Reporter Central Kitsap
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013 | Vol. 28, No. 36 | www.CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.com | 50¢
Mock crash gives students a sober lesson in safety
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remembering together
By WES MORROW wmorrow@soundpublishing.com
Law enforcement officers hoped to create a lasting mental image for Central Kitsap High School students this week — the image of a fellow student, Kimberly Robles, frantically dialing 911 in a bloodied prom dress, or Paige Serwold dead on arrival. Of course, Robles never actually called 911 and Serwold was never in any danger. But the scene of first responders taking them through the harrowing motions of an alcoholinduced car crash is real enough to form a lasting image. Robles and Serwold are both seniors at Central Kitsap. Along with a few others, they were recruited to play the roles of crash victims for a mock collision in front of their fellow students Tuesday. For a mock crash, law enforcement agencies
Wes Morrow/ Staff Photo
Seniors Kimerly Robles (back turned) and Paige Serwold, actors in the mock crash, talk with other students afterward. position two vehicles as though they just collided head-on. Student actors dressed in prom dresses and tuxedos, and covered in fake blood, act out a realistic sequence of postcrash events. These events include
mock-airlifting a student in critical condition, pronouncing two students dead on arrival and issuing a field sobriety test on a driver. “When you actually see See MOCK, A9
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EM1 Jordan Kevin and 9-year-old Elizabeth Brock stand behind the gathered crowd duing a Memorial Day event at Ivy Green Cemetery on Monday.
Silverdale leader Ron Ross dies By Leslie Kelly
lkelly@soundpublishing.com
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Silverdale’s Ron Ross
Longtime Silverdale resident and community supporter Ron Ross died Sunday following a battle with lung cancer. He was 79. Ross was one of the largest individual landowners in Kitsap County and was known as a community developer and founder of Silverdale Realty. He was a businessman in the
Silverdale area for more than 40 years and was passionate about protecting property rights. He contributed to a number of local events and supported the community in various ways, including being the powerhouse behind Silverdale’s annual Whaling Days festival that is held each July. Along with his wife, Nadean, Ross contributed more than $1 million to begin the fund-
raising campaign to build the Silverdale Haselwood Family YMCA. Together, they also often offered up their Central Valley property, Royal Valley Farm, for public events. It was at that location that the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce built its mud run course which was used last year to raise money for local charities. See ROSS, A9
Commissioner Brown added to the Paris Air Show attendees By Leslie Kelly lkelly@soundpublishing.com
Kitsap C ounty Commissioner Josh Brown will join Port of Bremerton and Kitsap Economic Development officials at the Paris Air Show in mid June. Brown said he sees it as an opportunity to help Kitsap County develop its aerospace employment base and to fill another hat he wears as former president of
the Puget Sound Regional Council. “I was asked by the Puget Sound Regional Council to go before, and then John Powers asked that I go, too,” Brown said. Brown will represent both the Puget Sound Regional Council and Kitsap County at the 50th annual International Paris Air Show, he said. Already See BROWN, A9