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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012 | Vol. 112, No. 42 | WWW.BAINBRIDGEREVIEW.COM | 75¢
Council says get crosswalk moving, now
Selling like hotcakes
BY RICHARD D. OXLEY Bainbridge Island Review
Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review
Abigail Satzman, 4, anxiously awaits the next batch of flapjacks to finish cooking during the Bainbridge Island Fire Department’s annual pancake breakfast on Oct. 13. A crowd numbering into the thousands came by for breakfast — so many that the volunteer chefs ran out of eggs — and a day of fire engine rides and other fun.
Talk is cheap, but walking apparently isn’t. Responding to public pleads for a crosswalk, the Bainbridge Island City Council was briefed on city efforts to do just that. The efforts, however, may take longer than the council had in mind and come with a $10,000 price tag. Still, despite the timely hurdles in front of them, the council opted to put in a crosswalk for young students as soon as possible. City staff wanted to wait until 2014 before putting the crosswalk in. On Wednesday, the council told the city manager to look into the possibility of putting in a crosswalk on Sportsmen Club Road between Woodward Middle School and Sakai Intermediate, and the Coppertop Loop where many students journey for after-school activities. The move was in response to the many requests from an island Girl Scout troop that took to the lecturn in the council chambers last week and warned of the potential danger near the school. This week, Public Works Director Lance SEE CROSSWALK, A8
State says Olsen political flier violates state, federal laws BY BRIAN KELLY Bainbridge Island Review
A candidate for the state House of Representatives is being warned that his latest campaign flier violates state law. James M. Olsen, a candidate for Position 2 in the 23rd District, distributed a campaign flier last week that runs afoul of a state law that prevents the seal of the state
James Olsen
of Washington from being used in political campaigns. The full-color flier — with the headline “The James M. Olsen Plan For A New Washington/ Kitsap
Prosperity” — was inserted last week into editions of the Kitsap Sun, the Bremerton-based daily newspaper. The state seal was reproduced on the bottom of the paid political announcement, along with the seal of the Coast Guard Reserve. State law clearly prohibits the use of the state seal in political campaigns. The law states: “The state
seal shall never be used in a political campaign to assist or defeat any candidate for elective office.” Patrick McDonald, assistant to the Secretary of State, said in an email to the Review that Olsen has been told that using the state seal violates state law. Olsen has been ordered to immediately remove the state seal “from any and all campaign litera-
ture” associated with his campaign. McDonald also told Olsen that any use of a military symbol or seal violates federal law. Brian Zylstra, deputy communications director for Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, said the office hasn’t had any other complaints this year about SEE OLSEN, A10