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Friday, February 17, 2012 | Vol. 111, No. 7 | WWW.NORTHKITSAPHERALD.COM | 50¢
County seeks help with parks
IN THE HERALD
In Kingston, work may fall to local volunteers By RICHARD WALKER
rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
KINGSTON — Between 1988 and 2002, Kitsap County invested
— In this edition
SPORTS A look at who’s going to State — Page A6 North Kitsap
See PARKS, Page A3
2012
Man killed by police remembered as a ‘gentle giant’
225,000 coho moved to fish pen to mature. Next step: Port Gamble Bay
By HERALD STAFF
By MEGAN STEPHENSON
mstephenson@northkitsapherald.com a supplement to the
The complete guide to living in North Kitsap
through June, using “an old mower” the county will store by the sheriff ’s office. Gelder and parks officials were expected to meet with Kingston Port
Family still asking From hatchery to home ‘Why?”
KITSAP WEEK The legacy of the internment order
Almanac
$920,000 in acquiring the Kingston Skate Park. Today, it can’t afford to pick up the park’s trash. Ditto at other county parks in
Kingston. County Commissioner Rob Gelder said Kingston Cooperative Preschool has volunteered to empty the trash at Kola Kole Park and place it in the Community Center dumpster. The North Kitsap Little League will cut the grass at Kola Kole Park
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ALMANAC All the latest about North Kitsap living — Next week NEWS & OPINION ■ Shakeup at Humane Society — Page A12 ■ Both sides should be more forthcoming — Page A4
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ORT GAMBLE S’KLALLAM — It was an important annual event with little fanfare. The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife released more than 200,000 juvenile coho salmon into Port Gamble Bay Monday and Tuesday. Because the wild population of salmon isn’t “sufficient to satisfy fishing pens,” according to tribe habitat biologist Hans Daubenberger, the tribe and the state bring in the salmon for commercial, sport and sustenance fishing, with the assistance of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The salmon will grow a bit more while in the tribe’s fish pens before being released in June. This is the 25th year of the tribe’s fish pen program. The 225,000 fish were hatched at
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife transfers 225,000 juvenile salmon to fish pens in Port Gamble Bay, where they will mature before being released into the wild. Megan Stephenson / Herald the Quilcene Hatchery, raised at the state-run George Adams Hatchery in Shelton (a freshwater facility), and transported to Port Gamble. This is around half the number of salmon usually brought into the bay, but Paul McCollum, director of Port Gamble S’Klallam Natural Resources, said George Adams was hit with cold-
water disease, killing thousands of juvenile salmon. “[Fishermen] will certainly notice, but most folks realize these hatcheries work really hard...if the hatchery wasn’t there, [fishermen] would get nothing,” McCollum said. See SALMON, Page A5
POULSBO — Joseph Matthew Henninger was remembered Thursday as “a gentle giant” who loved football, his family and friends. He once mourned a chipmunk he shot with a BB gun, his f a t h e r- i n law said. He Joseph Matthew was attend- Henninger ing Olympic College and was looking forward to working soon. Family and friends struggled to reconcile the Henninger they knew with the Henninger who allegedly fired a handgun inside the Les Schwab Tire Center on Viking Way and was killed by police Feb. 8. See SHOOTING, Page A2
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