July 28, 2022

Come learn how you might help to support Harper Pier on Saturday, August 6th, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Our collective efforts have shown that we can influence decisions that can have an impact on our community. We thank you for your engagement and support. There is still more to do!

 We would like to create a volunteer corps of those who are willing to help with Harper Pier. Opportunities would include keeping a visual watch on the state of the Pier, helping with clean up, monitoring government meetings for Pier issues and helping with social media management. 

 If this sounds interesting, come say “Hi” and enjoy a cookie Saturday afternoon, August 6th, from 3:00 - 5:00 PM, on the lower lawn of Laurie Kallsen-Georges and Kinne Hawes’ property.  (2nd lawn north of Audrey’s Expresso shop on Cornell.) 

Please park near the Harper Pier or at the baseball field parking lot, and walk north, past the coffee shop, cutting through the path to Cornell Rd.

 Looking forward to seeing you!

Summer Beauty

Sunrise, Blake Island - July 26, 2022

Evening moon over Yukon Harbor - July 8, 2022

Sunset at Harper Pier - July 24, 2022

Harper Park News

Two events are taking place at Harper Park in August.

1. Walk the park and learn the history with Harper resident James Heytvelt. August 3, 6:30 pm, at the park.

2. Kitsap Parks Ivy clean-up work party. August 6, 2022, 10:00 am - 12 noon. Click here for the Kitsap Park Volunteer calendar.

Facebook, Website & Email

While our Friends of Harper Pier Facebook group has existed for 10 years, in 2021 a website was created to highlight the many aspects of the Harper Pier community, recreational activities, history, and to present and discuss our advocacy on the Kitsap Transit Moorage issue. The website is also beneficial as a place to hold history and albums of photos. It also allows Friends of Harper Pier to provide information to Friends who do not use Facebook.

To send emails and timely announcements out to Friends of Harper Pier, we now keep an email list. You can sign up here. (Duplicate sign ups are not a problem. If in question, sign up again.)

Please make sure that FOHPier@gmail.com is in your contacts so the newsletters, like this, don’t end up in your spam folder, or another folder such as promotions. Email servers often filter email, but we hope you will want to see our newsletters in your Inbox.

Miscellaneous

Upcoming Events

Kitsap Parks Harper Park Stewardship Meeting
Wednesday, August 3, 6:30 - 7:30 PM, Meeting to be a walk-thru-the-park with a history tour led by James Heytvelt!

Kitsap Parks Harper Park Work Party
Saturday, August 6, 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon, link above

Friends of Harper Pier Volunteer Corp Meet-Up
Saturday, August 6, 3:00 - 5:00 PM, details above

Port of Bremerton Commissioners Meeting
Tuesday, August 9, 10:00 AM, Zoom

Port of Bremerton Commissioners Meeting
Tuesday, August 23, 6:00 PM, Zoom

* There are no Kitsap Transit Board of Comissioners meetings in August.

Photo Credits:

• Sunset at Harper Pier - Molly Rainey

• Sunrise, Blake Island and Evening moon - Rebecca Arnold

Questions or comments? Email fohpier@gmail.com.