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Friday, October 19, 2012 | Vol. 111, No. 42 | www.northkitsapherald.com | 50¢
What’s next for health care?
A song for an ‘angel’ School Murder victim memorialized at Bayside Church
What officials say about Harrison affiliation with Franciscan Health
closure: Options narrowing Next forum is Nov. 7; deadline is February
By KEVAN MOORE
By KIPP ROBERTSON
Bremerton Patriot
BREMER TON — Harrison Medical Center officials say affiliation with Franciscan Health System will likely improve the quality of health care and reduce costs. Harrison administrators signed Tuesday a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate with the Tacoma-based Franciscan Health System to expand services, improve the delivery and quality of care and broaden opinion access to sern Herald vices endorses for for indiCongress, viduals, 23rd District state rep. employers and — Page A6 communities in the South Puget Sound and on the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas. “This is a very positive thing for the communities we serve that can potentially very much enhance quality and reduce costs,” said Scott Bosch, Harrison Medical Center’s president and chief executive officer. Leaders of the two nonprofit health systems expect to complete the affiliation process by June 30. That work will include hammering out an agreement, See HARRISON, Page A4
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From left, Carolyn Hearn and Emily Maier sing “For Good” at the memorial service for Heather Carroll, Thursday at Bayside Community Church in Kingston. Carroll, who grew up in Suquamish, was murdered Oct. 17 in Hollister, Calif. Story, page A21; obituary, page A22. Kipp Robertson / Herald
KINGSTON — North Kitsap School District’s School Closure Committee will likely have two or three closure options by the next community forum, Nov. 7, Superintendent Patty Page said. The committee’s time to make a recommendation to the school board is shrinking and the committee is narrowing its options. The committee will make a final closure recommendation before the board’s deadline in February. Page, the forum facilitator, could not say what those options will be. “I’m not saying because I’m not willing to share, I’m just not sure what those [options] are,” she said. Ideas considered include closing and selling all the portable buildings in the district; closing a school and moving the district office; and making a middle school K-8. The next forums are scheduled Nov. 7, North Kitsap High School Commons; Dec. 12, Kingston Middle School Commons; and Jan. 16, Poulsbo Middle School Gymnasium. All forums begin at 6:30 p.m. Most participants in the first community See CLOSURE, Page A2
State says Olsen campaign flier violates law By BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review
BAINBRIDGE — A candidate for the state House
James Olsen ... used state seal in campaign flier. Kipp Robertson / Herald
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 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
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