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Law enforcement y p p a H ys! career comes to a a d i l o close for Sheriff Boyer H
New hospital president is on the job David Schultz says exceptional patient care is Harrison’s priority
BY LESLIE KELLY LKELLY@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
If you ask Steve Boyer how he ended up in law enforcement, he’ll tell you about an incident he saw as a boy. “There was a house fire down the street,” Boyer said. “Two little girls were burnt very badly. I remember watching the firemen and the police working so hard to help. A couple of days later I went over to look at the house and I thought ‘I’d like to know what to do in an emergency like that.’” And that was the seed that was planted in his head and his heart. And now, after 43 years in law enforcement, Boyer will retire on Dec. 31 when Sheriffelect Gary Simpson is sworn in as sheriff. His decision not to run for another term as sheriff was made based on a combination of his health and his age, he said. “If I’d run, I’d be 68 when that term was over,” he said. “My doctors said run if I wanted to. But I wanted to have some time with my family before I get too old.” B oyer began his law
BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
Lesley Kelly / staff photo
Sheriff Steve Boyer.
enforcement career with the Washington State Patrol in 1974 and worked on the security detail for then Gov. Dan Evans. In 1985, after being promoted to sergeant, Boyer became a road cop, working with WSP sergeant Dennis Bonneville, who eventually became Boyer’s undersheriff in Kitsap County. Boyer made lieutenant in 1988 and worked a number of administrative jobs including heading the state patrol SWAT team. In that role, he helped contain an inmate uprising at the prison on McNeil Island. Boyer said it was a tough SEE SHERIFF, A9
Drawing by Serenity Kingston, age 6, of Silverdale. She is a student at KitsapArt School of the Arts.
Cougar Elementary teams with Macy’s to raise $15,772 for Make-A-Wish BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
The lunch room at Cougar Valley Elementary school was filled with rambunctious firstand second-graders as they watched their letters to Santa go into a full-size bright-red mailbox on Friday. Children at the school wrote 8,786 letters (some kids wrote more than one letter) as part of a Macy’s “Believe” fundraiser for Make-A-Wish. Macy’s donated $1 or $2 per letter to Make-A-Wish. The kid’s letters meant Macy’s donated a total of $15,772 which will
fund wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions in cities across the country. Macy’s will donate up to $1 million this year with the program. One unsigned letter handwritten in pencil read, “Dear Santa, i hope chirstmas (sic) will be a great one because chirstmas is my favorite Holiday. I love that writing letters can help kids who don’t have a good chirstmas each year. I hope my letters make it to the north pole.” Another read, “Dear Santa, i want all the children in the
Hospital to have a good christmas because there people to so they deserve to have a christmas Just as much as us. Sincerly, Kyndall.” Cougar Valley staff member Kim Lake-Loveless was in charge of the program. She said some of the kid’s letters are along the lines of “I want, I want, I want,” but not all of them. “I think it’s important that the kids learn how to give back the community,” Lake-Loveless said. “These kids, for the most SEE MAKE-A-WISH, A9
Chris Tucker / staff photos
Kim Lake-Loveless, center, hands a bundle of letters for Santa written by Cougar Elementary students to Macy’s employee David Jones on Dec. 19 at the school. At left is Macy’s manager Ryan Ramoso.
Centralizing Harrison Medical Center’s operations at the Silverdale campus, improving preventative care and keeping an eye on the costs of running a hospital are a few of the biggest challenges that Harrison’s new president, David W. Schultz, said he’ll be dealing with. Schultz’s first week on the job began Dec. 15 and he spent much of that time becoming familiar with his new coworkers and surroundings. Previously, Schultz served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Overlake Medical Center, a 349-bed hospital located in Bellevue. Schultz said he took the job at Harrison because it was a great opportunity and because serving in an executive position as president was the next logical step for him in his 18-year-long healthcare career. “This was a pretty unique opportunity for me to be able to stay in the Puget Sound (region). Harrison has a great reputation,” Schultz explained. Schultz succeeds Scott Bosch as president of Harrison. Bosch retired in July 2014 after nearly a decade with Harrison. Schultz has a master’s degree in health care administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has a BA in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. As a UT alumnus, Schultz is a fan of the Texas Longhorns football team and he also played for the Plano Senior SEE PRESIDENT, A9
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