
• What style of interaction do you (plan to) bring to the Fire Commission - with the other Commissioners, with the Fire District staff, and with community members?

On Bainbridge Island, we have separate governmental units for the City, the Park & Recreation District, the Kitsap Regional Library, the School District, and the Fire Department, each of which elects representatives for 4 or 6 year terms (6 years in the case of the Fire Department). On BI, while our Police Department works for the City, our fire fighters & EMTs work for the Fire Department; and the Fire Chief reports to the Board of Fire Commissioners much as a CEO reports to a board of directors.

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

In this podcast, Barbara Tolliver and Susan Taylor, owners of one of Bainbridge Island’s oldest retail establishments, The Traveler, talk about the store’s 20-year history, and its evolution from a travel bookstore to a large multi-product travel store in the heart of Winslow Way.

Now tripled in size, the store has offerings far beyond the original staple of travel books and maps. In addition to luggage, clothing, travel accessories, and entertainment for traveling children, The Traveler will also use its newly expanded space to host small classes on travel tips, such as packing, travel with children, language coaching for popular countries. And The Traveler will periodically host events about travel and traveling.

Susan and Barbara, avid travelers, themselves, talk about some of their favorite travel destinations and experiences (you may be surprised!), and how these trips have informed their business.

The Traveler is now located on the north side of Winslow Way, in the center of the block between Madison and Erickson, where Paper Products used to be located.

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

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/tast-008-farmers-market-october-10/

This week at the Farmer's Market, BCB host Bob Ross chats with Rebecca Slattery of Persephone Farm and BCB Station manager Barry Peters.

Persephone is a small, bio-diverse family farm in Indianola, growing a wide array of vegetables, fruit and fresh cut flowers. As farmer-florists, they offer full wedding flower packages as well as loose flowers by the bucket from July through October.  Their farming practices are Morganic, focusing on conservation of resources, minimizing landfill-bound materials and pollinator enhancement as well as avoiding synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.  Their longstanding apprenticeship program trains future farmers to follow in their footsteps.

BCB station manager Barry Peters has been serving as BCB's manager since it was first organized by Sustainable Bainbridge in July 2013. Barry points proudly to a number of significant milestones in BCB history: since BCB started publishing podcast radio shows in May 2014, more than 250 podcast episodes have been published, resulting in nearly 25,000 downloads.  Barry explains how BCB's mission -- to build community -- has led BCB's adult and student volunteers to interview more than 90 community organizations, such as nonprofits, businesses, churches and local governments, and has now expanded to include the local purveyors at the Farmers Market.

Credits: BCB host: Bob Ross; audio editor: Chris Walker; publisher Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-191-village-concept-update-october-18/

Since its formal introduction to the island back in February, the Village movement and its potential impact for Bainbridge Island has sparked lots of conversation and interest.

Three planning meetings have been held since February, involving 70 + interested people, and a temporary steering team has been identified. After a summer spent working together to synthesize what's been learned to date, that committee is ready to report on its findings and progress to date.

A meeting has therefore been scheduled for October 18 from 2-4 at the Waterfront Park Community Center.  This meeting is for all the people who already understand what a village is and have come to at least one meeting and are familiar with the work being done locally.  That group will be updated on all the work created so far, and on the structure, the parameters, and the partnerships that have been established to date.

The group will also share information gleaned from the national conference on villages, and then explain the specific opportunities available to folks that want to see this work move forward. So the October 18th event is truly an update for all the folks that have already been engaged in the work-to-date.

For those who are curious but have not yet attended a village meeting, two additional "Village 101" meetings have been scheduled for November 21st and December 13; interested parties only need to come to one of those to catch up. 

For more information about the village concept, visit BIVillage.org.

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

In this episode of this Fall's "Election 2015" series on BCB we interview unopposed and opposed candidates for our local School Board.

Meet Lynn Smith and Duncan Macfarlane, who are competing for the District 1 seat, and incumbent School Board president Mev Hoberg, who is unopposed for the District 3 seat.

Duncan Macfarlane is a lawyer and community volunteer, with 4 years as an elected council member for the Topanga Elementary School in Los Angeles, and whose volunteer service includes serving as a Boy Scout cubmaster.

Lynn Smith is a graphic designer on Bainbridge Island and a longtime community and education volunteer, including with the parent-teacher organizations of the Odyssey program and the Bainbridge Island PTO coordinating committee.

Mev Hoberg faces no opponent in her bid for another term; she was appointed to a vacant post on the board in 2012 and is currently serving as School Board president.

In this podcast, BCB asked each candidate the following six questions, which had been provided to the candidates in advance:

- Why did you decide to run for School Board? - What relevant experience and skills do you bring to the position? - How is our School District doing? What is it doing well for the community? What are its unsolved problems? - What are the key challenges or opportunities that you believe will face the School Board in the next four years? (A School Board position has a 4-year term.) - What are the most important outcomes you'd like to accomplish during your 2016-19 term? - What style of interaction do you plan to bring to the School Board in 2016-19 - that is, with other School Board members, school staff, and community members?

Credits: BCB host and audio editor: Reed Price; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-190-walk-to-save-oak-flat-oct-15/

Sally Noedel recently walked with her daughter Emma Bigongiari to Oak Flat, Arizona--a 1,000-mile trip to raise awareness of plans to allow destructive mining in a desert river area that is sacred to the San Carlos Apache people.

Sally says that she and her daughter--who was taking a gap year between high school and college--had an amazing journey, spending hours together, traveling in National Forest land, meeting people along the way, and culminating in a few days with tribal elders and other residents in Oak Flat.

