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Friday, July 19, 2013 | Vol. 112, No. 29 | www.northkitsapherald.com | 50¢
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Years of leaks will end soon Vinland School will get a new roof for $450,000 By KIPP ROBERTSON
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Pulling in unison, a Port Gamble S’Klallam canoe family heads into the Pacific Ocean surf during training in Quinault June 30. This year’s Canoe Journey will proceed down the Olympic Peninsula coast, ending in Taholah, Quinault Nation. Laura Price / Contributed
2013
Canoe
Journey
Pacific Coast destination poses unfamiliar risks By MEGAN STEPHENSON
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ITTLE BOSTON — When pulling in a Northwest tribal canoe, the key is balance: each puller’s stroke must be made in unison, the pullers must support and trust each other. So what happens when the ocean literally turns you sideways, taking
control of your movements? You paddle on anyway. This year’s Canoe Journey ends in Taholah on the Quinault Nation reservation, on the Pacific Coast of the Olympic Peninsula. For many, this will be the first time pulling in the challenging open ocean, unlike the relative calm of the protected inland waters of Puget Sound.
The canoe families of Suquamish and Port Gamble S’Klallam are ready. Pullers, skippers and support crew have been preparing for this different journey by practicing for months, including training sessions in Taholah. “When [the canoe] hits the waves, it really flies,” said Laura See JOURNEY, Page A11
POULSBO — Knowing what he knows about Vinland Elementary’s roof, David Dyess does not want to wait any longer to replace it. Dyess, the North Kitsap School District director of facility maintenance and capital programs, especially does not want the roof to be in the shape it’s in come winter. “The last thing I want to explain is why our roof is leaking in 13 classrooms,” Dyess said during the July 11 school board meeting. Following a presentation with Dyess, the North Kitsap School Board voted 3-1 to replace the roof. Director Scott Henden voted against. Director Ken Ames was absent. The project has a budget of $447,782.55. The roof has leaked for the past five years, according to Dyess. During that time, repairs to try See VINLAND, Page A3
Students do the right thing when harbor seal pup joins them on paddleboard adventure By MEGAN STEPHENSON
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KINGSTON — A paddleboard outing turned out to be a lesson in what to do when you find a baby seal. As children returned to the Kingston dock from their
Kingston Adventures paddleboard lesson July 9, a baby harbor seal popped up and began swimming around them. The children and instructors were delighted, and cautious. “I immediately told the kids to keep their distance away from it,”
instructor Adam Kirstein said. But the seal, crying and looking for its mother, crawled up on one girl’s paddleboard. Peri Anderson, a 9-year-old student at Gordon Elementary, said she thought it was “really, really See SEAL, Page A3
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Kingston Adventures employee Dylan Szerlog carefully moves the board the seal is on to a safe place away from people. Beth Brewster / Kingston Adventures