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Friday, March 6, 2015 | Vol. 114, No. 10 | NorthKitsap
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Poulsbo will buy, remove creekside house
The Point Julia totem pole
Part two in a series of stories following this project
Site will be returned to natural state By RICHARD WALKER and SOPHIE BONOMI North Kitsap Herald
S’Klallam carver Jimmy Price watches as his cousin, Adam Charles, uses an adze to carve out the back of a log that will become a totem pole for Point Julia. Charles, 15, is Price’s apprentice. His involvement in carving ‘is keeping the culture alive,’ Price said. Richard Walker / Herald
In the ancestors’ footsteps
Totem pole project yields a new apprentice By RICHARD WALKER
rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
(This is part of a series of stories on the Point Julia totem pole project.
The first story, “ ‘Our culture is still alive’: Totem pole will be raised at Point Julia,” was published Sept. 25 and can be read at www.northkitsapherald.com/news/277149391. html) ITTLE BOSTON — Adam Charles happened into carving. He stopped by to check on his aunt, Ellen Price, about three weeks ago, saw his cousins working on
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something under a covered area, and asked, “What are you doing?” The next thing he knew, he had an adze in his hand and was helping to carve out the back of a 15-foot totem pole that will be raised at Point Julia this spring. Charles, 15, is now his cousin Jimmy Price’s apprentice and part of a new generation of S’Klallam carvers. Asked what he enjoys most See POLE, Page A6
Grossman promoted to Poulsbo police sergeant POULSBO — Two key positions filled, two more to go. Troy Grossman was formally promoted from Poulsbo police officer to sergeant on March 4, succeeding John Halsted, who was promoted to deputy chief in February. Halsted,
in turn, succeeded Bob Wright, who retired. The department will now recruit for a new officer, and hopes to someday soon hire a school resource officer in a partnership with the North Kitsap School District.
Currently, the department has 19 personnel: the chief, deputy chief, three sergeants, 10 officers, one detective and three clerks. Chief Alan Townsend said See GROSSMAN, Page A3
POULSBO — The initial investment is $1. What that investment will yield will last for generations. The Poulsbo City Council voted unanimously on March 4 to purchase a flood-prone parcel alongside a portion of the south fork of Dogfish Creek, at 19159 8th Ave. The city will remove the house, restore the portion of salmon-bearing stream that flows across the property and, at some point, will replace the culvert through which the creek flows under 8th Avenue. The house and property are over the creek from Coffee Oasis and the city public works yard, the latter of which also floods. Public Works is moving its yard to Viking Way. The property is one-third acre and gravel on the site indicates that, historically, the creek flowed freely here. The two-story home
Dogfish Creek flows past a house on 8th Avenue. The city is purchasing the site for $1. Richard Walker / Herald was moved onto the site, possibly in the 1950s, and over the years the property owner and city Public Works Department found themselves working to protect the home from heavy seasonal flows. The Public Works Department lined the creek with sandbags that are visible on the site today. Repeated flooding, and a conversion into a duplex without permits, made the home and property unsellable. In an earlier interview, the listing agent, Ruth deMille of Coldwell Banker Bain, called the property See HOUSE, Page A3
Sgt. Troy Grossman is sworn in by Mayor Becky Erickson on March 4. Sophie Bonomi / For the Herald
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