Ever heard of KOB? No, we are not talking about the radio station in Albuquerque. KOB, around here, stands for the KINGSTON ORDER BOMBERS. It is a new group created by the Kingston North Kitsap Rotary Club to help out local businesses that have been adversely affected by Covid-19. Starting with restaurant order-bombing, then expanding to other retail businesses, orders will be placed from Hansville to Suquamish, Port Gamble to Kingston.
KOB will connect with local restaurants, one per week, to schedule the events. At the direction of the restaurants, menus and order opportunities will be communicated to Club members each week. It is anticipated KOB will continue through the summer, possibly highlighting a business more than once, and expanding to other, non-restaurant, businesses.
An important element of the program is to not overwhelm the business with orders. Club members will contact that week’s “coordinator,” a Rotarian, who will serve as a sort-of front-end person for the restaurant, to keep track of demand. Rotarians will then call the restaurant to order takeout, or to make a dining-in reservation.
First up, Kingston Ale House, March 10. The full menu - lunch and dinner - is available, and the Ale House is offering 25% discounts on bottles of wine. Coordinator is Nancy Martin, nanjmartin@mac.com. Inform Nancy of your intention to be a “bomber,” then call the Ale House directly - 360-881-0412 - to book take-out, or a table.
It is not necessary to be a Rotarian to be a “bomber.” But it is necessary to inform that week’s Rotarian coordinator, before contacting the restaurant.
Kingston Order Bombers, brought to you by your friends at the Main and Satellite Clubs of Kingston North Kitsap Rotary.
Summit Assistance Dogs
They open and close doors. They turn lights on and off. They retrieve dropped items and get the phone in an emergency. And they alleviate depression. Summit Assistance Dogs. Service dogs trained two years before going into service for wheel-chair bound folks who need assistance. That is the story told by Alice Collingwood to Kingston North Kitsap Rotarians at their Mar 3 meeting.
Training takes two years, initially eight weeks with a volunteer puppy raiser, then 18-24 months of advanced training in the hands of prisoners at the Monroe Reformatory. The final two weeks of training is with the “client,” for whom the dog will work and with whom the dog will bond. Collingwood said $20-$30k worth of training is involved. There is no charge, and a two to five year wait to get an assistance dog, mostly a Labrador retriever, sometimes a Golden retriever.
Since the year 2000, the mission of Summit Assistance Dogs is to create life-changing partnerships between people and dogs.
