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POSTAL CUSTOMER www.keypennews.org THE VOICE OF THE KEY PENINSULA January 2020 Vol. 47 No. 1 Smith got her start in the restaurant busi- ness “at age 14, working as a soda jerk at Woolworth’s” in her home town of Kansas City, Missouri. From there she worked in food service for many years and eventu- ally opened Lulu’s on McKinley Avenue in Tacoma. After a dozen years there she decided to build her own restaurant in Lakebay and Lulu’s Homeport was born. Smith, who lives at Palmer Lake, said she has no intention of leaving except to visit her sister, maybe go to Hawaii, or see an old friend in Mexico if she gets up the nerve. Smith earned an honorable reputation for helping the community with Christmas present giveaways, Easter egg hunts and fundraisers to support local schools, and awarded free meals to students at Evergreen Elementary who achieved high academic Photo: Chris Koniecznyn, KP News Photo: Tim Heitzman, KP News goals. During the infamous ice storm of 1996, much of the KP was without elec- Lakebay Marina Owner KP Icon Lulu’s to Close tricity for many weeks but the Homeport New owners, menus and décor. And had power and the kitchen staff worked breakfast, all coming later this year. around the clock to help feed a cold and Agrees to Sell to Boating Group LISA BRYAN/TED OLINGER, KP NEWS hungry community. “Peninsula Light had A boaters’ advocacy association wants to set a new course for the historic property. so many workers to feed, they set up a LISA BRYAN, KP NEWS RBAW is a large organization, with Lulu’s Homeport Restaurant and Lounge running tab,” Smith said. over 10,000 individual boaters and 50 is scheduled to close its doors in early The new owners plan a complete remodel The Recreational Boating Association clubs promoting the interests of boaters January after nearly 30 years of hardening including new floors, new bathrooms, and of Washington and its nonprofit RBAW in Washington. Wise said the first objec- the arteries and warming the hearts of Key some work in the kitchen that they hope Marine Parks Conservancy announced tive is to secure funding for purchase Peninsula diners. to wrap up within three months. Dec. 12 that it has entered into a purchase and that he is confident people will come The beloved blue diner, located at 1509 “We’re going to get busy on that right away, and sale agreement to acquire Lakebay forward to donate. The nonprofit RBAW Key Peninsula Highway NW in Home, had but you know, with construction business, Marina with the goal of rehabilitating and Marine Parks Conservancy organization been for sale since June 2017 and was sold it may take a little longer,” Sahagun said. preserving it in perpetuity as a marine park has already applied to the IRS for a 501(c) to Ricardo Sahagun and Edgar Anaya, the “Our family has been in the restaurant by donating it to the state. (3) tax status and expects approval shortly. cousins and business partners who own business for a lot of years,” he said. “Edgar’s The reported purchase price of $1.25 After the title transfer, additional money Two Margaritas in Allyn, Poulsbo and parents opened on Bainbridge Island in ’93 million, which remains to be fully funded, will be raised for improvements. Union. The Lakebay location will make and my parents opened on Vashon in ’96.” has a closing date set “It’s a special session, their fourth Mexican restaurant when the For locals accustomed to breakfast at of Sept. 2020. As of “WE’RE NEVER GOING TO GET not a budget year sale closes in a few weeks. Home on the weekends, there is hope that Dec. 20, $280,000 ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS.” for state legislators, Lulu’s Homeport has been an oasis for chicken fried steak with gravy and eggs had been raised, with so getting a major a variety of local wildlife, ranging from and those stacks of enormous pancakes $250,000 of that coming from the Pierce capital request funded is not the easiest loggers to programmers, teachers and with bacon might return before too long. County 2020-2021 biennial budget thanks to thing in the world,” Young said. “The big pastors, and cabals of crusty old men “We’re looking to do traditional Amer- the efforts of Pierce County Councilmember push will be down in Olympia and our debating events both current and long ican breakfasts in Lakebay,” Sahagun said. Derek Young (Gig Harbor-Dist. 7). 26th legislators are really going to have past. The lounge was the go-to meeting “We took over the Bistro a few years ago “We need to show that this is really to do some heavy lifting.” place for groups such as the KP Business up at the golf course in Lakeland Village important to the community and that’s Wise said, “We’ve met with all the repre- Association and KP News for monthly (in Allyn), so that’s ours also. We’ve got why we made the $250,000 appropriation,” sentatives of the 26th Legislative District. meetings and planning sessions. Brandon up there and he does really good Young said. “Frankly, it wasn’t unanimous This is not a political issue. I think they “I’m tired, worn out, like a dirty old breakfasts, so we’re developing a breakfast but we got there. Rural areas don’t have a are very supportive.” dish cloth,” said owner Lulu Smith. She menu for down here as well.” They plan to lot of job opportunities, but recreation is After seven years as a director of RBAW, said it’s hard to imagine retirement after see how it goes with breakfast, starting out one of them.” Wise became its president in 2019. working so long, but said she’s getting a with Friday, Saturday and Sundays. Bob Wise, president of RBAW, said, “This year I wanted to start us back on a lot of good feedback from customers and “We’ve made a lot of friends over the “We want this to remain a property that’s legacy-building tradition and this is part of others begging her not to go. “I’m nearly years who live down here and drive all the open to the public. If we lost another a plan to return RBAW to its roots,” he said. 74 now, so that’s a lot of years. We’ll have way up to Allyn. That’s what really brought marina, particularly in south Puget Sound, This is not the first time the RBAW has a good closing party before it’s all over.” us out here,” he said. what a tragedy.” CONTINUED PAGE 5 2 www.keypennews.org January 2020

Here’s What I Think About That LISA BRYAN, two, but couldn’t be away from me for long. trucker were it not for his wife’s dogs? It EXECUTIVE EDITOR, KP NEWS Who would watch over me in his absence? was the dogs that alerted neighbors to Whenever I left home by car, that dog the man’s deteriorating condition. Social I am settling in with a cup of hot sat in exactly the spot my feet last left the workers took over; he relinquished the coffee after a walk in the woods with the ground and waited until my return. His dogs. All four were adopted by good dogs. There is nothing so invigorating behavior was similar in the house. When homes and I like to think the man got his as the feeling that follows a winter walk I used the bathroom, he waited outside second chance too. 253-884-4699 with my friends in the cold morning air, the door. At night, despite a soft bed of As many dog lovers know, one rescue www.keypennews.org with lingering fog in the fields and ever his own, he chose to sleep on the floor at begets another. Thanks to a dear friend www.facebook.com/KeyPenNews widening gaps of blue sky. Light streams the foot of ours –– never dissuaded. with a big heart for German shepherds, [email protected] into the forest and steam rises as winter It was odd. He certainly liked everyone an out-of-control 10-month old juvenile PO Box 3, Vaughn, WA 98394 sunbeams gently kiss huckleberry and salal else, but he bonded to me in a way I have delinquent shepherd named Augie came EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Lisa Bryan just enough to make them blush. never experienced. As to live with us. Happy New Year. A fresh calendar awaits, a family we’ve enjoyed He was no Deacon. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Ted Olinger full of hope and opportunity, as I edit my many loyal dogs, but Early on I felt a little STAFF CONTRIBUTORS: Krisa Bruemmer, own list of resolutions for 2020. With plenty Deacon was different. scared of him myself. Matthew Dean, Joseph of calendars behind me, the voice of expe- The details of his life He was pushy, full of Pentheroudakis, Dave Stave, rience mocks anything too ambitious. before age three or four himself and fearfully Sara Thompson Saying hello to a new year means were largely unknown. aggressive toward STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: Ed Johnson, bidding an old one farewell. Was he a registered men in ballcaps. It Chris Konieczny, Richard Miller, In late 2019 my faithful companion, a purebred? An unneu- took six months David Zeigler German shepherd named Deacon, died. tered male at the time before the young dog From the moment we adopted as a rescue of his rescue, that service became civilized and COLUMNISTS: Vicki Biggs, Richard Gelinas, Ted Olinger, Joseph in rural Montana, he followed me every- was performed before is currently pushed R.I.P. Deacon. Photo: Lisa Bryan, KP News Pentheroudakis, Rob Vajko where without fail. In his first two weeks, his adoption. Did he live around by a 13-year I leashed him up for walks to show him strictly outdoors or indoors? How was he old cairn terrier, Frodo. CALENDAR EDITOR: Matthew Dean his new boundaries along the acres of trained? He excelled at basic commands Thanks to Deacon, who led the way by [email protected] unfenced property lines. It quickly became and heeling, but fetched neither ball nor following, Augie is now my good shepherd. WEBMASTER: Chris Konieczny apparent neither leash nor fence was stick. 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each session, Sasha seems to know there is a treat coming. “Sasha, you’re a real mind reader, aren’t you girl?” Christian said, giving her a tiny treat as expected. The next round of reading went to Julia Davis, a fifth-grader. Her session is similar, focused on reading aloud while gently petting the dog. To the casual observer, it may appear to be more like fun and games, but under- neath it all, real emotional and structured reading goals are being met simultane- ously. CISP Volunteer Coordinator Cathy Rich said the interaction provides not only an academic boost to students, but also helps kids who need social and emotional support, teaching equally important lessons such as kindness and compassion. Rich said the Tutors with Tails Reading Program is currently offered at Vaughn, Evergreen, Minter Creek and Harbor Heights Elementary Schools. Launched in partnership with Peninsula School District, the pilot program provides students who may be struggling with reading, the opportunity to read with certified therapy dogs, boosting literacy, confidence and social skills. While Sasha and student reading happens Third-grade student Scarlett Struthers enjoys reading aloud with Sasha. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News in one small corner of the library, else- where the long running human mentoring Tutors with Tails Help Young that goes on in this after-school program administered through CISP has a playful In November, Angel Guild Readers at Vaughn Elementary aspect as well. awarded $13,135 to At another table in the library sits The ever-popular Communities in Schools of Peninsula's Tutors with Tails program veteran volunteer mentor Dick Vanberg, Key Peninsula News ...... $5,000 expands into Vaughn. Expansion of human mentoring is needed in Vaughn as well. teaching a young boy to play the classic Vaughn Elementary School ...... $1,000 LISA BRYAN, KP NEWS and reading at Minter Creek Elementary card game 21. The two talk as he shuf- Key Peninsula Middle School ...... $1,275 School last school year, while she was fles the cards for another round, “It’s Childrens Home Society ...... $3,000 “Meet Sasha. She is a toy-sized Austra- going through the a fun way to learn Amer. Assn. University Women .....