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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2014 | Vol. 16, No. 48 WWW.BREMERTONPATRIOT.COM | 50¢
Wreck vicitim is on the mend Driver who hit him head-on is alleged to have been under the influence BY LESLIE KELLY LKELLY@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
It was just another Monday morning, Allan Wodenscheck said of his drive to work on Bainbridge Island. He remembers passing the Masi Shop on Highway 305 heading toward the Agate Pass Bridge. It was Dec. 16, sometime between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. The next thing he remembers is trying to get out of his car and a man holding him and telling him not to move, that the paramedics were on their way. Wodenscheck, 24, is recovering at home in Bremerton, two weeks after a near-fatal collision with a pickup truck driven by a suspected drunken driver, Andrew Page Smith, 32, of Poulsbo. Smith was driving north, having just crossed the bridge, when his truck collided head-on with Wodenscheck’s white Saturn sedan. Wodenscheck had to be extricated from the vehicle and traffic was at a standstill for more than two hours. Wodenscheck was taken by ambulance to a helicopter pad at the Bainbridge Island Fire Department on Madison Avenue and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He underwent surgery to repair a tendon in his left knee and a shattered femur in his left leg. He also has a broken right ankle and a
Kevan Moore/staff photo
This old Bremerton Parks Department storage shed was torn down last month without much fanfare.
An eyesore of a building is no more BY KEVAN MOORE
KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
Leslie Kelly/staff photo
Allan Wodenscheck talks with his grandfather Ron Fredenburg and his mother, Shelly, about the car wreck he was in near the Agate Pass Bridge. broken collarbone. He doesn’t remember anything from just moments after the crash until the following day. “I remember passing the Masi Shop, and then I remember someone running over to the car asking ‘Are you OK?’,” Wodenscheck said. “I remember parts of being cut
out of the car, and being carried out of it. The next thing I remember is it being Tuesday morning and being in the hospital.” He doesn’t have any memories of the car coming toward him, the impact, or the helicopter ride to the hospital. He considers himself SEE ON THE MEND, A9
Last month, without much fanfare, Bremerton’s parks department tore down a listing and dilapidated storage shed on Lebo Boulevard across from its headquarters. The building, whose roof was either covered with moss or had holes exposing its insides to the elements, had been an eyesore for years and had not gone unnoticed by residents, building inspectors and code compliance officers. Prior to the Dec. 10-11 demolition, Jeannie Vaughn, a building code expert with the city, said she and city code enforcement expert Janet Lunceford, were both worried about the structure. “It is a building of concern,” Vaughn said shortly before it was
torn down. “Janet and I have both been to that building. I think I’ve been to it three or four years ago and it was in pretty bad shape then.” Bremerton Parks Director Wyn Birkenthal said that the building had been used to store fertilizer, planting soil, sand, tractor attachments and some small watercraft. “The older building was not weatherproof and in poor structural shape, as it sits on waterfront park property that will eventually will have a higher and better use (than storage),” said Birkenthal. “I wanted to demolish it rather than repair it.” All of the stuff that was previously kept in the building has now been moved to the ground floor of the staff headquarters of Public Works on Oyster Bay. The new home for SEE PARKS BUILDING, A9
Bremerton man charged with assault of a child BY SERAINE PAGE
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An East Bremerton man has been charged in Kitsap County District Court with assault of a child in the first degree for allegedly abusing his girlfriend’s 8-week-old son. Timothy David Barnes, 30, was arrested last Friday after authorities responded to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma to investigate the possible assault and
found enough evidence to arrest and book him. He is now being held at the Kitsap County Jail on $1 million bail. Medical staff treating the infant in Tacoma discovered “severe/massive brain trauma… the brain is swollen and bleeding,” according to a news release from the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO). The infant was considered to be in a “non-responsive state” and was “listless upon
examination,” states the report. The child is listed in critical condition, and there is a possibility of death, according to the report. A child abuse specialist who examined the infant believed that there is “concern for abuse and neglect” based on the known circumstances. Barnes has a prior criminal history. While being interviewed, Barnes admitted he has four felony convictions and also served five years in
prison for possession of LSD. In addition to that, he said he twice evaded police officers and committed a burglary. In the report, Barnes also admitted to being arrested for “assaulting a public servant.” He also stated he had no previous experience in infant care, “with the exception of taking a child psychology course while incarcerated.” Additionally, doctors discovered three fractured ribs, two old and one more recent,
and an “adult-sized human bite mark that broke skin,” according to the sheriff’s office. A social worker contacted the KCSO to report the baby’s mother brought her son “into the hospital with indications of serious abuse,” states the KCSO press release. Barnes and the child’s mother serve as primary caregivers, and all three live Bremerton. He is not the child’s biological father, states the report.
Other than not being able to maintain proper weight since birth, the infant had no other major health issues. According to the KCSO report, when the mother left for work on Jan. 2, the infant was fine. After arriving home, she noted her child was in a “zombie-like state” and had difficulty breathing and refused to eat. The mother wanted to take her child to the hospital that eveSEE CHILD ABUSE, A9