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School board director charged with DUI By RICHARD D. OXLEY Staff Writer
John G. Tawresey, a member of the Bainbridge Island School Board, was arrested Wednesday evening for alleged hit-and-run and driving under the influence of alcohol. Tawresey, 67, of Gowen Place on Bainbridge Island, hit at least one vehicle outside the San Carlos restaurant on Madison Avenue, police said. Witnesses said he tried to drive away, but bystanders prevented him from doing so by standing in front of his vehicle as they called 911.
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STAY FIT
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Brian Kelly named BI Review editor
‘Workout culture’ takes stronger hold on Bainbridge Island
In that same time national numbers of health and fitness clubs peaked During a time when the economy just above 50 million participants in was wounded, and has since been on 2010, reflecting a 10.8 percent leap in the mend, fitness businesses on the just one year and approximately $20 island have boomed. Residents are billion in revenue. Ubbes Liljeblad of the Ubbes kicking, running and lifting their way Fitness and Weight Management to a healthier island. According to the International Clinic has seen this first hand. “(Ubbes Fitness) has been serving Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Bainbridge Island for four years…” Association, a Liljeblad said. trade associa“There has been “...no matter how old you tion that serves a steady growth the health and are or what type of athlete of our clients at fitness industry, you are, there is a club out about 10 percent Bainbridge Island per year.” there designed to appeal is not alone. Since Ubbes tackles 2008 memberships to you.” weight manageat fitness clubs in Meredith Poppler, ment from many the United States vice president of industry growth for IHRSA angles including have risen. exercise, nutrition Though the and even hypnoIHRSA also reports the number of therapy. clubs in Washington wavering in recent years, declining by 1 percent DIVERSE ISLAND FITNESS in 2011, Bainbridge Island opted to Islanders can have their pick of follow the national trend anyway. In distinct gyms and trainers such as fact, since 2008 the number of fit- James Bowman who left his life as a ness gyms, training facilities or other celebrity personal trainer from New related businesses has nearly doubled York to start up Strength Lab on on the island, branching out into an Bainbridge Island. array of workout options ranging from yoga to crossfit training. SEE FITNESS, A3
“About 8:30 (Wednesday) night we got a call on a hit-and-run accident with the causing driver trying to leave the scene,” said Lt. Bob Day of the Bainbridge Island Police Department. “We got there, we investigated, and ultimately concluded that (Tawresey) had been drinking. He was taken into custody for DUI.” Police gave a sobriety test to determine if Tawresey was able to operate his vehicle, but he refused to take a breath test at the scene and refused another at the police station, police said.
By RICHARD D. OXLEY Staff Writer
Richard D. Oxley/staff photo
Top: Laura Watson practices Muay Thai with gym owner Ben Little at the Bainbridge Island Boxing Club. Bottom: Cade Strong strains under a kettlebell during an exercise routine at Crossfit 98110.
Brian Kelly has been named editor of the Bainbridge Island Review newspaper. A veteran print and online journalist, Kelly, 47, has been the editor of the twice-weekly South Whidbey Record for the past six years. Prior to his time on Whidbey Island, he was a Brian Kelly re p or te r at the Herald in Everett and The Seattle Times, and was the editor of the Snoqualmie Valley Record for seven years. He got his start in the news business as an Army photographer, where he worked for a newspaper in Germany for three years. “Brian is an award-winning journalist with a reputation for solid investigative reporting,” Review Publisher Donna Etchey said. “We cannot be more pleased to have Brian as part of our team here in Kitsap.”
During the last four years of his tenure at South Whidbey, the Record won more than 75 state and national journalism awards, including General Excellence honors from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association in 2011. The publication also earned recognition as a “Newspaper of the Year” for being one of the top newspapers for its size in the United States and Canada in 2008, an honor bestowed by the Suburban Newspapers of America organization. A 1992 graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism, Kelly is an insufferable Ducks fan, especially during football season. He is married, and met his wife Leslie, a longtime journalist who has worked at dailies in Kansas and Washington, while they both worked at the Herald in Everett. The couple do not have children. Kelly will start at the Review on March 5. He succeeds Dennis Anstine, who has left the Review to pursue other interests.