$1,900 lian Shepherd. They don’t normally come process of getting “SASHA, YOU’RE A REAL MIND math,” he said. Evergreen Elementary School ...... $410 this size,” said her owner Jill Peters. “And Sasha certified as READER, AREN’T YOU GIRL?” Volunteer KP Emergency Pre. Coalition ...... $550 that’s the big joke around here — about a therapy dog. By mentors at Vaughn, Tutors with Tails — Aussies don’t have spring she added reading with the dog like Vanberg, are in for the long game. tails,” she said. at Harbor Heights Elementary School Vanberg was recruited by Congressman Smiling is infectious around 5-and-a- to the delight of students there. Derek Kilmer for the program 15 or half-year-old Sasha. She’s very friendly, but “They didn’t have a dog program in more years ago, he said, long enough to Peters said she espe- Vaughn and I’ve have forgotten exactly. Other mentors at cially likes kids. always told them I’m Vaughn have racked up over a decade at “After they’re done willing to go wher- the school. reading, I let them give ever I’m needed,” The consistency and dedication of CISP her a treat and have Peters said. mentors is appreciated by Patti Wilson, her do tricks. She loves Christian Castillo the librarian at Vaughn Elementary since doing tricks.” is in the fourth grade. 2015 and the manager of the after-school Peters is in her With Sasha by his side volunteer reading program and staff for second year as a Christian quickly CISP. Wilson said she loves her job and volunteer math and becomes oblivious to is proud of the long-running program at reading mentor with everything else in the Vaughn, the school where the after-school Communities in library, petting the program was born. Open Tues–Saturday 10 to 4 Schools of Peninsula. dog while comfort- “Our volunteer mentors make a big Key Center Corral 253 884-9333 She began with math Fourth-grader Christian Castillo reads ably reading his book difference here and that’s what it’s all at Purdy Elementary Sasha a story. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News aloud. At the end of about,” Wilson said. 4 www.keypennews.org January 2020

Victoria Beeber helps fifth-grader Willow Mossberg with her speech. Photo: Krisa Bruemmer, KP News Successful Little Toasters Program Supports Young Girls The growing 80-girl program, modeled after Toastmasters International, is offered at all elementary schools in the Peninsula School District. KRISA BRUEMMER, KP NEWS The group is silly and fun. There are unicorns, rainbows, glittery polka dots, Little Toasters is about far more than and light-up sneakers. There are giggles. public speaking practice and leadership There is also invaluable work being done. skills. It is a place where young girls are “I auditioned for a solo,” Bella said, able to boost their confidence level, discuss smiling wide as she shared her high for emotions and work towards personal goals. the day. “Little Toasters has definitely made Teachers and counselors recommend third me less nervous because last year I audi- through fifth grade girls for the Children’s tioned for a third-grade concert solo and I Home Society of Washington-sponsored didn’t get the part. But I was pretty nervous. after-school program, and students in the This year I wasn’t as nervous.” group invite siblings “My high is that and friends to join. “THIS IS A CRUCIAL PART OF THE I got to play in “One of the PROGRAM BECAUSE IT VISUALIZES the dirt today,” reasons I joined THAT GIRLS TRULY CAN DO said third-grader was because I saw ANYTHING THEY WANT BECAUSE AN Georgia Madrid. there was free lolli- EXAMPLE IS IN FRONT OF THEM.” “My low is that my pops,” said fourth- finger hurts.” grader Isabella Ruiz, who goes by Bella. Other highs included an upcoming “But this also did help me a lot. I used to sleepover, a joke that made everyone have a lot of stage fright. laugh, a good book and excitement for “You can share anything you’re feeling. the weekend. Broken headphones, spilled If you’re feeling really sad you can share to water, miscommunication and a scheduled the people here,” she said, looking serious flu shot were among the lows. When math despite her cheetah print cat ears and big homework came up, some girls insisted, pink bows. “That’s a high!” while others frowned and The Vaughn Elementary School library said, “Not for me.” hummed with energy Dec. 5 as nine Little One girl said, “Oh no! My brain’s losing Toasters discussed their “high and low” it!” when she forgot what she wanted to say. for the day. The group facilitator, Victoria Beeber, January 2020 www.keypennews.org 5 reminded the girls not to talk over each LAKEBAY MARINA SALE, FROM PAGE 1 other, to remain seated and to keep their purchased property to preserve for public use. eyes on the speaker. Its parent organization, the Puget Sound “After school it can be really hard for You did it! Interclub Association, raised $25,000 in the them to get out of class and just come and 1950s to purchase part of Sucia Island, the sit down and need to focus again,” Beeber small archipelago north of Orcas Island, said. “I try to make it as fun as possible in 1960 before it could be developed for to keep them engaged, but sometimes it’s As we go to press, we’re wrapping up our most private vacation homes. The organization just really, really hard to sit down and I successful fundraising season ever. It took a combination later donated it to Washington for protec- recognize that.” of do-gooders, altruists, supporters, benefactors and tion as a state marine park. Following “Highs and Lows,” the girls general fans. Come to think of it, that sounds like a Wise, of Bainbridge Island, is no stranger spent 10 minutes writing speeches about pretty fair description of the folks who settled this place to the marina business — he owns four their dream job. Some moved to far corners on the Olympic Peninsula — and he kept of the library to write. Others stayed at decades ago and built what we now call home. And still abreast of the legal troubles of Lakebay the main table where Beeber helped with call our community. Marina owner Mark Scott, who purchased spelling and ideas. the property in 2012. Some speeches were filled with theat- Our success and growth are deeply, firmly rooted in our “To a large extent the property condi- rical noises and gestures. Some girls were amazing community — and the people who give time, tion had degraded to a point that it didn’t more soft-spoken, enunciating each word money and care to take care of each other. make financial sense from a profit and loss carefully or rushing through to the finish. standpoint,” Wise said. “Mark certainly had There were two veterinarians, two bakers, When we told our printer to add 500 copies to our some issues with the community, but I do a teacher, a hairstylist, an architect, a police monthly press run, he said “You’re the rare community think his vision was right –– it’s a unique officer, a singer and a soldier. paper that’s adding circulation!” That’s simply because property and we need to save stuff like this. “I love baking,” Georgia said. “It’s just “The good news is I know how to rebuild like finding the song in your soul.” readers seem to love our independent approach: marinas –– I’m not a novice at this,” he Every girl received a sticker and a round “There’s no better source of local news. We enjoy every said. “Our goal is actually to fix the prop- of applause. edition of the Key Peninsula News.” erty up and provide the funding to do that “What I get out of Little Toasters is like, so we’re not handing the parks depart- standing in front of a crowd, talking to Next month we’ll take a page and thank the hundreds of ment a mess, and so that they can use the people, not getting sick or pretty much people who participated in our NewsMatch campaign, revenue from the marina to maintain it petrified,” said fifth-grader Ella Youngchild. our new underwriters and the advertisers who help pay going forward for multiple generations.” “A major success story is my Big Buddy, Once known as the Washington Cooper- the bills every edition. Teagan Nastansky,” Beeber said, refer- ative Egg and Poultry Association Lakebay ring to her group’s mentor, a former Little Station, the marina is the last survivor of Toaster who now attends Key Peninsula the mosquito fleet ferry route that operated Middle School and participates in the Big in South Puget Sound. The marina was Buddy program. listed on the Pierce County Register of “Teagan was super shy when I first met Historic Places by unanimous vote of the her,” Beeber said. “She has worked really Pierce County Council on Feb. 12, 2019. hard and made so much progress. She’s (See “Lakebay Marina Awarded Historic constantly encouraging the current group Place Status,” KP News, April 2019.) of Little Toasters and letting them know It was later added to the Washington that even though it seems hard now, it Heritage Registers on June 28, 2019 (See does get easier.” “Lakebay Marina Cafe Reopens for Now,” “It’s easier for me to speak in big groups KP News, August 2019.) and talk to teachers and be more confident “It’s going to be an incredible jewel of a in my work,” Teagan said. “I didn’t use to property,” Wise said. “We just see boaters go up in front of the class because I was flocking to it for literally hundreds of years. too scared, but now I’m more confident It will be perfectly preserved, it’s close to doing that.” Seattle, close to Tacoma and Olympia. We Gina Cabiddu, community manager for Oliver Lystad think it’s going to be a premier boating CHSW, said she hopes to recruit more General Manager/Lead Estimator destination for all of Puget Sound.” Big Buddies. Her goals for the program Vaughn, WA 98394 Wise said he was acquainted with Scott, also include having more female guest so he picked up the phone and called him speakers talk about their experiences, Patios - Driveways - Stairs and proposed the deal. particularly women working in male-dom- Retaining Walls - All Finishes “We were able to make something that inated fields. would work for both parties and I congratu- “This is a crucial part of the program late him on having the foresight to get hold because it visualizes that girls truly can do Residential of the property and now transfer it to an anything they want because an example is Commercial C 253.255.7012 organization that’s going to be able to ensure in front of them,” Cabiddu said. “Prior Building & Remodeling that it lives on in perpetuity,” Wise said. guests have included legislators, doctors, Concrete [email protected] Mark Scott did not respond to requests pilots, vice presidents of Fortune 500 Flatwork & Foundation www.lystadconstruction.com for comment. companies, park rangers and more.” 6 www.keypennews.org January 2020 PENINSULA VIEWS I glanced up at my interrogator. He was her heel and marched back in the direction round residents in the lowlands of Western in his seventies and had a dark, deeply whence she came to resume her search for Washington, while others extend their range Ted Olinger lined face that spoke of many seasons in gluten-free burritos. by migrating short distances, from the snow ANOTHER LAST WORD the wild. Most remarkable were the bright I now considered the man in the serape zone down to lower elevations. silver eyebrows nearly the size of his enor- a good friend. I nodded to the beer in Chestnut-backed and black-capped chick- mous mustache. his hand and said, “I