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IN THIS EDITION
Water wise:
Children learn about one of Kitsap’s most precious resources at annual Kitsap County Water Festival
BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
NEWS Remembering the Bataan Death March
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NEWS PSNS and IMF Employee of the Year
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OPINION Support EMS service
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CENTRAL KITSAP – Vinland Elementary third grader Ella Ray busted out a brief hip hop dance routine while standing next to a water purification filter made from two two-liter plastic bottles, one of which was filled with gravel and sand. Having finished her exuberant interlude, Ray pulled down the brim of her Mariners ball cap down low and went back to business – learning about how water was one of Kitsap’s most precious resources. Ray was one of about two dozen third graders in her class who were learning how the earth cleaned rain and surface water as the water percolated downward through the soil and into aquifers. Wearing white lab coats, Twiss Analytical Laboratory soil specialist Nancy Parrott and Twiss microbiologist Briana Kinashi were on hand to teach the children about the filters as part of the 2015 Water Festival held April 14 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds. Ray and two other girls in her group – Sydney Syhaketh and Nevaeh David – took turns pouring a cup of dirty water into the filter. Slowly, the water flowed through the gravel and sand, and dripped out into a second bottle in a pale yellow, nearly clear condition. Like magic, the simple
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Betsy Shoemaker, left, holds up a fish impression made by Gabriel Selby, 10, of Emerald Heights Elementary School, during the Water Festival on April 14. At right is fellow student Ethan Delgado, 10. Students painted fish and then made impressions of the painted fish onto a sheet of paper. filter had worked. “We put gravel and sand in this pop bottle and it takes dirty water and it makes it fairly clean,” Parrott said. “You wouldn’t drink it
because it’s only going through six inches of stuff here. But out in the environment it goes through, you know, hundreds of feet.” The filtering presentation
was just one of some 38 or so presentations that were all designed to teach children from 23 Kitsap schools about the dynamics of water and demonstrate how pollutants
could reach groundwater, streams and Puget Sound. “It’s about teaching students about water and giving them SEE WATER, A9
Man who bragged he was ‘County’s CK schools ponder future most wanted’ arrested by KCSO of libraries, learning SPORTS Spring sports return to action
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SILVERDALE – The man who recently touted himself as “One of Kitsap’s most wanted” during a brazen daylight motor vehicle theft incident last week in Navy Yard City, was apprehended early this morning during a tactical team employment. Scott Anthony Loun, 39, of Bremerton, was taken into custody at 4:40 a.m. at a residential property in the 16000
block of Olympic View Road NW, in Central Kitsap west of Silverdale. Kitsap County Sheriff ’s detectives received information on April 11 concerning Loun’s whereabouts. The tip was provided by Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound following the Fox Q-13 television broadcast of “Washington’s SEE MOST WANTED, A9
BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
Scott Anthony Loun
Future CK schools could replace traditional book-filled libraries with technology centers instead. Board members discussed the idea – one that a Bothell high school is trying out – at their board meeting March 25. B o ard m e mb e r E r i c Greene favored the high-tech
approach. “The traditional library … is fast going away,” Greene said. CKSD capital projects manager Robin Shoemaker noted that North Creek school under construction in Bothell “doesn’t really have a traditional library at all.” It uses a technology center instead. SEE FUTURE, A9
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