You've got different rules and different ways. We all have our functions and our goals. With its strong military heritage, Bremerton certainly has need for two posts, one on the east side and one on the west, said Ruth Kean Yates, who has been a member for 60 years. Post 149 is named for her brother, Albert C. Kean, a Navy aviator. The post has a building fund for which it raises money through special events, but what's used for a new facility takes away from the organization's main mission, she said.
Members take pains to stress the post's community involvement.
Its fund-raising helps youth groups, Hospice of Kitsap County, a battered women's shelter, the American Red Cross, the United Way and an Olympic College scholarship program, among others. Because of the litigation, post leaders won't divulge the state's offer. An online publication of The Sun newspaper of Bremerton, Wash., a Scripps Howard newspaper.