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Man arrested for dangling baby out of window BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
Bremerton police officers forcibly entered a second-floor apartment on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 6, after a man, allegedly using methamphetamine, broke the glass out of a second-floor window and held a baby outside several times.
The baby was taken safely into protective custody and the man has been jailed. Officers responded to a report of an unknown problem at the apartments at 145 Bloomington Ave. at 4:42 a.m. early Saturday morning. Officers arrived to find a man, later identified as Adam David
Patten, 43, sweating profusely and shouting while holding a six-month-old baby aloft outside a broken second-floor window. Shards of glass pointed upward from the bottom of the window, as well as from the outside stairs directly below the window. Officers determined that the man was the
child’s father, and the mother was still inside the apartment, screaming for the Patten to put the infant down. While one officer attempted to negotiate with Patten from the ground, two other officers tried to get the woman to open the door. Police say she said Patten was refusing
to put the baby down and he had placed metal bars across the front door preventing her from opening it. Police say Patten was shouting, “You’re going to have to kill me!” and “You aren’t taking my baby!” Officers kicked in the door and found that it had been
reinforced with bars of some sort. They were able to finally kick a hole in the middle portion of the door and crawl through. Police say Patten was now inside the apartment and officers located him sitting on the floor holding the baby tightSEE ARREST, A9
Habitat kicks off revitalization effort Jackson Park
to get extreme makeover
BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
A two-story house at 137 Montgomery Ave. in Bremerton is set to get a Habitat for Humanity makeover. The hope is that the effects of the makeover will spread like wildfire throughout the entire neighborhood as part of Habitat’s nationwide Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative. It’s the first effort of its kind for Habitat of Kitsap County and is the result of a donation of the $80,000 property from Sunwest Bank. “This particular home, the reason we’re really excited is because this home is more than just a rehab for one family,” said Daryl Daugs, director of Habitat for Humanity of Kitsap County. The nationwide Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative was started several years ago and entails Habitat working with cities, counties and social services agencies to target neighborhood blight and work with those neighborhoods to revitalize them. “And it’s a combination of things,” said Daugs. “In some cases it’s helping them spruce up their homes, in some areas it’s a rehab like this one or an empty lot with no home on it or a park or sidewalk repair. What we will be doing, beginning with this project, is working with the City of
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John Tellenback, executive vice president and chief banking officer for Sunwest Bank, and Daryl Daugs, director of Habitat for Humanity of Kitsap County, stand in front of a Montgomery Avenue home the bank donated to kickstart a neighborhood revitalization effort. Bremerton and starting to have conversations with the neighborhood around us and the people who live in those homes, talking with them about what they would like to see their neighborhood look like in three to five years.” Sunwest Bank is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has 11 regional branches across the West Coast, the clos-
est of which is in University Place. They are primarily a commercial bank and have more than $800 million in assets. Over the past three years, Sunwest Bank has invested more than $1.5 million in community and charitable programs, helping more than 51 organizations that pro-
A private-sector residential development and property management company announced today that Bremerton’s 870-home Jackson Park neighborhood, formerly managed exclusively by the Navy, will be revitalized via a Public Private Venture (PPV) between Forest City and the Navy. The remade 128acre neighborhood with a new community center and park will be renamed “The Landings.” Forest City, through the existing PPV with the Navy, assumed ownership and operation of the former Jackson Park neighborhood from the Navy in early June
to redevelop, upgrade and significantly re-populate the neighborhood. The newly privatized neighborhood provides a new facet to the residential market on the Kitsap Peninsula. The four-year, $65 million redevelopment plan for The Landings includes demolition of 268 units, construction of 26 new homes and major or minor renovations involving an additional 436 homes. Another 245 homes do not require any renovation work. At final build-out the redeveloped neighborhood will include 624 homes. “With the recent addition SEE JACKSON PARK, A9
SEE HABITAT, A9
IN THE PATRIOT NAVY NEWS Jonathan Adviento, an injured sailor with local ties, heads to London to compete in inaugural Invictus Games — Page 11
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SPORTS Cougars, Wolves clash in Silverdale — Page 3
Forest City, the new owners of the Jackson Park neighborhood are planning to build a new community center and park called The Landings. courtesy image
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