would be happy to adees, song sparrows, dark-eyed juncos, A Kind of Stranger “It’s not for me,” he said. “I don’t drink recommend something better than that. spotted towhees, red-breasted nuthatches, I don’t like talking to strangers. You never anymore.” Who is this gift for?” pine siskins, robins, golden-crowned king- know what they’re going to say. I sensed an unwanted conversation “It was for me,” he said. “I just needed to lets, Pacific wrens, and even some white- I can do it if I have to — it’s part of coming on when a middle-aged woman be talked out of it.” He handed me the can. crowned sparrows and American gold- being a writer, after all — but there are appeared at the end of the aisle 20 yards “Thank you,” he said, and walked away. finches — the list of winter birds is long. some strangers I’d rather not meet. away, locked her gaze on me and bellowed, Ted Olinger is an award-winning journalist. We don’t notice them as much in the winter For example, I avoid adults who are “Hey, you! Where are the gluten-free He lives in Vaughn. months, in part because our lives are more wearing pajamas in public, unless they burritos?” focused indoors, but also because many have just emerged from a burning building. Did I mention I also don’t like being of us stop keeping our backyard feeders I have little patience for strangers pointing accosted by strangers like a stray dog? Joseph Pentheroudakis stocked. If you don’t feed them –– they at my face or tallying points on their fingers I ignored the woman to continue my ON THE WING will not come. as they talk. These are provocative gestures unwanted conversation with the sera- The Washington Department of Fish symptomatic of a lazy intellect, poor pe-sporting Clint Eastwood stand-in. This and Wildlife reminds us that feeding birds impulse control and sinister motives. impelled her to careen down the aisle, point Hungry Birds is no substitute for the natural habitat they Last, and obviously, I don’t want drunk a finger in my face and shout, “Exchoose It’s early December. Fall is winding down need for winter cover and spring nesting strangers talking to me. They are difficult me! Do you work here?” and winter is waiting in the wings, chomping and rearing. Point taken, and luckily for to understand and impatient when not I was wearing a soggy raincoat and fisher- at the bit. Exhausted, the garden is lying low our local wildlife, the Key Peninsula is no understood, and that makes them say things man’s bill cap with a big blue marlin embroi- and catching its breath. The tomato vines concrete metropolis; green space is still the like: “exchoose me, exchoose me” while dered on the crown, and I was carrying a are a limp, tangled mess. A few desiccated norm. There remain a myriad of pockets, wagging a finger in your face. basket of groceries with one hand while artichokes perch like rusted finials on tall however, where that green space has been Add to this the minefield of potential holding a beer cooler open with the other. leafless stalks. The dahlias have long given replaced by our own habitat — our roads conversation disasters we must navigate After the blast of her wine breath blew up trying to look their best. Adding to the and highways, businesses and parking lots, nowadays: politics, climate change, the past me, I said, “What does it look like?” devastation, the ever-vigilant deer marched houses and schools, and that iconic feature booming economy, the fake economy, mass She stood up straight, huffed and in and devoured what was left of the chives, of rural and suburban America: the lawn. extinctions, mass migrations, mass shoot- slammed her arm down to her side, though kale and chard one evening when I had Planting a garden that morphs into a seed ings. It’s hard to take a risk on strangers. from experience I fully expected it to come accidentally left the garden gate unlatched. depot in the winter is one way to mitigate But over the holidays, so fittingly, I was right back up at me with a fist. Instead, she They chewed off every single leaf on the the effects of our footprint and keep birds reminded it’s a mistake not to. looked my companion up and down and new jasmine too while they were at it. coming. I was in a local grocery store, a place said, “Are you carrying a gun?” Yet all is not death and destruction; life Whether or not you plant a garden, you where I am always alert to the danger of Again, this is another one of those ques- still stirs here and there. can also help birds survive the winter by encountering strangers. But I made the tions there is really no good answer to, The pineapple sage, undeterred by setting up a bird feeder or two. The practice mistake of opening the beer cooler and especially if someone without a badge is the season and passed over by the herb- is recommended by the Humane Society lingering too long there, having become asking it. averse ungulates, shows off its bright of the United States: “Bird feeding,” they dazzled and baffled by new and unfamiliar “Not today,” said the man in the serape. green leaves and late-blooming spires of write, “is most helpful at times of when holiday brands. “Well, you look like you are and you red tubular flowers. Those flowers in turn birds need the most energy, such as during An atmosphere of stale tobacco envel- should be,” the woman declared, jabbing are a perfect fit for the long, thin bills of temperature extremes, migration, and in oped me. I perceived a very tall, lanky figure a finger first at him and then up toward Anna’s hummingbirds who, equally unde- late winter or early spring, when natural sliding into my periphery. He was wearing heaven. “Jesus Christ loves guns,” she said. terred, overwinter here. seed sources are depleted.” big sheepskin-lined boots that were really “Jesus loves hunters. When God told Adam In beds and pots, the flowering annuals Most birds don’t need our help in the slippers, a faded Clint Eastwood-style sera- and Eve to get dressed, they went out and and perennials I planted a few years back summer, preferring a diet of insects during pe-poncho, and on his head was perched a hunted some animals and made clothes out and that spread like gangbusters may be breeding and when rearing their young. battered diadem that may once have been of the skins. God loves hunters. Do you?” mere shadows of their summer selves, but Feeding them during that time is something a fedora. While not exactly sleepwear, his She stared at us with indignant defiance. their seeds are nutritious snacks for dark- we do primarily for our own enjoyment attire did not inspire confidence. “My soul is prepared,” the man next to eyed juncos, spotted towhees and other and, one hopes, edification. I am the first He presented a tall boy — a 24-ounce can me said. “How’s yours?” ground feeders. to admit to spending a substantial chunk of beer — for my inspection. I recognized She stood up even straighter than before, And over in the corner, just outside the of time watching all the avian goings-on it as a generic specimen of substandard if that’s possible, slamming her arm down fence, a giant huckleberry is home to a at the feeders and avoiding doing whatever lager favored by males under 21 and over at her side again for emphasis. Her dyed couple of the towhees, offering cover but it is I should be doing instead. 75 years of age. In other words, men who red hair was well-styled, she sported some also sweet treats. If you’re going to set up feeders, do it don’t know any better. modest jewelry, and she wore a once elegant Nectar, seeds and berries: those are responsibly. Keep them clean and free of “Is this any good?” long blazer. Beneath that, I noticed, were important food sources for small birds, moldy seed; the National Audubon Society It was the kind of question that there pajamas. especially in the winter when long cold recommends emptying them and cleaning really is no good answer to, especially if She glared at us both. “You must be from nights can challenge survival. While many them at least twice a year by scrubbing you happen to know the truth, as I did. New York!” She simultaneously lifted her species migrate to warmer latitudes where them with detergent using a bottle brush, “It’s a bargain,” I offered, diplomatically. chin to look down her nose at us, spun on food is abundant, a large number are year- then rinsing and soaking in a 10 percent

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Friends and family can time; it’s an ancient sea bed. seed, black oil sunflower seeds and hulled who could even tell me the circumstances offer support, bravely making themselves Seal 2: Well the h saps who live in Florida sunflower chips in the tube feeders, and, of her death. It was a lonely and painful vulnerable in the face of another’s pain. will have to do something, like install proper in winter only, suet with bits of fruit and feeling because of the death itself and By standing alongside the sufferer, not as sewage pipes and a sewage treatment plant. nuts. Suet gets messy in the summer. Fat because there was no one to share the grief. a guide, but as a fellow sufferer, we can Seal 3: If the ocean level keeps rising, is an important part of a bird’s diet in the These are examples of disenfranchised help those who mourn. won’t the h saps have to leave? winter when its energy needs are higher. grief, a term that refers to relationships or Vicki Husted Biggs is a longtime social Seal 1: Naw, they’ll ask the federal govern- And, of course I keep the hummingbird circumstances of a death that are consid- worker who lives in Home. ment to bail them out, pay their insurance feeder full as well, bringing it inside on ered out of the mainstream or unusual in bills or pay them to relocate. nights when the thermometer will drop some way. These types of losses do not elicit Seal 3: I hope they don’t relocate here below freezing. the kind of sympathy or support one might Richard Gelinas and install more defective septic systems. Finally, if you have feeders you can be receive in more “normal” circumstances. EMPIRICALLY YOURS Seal 2: If they relocate, won’t their prop- a citizen-scientist by joining the Cornell While disenfranchised grief is more erty become worthless? Why, they’ll have University Lab of Ornithology’s Project familiar to grief counselors and academics, nothing to bequeath to their pups. FeederWatch, which collects data from this type of grief happens in real-life settings Seals Discuss Seal 3: Say, isn’t Mar-A-Lago near there, November to April and helps scientists everywhere. Knowing there is a name for Rising Sea Levels on a Palm Beach barrier island? track long-term trends in bird distribution it often helps people understand and cope Note: Rude, raucous laughter among the seals is Seal 1, Seal 2 and Seal 3: Bark-bark- and abundance. with their losses. Simply put, disenfran- transcribed here as: Bark-bark-bark-bark-bark. bark-bark-bark. Joseph Pentheroudakis is an artist, naturalist chised grief can occur when people are Seal 1: Hey do you guys smell that? Smells Richard Gelinas, Ph.D., whose early work and avid birder who writes from Herron Island. denied the right to grieve or even to fully like raw sewage… earned a Nobel prize, is a senior research sci- express their mourning. Seal 2: Yeah, I smell it too. It’s really bad entist at the Institute for Systems Biolog y. He It can also come from a death that is stig- by those Homo sapiens (h sap) buildings lives in Lakebay. Vicki Husted Biggs matized by society: the result of a suicide, above the beach. It comes from their septic A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE overdose, drunk driving, or a family member systems, which are either poorly designed dying in prison. Other examples include or not