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City agrees to pay fees, not seek appeal in Ostling case
Tightwads, take heart Author tells true story of spending seven years at sea BY RICHARD D. OXLEY Bainbridge Island Review
When Wendy Hinman set sail with her husband Garth, she didn’t know how long she would be gone, or where exactly they would go. “We had an open-minded plan,” Hinman said. “We thought we would go as long as we could.” “That’s why we had such a little tiny boat,” she added. “As long as we could” ended up being seven years at sea. In a mere 31-foot sailboat, the couple traversed 34,000 miles and visited 19 countries. Their new life at sea started 12 years ago, and they had a loose idea of following a route Garth attempted as a kid. Garth, however, ended up shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The couple tried to visit it during their epic voyage, but discovered it has since been turned into a penal colony. Still, it was all part of the adventure. The couple explored the sea and its islands, spanning
New Zealand to Japan. It was a maritime frontier that instilled a new sense of freedom in Hinman. “It is just such Photo courtesy of Wendy Hinman a great lifestyle,” Wendy Hinman cooks rice in the small kitchen of the 31-foot sailboat Velella, Hinman said. “It was below, the vessel that she and her husband Garth took to sea for seven years. freedom like I’ve never known before. We weren’t plugged into society. Book signing It was really relaxing not to be What: Author Wendy on a deadline, and we had to folHinman shares stories low nature.” from “Tightwads on the “We had a pretty amazing life Loose.” for not that much money,” she When: 3 p.m. Sunday, added. “We were living on like Oct. 28. $33 dollars a day. We lived on Where: Eagle Harbor the rent that our house brought Book Company. in.” Sometimes they would fish for their dinner, though, like high quality, or a VelveetaHinman said they didn’t turn like substance,” Hinman said. out to be the best fishermen. “In New Zealand they have Luckily, they were never too great grocery stores, and in way to Kwajalein Island in the far from an island or mainland Mexico.” Marshall Islands, where they with supplies. They continued to sail as far found a U.S. Army base, and “We did come across grocery as they could until an “electrical jobs. stores, sometimes they were meltdown” caused the couple to equipped with a Spam-like subchart a new course. stance that makes Spam look They were able to make their SEE TIGHTWADS, A31
BY BRIAN KELLY Bainbridge Island Review
The court case over the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill Bainbridge Island man has come to an end. City of Bainbridge Island officials said Monday the city had agreed to pay attorney fees and other costs to the family of Douglas Ostling, who was shot and killed by a Bainbridge police officer after officers went to the family’s home to investigate a 911 call and Ostling met officers at his apartment door with an axe. The city will also not appeal the jury’s decision. Earlier, attorneys for the city asked U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton to put the jury’s decision on hold, and said the jury made a mistake when it decided in favor of the family. The city’s legal team claimed the court erred when it refused to split the court case into two parts so Bainbridge Police Chief Jon Fehlman could testify in his defense. Earlier this week, city officials announced that a final judgement in the case had been entered on Oct. 22, and that Bainbridge Island had agreed SEE OSTLING, A31
Memorial planned for Islander who devoted life to street kids BY BRIAN KELLY Bainbridge Island Review
He found inspiration in Mississippi, helping register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer in those hot days of the civil rights movement in 1963. He found inspiration in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., watching from the crowd with hundreds of thousands of others after the March on Washington to the Baptist minister’s plea for racial equality as he gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech.
He found inspiration while participating in the boycotts of labor leader César Chávez and his support of struggling farm workers. Jonathan Roise But for so many others, it was Jonathan Roise, the man himself, who was inspiring.
Jonathan Harold Roise, a longtime Bainbridge Islander who spent much of his life doing social work in his second home of Nicaragua, died Oct. 14 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 67. “He always had a strong affinity just for basic human dignity, and for solidarity. I think that was a very strong theme in his life,” said his son, Joshua Roise of Oakland, Calif. Though he had only one son biologically, Jonathon Roise was a father to hundreds of kids he rescued from despair in the streets of Nicaragua.
The son of a Marine Corps colonel, Jonathon Roise attended Stanford College and was the editor of the Stanford Daily. A Quaker, he was a conscientious objector during Vietnam War. He found his life’s work in Nicaragua, however. He moved there in 1990, and worked as the director of the Quaker Center in Managua and helped launch community development projects throughout the country. A few years later, with the help of Mercedes Guido, they founded Si a la Vida, a project to provide hope
as well as homes to the homeless children who lived in the markets. It was based on the principles of personal responsibility and nonviolence. “When he was working in the Quaker Center in Managua, he became aware of the large number of kids who were living in the market, sniffing glue because of poverty or abuse, and he and Mercedes Guido decided they needed to do something to help those kids,” said Nancy SEE ISLANDER, A34