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KITSAP SUN « Friday, March 6, 2015 «3A LOCAL/FROM THE COVER DUNK from 1A Saturday,therewasaparty goingon,”hetoldthestudents. “There was drugs; there was drinking.” He remembers a break-in, hisfatherleaningagainst thedoor,ahandwithagun, adrugdealgonewrong,he later realized. Bythetimehewas8,his mother had gone straight andhadgivenhisfatheran ultimatum to clean up his life or leave. His father, bags packed, facing the loss of his family, chose recovery and redemption. At 10, Dobbs got a basketballhoopfromhisdad. He’d spend hours emulating the moves of idol Michael Jordan and other basketball greats. He dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. Although family life was looking up, Dobbs was defiant. At11,hetriedpot;at13,he was smoking it weekly. By 15,hewasusingcocaineand meth, stealing and selling drugstosupportalifestyle glamorizedbythecrowd he hung with. His parents kicked him out, and he droppedoutofschool. At nearly 18, he was arrested—forthefirstand lasttime—aftercommitting burglary and leadingpoliceonawildchase through Phoenix. He faced sixtonineyearsincarceration, with the likelihood he’d besentencedasanadult. “Ihadturnedmyback on my goals and dreams to be part of a lifestyle I’d heardinmusicandonTV. Itallcamecrashingdownat thatpoint,”hesaid.“Inthe back of my mind, I always told myself I was going to changeoneday.Irealized I may never have that opportunity.” Back against the wall, he called on God, begging for a second chance. At his trial, the charges were lowered, and he had only to pay restitution. His attorney said it was a “miracle.” PHOTOS BY MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN SlamdunkartistKennyDobbsperformsadunkbyleapingover teacher Corinne Goller and Vice Principal Jackie Finckler (not seen) during an assembly Thursday at Kingston Middle School. That was the turning pointforDobbs,whotold thekidshenowputsGod first in his life. In his “dream journal” he wrotedownhisaspiration, notdeadyet,toplayprofessional basketball. But first he hadtomakeupcreditsand graduate from high school, which he did through an accelerated program and Dobbshastheaudience’sattentionashegivesaninspirationaltalkbeforeshowcasinghisdunking abilities during the assembly. online studies. Hishonedhisskillatslam dunking through rigorous practice and freewheeling experimentation. His prowess in a local Hoop it Up contest earned him attention and an invitation to the 2008 Shaquille O’Neal DunkmanContestinLos Angeles. He has since toured with the NBA as a celebrity dunker, performingathalftimeshowsand celebrity games. Dobbsalsohasbeenactive working with youths in Phoenix, serving three yearsaschairmanofthe ArizonaStateYouthAdvisory Council for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention. In partnership with the Native American Basketball Invitational, he launched the Uprise Youth Movement to entertain and inspire youngsters like the Kingston students. In2012,hewasdrafted by a development team for theDallasMavericks,but a serious injury put him on the sidelines. In the meantime, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to the art of slam dunk and youth empowerment, with special concern for the vulnerabilityofNativeAmericanyouth.Hisfoundation, Dare2Dream, hosts conferences and other youth activities. “I realized the substance abuse, gangs, drugs, dropouts,suicide,youknow,all that was much higher in Native American communities,”hesaid.“Isaid,basically, why spend my time anywhereelse?Ishouldbe impacting Native American youthandtheNativeAmerican community.” Dobbshadaprivatelunch with the Native American boys of Kingston Middle School (the girls earlier in theyearhadalunchwith vocalartistStarNayea),and Dobbslaterdidanassembly for Chief Kitsap Academy. Cindy Thompson, the middle school’s Native American education liaison, said Dobbs’ message of hopewasjustwhatthekids needed. “Things just kind of started rough (this year) with the Marysville (Pilchuck High School) shooting,” Thompsonsaid.