maintained, or both. Rob Vajko deaths of an ex-spouse, a co-worker, a Seal 3: Wow, it really stinks. Why don’t KEY THOUGHTS Disenfranchised same-sex partner, a stillbirth, a stepparent they just clean it up? Don’t they know we Grief or stepchild, a neighbor, a friend or other have to swim in it? I’m not bringing the Mary’s 21-year-old son died of a heroin non-blood relationships, including the death pups here. My Mum overdose in his dorm room at college during of a beloved pet. These are often the types Seal 1: H saps have a chronic blind spot Passed Away a break between semesters. Three days later of relationships that others perceive as to their own waste products like CO2 in My mum passed away in April last year. he was discovered by a cousin. He had a somehow less important than they are. the air and feces in the water. My mother was British and a British “mom” history of addiction, but was thought to be People manifest grief in many ways: Seal 2: And the other problem we can is always a “mum.” doing well. Mary’s family and friends were sleeplessness, sleeping too much, over- taste in Puget Sound is agricultural runoff. Mum was just beginning to experience devastated but did their best to comfort and eating or lack of appetite, physical pain, That’s high in nitrogen and phosphorus, the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease but support the grieving parents. However, an crying, not crying, numbness or oversen- both of which aggravate blooms of algae or her memory lapses weren’t bad enough aura of judgment and indifference began sitivity, lack of focus or hyper focusing. In the “red tide” (see KP News, August 2019). yet that Dad couldn’t cope with it on his to emerge from some friends, with a cloud short, anything that people experience in Seal 3: But listen, I read a seal-mail saying own. Then, just before Christmas, she fell of implied questions like: “What kind of grief is normal. The process of grieving that there is an even greater sewage disposal and hit her head hard on the nightstand. parents were they?” and “How could they and mourning is not time-specific and there problem in North Miami, Florida. Septic The doctors say that there was bleeding let this happen?” Mary and her husband is no set order for stages of grief. These systems in thousands of homes near the in the brain but felt that letting it clear up eventually made the decision to move to symptoms of bereavement are common to ocean in North Miami no longer perc, the on its own was better than any kind of a new location for a fresh start. all types of grief and loss. Simply recog- freshwater table is only a few inches below surgery. On a scale of one to seven, Mum’s Anne’s sister died by suicide. Anne nizing that people in disenfranchised grief the surface. And just below the freshwater Alzheimer’s symptoms suddenly increased was overwhelmed by grief and unable to are hurt by these less visible types of losses, is saltwater. Hello, Mr. Atlantic Ocean. in severity from mild decline at level two, fully comprehend what had happened, let and that their grief is no less real or painful Seal 1, Seal 2 and Seal 3: Bark-bark-bark- to the severe decline observed at level six. alone answer the questions of others. The than others, is helpful. bark-bark. She died on April 8th. unending “Whys?” and the feelings of guilt Disenfranchised grief is real and more Seal 2: The predictions about the rate of My father met Mum while he was and anger obscured any offers of comfort. difficult for its hidden or camouflaged sea level rise are a bit uncertain, but recent stationed in England in the Air Force after Anne was also part of a cultural community aspects in the lives of the sufferers. As a measurements suggest that sea levels are World War II. They were married for almost that did not acknowledge suicidal ideations friend recently said to me: “People in disen- rising faster than predicted. The oceans are 62 years. They had four children; I was or acts. Anne felt incredibly alone and did franchised grief are victims twice. Once for absorbing enormous amounts of heat from number two. not know how to mourn her loss. the loss itself, and once for the shame or the atmosphere, making even more warm It wasn’t until she was no longer with us, I reconnected about a year ago with a guilt or loneliness they experience.” water that is melting glaciers and the big however, that I realized how little I actu- relative whom I had not seen or heard Acknowledging loss in all its manifesta- ice sheets around Antarctica from below. ally knew her. I vaguely knew that she had from in many years. We enjoyed phone calls tions helps to alleviate the pain caused by It’s happening much faster than anyone grown up in war-torn England and that her across the country, reminiscing about family death. Leave any judgment of character or thought. Even in the winter, ice in Green- father, my grandfather, had been a consci- stories, trading news of a family separated morals aside, and simply bear witness to land is melting at rates much faster than entious objector who had volunteered to by life. Then, after not being able to reach the pain of another. historic rates. They say Western Canada’s disarm unexploded bombs because, while this woman for several weeks, I received by Most people who go through loss even- glaciers have only a few decades left before he didn’t believe that he could take a life, return mail a card I had sent her with the tually come to a state of reconciliation they virtually disappear. he could volunteer to save others. Life shocking word: “deceased” handwritten with it. The key phrase in this statement Seal 1: Why is anyone surprised that CONTINUED PAGE 8 8 www.keypennews.org January 2020

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JAN. 31 COUNTY ON SEPTIC TUES, THURS & SATURDAYS FEATURE YOUR EVENT HERE A Tacoma-Pierce County Environmental Click on “Submit an Event” at KP FREE DENTAL CLINIC Health Specialist will answer questions S.A.I.L. EXERCISE CLASSES FOR 60+ keypennews.org and fill out the Seniors and families lacking dental about septic systems or help submit KP Community Services from 9 to 10 a.m. form. Send questions or updates insurance or dealing with limited income applications for design or repair from Free, suggested donation is $5. Call 253- to [email protected] or are eligible. 8 a.m. at KP Lutheran Church 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the KP Community 884-4440 to register. 4213 Lackey Rd. NW. Call 253-1101 or Council office. [email protected], 253-798- call 253-884-4699. WEDNESDAYS email [email protected] 6470 or 253-432-4948. BLEND HOOKERS AND TINKERS Join in at Blend Wine Shop for a rollicking JAN. 3 KEY SINGERS REHEARSALS OFF THE KEY Rehearsals for KP choral group. All good time. All skill levels and fiber interests singers welcome. Membership $10 per welcome; 21 and over, 5:30 to 8 p.m. FREE BLOOD PRESSURE CHECK JAN. 4 Get your blood pressure checked and year. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at KP Lutheran Church. [email protected] or 817-929-3943. enjoy a nutritious meal at KP Community PIER INTO THE NIGHT LIVE DIVE Marianne at 253-884-5615 Services. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 253- Take an underwater journey of Gig KP YOUTH COUNCIL 884-4440 Harbor Bay without getting wet. Stay dry LOVING HEARTS KNIT OR CROCHET Meets at the Key Center fire station, 2:30 on Jerisich Dock while divers live stream Knit or crochet for charity. Yarn donations to 5 p.m. [email protected] JAN. 4 underneath the dock with an ROV and our needed and very much appreciated. First INTRO TO SPEAKING BASICS biologists interpret exactly what visitors Tuesday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; all other LAKEBAY WRITERS Join the Key Peninsula Toastmasters for see. 253-514-0187 Tuesdays 1 to 3 p.m. WayPoint Church, A writing workshop for people who love a free mini workshop focusing on the 12719 134th Avenue NW. Virginia at 253- stories. Share yours; hear others. Key JAN. 11 basics of public speaking. 2 to 4 p.m. 884-9619 or [email protected]. Center Library, 1 to 4 p.m. Loren Aikins, at the Key Center Public Library. kptm. JACK GLADSTONE CONCERT 253-884-2785. toastmastersclubs.org An enrolled citizen of the Blackfeet SENIOR SHOPPING DAY Indian Nation, Jack illustrates Western Shopping trips Jan. 7 and 21. Sign up with READY SET GO! JAN. 10 and Native American culture through a KP Community Services. 253-884-4440 Free early learning program for 3- and COMMUNITY BEACH MONITORING mosaic of music, lyric poetry, and spoken 4-year-olds, limited to 16 with parent or Join Harbor WildWatch to survey the word. Olalla Community Club, 12970 TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY caregiver. Focus on kindergarten readiness beach at night. All ages welcome, no Olalla Valley Road SE, Olalla. Potluck 6 First TOPS meeting is free with no and lots of fun. KP Civic Center, VFW experience required, stay for all or part of p.m., concert 7 p.m. Suggested donation obligation. Weigh-in from 8:35 to 9:25 room, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 253-884-5433. program. Meet at Maple Hollow Beach $20. www.olallahouse.org. a.m., meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. Key Park entrance by gate at 8:30pm; ¼ mile Peninsula Lutheran Church, 4213 Lackey WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS hike to beach. 253-514-0187 Road NW. [email protected] SENIOR MEALS WEEKLY Nutritious meals for ages 60+ served JAN. 11 EVENTS at noon at KP Community Services; $3 MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS OASIS YOUTH CENTER TOWN HALL: SEN. EMILY RANDALL Are you a queer or questioning youth suggested donation. Guests under 60 Town hall on transportation and natural YOGA AT THE CIVIC CENTER between the ages of 14 and 24? Games, welcome to attend; $5 suggested donation. resources with Sen. Emily Randall. Key Bring your mat, blanket or towel. Drop- new friends, learning and snacks. 253-884-4440 Peninsula Civic Center, 4:30 to 6 p.m. in $12.00 or four classes for $40. Cash or Oasis Youth Center satellite program Contact Legislative Assistant Sarah Myers check. KP Civic Center from 8:30 to 9:30 Tuesdays 3 to 6 p.m. at the KP Civic THURSDAYS at 360-627-7610. a.m. 253-884-3456. Center. oasisyouthcenter.org, oasis@ FREE COMPUTER CLASS FOR SENIORS oasisyouthcenter.org or 253-671-2838 Bring questions and learn the basics. JAN. 14 MONDAYS, WEDS & FRIDAYS Seniors 60+. From 10 to 11 a.m. at KP HOOTENANNY S.A.I.L. EXERCISE CLASSES FOR 65+ STORYTIMES Community Services. 253-884-4440 Sing songs from the fabulous years of At The Mustard Seed Project. Improve Preschoolers discover books, learn nursery folksinging plus traditional songs. Words balance and mobility and prevent falls. rhymes, sing songs, play with blocks and COUNTY ON WELLS and chords will be provided. 2 to 3 p.m. at For any fitness level — you can even do arts and crafts at the Key Center Library Jan. 2 and 16, a Tacoma-Pierce County The Mustard Seed Project. 253-884-9814 participate sitting down. $5 for drop- from 11 a.m. to noon. 253-548-3309. Environmental Health Specialist in in. Preregistration required. Limited drinking water and Group B wells JAN. 16 scholarships. Mon. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; Wed. TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS answers questions about drinking water VETERANS OPEN HOUSE and Fri. 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. 253-884-9814. PRESCHOOL & TODDLER PLAYTIME or shared wells 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the KP Get information about services available The Children’s Home Society of Community Council office. sriley@tpchd. for veterans at the KP Community Council S.A.I.L. EXERCISE CLASSES FOR 60+ Washington KP Family Resource Center org. 253-798-6470 or 253-432-4948 office in Key Center. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 253- At KP Community Services. 8 to 9 a.m. offers an indoor park program 9:30 to 432-4948 and 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. Free; suggested 11:30 a.m. in the KP Civic Center gym. COUNTY ON WASTE donation $5. Call 253-884-4440 to register. Caregivers stay with child. Drop-ins Jan. 9, a Tacoma-Pierce County Environ- JAN. 28 welcome; stay as long as you wish. $1 per mental Health Specialist on household TUESDAYS PENINSULA SONGWRITERS child donation suggested. 253-884-5433. waste management answers questions Learn, hone and share the craft of REFIT FREE WOMENS EXERCISE about household hazardous waste, garbage songwriting in a supportive group of REFIT is a fitness experience designed to SENIOR TAI CHI haulers and recycling 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at enthusiastic tunesmiths at Key Center engage the heart as a muscle and a soul. KP Community Services, 10:15 to 11:15 the KP Community Council office. sriley@ Public Library. Info: peninsulasongwriters@ Childcare provided. Tue. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. a.m. Free; suggested donation is $5 per tpchd.org. 253-798-6470 or 253-432-4948 gmail and on Facebook — Peninsula WayPoint Church, 12719 134th Avenue class. Sign up at 253-884-4440. Songwriters. NW. waypoint-church.org or 253-853-7878. January 2020 www.keypennews.org 13

