Reporter Central Kitsap
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013 | Vol. 28, No. 34 | www.CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.com | 50¢
We salute you! The annual Armed Armed Forces Forces Day Parade is this Saturday Kitsap Week “Our annual Armed Forces Parade is the longest running and largest in the United States!” bREMERTON CHAMbER OF COMMERCE
2013 Festival Guide
THE 65TH ANNUAL ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE IS SATURDAY, MAY 18 STARTING AT 10 AM
Woman trapped by tree phones for help By WES MORROW wmorrow@soundpublishing.com
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A tree fell on the master bedroom of a home near Island Lake during a windstorm Monday, trapping a woman.
County puts an end to Tracyton development By Leslie Kelly lkelly@soundpublishing.com
A proposed development that would have seen nine new homes built on 1.65 acres near Tracyton Boulevard and Kint Drive won’t be moving forward. The K itsap County Department of C om mu n it y Development denied the application last week citing that the stormwater management system as it was being proposed did not meet county code. In a letter to developer Jeff Reed, Community
Development Director Larry Keeton said the short plat was being denied due to several factors including that there were multiple design flaws. A review of the proposal found that in multiple places stormwater runoff would not be maintained and that the proposed rain gardens would not be able to filter the amount of rain water runoff. The report said that on a site visit on March 25, surface soils were fully saturated at the See Tracyton, A13
A Silverdale woman whose house burned down in March was trapped in another home by a falling tree near Island Lake Monday afternoon. The woman, in her mid 40s, was taking a nap in the master bedroom when the wind dislodged a tall tree behind the house in the 13000 block of Lakeridge Circle NW. The tree fell onto her duplex, pinning her beneath the rubble. Despite being trapped, the woman was able to call for help from a cell phone. “She said she just happened to fall asleep with her phone in her hand,” said Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue spokesperson Ileana LiMarzi. The call came in just before 5 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to LiMarzi. A crew from Navy Federal Fire arrived on scene first and was able to extricate the woman from the debris. She was transported to Harrison Hospital in Bremerton and treated for moderate injuries. “It’s really fortunate that
she had her phone so close to her, because I don’t think she would have been able to get to a phone,” LiMarzi said. The injured woman moved to the Lakeridge duplex after a fire in March destroyed her home on Avante Drive, just a block away. Her cat and bird were killed in that incident. Lisa Breon lives in the other half of the same duplex with her son, Trè Reddic. The master bedrooms of each unit are side by side, she said, so when the tree fell onto the home it split the divider and damaged both units. Breon said they decided to go out for an early dinner that afternoon. Because of that, they were gone when the incident occurred. She was paying for their meal when she found out about the house. She got out her phone to use her tip calculator and it was lighting up with neighbors’ phone calls. She left the money on the table and headed straight home – but not without remembering the tip, she said. Bruno, Breon’s dog, was home at the time, as was their gecko, See STORm, A13
CK school board selects an interim superintendent, new board member By WES MORROW wmorrow@soundpublishing.com
The Central Kitsap School Board filled two important positions last week when it announced the selection of an interim Superintendent and fifth school board member. Hazel Bauman, superintendent of Coeur d’Alene schools will replace out-going superintenent Greg Lynch. Board members selected Jeanie Schulze to fill the vacant school board seat. Schulze immediately received the oath of office and joined her fellow four board members. She was appointed to the District 4 seat following a 3-1 vote. Mark Gaines, Bruce Richards and Chris Stokke voted to appoint Schulze
to the position. The lone dissent on the board came from Eric Greene, who voted for the other nominee, Victoria Crescenzi. Schulze ran unsuccessfully against Christy Cathcart for the same seat in 2011. Cathcart’s resignation in April allowed Schulze to apply to temporarily fill the vacant seat. Despite the appointment, Schulze will have to run for election if she wants to serve beyond the upcoming election in November. Her position on the board will come before District 4 voters in the fall if she chooses to file for election. Crescenzi will also have the opportunity to bring her campaign before See BOARD, A13
Hazel Bauman