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Bremerton coach prays after game
Contract awarded to improve water flow control BY MICHELLE BEAHM MBEAHM@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
“I’m sitting there and I’m praying out there on the 50 and, you know, I got my eyes closed and I feel all these people around me,” Kennedy said after the game. “I’m like, ‘I hope those aren’t kids.’ I’m sitting there and I’m just going, ‘God, thank you for this opportunity,’ ” he said. Kennedy said he had no idea that members of the Centralia team were going to join him.
BREMERTON — The City of Bremerton awarded Pape & Sons Construction, Inc., an $898,919 contract for a flow control and seismic valve project at the regular meeting Oct. 7. This project originated when a 1995 seismic-vulnerability assessment “identified a risk that we could basically lose a bridge, lose a water main,” said Ned Lever, Bremerton’s managing engineer for utilities. The assessment pointed out the lack of seismic valves on the water mains between East and West Bremerton, which meant that in case of a seismic event such as an earthquake, if the valves were damaged, the city’s water supply could basically empty into the narrows. Lever said that while there were manual valves, 15 to 20 gallons of water can be lost in a minute. “Their recommendation was to install valves that have a seismic actuator that would automatically close if an earthquake should occur,” Lever said. Another part of the project is the flow control part, which Lever said is actually a higher priority because “in the last five or six years, we’ve replaced two of the highrisk pipes” that could be damaged in an earthquake. The flow control will address the fact
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OPINION Letters on football prayer, Cary Bozeman
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Dozens of Centralia High School football players surround Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy for a prayer on the 50-yard-line Oct. 16.
Centralia football team joins in prayer BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
BREMERTON — Immediately following the Bremerton Knights 21-29 loss to the Centralia High School Tigers Oct. 16, Bremerton assistant football coach Joe Kennedy bowed down on the 50-yard line
to pray. It was a controversial decision for him. Praying while on duty violated school policy, and he faced the possibility of being fired from his coaching job as a result. He had intended to pray alone, and had timed his prayer at a point when he knew the Knights team members would be off to sing a postgame fight song, he said. But dozens of boys with the Centralia football team and other supporters joined him on the field.
Deputies looking for suspected shooter BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
SPORTS Standings, scores and schedules
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SILVERDALE — Detectives from the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a shooting in the rural Central Kitsap area that has left one victim with non-life-threatening injuries. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 20, deputies were dispatched to a gunshot injury for which the victim was
being transported by private vehicle to Harrison Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Deputies were able to determine that the shooting occurred at the dead end off of NW Hood Canal Farms Road of Willamette-Meridian Road in central Kitsap County. The suspect in the shooting has been identified as Zechariah S. Chadwick, 28, of Bremerton. Chadwick is 6-feet tall, 185 pounds and has brown hair
and brown eyes. Chadwick is believed to be driving a dark gray 1990 Ford Mustang two-door coupe bearing Washington license AND-4827. This vehicle has been reported as a stolen vehicle. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about this investigation is encouraged to call 911 or, if calling from outside of Kitsap County, 360-308-5400. Zechariah S. Chadwick
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