. SENIORS LUNCH Road NW. Kimberly 253-753-4270 or dbsalake- Jan. 18, 10:30 a.m. to noon. Key Peninsula Join the fun when the KP Senior Society [email protected] Caregivers Support Group at The Mustard The Community Calendar is brought to meets for potluck, games and fellowship Seed Project. For caregivers of those with mem- . you as a public service by the Angels. from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Whitmore Jan. 7 & 21, 5 to 6 p.m. Gig Harbor North Ro- ory loss. Free and open to the public. Please Room at the KP Civic Center. Potluck tary Club in the Maritime Room of Heron’s Key, call Debra Jamerson before attending, 360- lunch starts at noon. Please call Darla 4340 Borgen Boulevard, Gig Harbor. gigharbor- 621-1110 Graham at 253-345-0926 with questions. northrotary.org/ . Jan. 20, 7 to 8:30 p.m. KP Democrats, Home . Jan. 8, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Bayshore Garden fire station, [email protected] TOASTMASTERS Club, Longbranch fire station. Wendy, 253- Have fun improving your public speaking 332-4883 . Jan. 23, 11 a.m. to noon. Book discussion ability and leadership skills. Guests are group at KC Library. 253-548-3309 or ajack- . welcome with no obligation to speak. 8 to Jan. 8, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Peninsula Emergen- [email protected] 9 a.m. at WayPoint Church, 12719 134th cy Preparedness Coalition, Gig Harbor Fire Avenue NW. keypeninsulatoastmasters@ District Headquarters, 10222 Bujacich Road . Jan. 27, 6 to 8 p.m. KP Farm Council board gmail.com NW. Pep-c.org, Steve Rees, [email protected], meeting at Key Peninsula Community Council 253-720-0662 office. 253-432-4948 REV & FLOW FREE WOMENS EXERCISE Free Womens Exercise Class at WayPoint . Jan. 8, 7 to 9 p.m. KP Community Council, . Jan. 27, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Relatives Raising Church from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. REV & Key Center fire station. 253-432-4948 Kids support group. Grandparents and relatives FLOW is an easy on the joints workout. raising children meet at Evergreen Elementary. . Jan. 9, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Ashes support waypoint-church.org or 253-853-7878 Potluck dinner and childcare provided. 253- group for Fire District 16, Key Center fire station. 884-5433 FRIDAYS 253-884-3771 . Multiple dates, KP Sportsmens Club board . BOARD GAMES FOR SENIORS Jan. 9, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Peninsula School meets first Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; general Games and social time at KP Community District board, district office in Purdy. 253- meeting and potluck second Thursdays at 6 Services, 1 to 2:30 p.m. 253-884-4440 530-1000 p.m.; bingo $1/card and potluck fourth Fridays Open 10-4 at 6 p.m.; Ladies Bunco last Wednesdays at 6 Tuesday to Saturday in the . Jan. 9, 7 to 8:30 p.m. KP Civic Center Asso- TRIPLE P PARENTING CLASSES p.m. Bring snacks and $5 to play. Sportsmens Key Center Corral 253 884-9333 Sign up for parenting classes and apply ciation board, Whitmore Room, civic center. Clubhouse, 5305 Jackson Lake Road NW, 253- Donations: Tue-Sat, 9:30 to 3:30 for assistance with basic food and health kpciviccenter.org, 253-884-3456 884-6764 P.O. Box 703, Vaughn WA 98394 insurance applications. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at . the KP Community Council office. 253- Jan. 13, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. KP Parks Com- 432-4948 or 253-884-5433 mission, Volunteer Park office. 253-884-9240 . Jan. 14 & 28, 5 to 7 p.m. KP Fire Commission RENEW THE SCHOOL LEVY MONTHLYMEETINGS at Key Center fire station. keypeninsulafire.org or 253-884-2222 KEEP OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS STRONG! . Jan. 1 & 15, 6 to 9 p.m. KP Lions Club, Key Center fire station. 253-853-2721 . Jan. 15, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Key Peninsula Ad- visory Commission, KP Civic Center, reviews This is NOT . Jan. 2, 26th Legislative District Democrats, applications for proposed developments and a new tax. 6 p.m. social; 6:30 p.m. meeting. Public invited. makes recommendations to Pierce County. Veri- Givens Community Center, 1026 Sidney Road, fy meeting details at piercecountywa.gov/5937/ It replaces the current levy expiring in 2020, at Port Orchard. [email protected] Key-Peninsula-Advisory-Commission the same or lower rate.

. Jan. 4, Writers Guild, 10 a.m. to noon, KP . Jan. 15, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Longbranch Last year, we approved Community Council office. 253-884-6455 Improvement Club monthly meeting, Long- a bond to build four new schools. It did not take branch Improvement Club. 253-200-0308 . away our need to renew Jan. 6 & 20, 7 to 8 p.m. KP Veterans group, the expiring levy. KP Lutheran Church, 4213 Lackey Road NW. . Jan. 16, 7 to 8:30 p.m. KP Citizens Against Veterans, military service members and fam- Crime. Discuss what’s happening in our com- ilies with children 16 and older are welcome. munity with Pierce County Sheriff. Key Center The 2020 Educational Programs and Operations 253-884-2626 fire station. [email protected] or Replacement Levy provides 18% of the district's budget. 253-884-3105 It fills the gap in state funding for programs, services . Jan. 7, 11 a.m. KP Historical Society board and daily operations, including: meeting in the museum at civic center. 253- . Jan. 16, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Key Peninsula Emer- • Teachers, paraeducators, specialists and counselors 888-3246 gency Prep, Whitmore Room at the KP Civic • Special Education and advanced learning programs Center. Contact Peggy at 253-686-7904 . Jan. 7, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. KP Business As- • Enrichment and extra-curricular activities such as sociation business meeting at Blend Wine . Jan. 17, 1 to 3 p.m. Two Waters Arts Alliance music, drama, sports and clubs Shop. [email protected] or board welcomes artists and art lovers. VFW Room, • Security improvements and routine maintenance 253-312-1006 KP Civic Center. twowaters.org 253-884-1163 BALLOTS DUE BY FEB. 11th! Paid for by Stand Up for Peninsula Schools . Jan. 7 & 21, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. West of the Nar- . Jan. 17, Noon to 1 p.m. KP Business Associ- PO Box 2184, Gig Harbor, WA 98335 Top 5 Contributors: Herb Dayton, Tahoma Public Affairs, BLRB Architects PS, rows Depression and Bipolar Support-Lake- ation luncheon meeting, El Sombrero. kpbusi- Peninsula Education Association, Olympic Research Management. bay Group, KP Lutheran Church, 4213 Lackey [email protected] or 253-312-1006 14 www.keypennews.org January 2020 Call for Citizen-Scientist Sound View Camp King Tide Watchers Seeks Logging Permit Pellet Wood Stove Removing danger trees is primary goal Sale Extended STAFF REPORT SARA THOMPSON, KP NEWS through Jan. 31. The University of Washington Sea Grant Save over $40 per ton. Program is asking the public to report on Sound View Camp, owned and operated local king tides in mid-January by submitting by the Presbytery of Olympia, plans to log photographs of local waterfront locations. a number of trees on 60 of its 92 acres. The collected data is intended to assist “We have been contracted by the scientists and planners measure the impact Presbytery of Olympia to administer a of sea level rise and storm surges on the variable-retention thinning. We are also Complete selection of livestock feeds including XCel, Payback, Equis, Scratch and environment and infrastructure. working with the Nisqually Land Trust on Peck, Haystack and Earth First brands. Rewards bonus: 10% off after 10 visits “King tide” is an informal name for this property. The result will not be noticeable an unusually high tide. Tides rise and to the neighbors,” said Dick Hopkins of Trash or yard debris to the dump? fall because Hopkins Forestry, who submitted the permit PREDICTED KING TIDES Topsoil or gravel delivery? Call for of the grav- application in November. FOR HENDERSON BAY itational pull Although there will be some income  affordable delivery, up to 5 yards per load. Jan. 13 7:16 a.m. 15.5 feet of the moon generated by the harvest, the driving Online store now open Jan. 14 7:58 a.m. 15.6 feet and sun and force is forest health, safety and a plan Order online for pickup or delivery Jan. 15 8:39 a.m. 15.6 feet are amplified to improve the fields and facilities at the  by local geog- camp, according to Hopkins and Sound Large animal burial service raphy, like that of South Puget Sound. A View Camp Director Kurt Sample. Call for details now king tide is said to occur when certain astro- “Last winter two trees fell and did consid-  nomical variables combine with local atmo- erable damage,” Sample said. “We have spheric elements — such as high wind or many hemlocks and maples that are not Call (253) 303-1260 www.drivethrufeedonthekey.com low pressure. doing well and are leaning over buildings Open Tues-Sat 9am to 6pm, Sun 10-4 Closed Mon Veteran family owned & operated The highest tides of each lunar cycle and trails. There is no safe place in high at 16915 121st St. NW/Hwy 302 On Facebook@drivethrufeedonthe key (approximately 27 days, 7 hours and 43 winds.” In addition, the playing field has minutes) occur when the moon is full or become smaller as the forest has intruded ASK ABOUT DELIVERIES, ONE TON+ BULK PRICING AND QUALIFIED FARM BUSINESS TAX EXCEPTIONS. new and aligned with the sun, combining over time. “We want to redefine the perim- their gravitational effects to create what is eter so we can play a game of soccer.” called a spring tide. Sample said that the camp board chose January 2020 Three or four times a year the moon’s to go through the county process because orbit brings it closer than average to Earth, they hope to make improvements before www.keypenparks.com KeyPen Parks a position called perigee. When spring tides the six-year moratorium that is required 253 884-9240 The key to your next adventure! coincide with the moon in perigee, the if logging is done under a state permit. In moon has a greater than average pull on addition to logging, the camp will extend a the oceans, causing higher than average