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By LESLIE KELLY [email protected] C ome Saturday, chances are you’ll be able to see Kitsap County Commissioners Ed Wolfe, Rob Gelder and pos- sibly Charlotte Garrido on the water in kayaks. They say it’s the perfect way for them to celebrate the three to five years of work by the county and volunteers to ensure that the Kitsap Peninsula Water Trails happened. In 2013, it was designated as part of the Cascadia Marine Trail by the Washington Water Trails Association. And with it now being designated as a part of the National Water Trails System, a celebration is truly in order. The Water Trails Festival will be June 27 and 28, with activities on Saturday at the Silverdale Waterfront Park. But it’s at Evergreen Park in Bremerton, where about 100 kayakers will put their boats in the water, along with Wolfe and Gelder. Wolfe and Gelder are experienced kayakers and Garrido has kayaked in the past. “I’m just hoping the tide will be with us,” said Wolfe, who was elected to the commission last year. “The trip is about five miles and if all goes well, it will only take us a couple of hours.” Wolfe said he and his wife like to put their kay- aks in the water in Dyes Inlet just about anytime that the weather is good. “I can leave work and go home and be on the water in about 20 minutes,” he said. “That’s one of the rea- sons I love living here.” Gelder, in the past, was a serious kayaker who pad- dled and camped for week- long trips through the San Juan Islands. He is more a day kayaker now. “I didn’t have room in my garage for the 17-foot kayak, so I sold it,” he said. “Now, when I go out, I just rent a kayak.” For this trip from Bremerton to Silverdale, Gelder is looking forward to a “nice leisurely paddle.” “It’s on an incoming tide,” he said. “It will be great to have nature help us paddle.” The Peninsula Water Trails includes more than 371 miles of shoreline from North Kitsap County to Bainbridge Island, to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the waters of Hood Canal. There are 13 sepa- rate trails designed as a continuous tail experience, to make up the entire trail. Kayakers can map out where they want to travel, based on their time and experience. At stops along the way, there are ameni- ties such as connections to parks and trails for hiking, restrooms, places to picnic and rest, campgrounds and nearby stores and restau- rants. Visit Kitsap Peninsula actually developed the Water Trails map which started the process of applying for national trails status, said Patty Graf- Hoke, executive director of Visit Kitsap Peninsula. According to Eric Baker, policy manager for the Kitsap County commission- ers, the county’s role in the creation of the Water Trails has been to work with the various jurisdictions along the trail to make sure that everything came together in an orderly fashion. “In general, there is a robust outdoor recreation community in Kitsap County,” Baker said. “The Festival marks years of work to create water trails A SUPPLEMENT OF THE NORTH KITSAP HERALD, PORT ORCHARD INDEPENDENT, CENTRAL KITSAP REPORTER, BREMERTON PATRIOT AND BAINBRIDGE REVIEW Bring your private group up to 27 people. BBQ on board! Cruising, Fishing, Wedding Parties; you name it! We strive to be versatile, and accommodating. Randy 360-895-5424 • www.venturecharterboats.com Venture Charters Next to Silverdale Antiques 9448 NW Silverdale Way, Silverdale (360) 308-8226 Poulsbo Village (360) 930-8983 19494 7th Ave., Ste. A, Poulsbo 2 for 1 Free entree Poulsbo • Silverdale Up to $ 5 00 Lunch or $ 9 00 Dinner www.taqueriaelhuarache.com Like Us This coupon is only valid at Taqueria El Huarache Restaurants. One coupon per party please. Not valid with any other offer. Not valid on holidays. Expires 12/31/2015. Expires 12/31/2015 Receive 2nd Entree of Equal or Lesser Value FREE w/2 Beverage Purchase! Happy Hour 3–5pm Everyday! Sweeney’s Country Style Meats and Smoked Seafoods Treat yourself and your friends to the best from the Pacific Northwest Mon-Fri. - 9am to 5pm Saturday - 10am to 3pm 9690 Brownsville Hwy. NE Bremerton, WA 98311 Sweeney's is a family business owned and operated by Barbara and Mark Sweeney in Brownsville, Washington since 1983. Sweeney's has the best Beef Jerky & Smoked Salmon in the County! www.sweeneyssmokedsalmon.com (360) 692-8802 KITSAP’S TALL SHIP Schooner Fiddler’s Dream Our mission is to celebrate our region’s maritime heritage through exhibition, education, and helping people of all ages and abilities to have a hands on nautical experience. S.T.E.M. Dockside Education Program Please Give to Youth Maritime Education www.kitsapmaritime.org boats, music, food, family fun Happy Hour 3-6pm $4 Drinks 2 Margaritas Restaurant Silverdale 10600 Silverdale Way NW • 2margaritassilverdale.com $6 Margaritas SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE 3 keyport mercantile your local Destination. groceries pizza sandwhiches (360) 779-7270 15499 Washington Ave NE • Keyport, Washington Beer wine espresso SPECIAL PULLOUT SECTION