The women took their journey after learning about Resolution Copper’s plan to mine the area using a process that will destroy sacred sites, damage a desert ecosystem and decimate recreational bouldering areas. There have been ongoing efforts by indigenous people, environmentalists and others to encourage Congress to rescind its legislation that gave rights to 2,400 acres of National Forest land in Arizona to the Australian/British conglomerate--one of the biggest mining companies in the world.

Sally plans to share photos and stories in a one-hour talk, 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, at Bainbridge High School in the 300 building.

To learn more and read the blog the pair wrote visit http://WalkToSaveOakFlat.com.

Credits: BCB host and audio editor: Reed Price; publishers Diane and Chris Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/tast-007-farmers-market-october-3/

BCB Host Bob Ross returns to the Bainbridge Island Farmer's Market this week to talk with special guests Max and Ali from Tani Creek Farm, Brian MacWhorter of Butler Green Farms, and artist Danna Watson of Dancing Spirit Studio.

Credits: BCB host: Bob Ross; audio editor: Chris Walker; publisher Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/podcast-arts-and-artists-horst-gottschalk/

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Education Director Kristin Tollefson talks with Dr. Brett Van Hoesen, art historian and scholar at University of Nevada, Reno, about German artist Horst Gottschalk, whose work was featured in a solo exhibit at the art museum June-September 2015.  They are joined by Hidde Van Duym, BIMA’s co-curator for this exhibit.

Dr. Van Hoesen, a scholar of German 20th century art, began researching the art of Horst Gottschalk in 2014 when his widow and stepson offered her extensive access to Gottschalk’s notes, letters, photographs, collages and paintings, and that led to her writing an introductory essay for the catalog of his works.  In this fascinating and informative conversation, Dr. Van Hoesen discusses what she has learned from this firsthand research and from her resulting studies of influences on Gottschalk’s art -- especially his collages -- after he emigrated to the United States from Germany.  Hidde Van Duym, an artist on Bainbridge Island as well as an immigrant during the same period as Gottschalk, adds insights into the themes encountered in these fascinating works of art.

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

BCB's "Election 2015" podcast series continues with an interview of two of the 3 unopposed candidates for City Council.

Kol Medina is set to fill the North Ward seat currently occupied by retiring Anne Blair. He describes himself as a public servant, a dad of a 4-year-old boy and an enthusiastic mountain bike rider. He is an attorney by profession, and is currently employed as Executive Director of Kitsap Community Foundation, which makes grants to local nonprofits.

Michael Scott was selected by the Council in January 2015 to fill the unexpired term of departing Central Ward candidate David Ward. Mike is a self-described community volunteer, a runner, an avid hiker and bicyclist. He previously served a term on the Bainbridge Island School Board. By profession, he is an attorney.

Sarah Blossom, unopposed for a second 4-year Council term from the South Ward, did not reply to email invitations to participate in the interview.

In this 30-minute podcast, each was offered up to 2 minutes to answer each of the following six questions:

• Why did you decide to run (or run for re-election) for City Council?
• What relevant experience and skills would you bring to the position?
• How is the City doing? What is it doing well for the community, and what are its unsolved problems?
• What are the key challenges or opportunities that you believe will face the City in the next four years?
• What are the most important outcomes you’d like to accomplish during your term?
• What style of interaction would you like to bring to City Council – that is, with other Council members? With City staff? With community members?

At the end, each asked a question of the other: (1) how to meet the parking needs in Winslow, and (2) what to do about the congested Route 305 corridor.

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

Has anything remarkably mysterious or spooky ever happened to you? Don't miss this chance to tell your story-- or to listen to other's stories -- at the upcoming Story Slam on Bainbridge Island. 

In this podcast, Wendy Wallace, creator and organizer of Field’s End Story Slam, visits our studio to talk with BCB host Jennifer Waldron about this truly phantasmagoric event.

For this round of the popular Story Slam gathering (and we do mean popular: get there REALLY early to be sure of a seat!) Bainbridge Islanders will be sharing stories around the theme “Mysterious and Spooky”.   Each storyteller has 5 minutes; a panel of volunteer judges chosen from the audience will then determine the winners.   

The excitement happens Monday, October 26th, 7pm at the Treehouse Cafe in Lynwood Center.  Reservations are not needed but there is a $7 donation to benefit Field’s End programs for youth.

Please note: Attendees must be over 21, as Story Slam takes place in the bar.

To learn more, or to register to tell your story, visit www.fieldsend.org

Credits: BCB host: Jennifer Waldron; audio editor: Chris Walker; publishers Chris and Diane Walker.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-188-karen-hallis-organizing-october-17/

Thinking about downsizing?

In this podcast, personal organizer Karen Hallis talks about her upcoming workshop, Changing Places, Homes in Transition, coming up on October 17th at Bainbridge Island's Waterfront Park Community Center, from 9 am to 1 pm.

Karen talks here about some of the challenges people face when paring down and why she loves her work.

During her four hour interactive workshop, participants will learn how to clear out a home and prepare it for transfer, whether moving to a smaller home or dealing with a significant life event such as divorce, financial change, illness, or a move to assisted-living. The workshop will also be helpful to those in the caretaker role, or those working with an estate after the death of a loved one.

Karen brings 30 years of experience as an attorney, organizer and certified professional coach to her work, and has always helped people to navigate clearing and organizing their spaces.

Bring a box of miscellaneous items to sort during the last hour of this informative four hour workshop. (This can be anything from flotsam and jetsam in that pesky junk drawer to that mystery box collecting dust in the garage!)

For registration information, go to the Bainbridge Island Parks and Recreation website (note that the class time is incorrect in the flyer). The workshop goes from 9 am-1 pm, October 17th. You can also contact Karen through her website at www.karenhallis.com for more information about her work and to connect with her new blog.

Credits: BCB host: Anna McClain; audio editor: Chris Walker; publishers Chris and Diane Walker.