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Friday, December 19, 2014 | Vol. 114, No. 51 | WWW.BAINBRIDGEREVIEW.COM | 75¢
INSIDE: Bulldogs no bark, all bite: A24
Two elderly women injured in random attack by stranger
Stringing them along
SWAT TEAM ENDS POLICE STANDOFF WITH SUSPECTED ATTACKER BY BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review
Brian Kelly | Bainbridge Island Review
The show must go on Puppeteer Mary Shaver, above, works to untangle the lines of the Shoemaker before the start of her puppet show Wednesday at the Bainbridge Public Library. The show went off without a hitch before a capacity crowd of enthusiastic youngsters.
A Bainbridge Island man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted two elderly women and barricaded himself in his apartment on Wallace Way late Monday. A Bainbridge officer responding to a report of an assault near The Doctors Clinic on Hildebrand Lane quickly found the attacker after he Related story inside noticed a man screaming The man arrested after from a window of a resi- Monday’s standoff dence near Wallace Way. with police had an The assailant was iden- upcoming court tified as Adrian Allan hearing for failing to Charvet, 25. Police said pay court fines from a he assaulted two women previous felony case. at random outside the clin- See Page A11. ic Monday afternoon. He was arrested after a nearly 3-hour standoff with police when a Kitsap County SWAT team entered his apartment through a window. The women received serious injuries in the attack, and one was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with head injuries. Bainbridge Island Police Chief Matthew Hamner praised the professionalism and quick work of the officers in his department for arresting the man accused of the random attacks. “This individual posed a significant threat to the safety of the island,” Hamner said. “He — unprovoked — attacked two older woman for no apparent reason and caused significant, substantial physical injury,” Hamner said. “The only reason he gave was because he was angry.” TURN TO ATTACK | A11
Fire board OKs election calling for $15 million bond measure, levy increase BY BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review
Commissioners with the Bainbridge Island Fire Department unanimously decided late last week to put a $16 million bond measure to pay for new and improved fire hall facilities before voters in the February election. Voters will also decide the fate of a 9-cent levy increase that would pay for an additional three firefighters to
staff the department’s north end station on Phelps Road. The three new hires, if voters approve the funding, would join the three firefighters that the board approved hiring earlier last week. The six new firefighters would help Station 23 be staffed 24/7, with help from existing firefighters who would be paid overtime. The decisions to put the two measures before voters at a special election
early next year once again unveiled the chasm between the newest members of the fire board and Chairman Scott Isenman, the senior member of the commission who supported administration’s request for a higher tax levy and a $17.1 million bond request for new fire facilities. Isenman found no support from his fellow commissioners after he pushed for a tax levy that would pay for six
more firefighters for Station 23 — which would bring the total staffing up to nine — and the bond package proposed by Fire Chief Hank Teran. Isenman asked commissioners to approve a 14-cent levy, and noted that the fire department could lower its actual levy after the first year it went into effect, which would have preserved the ability of the department to “bank” the untapped
levy capacity or build up its reserve funding for use at a later date. Fellow commissioners were skeptical. “If we collect it, we’re going to spend it, that’s just what happens,” said Commissioner Dan Morrow. Others suggested that adding nine full-time firefighters to Station 23, instead of hiring six and relying on overtime to fill vacant shifts, would be “overstaffing” the
fire hall on Phelps Road. Isenman and the fire chief strongly disagreed, but Commissioner Teri Dettmer said officials needed to keep in mind the ability of all island taxpayers to handle the tax increases. “It’s easy for us to say, you know it’s only 5 cents, it’s only $1,000.” “It’s small potatoes,” Dettmer said. TURN TO LEVY | A10