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Injured bald eagle will be returned to Kingston after recovery The Sequim Gazette www.sequimgazette.com
SEQUIM — A female bald eagle found injured in Kingston is the newest temporary resident of Sequim’s Northwest Raptor and Wildlife Center. On March 14, Kingston landowner Scott McClure was alerted by his dogs to
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Continued from page A1 Peters was charged in 2002 with three counts of attempted kidnapping after he tried to intervene on behalf of two girls he alleged were being emotionally, verbally and physically abused by their stepfather. Peters, who at the time was a family friend and the stepfather’s parttime caregiver, reported the stepfather to Child Protective Services. Peters said the stepfather and stepfather’s family retaliated by accusing him of trying to kidnap one of the girls and her two friends. Peters, who lives with his brother in Kingston, said
a commotion in a bramble bush. There, he found the eagle, which had apparently been in a fight with another bird. The right side of its head was bloodied. Raptor Center volunteer Linda Gambrel said a state Fish and Wildlife officer met Raptor Center founder Jaye Moore halfway that
night to transfer the bird to the Raptor Center at 1051 W. Oak Court, Sequim. The eagle is expected to make a full recovery and will be released soon in the Kingston area, Moore said. The Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center (www. nwraptorcenter.com) is a nonprofit run by Moore,
her husband, Gary, and unpaid volunteers, with support from Greywolf Veterinary Hospital and donations from the public. According to its website, the center’s mission is to “rehabilitate injured, orphaned, abandoned or permanently incapacitated wildlife, with a special
emphasis on caring for birds of prey.” Residents include eagles, owls, hawks, raccoons, coyotes, fawns and others. Each permanent resident costs about $1,000 a year to house and feed, according to the center’s website. The center regularly presents educational pro-
grams, and center staff members often appear with wild raptors at public outreach events. Online: See photos and video of the bald eagle on the Northwest Raptor and Wildlife Center’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/northwestraptorcenter
he has been subjected to harassment despite the fact the charge was first dismissed 12 years ago. The harassment started in 2004, when someone posted around town a flier that read, “Child molester” and “Released from jail 8-27-02 for attempted kidnapping …” The flier noted which space he lived in, within the former Ravenwood Mobile Home Park in Little Boston. The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe banned him from the reservation for life, he said. While the flier was circulated in 2004, “people still remember that,” Peters said. In 2012, “the whole nightmare started again,” he said. He was with a friend
and her daughter at Tiny Town during the Kingston Fourth of July celebration when his former friend’s niece told a sheriff’s deputy at the scene that he was a child molester. “I was stopped, detained and questioned in front of hundreds of people,” Peters said. Since then, “My brother’s landlord has been trying to evict me. He said I would have to move out of the country to get a job. His latest advice was to do everybody a favor and kill myself,” Peters said. The experience shook him up and has made him suspicious. A couple of months ago, some children on bikes blew whistles at the end of his driveway, an act he interpreted as a
rape whistle drill. Motorists drive by his home, “slow down and rev their motors.” Employees at local stores “follow me around like I’m a criminal. Mothers in grocery stores … shield their children like I’m going to snatch them right out of their arms.” “This is 12 years after nothing happened,” said Peters, who graduated from North Kitsap High
School in 1977 before studying at Washington State University. “This is where I grew up and where I live. I am tired of being shunned by my community.” According to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office and a county clerk database, Peters has been in court over the last 10 years for issues related to traffic infractions and payment of child support. That’s it.
Kitsap County Sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilson said harassment is against the law, punishable by up to one year in county jail and a $1,000 fine. Peters could also ask the court for an anti-harassment order. “He has every right to exist without being harassed and treated as something he’s not,” Wilson said.
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