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By LESLIE [email protected]

Come Saturday, chances are you’ll be able to see Kitsap

County Commissioners Ed Wolfe, Rob Gelder and pos-sibly Charlotte Garrido on the water in kayaks.

They say it’s the perfect way for them to celebrate the three to five years of work by the county and volunteers to ensure that the Kitsap Peninsula Water Trails happened. In 2013, it was designated as part of the Cascadia Marine Trail by the Washington Water

Trails Association.And with it now being

designated as a part of the National Water Trails System, a celebration is truly in order.

The Water Trails Festival will be June 27 and 28, with activities on Saturday at the Silverdale Waterfront Park.

But it’s at Evergreen Park in Bremerton, where about 100 kayakers will put their boats in the water, along with Wolfe and Gelder. Wolfe and Gelder are experienced kayakers and Garrido has kayaked in the past.

“I’m just hoping the tide will be with us,” said Wolfe, who was elected to the commission last year. “The trip is about five miles and if all goes well, it will only take us a couple of hours.”

Wolfe said he and his wife like to put their kay-aks in the water in Dyes Inlet just about anytime that the weather is good.

“I can leave work and go home and be on the water in about 20 minutes,” he said. “That’s one of the rea-sons I love living here.”

Gelder, in the past, was a serious kayaker who pad-dled and camped for week-

long trips through the San Juan Islands. He is more a day kayaker now.

“I didn’t have room in my garage for the 17-foot kayak, so I sold it,” he said. “Now, when I go out, I just rent a kayak.”

For this trip from Bremerton to Silverdale, Gelder is looking forward to a “nice leisurely paddle.”

“It’s on an incoming tide,” he said. “It will be great to have nature help us paddle.”

The Peninsula Water Trails includes more than 371 miles of shoreline from North Kitsap County to

Bainbridge Island, to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the waters of Hood Canal. There are 13 sepa-rate trails designed as a continuous tail experience, to make up the entire trail.

Kayakers can map out where they want to travel, based on their time and experience. At stops along the way, there are ameni-ties such as connections to parks and trails for hiking, restrooms, places to picnic and rest, campgrounds and nearby stores and restau-rants.

Visit Kitsap Peninsula actually developed the Water Trails map which

started the process of applying for national trails status, said Patty Graf-Hoke, executive director of Visit Kitsap Peninsula.

According to Eric Baker, policy manager for the Kitsap County commission-ers, the county’s role in the creation of the Water Trails has been to work with the various jurisdictions along the trail to make sure that everything came together in an orderly fashion.

“In general, there is a robust outdoor recreation community in Kitsap County,” Baker said. “The

Festival marks years of work to create water trails

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SATURDAY, JUNE 278 a.m.: Ride the Tide Pad-

dlers Shuttle Bus, Silverdale Waterfront.

9:45 a.m.: Ride the Tide Paddle begins, Evergreen Park, Bremerton.

9:45 a.m.: Suquamish Tribe canoe leads paddlers, Ever-green Park, Bremerton.

10 a.m.: Festival opens, Port of Silverdale, Silverdale Water-front Park.

