Kingston • Eglon • Hansville • Indianola • Little Boston • Port Gamble
COMMUNITY NEWS Vol. 31 No. 10 • October
KingstonCommunityNews.com
2014
Bay cleanup Food bank saved by last wish starts with pier Removal of the pier began midSeptember by Nisqually Services By RICHARD WALKER
STAFF WRITER
LITTLE BOSTON — Carefully, methodically, the old Point Julia landmark continued its disappearing act, its presence slowly erased piling by piling. A forklift operator extracted each pile with the precision of a dentist extracting a tooth: nudg-
ing it loose, then pulling it up and out. By 10 a.m. Sept. 15, five of 42 pilings lay on the beach. The removal was expected to be complete by Sept. 18. The pier and its creosoted pilings are being removed as part of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s larger effort to help clean up the bay. The pier is being removed by Nisqually Marine Services, a division of the Nisqually Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources. The pier was built in See PIER, Page 12
Kingston Food Bank director Barb Fulton stands outside the Illinois Avenue building that will continue to be rented by the food bank, after north end resident Michael Syzmanski gifted a portion of his estate to the organization.
Luke Wesson / Staff photo
By KIPP ROBERTSON and LUKE WESSON
STAFF
K Workers with Nisqually Marine Services saw into the Point Julia Pier Sept. 15.
Richard Walker / Staff photo
INGSTON — Less than a week before Michael Szymanski died he made the decision to leave a portion of his estate to a charity. Szymanski, 67, chose the Kingston Food Bank.
The food bank has received about $20,000 so far. It will receive between $70,000-$80,000 by the first of the year, according to Margaret Rennemo, a friend of Szymanski. Food bank director Barb Fulton was out of town when she got the news the Kingston Food Bank was no longer in dire straits. “We’re just going day by day,”
Fulton said. “It’s still like a fairytale.” The donated money from Syzmanski came just in time for the food bank. Fulton and food bank volunteers held rummage sales throughout the summer as they attempted to raise enough money to pay for rent for See FOOD BANK, Page 11
July 4 fatality crash report not yet released to county prosecutor STAFF REPORT
KINGSTON — All reports related to the July 4 fatal collision between a North Kitsap Fire & Rescue engine and a Yamaha scooter were expected to be
released to the county prosecutor’s office within three weeks of Sept. 23. That’s according to Kitsap County sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson, who said investiga-
tors were awaiting the toxicology report on the driver of the scooter in early September. A toxicology report, conducted by the Washington State Patrol’s crime lab,
usually takes eight weeks, Wilson said. Wilson said the crime lab is busy. “What’s happening here is happening in how many jurisdictions in the state,” he said. Additionally,
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the lab’s resources were temporarily diverted to the processing of DNA tests during the investigation into the murder of 6-yearold Jenise Wright of East Bremerton in August.
“[Investigators] expect — meaning it’s possible but not concrete — they expect to have the whole package assembled and to prosecuSee FATALITY, Page 9
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