road around the cabins to create a circular 2020: A year of great events high tides that are called perigean high tides. emergency access for the fire department. Higher tides also regularly occur in early Currently the road dead-ends. April 4 Pet Easter June 20 Youth Mt. Biking January each year when the Earth is closest There will be no logging near the beach. to the sun — a position called perihelion. The plan includes reclaiming a formerly Treat Hunt at Jamboree/Bike Rodeo The most useful photos of tidal impact logged area that is overgrown with invasive Gateway Park July 4 Fourth of are those where the tide height can be blackberries. Laminated root rot has been gauged against familiar landmarks, like an issue, so replanting will include white April 28 Park July Community buildings, roads, sea walls and piers. Photos pine and cedar, which are resistant to root Hot Dog Social can be submitted to mycoast.org/wa. rot, as well as Douglas fir. Appreciation Day “We are mostly fixing what wasn’t done at location TBD August Friday nights ADVOCATE/ REPRESENTATIVE right,” Sample said. The boundaries of the harvest are from May 9 Mom & Me Tea Cinema Under the Stars SOCIAL SECURITY the Key Peninsula Highway on the west toward the dining hall on the east, then at KP Civic Center Oct 17 All Hallows DISABILITY within the north and south property lines. Helping disabled clients since 1992 June-July-Aug Eve Celebration Hopkins thinks that logging could begin 96% approval rate 2006-2018 by mid-February at the earliest. Popsicles in the Park Dec 6 Letters to Santa The trees marked for harvest are all MISSION POSSIBLE tagged with orange paint and Sample said EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, INC. Seasonal maintenance for park buildings, facilities and grounds; 40-hour once the permit is approved, they will have work week for six months. Description and application at www.keypenparks. 360-798-2920 an open house to review the plan for any com under Employment or visit the park office during regular business hours. www.mpes.net who can attend. He will announce the open house via the camp website and Facebook The Difference is For the latest news see www.keypenparks.com or Facebook page Personal Service page, on the Key Peninsula Facebook page and in the KP News if scheduling allows. January 2020 www.keypennews.org 15

The Skinny on Giant Pacific Octopus The Basics Giant Pacific octopus: Enteroctopus dolfleini Order: Octopoda Family: Octopodidae Life span averages three to six years. Identification Naturally reddish brown skin with bulbous eyes. Weights average about 90 pounds with an arm span reaching as much as 20 feet. The largest giant octopus on record weighed 600 pounds.

Habitat They live solitary lives in rocky habitat and intertidal zones, and down to depths of over 6,000 feet. A 50-pound octopus can squeeze through a 2-inch space, hiding from AdobeStock photo predators by occupying nooks and crannies.

Diet When a Giant Pacific Octopus Washes Ashore Carnivores, giant octopus prefer shellfish, including crabs, clams, abalone, shrimp CHRIS RURIK, SPECIAL TO KP NEWS sible. I think of the peninsula’s shrews, its phase of life called senescence. It is a slow saw-whet owls. Death has made visible what death. His body begins to disintegrate. He and certain fish. Walk the peninsula’s beaches this time is normally beyond me. It has carried this loses his fears of light and open water and Special Features of year and you won’t find much of a high octopus across a threshold between worlds. leaves the reefs. Other creatures begin to Masters of disguise, these octopuses instantly tide line. Gone are the mounds of seaweed, Now, I’ll admit to enjoying the process eat him. His body unfolds on the currents change the color and texture of their appear- the stranded jellyfish. Gone is the brownish of dissection — much can be learned from until it ends up in a place like this. ance to mimic their surroundings. The only scum of planktonic life. The bay is as clear scars and stomach contents — but what I’d I take a moment to ponder the journey hard part of their body is their venomous as well water. like even more, in this moment, is to see this octopus took to arrive here, the worlds parrot-like beak, through which they eat Nonetheless, on a sharp cool morning, this octopus in action, to watch it interact it has crossed. and squirt ink into the water that blinds my cousin tells me she has found an octopus. with its living world, to get a sense of its Like this yellow jacket — talk about other sea creatures. My eyes get big. She says it’s been left by relationships. Naturalists love to think about crossing worlds. When was the last time the tide on a beach we often walk. relationships. a wasp in these parts ate octopus? Again, They not only create efficient maps of I cannot resist. I go to inspect it. And it Hang on, I ask. Why is this octopus here? my mind fills with questions. Like, how their environments but respond quickly is not hard to find. Sagging on the rocks The Giant Pacific Octopus, known affec- can this wasp encounter such a completely to changing conditions. They can integrate is a rotting pouch of pinkish flesh as big tionately to marine biologists as the GPO, strange type of flesh and know it’s safe to experiences over time. This wasp will not as a saddlebag. Its tentacles are gone. The lives around rocky reefs with plenty of eat? I don’t sample strange mushrooms. be confused when the next tide carries this stumps are massive, each as big as my fist hiding places; hence our local legend of a I watch as it works on its rare treat. This carcass away. It will move on. and warted with a few protruding suckers. granddaddy octopus inhabiting the sunken particular species, Vespula germanica, is a On into another environment, another The bulk of the half-decayed specimen wreckage of Galloping Gertie. Carr Inlet recent introduction into America and has encounter, another brief relationship. Out is the rounded front of the octopus — is sandy-bottomed from tip to tail. GPOs already made itself at home in most of here on the high tide line, worlds are contin- the mantle. Its eyes are missing. I find a might be among the smartest invertebrates our local environments. ually overlapping. Wasps eat octopus, and stick. Holding my breath, I reposition the alive, shape-shifting masters of their envi- There is something special about such for the observant naturalist, questions follow mass until I see the octopus’s sharp black ronment able to fit through a three-inch a generalist. Researchers who study the questions. There is always more to see. beak hiding in a ring of white muscle. I hole, but they have a strong fear of open learning powers of yellow jackets are Chris Rurik is a writer, naturalist and histo- then find the siphon, now limp, that once water. None would willingly enter Carr Inlet. finding a surprising cognitive flexibility. rian who lives in Lakebay. jet-propelled the octopus around its haunts. By size alone there is no doubt this is I rock back on my heels and gaze over a GPO. The only other octopus in Puget Carr Inlet. It’s incredible. Here is the fabled, Sound, the East Pacific Red Octopus, which lionized, never-seen-by-ordinary-eyes Giant can be seen at low tide at Penrose Point, Pacific Octopus, right at my feet. I have never gets bigger than your hand. lived here nearly my entire life and never GPOs seldom live more than five years have I seen one outside an aquarium. in the wild. When it is time to reproduce, CLEARANCE THROUGH JAN 22 And Ix m not the only one looking. A the male uses a special tentacle, the hecto- yellow jacket picks at it too. cotylus, to deliver a yard-long packet of One of the sad realities of life as a natu- sperm to the female. The female keeps ralist is that your best chance to study an the packet until she has made a burrow in animal often comes when it has died. The which to lay her eggs, thousands of them. UP TO 70% OFF worlds in which animals live and move can She guards and cleans the eggs until they BRIGHTEN UP WITH BLOOMS TACOMA HOME & GARDEN SHOW be so different from our own — and our hatch, and then she dies. COLORFUL PLANTS, BULBS AND ACCESSORIES COME SEE US THERE JAN 23-26 perception can be so limited — that just to By that point, the male is long since gone. Closed Sun-Mon cross their paths can be darn near impos- After delivering his package, he enters a JAN HOURS TUE-SAT 9 to 4 253 884-3937 www.sunnycrestnursery.com 16 www.keypennews.org January 2020 Local Leader Marcia Harris Retires After Four Decades in Education Her career in education has come to an end but Marcia Harris continues to serve the common good. TED OLINGER, KP NEWS dent in a small district of and passed a bond in 2003 for construc- 550 students for half the tion,” Harris said. “I had all of the Human After 41 years in education including four year that grew to 800 at Resources, all of the finance, all of the years on the board of the Peninsula School springtime, when people maintenance and capital projects under my District, Marcia Harris is retiring from educa- arrived to work the harvest. umbrella. That’s not something you can just tion. For the second time. “What they wanted in walk away from — I tried to build things “I’ve had some amazing experiences and the worst way was for for people to tap into and not have to rein- been supported by many people along the their kids to get an educa- vent the wheel. I knew that the people who way,” she said. “Nobody does this alone.” tion and to learn to speak were there could carry on; they knew how Her career took her from Olympia to English,” she said. “They to do more than their jobs.” Yakima, Moses Lake to Chimacum and were so passionate about it In 2006, Harris was asked to become Shoreline, and twice to the Peninsula School that it really taught me a lot the deputy superintendent in the Shoreline District. A longtime Key Peninsula resident, about what it meant to be District. “They were 2.7 million dollars in she remains active on the KP Commu- an American, people doing the red, which is totally unacceptable,” she nity Council, serves on the board of KP that for their children and said. “We had to close schools. We had to Community Services, oversees the free KP grandchildren. It was an make cuts that were sustainable because Connects school bus service, is an active incredible education.” the money wasn’t coming back. That was member of the Gig Harbor Rotary Club, In 1983, Harris moved a very, very tough job.” and volunteers as a master gardener. to a district of 5,500 But voters eventually passed two bonds Harris was born in Alpena, Michigan, and students in Moses Lake to simultaneously replace two new high graduated from high school in Muskegon. that needed a business schools. “We lived in a few different places; my dad manager. “That was unbelievable,” Harris said. “I worked for the phone company for over 40 “They also needed a worked with really good people — the years,” she said. “He actually started deliv- serious financial turn- principals were great; the project managers Marcia Harris, right, with Leslie Harbaugh at their last PSD board ering telegrams when he was 14.” around,” she said. “But were great. There’s a little dislocation, but meeting Dec. 12. Photo: Aimee Gordon, Peninsula School District After earning a degree in English at Kansas there were some great when you see things start to happen and State University in 1970, Harris went to leadership opportunities, and while I was and that (horseshoe) is, as I understand it, schools come out of the ground, suddenly work in the insurance industry. there I enrolled in a doctoral program at a perfect weld. Here was a kid that looked people can roll with the punches.” “I