10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Olympic Vintage Auto Club show, War-riors Motorcycle Club show, NW Byron Street from McConnell to Washington Street.

10 a.m. to 11 p.m.: Cash Brew-ing, on NW Byron Street.

10 a.m. to 9 p.m.: Food Ven-dors, Food Court located beside Olympic Outdoor Center Rent-als.

10 a.m. to 9 p.m.: Vendors, Port of Silverdale parking lots. Information, games, education.

10 a.m. to 9 p.m.: Salmon fishing simulator, across from stage.

10-11 a.m.: Meet Miss Silver-dale, Miss Poulsbo, Miss Kitsap, Around Stage Tattoos.

Noon to 12:45 p.m.: Suqua-mish canoe escort in Ride The Tide & Brownie Challenge, Sil-verdale Waterfront.

Noon to 1 p.m.: Suquamish royalty arrive, Tribal blessing, Silverdale Waterfront.

1-2 p.m.: Formal dedication ceremony, grassy area at Port of Silverdale Waterfront.

1-1:15 p.m.: Call to gather, Suquamish Tribe.

1:15 p.m.: Welcome and in-troduction, Commissioner Rob-ert Gelder and Commissioner Ed Wolfe.

1:30 p.m.: Presentation of designation plaques to Kitsap County’s National Park Service representative.

Other events3-6 p.m.: Games, burlap race,

bean bag toss, tug of war, barrel races, flippy flop races.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Clown Ca-pers, Vendor Area; face paint-ing, balloon tying, Kitsap Physi-cal Therapy.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Hula Kai Ad-ventures, watch diver under the pier and see all the marine life; Carlisle II tours on pier, original Mosquito Fleet ship.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Demonstra-tions, kayaks, paddle boarding, rentals, education, Olympic Outdoor Center and Port of Sil-verdale.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.: U.S. Coast Guard boat tours at the pier.

5 p.m.: Flyover by the NW

BeechBoys. 9-10 p.m.: Bonfire with story

telling by Suquamish Tribe and Roger Fernandes, Silverdale Waterfront by the pier.Stage Area: NW Washington Street by Olympic Outdoor

Center10 a.m.: Opening ceremony,

U.S. Marine Corps Color Guard; National Anthem, Gary Bowlby of Gary Bowlby Photography; Silverdale Chamber introduc-tion of Kitsap Peninsula Water Trails Committee.

10:15-10:45 a.m.: Kitsap Re-gional Library, Zak Sherman, story telling.

10:45-11:45 a.m.: Roller Rita, 1950s music, hula hoops, roller

skating, audience participation.Noon: Hula/Halau Polyne-

sian Dance.2-2:30 p.m.: Bully Luna Hula

Dance. 2:30-2:40 p.m.: Quinton Coo-

per, local gospel music.2:45-3:45 p.m.: Ryan Fosket,

country music.4- 6:30 p.m.: Betsy & the

Boys, country blues music.6:30-9 p.m.: Sweet T & Jus-

tice, Top 40 music.SUNDAY, JUNE 28

Port of Brownsville7-7:45 a.m.:  Christian wor-

ship and Blessing of the Boats, hosted by Brownsville United Methodists, in the pavilion.

9-10 a.m.: Paddlers check

in at Bremerton West Marine booth in The Lighthouse for the Keys to Keyport Paddle.

9-10:30 a.m.: Paddling Ba-sics. Free class sponsored by Bremerton West Marine.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.:  Vendor booths open. Take your picture with Brownie, the 106-foot, water-spouting sea serpent skeleton.

Games for kids, hosted by Brownsville United Method-ist Church. Take a sailboat ride, provided by the Peninsula Sail-ing Club.

Touch marine wildlife. Touch tanks provided by Poulsbo Ma-rine Science Center.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Kite Build-ing for Kids workshop in the pavilion. Materials will be pro-vided.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Build a toy wooden schooner. Sponsored by Bremerton Lowe’s and the Kitsap Maritime Heritage Foun-dation.

10:30 a.m.: Formation fly over by the Northwest BeechBoys Flight Demonstration Team. Up to 20 planes, including vintage aircraft.

