page 30 kitsapweek Friday, August 8, 2014
aroundkitsap A summary of stories from Kitsap County’s community newspapers.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND REVIEW Bainbridge bread sales to benefit Orphans to Ambassadors: Traveling abroad gave MaryAnn Samson and her brother Caleb an international perspective, especially on need. The abundance they knew from growing up on Bainbridge Island was, they discovered, entirely foreign abroad. Her brother’s visits to the African nation of Namibia were equally eye-opening. Humbled by their experiences, the Samson siblings have organized a fundraising effort to put fresh bread on the tables of African villages and orphanages. Dubbed “Cama: The Truly Warm Bread,” fresh potato loaves will be sold starting Aug. 9 at four island locations: Bainbridge Bakers in Winslow Green and the Gateway; at Lynwood Center (in front of the Marketplace); and at Ace Hardware. Sales will be from 9 a.m. to noon. One dollar from every loaf sold will go to Orphans to Ambassadors, a Seattlebased nonprofit that Caleb Samson spent time with as an intern last summer. The organization serves refugee
populations around the globe, setting up solar arrays for power, chicken coops, efficient stoves and other basic infrastructure. The first recipient will be the Lion Hearted Learners Orphanage, home to 25 children in Bukoto, Uganda. Katherine Steen, international project coordinator for Orphans to Ambassadors, said the home can only afford to purchase bread one day a week presently. “The money will be used to supply a steady flow of bread to the orphanage so it can cut down the cost of basic needs and focus its resources on higher-level needs,” Caleb said. The Cama Bread effort is modeled after a popular national company that sends a pair of shoes to someone in need for every pair purchased by a consumer. MaryAnn Samson wondered, if they can do it with shoes, why couldn’t someone do it with bread? For more information, go to www.thetrulywarmbread. com, www.orphanstoambassadors.com, www. extendtheday.org, www. lionheartedlearners.org or www.bainbridgebakers.com. — BainbridgeReview.com
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BREMERTON PATRIOT School gunshot victim receives $1.2 million: The family of student Amina Kocer-Bowman, who was shot Feb. 22, 2012, at Armin Jahr Elementary School, received a $1.2 million settlement from the Bremerton School District and the owner of the gun. The school district will pay the family $900,000 and Doug Bauer, who owned the H&K .45-caliber handgun that discharged inside a boy’s backpack and wounded Amina, will pay $300,000. Amina’s classmate, whose mother was dating Bauer at the time, took the gun from Bauer’s Allyn home and brought it to school. — BremertonPatriot.com
CENTRAL KITSAP REPORTER Authorities search for missing child: Emergency workers were still combing through wooded areas in East Bremerton Aug. 5 in search of a 6-year-old girl who reported missing on Aug. 3. Search and rescue teams crowded the parking lot of Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue’s station 41 for briefings prior to searching the wooded area closest to Jenise Paulette Wright’s neighborhood on Steele Creek Drive, where she was last seen. A Customs and Border Protection helicopter, a chopper that’s often used in high-speed vehicle pursuits, flew above searchers, Kitsap County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson reported. Several county search and rescue teams have joined in the effort, allowing more ground to be covered, Wilson said. The Seattle division of the FBI also joined the search. Jenise is described as medium build, about 3 feet tall, 40 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. She is Caucasian/Native American/ Filipino, according to sheriff’s reports. It is unknown what clothing she was wearing at the time of her disappearance. The child was last seen at her home where she lives with her parents and six siblings. When her parents awoke on Aug. 3 and she wasn’t in bed, they assumed she had gone out with friends or family wandering the neighborhood.
Jenise Paulette Wright is 6 years old. Her description: 3 feet tall, 40 pounds, medium build, brown eyes, black hair. She is of Caucasian/Native American/Filipino heritage. Anyone with information on Jenise’s whereabouts should call Kitsap County Central Communications, 360308-5400.
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According to a Kitsap County Sheriff’s press release, Jenise often goes out in the neighborhood with friends or family and usually checks in every few hours. By 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, the family started knocking door-to-door in the mobile home park. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Jenise should call Kitsap County Central Communications at 360308-5400. The case reference number is K14-007799. — CentralKitsapReporter. com
NORTH KITSAP HERALD Audubon working to move osprey nest at Strawberry Field: Some winged residents of Strawberry Field could get a new place to nest. The Kitsap Audubon Society is working with the North Kitsap School District to relocate a family of ospreys, which currently nests on top of stadium lights near the center of the field. “[The] ospreys think they have the greatest spot in the world,” Kitsap Audubon Society member Gene Bullock said. The light pole the nest rests on is not far from the pond behind the North Kitsap School District’s horticulture building; the pond is a source of fish. Because eagles are ospreys main natural threat, tall objects like stadium lights and cell towers are ideal locations to nest and avoid ambush. At Strawberry Field, the osprey live in a tall perch that looks out over open space. However, the risk from the nest’s location may outweigh the benefits. Osprey nests cause concern when they’re built on electrical equipment. “I know it’s a big concern for cell-tower owners,” Bullock said.
Cell towers are being equipped with excluder devices to prevent osprey from nesting on them. Nests built on electrical equipment can catch fire. That’s what happened on Highway 305 in Suquamish in 2011, when an electrical malfunction at a beacon on top of the tower caught an osprey nest on fire. An earlier story in the Herald reported the birds may have damaged the beacon or a power wire while building the nest. The fire destroyed the tower, destroyed the nest, and apparently burned an osprey’s wing. If the district allows Audubon to install a new nesting platform, it could cost the organization $2,000 to $3,000 for construction. However, Bullock said Puget Sound Energy may donate and install a pole; that would drop the cost significantly, he said. Bullock said the Audubon Society could potentially cover the rest of the costs. David Dyess, the school district’s director of facilities and maintenance, met with Bullock at the end of July to discuss relocating the osprey. However, because of a large number of projects and people on vacation at the time, there has been no formal discussion, he said. If the project is OK’d, Bullock said the ideal location for a new nesting platform would be the southwest corner of Strawberry Field — the furthest from Noll Road and Hostmark Street. Relocating osprey requires the nest they occupy to be vacant. Bullock said the ospreys will leave in September, heading south to a warmer climate. Workers would have about a five-month time frame to remove the current nest and relocate material to the new platform. The best way to keep the
ospreys from returning to the lights would be to build an excluder device, Bullock said. “There’s no guarantee that [the osprey] will immediately get discouraged and relocate,” Bullock said. — NorthKitsapHerald.com
PORT ORCHARD INDEPENDENT Teen’s body recovered from river: Recovery crews retrieved the body of a Port Orchard boy who fell into the Ohanapecosh River on July 4, according to The (Centralia) Chronicle. The teen’s body was recovered on July 28 in a remote part of the river. Josh Osborn, 17, was last seen July 4 close to the Cedar Grove Campground near the Mount Rainier National Park entrance off state Route 123. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported that he fell in the river while taking pictures with his friends and was swept downstream by water that was described as swift and cold. His friends tried to reach out to him with a stick as he became caught in an eddy. However, the teen was swept downstream even further into a whirlpool, The Chronicle reported. Osborn’s body was located by kayakers who were navigating the river on July 27, downstream from where he fell in, according to Chief Deputy Stacy Brown of the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Crews from the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, Packwood Search and Rescue, and Olympic Mountain Rescue participated in the retrieval. The location was a difficult spot to reach, according to Brown. Terrain was very steep, and recovery teams took nearly two hours to get to the site. — PortOrchardIndependent.com