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CommunityPort Orchard ready to party for a hostof worthy causes
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ashington to Post Election Results. Page A9
By JU
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Staff Writer
The Port of Brem
erton will be dis-
cussing on
Tuesday an
agreement
reached nearly three years ago with the
Suquamish Tribe after at least one Port
Orchard resident expressed concerns
about the nature of the pact.Steve Slaton, the port’s director of m
a-rine facilities, said that interest in the contract w
as sparked after a letter to
the editor written by M
ark Morgan w
as published.
“Based on m
y conversation with M
r. M
organ, he had run into a barrier during his w
alk on the (Port Orchard M
arina’s dock), and w
anted to know about the fish-
ing boats he saw,” Slaton said, explaining that w
hile there were tribal m
embers fish-
ing nearby, the boats were not the reason
for the barrier.“O
ne of the metal hinges on the public
dock broke, and we didn’t w
ant anyone to
be harmed by w
alking on it,” he said.H
owever, Slaton said he also explained
to M
organ the
agreement
the port
reached with the Suquam
ish Tribe in D
ecember of 2005, w
hich he described as m
itigation for a planned expansion of the B
remerton m
arina.
Port to re-examine tribal agreem
ent▼ B
oard’s 2005 contract with Suquam
ish will be addressed at A
ug. 26 meeting.
Jesse Beals/Staff Photo
Cody W
right from M
ilford, Utah, got a m
outh full of mud and a zero score after falling off Straw
berry Delight in the
Saddle Bronc R
iding competition W
ednesday night at the Kitsap C
ounty Stampede. T
he fair runs through Sunday.
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▼ Matthes, G
arrido advance in SK
com
missioner race;
Dalton, D
anielson in judicial contest. B
y CH
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riter
Expectations were turned on their head
in two K
itsap County political contests
during Tuesday night’s primary election,
as the perceived front-runners came in
third and were disqualified in their re-
spective races.Republican Tim
Matthes drew
the most
votes in the South Kitsap com
missioner’s
race, followed by D
emocrat C
harlotte G
arrido. M
onty Mahan, w
ho was the first to de-
clare for the seat and earned the endorse-m
ent of local mayors, cam
e in third (See related story, page A
3).
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Staff Writer
The South Kitsap School D
istrict is a little closer to closing its $2.9 m
illion defi-cit for the upcom
ing school year.Terri Patton, assistant superintendent
for business and support services, said at W
ednesday’s school board meeting that
the district won’t replace five full-tim
e custodians w
ho left the district after the last school year.
She said that will save the district
$250,000.Patton said the deficit stem
s from un-
foreseen circumstances w
hen the district presented its last levy to voters in 2004.
She cited escalating teacher salaries
and pension rates along with inflation as
issues.In addition to the m
oney saved on cus-todians, Patton said the district w
ill dip into its reserve fund for $1.72 m
illion. She said that’s not all bad because the
district saved more than it anticipated in
its last fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31.
Patton said they also will save through
not filling other vacant positions in the district, and through cutting expenses on supplies.
The board unanimously adopted the
budget.Patton w
arned in previous meetings
that the “hard decisions” likely won’t end
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By JU
STIN
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RIK
SEN
Staff Writer
Tensions between tw
o Port Orchard
neighbors that erupted after one attempt-
ed to open a home business last year led
both wom
en to head down to the K
itsap C
ounty Courthouse M
onday and file re-straining orders against each other.
Shelia Cronan, 49, said she filed a re-
straining order against Am
ber Keehn
after returning home from
a camping trip
Aug. 17 and discovering pellets had been
shot in three of her home’s w
indows.
Cronan, w
ho lives on the 200 block of Flow
er Meadow
s Street in Port Orchard,
said she believed the attack was part of an
ongoing dispute with K
eehn, whom
she alleges has been running a hair salon out of her hom
e without a business license
and in defiance of a city “stop-work”
order.K
eehn, 30, said she filed for permission
from the city of Port O
rchard to operate a hair salon out of her hom
e on the 2300 block of Flow
er Avenue soon after pur-
chasing it last spring.C
ity D
evelopment
Director
James
Weaver confirm
ed that Keehn received
a conditional-use permit to operate a one-
chair hair salon out of her home, w
hich he described as “pretty innocuous” and som
ething that doesn’t typically reach “the level of intensive use,” as far as im
pacts on the neighborhood are con-cerned.
How
ever, since Novem
ber of 2007, C
ronan has filed multiple com
plaints with
the city regarding traffic, noise and other
activities she reported as stemm
ing from
Keehn’s attem
pts to operate a business out of her hom
e.W
eaver said following an A
pril 11 hear-ing w
ith the city’s Hearing Exam
iner, cer-tain conditions w
ere placed on Keehn’s
permit to m
itigate Cronan’s concerns be-
fore she would be allow
ed to operate her business.
“(Keehn) has addressed all but one of
those conditions, with the last being the
letter from the (K
itsap County) H
ealth D
epartment,” W
eaver said, explaining that K
eehn’s current sewer facilities are
Neighbor denies pellet gun shooting
▼ Both sides report feeling harassed in rift over hom
e business.
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▼ Custodians w
on’t be replaced, $1.72 m
illion will be taken from
reserve fund.
BusinessPerfect Partys has plans to make itself amonumenal success
Page A32
Sports Wolves’ season comes to soggy, merciful end
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Rotarians showed their volunteer spirit again this year by donating 2,132 pounds of premium Red Delicious apples to the South Kitsap Helpline food bank last week. Brian Sauer, David Selbig and Steve Hutchins drove over the pass to eastern Washington to pick up the apples in Sauer’s truck. They then delivered the 49 cases of apples in Port Orchard despite a torrential downpour. Rotarian Steve Hutchins arranged for the Oneonta Starr Ranch to donate half the apples.
Sports Wolves’ season comes to soggy, merciful end
plans to make itself amonumenal success
INDEPENDENTPORT ORCHARD
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 ■ Vol. 119, No. 45 ■ www.portorchardindependent.com ■ 50¢
By KAITLIN STROHSCHEINStaff Writer
Daniel Mustard pulled a knife on his mother on March 27, 2009, and started talking with a different voice than he normally uses, accord-ing to testimony from Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Deputy Timothy Keeler.
Mustard told her he wasn’t her son,
but a demon in her son’s body, and that she should wait and see what he would do next.
His parents took him to the emer-gency room at Harrison Medical Center because of incident, but he wasn’t committed.
Nine days later, Mustard killed his
Murder suspect told mother hewas a ‘demon’Mustard’s attorneys say his many mental problems have gone untreated for years
SEE MURDER TRIAL, A13
By KAITLIN STROHSCHEINStaff Writer
Ron Bates, a Port Orchard resident, watched the value of his home drop by $40,000 last year but saw his prop-erty taxes increase at the same time.
And he’s not alone. “Most of us who live in South
Kitsap did see a tax increase,” even though South Kitsap home values dropped by 4 percent three years ago, 10 percent two years ago and 7 to 8 percent last year said Jim Avery, the Kitsap County assessor.
“In 2009, we voted for pretty signif-
It’s either that or cut services, mayor warns
SEE PROPERTY TAX, A8
City council approvesproperty tax increase