10:45-11:15 a.m.:  Parade of Boats and West Marine Awards. Enter anything that paddles, pedals, rows or sails — as long

as it floats long enough to go around the marina one time.

11:15 a.m.: Depart  Keys to Keyport Fun Paddle (3.6 nauti-cal miles). Free paddle for be-ginners and novices sponsored by Bremerton West Marine and the Keyport Community Club. Prizes and goodies. Reserva-tions are required. Go to www.watertrailsfestival.com/paddle-registration.

2-4 p.m.:  Pier Peer — Trea-sures of the Sea. Sponsored by Washington State University Kitsap County Extension and Sound Dive Center. Children and adults will explore the ma-rine life in Puget Sound with exhibits on the north breakwa-ter and watch live underwater video from divers exploring the seabed.

Port of Keyport1 p.m.: Celebrate arrival

of Keys to Keyport paddlers. Raffle drawings for prizes from Keyport restaurants and the Grandview Gardens Bed and Breakfast.

Paddler’s Lunch at the Gen-eral Mercantile & Deli. Cost: $8. Reservations are required.

Return to Brownsville. Free transportation provided.

4 p.m.: Kitsap Water Trails Festival closes.

Water Trails Festival schedule of events June 27-28PAGE 2 KITSAP PENINSULA WATER TRAILS FESTIVAL JUNE 26, 2015

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commissioners have been working very hard to see that the Waters Trails hap-pen for the recreational opportunities it brings, and for the economic eco-tourism that comes along with it.”

In dollars, the county has spent about $50,000 in improving amenities along the trail, plus staff time. And there has been more than 10,000 volunteer hours put toward the proj-ect in the past three to five years.

Leading the pack of volunteers is John Kuntz, owner of Olympic Outdoors Center in Port Gamble. Wolfe said he was the power behind the forma-tion of the Kitsap Peninsula Water Trails. Kuntz has been paddling in Kitsap County since 1996 and in 2008 he joined the North Kitsap Trails Association to work on trails on land and water.

“John has been passion-ate and persistent about the Water Trails,” said Wolfe. “He has so much to do with everything that has happened.” Kuntz said

the water trails is a dream come true for him.

“It is something that I never imagined would hap-pen but believed it could,” he said. “To take an idea I had almost 20 years ago and have invested thou-sands of hours of my time and many others and trans-form it into a reality is very gratifying and humbling.

“The thing that occurs to me most is how pas-sionate and sincere this movement has become. It is truly everyone’s trail that touches so many lives and improves our quality of life through recreation, eco-tourism, environment, education, and more.”

Kuntz estimates that paddling-related activities bring $1.7 million annually to the Kitsap County econ-omy. Wolfe thinks that’s just one of the great things about the water trails get-ting so much attention.

“Kitsap used to be known as the ‘Gateway to the Olympics,’ ” said Wolfe. “That’s true. But now we are a destination in and of ourselves.”

People come here and stay here for recreation, he said. That means they spend their dollars at local hotels and restaurants, too.

But, he said, it’s a quality

of life issue, too. “For people who live

here, it’s a big deal,” he said. “They crave outdoor experiences. And it gives people a reason to stay here for their entertain-ment.”

He added that “natural pursuits” have brought companies like REI, Inc. to the area. A grant by REI was used to create the signage all along the water trails, he added.

While great strides have been made with the Water Trails creation, the work isn’t finished. The Water Trails Alliance, a group of about 60 members, will oversee any future growth.

Baker said the alliance will communicate with shoreline owners and rec-reators along the route in addressing issues that may face the water trails. Such things as keeping trail and rest stop standards equal and adding points to the trail are among things they will oversee.

All jurisdictions that have shoreline along the water trails are represented in the group, including the coun-ty, several port district, four Kitsap County cities, Gig Harbor, the community of Union, Visit Kitsap, Mason County, and Kuntz.

JUNE 26, 2015 KITSAP PENINSULA WATER TRAILS FESTIVAL PAGE 3

FESTIVALCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

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Brownsville Yacht Club Casa Mexico Restaurant

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