Viking Avenue in Poulsbo was desolate, a thoroughfare of empty businesses and closed auto lots. But to Mary Nader and others with North Kitsap Fishline, it was the perfect place to open a food bank.
Nader, Fishline’s executive director, said the nonprofit had spent five years looking for a new place. As North Kitsap’s largest food bank,
the organization had outgrown its 400-square-foot building. Each building officials visited didn’t work, she said, and they decided that building a new space was cost-prohibitive. ...