was sort of on the leading edge of Gonzaga in educational leadership. Jesuit like a loser from everything you saw, and She and her husband Jeff moved to the women going into that field as a marketing education is fascinating; they truly believe yet he had a real talent that brought him Key Peninsula when she took the job at rep and it put me in a management training there’s no one right answer.” to another level. Peninsula in 1995, and rather than move to program,” she said. Harris earned a superintendent’s creden- “That’s been on my desk since 1993,” she Shoreline when she worked there, Harris The company sent her to work in Fresno, tial and planned to spend a year working on said. “It speaks to me about how quickly commuted every weekend. California, where she met Jeff Harris, who her dissertation while searching for a super- our students grow up and what little time “It was only with Jeff ’s continued support was a city planner. intendent position, we have to give them just some of the skills that our lives were able to grow through In 1973, he was set “IT SPEAKS TO ME ABOUT HOW but she got the first they need to have a rich and productive life.” our journeys across the state,” she said. to return to Wash- QUICKLY OUR STUDENTS GROW job she applied Harris got a call from the Peninsula “We wouldn’t live anywhere else. We just ington and she was UP AND WHAT LITTLE TIME WE for and moved to School District in 1995. love the eclectic nature of the people out transferred to Tulsa, HAVE TO GIVE THEM JUST SOME Chimacum in 1989, “They were in serious financial trouble; here. We’re always learning something new Oklahoma. Instead, OF THE SKILLS THEY NEED.” leaving no time to they’d had four levy failures,” she said. from the people around us.” Harris left her job finish her disserta- “They were asking kids to bring reams of Harris retired in 2012, but that didn’t and the two were married in 1974. tion. “I got pretty close,” she said. paper to school to last long. Within a “Insurance was in the basement then, it was Chimacum had 1,100 students when she run copies. It was “I TRIED TO BUILD THINGS FOR month of retiring, a bad time, and I wanted to work.” Harris arrived and had just passed a construction pretty horrible.” PEOPLE TO TAP INTO AND NOT she was invited to said. She took some state tests and quali- bond. “My first day on the job I started She was offered a HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL.” a meeting to help fied as a financial analyst “because of my building a school like I knew how,” Harris job as deputy super- organize a new local English degree,” and was hired at the Office said. Five years later, the district had opened intendent. “It looked like I had pretty much bus service called KP Connects to replace of Superintendent of Public Instruction. a new elementary school, improved existing finished what I wanted to do in Chimacum, the public transportation lost to county While working at OSPI in Olympia, facilities, and added almost 400 students. so I took it on.” cutbacks. A month after that she was running Harris also attended night school to earn “I felt like I went to a district that was in Harris found a host of problems. “There for the KP Community Council. Two years a master’s degree in business administra- the 1950s but when I left we were moving were 16 (state) audit findings, which was the later she joined the board of KP Commu- tion from the University of Puget Sound into the 21st century.” worst any school district had ever experi- nity Services. in Tacoma. “An MBA is very useful regard- Harris still keeps a memento from those enced,” she said. “We had leaking roofs, we In 2014, Harris started looking for less of what you want to go into,” she said. days created by a former student, a small had ancient technology, the phone system someone to run in the race for the Penin- A chance to test that theory came in horseshoe welded together out of two didn’t work, Purdy Elementary needed to sula School Board. It ended up being her. 1980 when she learned of a job opening pieces of smooth, silver metal seamlessly be totally rebuilt; at Harbor Ridge we had “It’s different on the other side of the at a small school district having financial joined at the apex of the curve. money to do half of what had been prom- board room table,” she said as a former troubles in the Yakima Valley. “He was a troubled kid,” she said. “He ised back in the early ’90s.” PSD employee. “I thought I could apply for this job and I had an ankle bracelet and was spending The district created a sustainable main- “Maintenance is one of the drums I’ve probably wouldn’t make it worse,” she said. part of each day in jail. He went to the skill tenance program and negotiated take- been beating on since I came back. You Harris became the assistant superinten- center in Bremerton and was doing welding backs from staff. “We were in good shape need to have a maintenance plan; you need January 2020 www.keypennews.org 17 to be working on a cycle of sustainability. To me it’s a matter of good stewardship. I’m not trying to be critical, the finances make the realities,” she said. After one four-year term on the board, Harris stepped down Dec. 12. “I really did some soul-searching to decide whether I was going to run again,” she said. “It feels good to have passed a bond (in 2019).” Harris plans to continue volunteering in her current positions on the KP. She and her husband have also been active members in AdobeStock photo the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor and other branches since 1989, advocating for their Pierce County Developing Plan to Close Broadband Divide communities and raising funds for local The plan is slated to be completed by the end of 2021. The implementation is uncertain. projects. SARA THOMPSON, KP NEWS months,” said Senior Legislative Analyst and speed. Width refers to capacity — how “I kind of grew up doing things and giving Hugh Taylor. “We are trying to make sure much data can be carried. Speed is about how back,” she said. “My grandma said about The Pierce County Council received the the county isn’t standing in the way of the fast the signal moves. The Federal Commu- volunteering, ‘Giving back is the rent you results of a study evaluating broadband private sector doing their business.” nications Commission defines broadband pay for the space you take up while you’re access and speed in the county last spring Second, the council will hire a project as 25 Mbps downstream (what is received) on Earth.’ ” concluding that no solutions to inadequate manager or facilitator. County Councilman and 3 Mbps upstream (what is sent). access to high speed internet would come Derek Young said that person will be tasked Speed of data transmission is typically Replacement School from the private sector alone. with planning, identifying funding, and expressed as the number of thousand (K), In March 2018, the council hired Denver implementation of building the “middle million (M) or billion (G) bits transmitted Levy On February Ballot firm Magellan Advisors to conduct an audit mile” — the backbone of a broadband per second: 20 Mbps stands for 20 mega- STAFF REPORT to inventory current infrastructure, iden- network in the county. “The goal will be bits per second. A bit is the smallest size tify strategies to increase broadband access to serve as many as possible as quickly as of data storage; a byte, the unit used in file The Peninsula School District will ask and speed in rural areas, and explore ways possible,” he said. Two firms are being sizes, contains eight bits. Data transfer will voters for an educational programs and to increase and expand broadband infra- considered and a contract should be in not exceed the speed in a consumer’s plan, operations levy in a special election Feb. structure. The audit methodology included place by early 2020. but it may be slower depending on internet 11, to replace an expiring levy from 2016. outreach to residents, businesses, service Finally, the council will establish a stake- traffic, physical distance from the nearest If approved, Proposition 1 will “provide providers, utilities and county departments. holder group. Taylor said there may be two network connection and several other factors. funding for programs, athletics and extra- A survey, primarily of households, included groups — one that is a technical advisory The technology to carry information has curricular activities, safety and security, more than 1,200 responses. group with expertise in providing broadband, evolved. Legacy dial-up telephone wires professional development for staff, and The executive summary stated: “Gaps and a second that would include represen- can handle speeds up to 56 Kbps. Digital preventative routine maintenance projects,” exist due to nonaggregated markets, and tatives from the community, institutional subscriber lines (DSL) offer speeds of 10 according to PSD. existing internet service providers have not groups (such as education and health care), to 24 Mbps, and copper-based cable can The capital bond approved by voters last committed to addressing these gaps without telecommunications companies, and local increase the speed to 150 Mbps. But signals February can only be used for construction. significant incentives; basic economics keeps and county government. in copper wire degrade over distance and The levy maintains funding beyond what broadband out of many of the county’s rural “We envision that it could take through are susceptible to electrical interference. Washington state provides for basic educa- areas. The starting point is for Pierce Coun- the end of 2021 before we have a plan in Cable TV companies sharing those lines tion, which is approximately 82 percent of ty’s leaders to decide that lack of broadband place. And that works well with the two-year with multiple users will also reduce speed. the district budget according to PSD. The is more than a problem: It is a critical road- budget process,” Taylor said. “I don’t want Fiber optic cable is considered the back- levy funds the remaining 18 percent. block to solutions for numerous problems.” to upsell the delivery of a brand new fiber bone of broadband networks. Fiber optic PSD will open a new elementary school The report optic service in uses strands of glass to carry data via light called Pioneer in Gig Harbor next fall and summarized three “LEADERS NEED TO DECIDE the community… waves and it has nearly unlimited capacity is planning to begin rebuilding Evergreen approaches: rely on THAT LACK OF BROADBAND IS It is a very compli- with speeds in the Gbps range (a billion bits and Artondale Elementary schools, the the private sector, MORE THAN A PROBLEM: IT IS cated issue that is per second), far surpassing copper. two oldest in the district, in the spring. A have the county A CRITICAL ROADBLOCK.” primarily driven by Wireless or cellular technology uses fourth elementary school known as No. 9 become an infra- the marketplace radio waves to transmit data, requiring will be built in north Gig Harbor. structure provider, or consider a hybrid right now and the county isn’t in the broad- cell towers and antennae rather than wires. The proposed new property tax rate of public-private partnership model. band business.” 4G cellular networks typically operate in the $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed value is lower In July 2019, the council passed a resolu- Young said that Pierce County presents Kbps rather than Mbps range. 5G networks, than the existing rate of $2.16 per $1,000, tion that declared broadband to be essen- some unique challenges. Nearly all other or fifth generation technology, use higher raising approximately $25,140,000 in 2021 tial infrastructure and defined three steps counties in the state have one or just a few frequencies and shorter wavelengths and and up to $28,225,000 by 2023. to make that a reality. The first was to utility providers for electricity, water and are expected to provide speeds in the Low-income seniors and individuals with remove policies and codes that are barriers sewer. In Pierce County there are multiple Gbps range. But the shorter wavelengths disabilities may qualify for exemption for to providing broadband services. utility providers, each with its own easement require antennae placed close together and property taxes. “We currently are under contract with issues, which can make coordinating a broad- in line of sight, and can be affected by envi- Ballots will be mailed Jan. 24. Ballots CBG Communications to deliver the first band infrastructure, and even deciding who ronmental conditions. Those limitations are due Feb. 11. component of the resolution. That work will owns or runs it, complicated. mean that the new technology will probably For more information, go to the county kick off in February 2020, and we expect Broadband, which refers to high-speed not close the rural-urban broadband divide assessor’s website at co.pierce.wa.us. to have the deliverables within three to four internet services, is defined both by width anytime soon. 18 www.keypennews.org January 2020

