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Friday, October 14, 2011 | Vol. 110, No. 41 | WWW.NORTHKITSAPHERALD.COM | 50¢
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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR WEST SOUND MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Pianist Craig Sheppard performs on Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. at Bayside Community Church, 25992 Barber Cut-Off Road NE, Kingston. Tickets are $15 adults, $10 students and seniors, $35 family. Sheppard, an internationally acclaimed artist with more than 40 years experience as a concert pianist, returns to Kitsap to pay tribute to Franz Liszt (Oct. 22, 1811-July 31, 1886) in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
“THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY” This play, based on the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film, runs weekends through Oct. 23 at the Western Washington Center for the Arts, 521 Bay St., Port Orchard. Tickets and schedule are available at www.westernwactrarts. qwestoffice.net. In “The Trouble with Harry,” the residents of a small village are faced with the freshly dead body of Harry Worp, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town.
Helping the helpless PAWS of Bainbridge and North Kitsap bring hope to struggling pet owners. See story, page 2
A section of the Bainbridge Island Review | Bremerton Patriot | Central Kitsap Reporter | North Kitsap Herald | Port Orchard Independent
KITSAP WEEK: Keeping pets and people together / Inside EDITORIAL: Endorsements / page A4
Poulsbo Good genes and gumption Port: Bockus and Rutledge
From $13K to $50K in two years
It’s ‘new energy’ vs. ‘experience’ in Position 3 race
Port Gamble S’Klallam concerned about hike in fees for 911 service
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
mstephenson@northkitsapherald.com
POULSBO — Both men running for Port of Poulsbo Commission are lifelong boaters and animated about bringing a stronger economic contribution to the city. Jim Rutledge wants to serve the community he now calls home, and Arnold “Arnie” Bockus wants to continue the relationship between the port and the city. Rutledge is challenging Bockus for Position 3. While both have many of the same priorities for the port, they differ in their ideas of how to bring more revenue into the port and the city. Port commissioners serve sixyear terms, manage a budget of just over $1 million and are compensated $100 per meeting they attend.
Arnold ‘Arnie’ Bockus Bockus has been a commissioner for seven years — first appointed to the position, he then ran unopposed for his first term. A retired police officer from Connecticut, he spent five years in Washington state, partly with the Air Force. During a cross-country motorSee PORT, Page A2
Arnold ‘Arnie’ Bockus
Jim Rutledge
mstephenson@northkitsapherald.com
Emma Otis tells Girl Scouts about the history of Camp St. Albans, during a visit in 2006. She Otis family collection was involved in the camp when it was established in 1935.
At 110, Emma Otis of Poulsbo is the state’s oldest resident and America’s oldest Girl Scout
LITTLE BOSTON — The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe is asking for representation on the policy board of Kitsap County Central Communications, or CenCom, after its annual rate for 911 service jumped from $13,550 to $50,000 since 2009, a 270 percent increase. S’Klallam Tribe Chairman Jeromy Sullivan asked CenCom director Richard Kirton and policy board members to renegotiate the Tribe’s contract. The Tribe paid $14,787 in 2010 but, according to Kirton, threatened to not pay the increased rate in 2011. Sullivan said Tuesday that Port Gamble S’Klallam has paid its 2011 bill — $17,285, based on previous annual increases. “We thought it was unfair people said we
By RICHARD WALKER
See CENCOM, Page A3
rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
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OULSBO — If you like adventure, cinnamon rolls and pranks, you’ll wish you had hung out with Emma Otis. As a child growing up in Gig Harbor, she regularly rowed across Tacoma Narrows to Point Defiance. “Sometimes, when the current was running through there, you had to pull like heck,” she said. At age 12, she picked up newspapers on the dock and walked her rural Crescent Valley paper route in two hours. While out on her roundbottom boat, if she knew some girls with her were “itchy” about being on the water, she’d make the boat sway to make them scream. She went to nursing school at 16 and in her
Council increases park impact fees, cuts traffic fees By MEGAN STEPHENSON mstephenson@northkitsapherald.com
her anxiously about whether
POULSBO — To keep up with its population growth projections, the Poulsbo City Council adjusted impact fee ordinances to offset the cost of park maintenance and transportation development. On Wednesday, the council voted to increase impact fees for residential and commercial developers to fund future park maintenance and mitigation of traffic impacts. Residents will not see an increase in taxes or user fees. The new fees go into effect Oct. 26.
See OTIS, Page A12
See FEES, Page A19
Emma Otis checks out her great-granddaughter Breann Pugh’s tattoo — a goldfinch backdropped by the Girl Scout trefoil — in 2006. Otis is still a member of the Scouts; four succeeding generations of her family have followed in her footsteps. Otis family collection career delivered several babies. She remembers that some parents would ask
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