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Thanks to a phone app, this dummy could be you receiving CPR from a volunteer first responder until medics arrive. Photo: Lisa Bryan, KP News Pierce County Fire Departments Launch “PulsePoint Respond” Deaths resulting from sudden cardiac arrest peak in December and January, according to the American Heart Association. A convenient phone app may help save lives. LISA BRYAN, KP NEWS Rucker with Gig Harbor Fire and Medic app going into use today, so I downloaded area, the library or the KP Civic Center. One received the alert on his phone and it this morning,” Deyer said, laughing. “I’m “Ours is one community that really works In collaboration with South Sound 911, went into action, performing CPR on the relieved it was only a drill.” together to help people,” Nesbit said. the Key Peninsula Fire Department and dummy “to keep the blood circulating” Julie Offner, of Gig Harbor, a survivor PulsePoint users may select other types 18 other fire and rescue agencies in Pierce until medics from Central Pierce County of sudden cardiac arrest, was on the scene of notifications within the app to be alerted County deployed PulsePoint Respond— a Fire & Rescue arrived to take over. to share her personal story with reporters. whenever there is a car accident, downed free cell phone app that alerts subscribers Meanwhile, Chasie Deyer, an ER nurse Offner had been out ringing doorbells power lines or a house fire. Nesbit said the within “walking distance” of a sudden at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup last March to encourage support for Penin- app doesn’t give the specific address of an cardiac arrest that someone needs CPR on her day off, happened to be in the mall sula School District’s capital bond measure incident, due to privacy concerns, but will immediately. The program, already in use with her family that morning when the and suddenly fell over. Her canvassing inform users of the nature of response, by fire departments in neighboring Kitsap alert sounded from the PulsePoint app partner saw Offner fall and shouted to the type and number of units dispatched County and many others nationwide, rolled on her cell phone. their driver to call 911 right away. and the general vicinity. out Dec. 3 in Pierce County. “I could hardly believe it was happening,” “She ran up two flights of stairs and “Almost immediately after the release of KPFD Public Information Officer Anne Deyer said. “I looked at my mother-in-law started CPR on me immediately and kept it the phone app, I saw people on social media Nesbit set the stage in early December with and said, ‘There is a cardiac emergency. I’ve going until Medic One showed up,” Offner posting screen shots of PulsePoint notifica- a 911 call reporting a person collapsed on got to go now.’ ” She pressed “respond” on said. “That saved my life and most likely tions, sharing news of a collision blocking the floor of the South Hill Mall in Puyallup her phone and the PulsePoint app led her saved the quality of my life.” the road, for example on KP Highway and during a mock cardiac emergency. It was all in the direction of the mock event where Nesbit said she is pleased about the 92nd Street NW,” Nesbit said. part of a coordinated media event to help she saw a crowd gathering. roll-out of the PulsePoint app and how “It’s very helpful for us as a department spread the word using a live demonstration Organizer Kris McNamar of South simple it is to use. In Pierce County the that people are already being alerted,” she of how this technology works in real time. Sound 911 was surprised but thrilled to CPR response feature is only activated on said. “When it’s dark, rainy and cold outside, Within seconds of 911 dispatch, see Deyer respond and asked how she had devices within a quarter mile radius of the it’s great to know ahead of time there’s a subscriber cell phones nearby sounded heard about the app. victim and only in public places. On the hazard ahead and to be cautious –– so the alert. With local television crews in “I talk to a lot of medics and firefighters KP, that might be places like stores at Lake that one bad thing doesn’t turn into two place and cameras rolling, volunteer Larry in the ER and they told me about the phone Kathryn Village, the Key Center shopping or three more bad things.” January 2020 www.keypennews.org 21

Nisqually Reach Reserve Expansion Under Review Proposed expansion will provide protection for prime aquatic habitat surrounding McNeil Island and south Key Peninsula. SARA THOMPSON, KP NEWS “It is much easier to protect than to restore The extensive shoreline and waters habitat,” Hull said. This surrounding the Key Peninsula and expansion will include McNeil Island have long been recognized Wycoff Shoal north of as important habitat for flora and fauna Pitt Passage and its eelgrass in south Puget Sound. In early December, beds, intertidal forage staff from the Washington Department fish spawning habitat, a of Natural Resources and the Nisqually pre-spawning herring Reach Nature Center addressed a gath- holding area, the largest ering at the Longbranch Improvement seal pupping area in the Club about plans to improve protection south Sound and a unique of that habitat. deep-water rockfish habitat. DNR proposes expanding the boundaries Important birding areas for of the Nisqually Reach Aquatic Reserve grebes, loons and ducks are to encompass state-owned aquatic lands also included. surrounding the north side of McNeil Questions from the audi- Island and the south end of the Key Penin- ence included concerns sula that includes Sound View Camp, Devils about how a reserve might Map: Washington State Department of Natural Resources Head and Taylor Bay. The expansion would affect the beach property owners and and citizen-scientists to help monitor the There are now eight reserves in the state. provide resources to monitor, protect and fishing and boating in the area. shoreline, participate in bird counts and The most recent, Lake Kapowsin, is the restore habitat. Roberta Davenport, aquatic reserves run educational programs are all part of only freshwater reserve. The rest are in The Nisqually Reach Aquatic Reserve program manager, said that owners of the reserve program. Puget Sound and include Cherry Point, was established in 2011 and includes the shoreline adjacent to a reserve should not The technical advisory committee Cypress Island, Fidalgo Bay, Smith and lands on the south end of McNeil, a site be affected. All licensed activities such completed its recommendations in May. Minor Islands, Protection Island, Maury identified in a 2006 DNR study as a top as fishing, crabbing and harvesting of Its recommendations were then reviewed Island and Nisqually Reach. priority for preser- native geoducks by tribes and other stakeholders including Anyone with questions or comments can vation. The state “IT IS MUCH EASIER TO PROTECT will continue to be the shellfish industry and land trusts before contact Roberta Davenport at 360-902-1073 recently discovered THAN TO RESTORE HABITAT.” managed by the public meetings in December. A State Envi- or email roberta.davenport @dnr.wa.gov. that aquatic lands Department of ronment Policy Act review will be the final on the island’s north side are state rather Fish and Wildlife with no resulting change step before the expansion is official. than federally owned, prompting a plan to in the rules. She explained that throwing an The aquatic reserve program, established expand the reserve. anchor in eelgrass, provided it did not lead in the early 2000s, is designed to protect Dan Hull, executive director of the to dragging and disrupting the bed, would important native ecosystems on state- Nisqually Reach Nature Preserve, played not be prohibited. New leasing agreements owned aquatic lands. To be considered, a a lead role in sponsoring the expansion would require that the management goals potential site must address environmental, Longbranch proposal. He said that as the committee of the reserve would have to be met, so scientific or educational needs. The process worked on the proposal, they decided to that, for instance, shellfish farming on the to establish or to expand a reserve is a Community Church www.longbranchchurch.net include the waters around the south end McNeil shoreline would not be allowed. lengthy one, involving scientific scrutiny Come and join us Sunday mornings of the Key Peninsula. There are several A benefit of establishing a reserve is the and public input. Worship Service and unique habitat areas, including a sandspit, existence of state staff that help focus “The site must have something special Children’s Church 10:30 saltmarsh and a bull kelp bed. “And there and manage the program. They include and the ecological resources should be high Adult Bible Study 9:00 are valuable upland partners,” Hull said, the manager, an educator, six field staff, a quality,” Davenport said, adding that if 16518 46th St KPS, Longbranch citing conservancy lands and Sound View marine ecologist and someone to manage the area has been significantly degraded it 253 884-9339 Camp as examples. GIS and data. Partnering with organizations may be too much of a challenge to restore. God’s Blessing to You - Pastor John Day 22 www.keypennews.org January 2020

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UPPER LEFT Three generations of Girl Scouts: Julie Thomas, daughter Jessica Ruckle and granddaughter Veronica Ruckle at the LIC’s Kids ‘n’ Christmas. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News UPPER RIGHT December sunset on Vaughn Bay. Photo: Bea Berry CENTER LEFT Helpful parking lot elf Larry Layton. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News CENTER MIDDLE Vintage Lakebay home decked out for the holidays. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News CENTER LIC lighted boat parade. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News CENTER RIGHT KPMS student Oliver Lund, 11, enjoys the fun at Red Barn Youth Center’s Christmas party. Photo: Lisa Bryan, KP News BOTTOM LEFT Lulu Smith and Rhonda Honda celebrate the last Christmas party at Lulu’s Homeport. Photo: Lisa Bryan, KP News BOTTOM CENTER Denny Pritchard and grandson photo elf Nolan Littleton at LIC Kids ‘n’ Christmas. Photo: David Zeigler, KP News BOTTOM RIGHT A very warm three-dog night. Photo: Larry Buck