“Somearecousins (of the students who died in the shooting), some have participated in canoe journeyswiththosekids.We were helping pick up the pieces here.” After the assembly all the students clambered around Dobbs for photos, high-fives and autographs. Sixth-grader Skyler Yanca said Dobbs’ storyofdifficultlifechallengesresonatedwithhim. “It was awesome, I’ve seen a lot of that.” Poulsbobuyinghouse inbidtopreventfloods ■ City Council OKs$1salefor site near creek By Rachel Anne Seymour rachel.seymour@kitsapsun.com 360-792-5242 POULSBO— Poulsbo will buy a two-story home on 0.35 acres along Eighth Avenue for $1. Buyingthehouse,which comes after unanimous approvalWednesdaybythe City Council, allows the city to demolish it for an estimated$50,000andrestore thesouthernforkofDogfish Creek, including installing alargerculverttoprevent flooding. The vacant and foreclosedhomehasbeenahard sell because of flooding issues in the basement from thenearbycreek,althoughit is assessed at $106,040. The south fork is a tributary of Dogfish Creek, whichflowstoLibertyBay. Phil Struck, a consultant with engineering firm Parametrix, advised the city engineer that a new culvert channel would contain “most storm events,” although “peak storm flows” would continue affecting the property. Struck also said that the citymightberequiredto own the property if it is looking for grants to help with the restoration project. While the creek has overflowedintotheEighthAvenue house, it also is a salmon waterway, making building a new house or fixing the current flooding problem difficult. Replacing the culvert with a larger one will help with flooding as well as make travel for salmon easier. The culvert is undersized, accordingtothecity’srestoration plan for the creek, andisidentifiedastheonly “potential/partial barrier” in the fish-bearing portion of the creek. Salmon and other fish use the culvert to swim under Eighth, said Mayor Becky Erickson, and the creek eventually runs under state Highway 305. While the Suquamish Tribe has released salmonids into Dogfish Creek in the past, according to the creek restoration plan, the tribealsoanticipatesthat the creek could receive future coho strays from its AgatePassageseapens. City officials had been reaching out to acquire the Eighth Avenue property for months when Erickson received a phone call a fewweeksagothatthecity couldbuythehousefor$1. Councilwoman Connie Lord described this as a “landmark opportunity” to help Dogfish Creek. “Wehavehadsuchahistory of problems at that intersection with the road flooding out,” she said. “Thewholebottleneckwas thispieceofproperty.Ithas MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN Poulsbo will purchase this Eighth Avenue vacant house for $1, tearitdownandusethelandtoimproveDogfishCreek. impacted the public works facility and other houses.” Previousownersofthe house sued the city and state because of flood damage to the house. The lawsuit was settledinmediationinJuly, saidKyliePurves,thecity’s risk manager. During the lawsuit, the house went into foreclosure andisheldbyFreddieMac. Thesalewillbefinalized oncethecityattorneyhas reviewed the title and “appropriateduediligence”is done, said Erickson. The money for demolishing the house will come out of the Dogfish Creek restoration’s capital improvement fund. Thecityhasamitigation agreement with the SuquamishTribefromanother property purchase in which the city has agreed to spend $50,000 on Dogfish Creek restoration. The money to demolish thehousecouldcoverthat obligation, Councilman Ed Stern said. 44MPG 2015 MITSUBISHI SHI MIRAGE THE 2 ND ANNUAL LEGO ® BRAND BUILDING COMPETITION Lego® PRIZES to 1 st Place winners in each age group (Winners selected by contest judges) When: Sunday, March 15 Where: Name of Child Age as of 03/15/2015 Name of Parent Presents Peninsula Home & Garden Expo 1200 NW Fairgrounds Rd., Bremerton Details: On Site Check-In Sunday in the Presidents’ Hall: 11am – 1:45*pm * Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Space is very limited. 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KITSAP SUN « Friday, March 6, 2015 «5A STATE/FROM THE COVER Widow sues hospital over ‘superbug’ death ■ Manufacturer ofthedeviceis also being sued By The Associated Press SEATTLE — AwidowissuingaSeattlehospitalanda medical device manufacturer over the death of her husband after a drug-resistant “superbug” infection. In the lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court,TheresaBigler,59, of Woodway, seeks damagesforwhatshesaysis thewrongfuldeathofher husband, Richard Bigler, 57. He was one of 11 patients whodiedafterbeinginfected by a contaminated medical scope made by Olympus America and used during diagnostic and treatment procedures at Virginia Mason. “Thisisjustabouthow andwhydidthishappen,” Biglersaid.“Ijustwantto makesurethisdoesn’thappen again.” The complaint also notes that Virginia Mason MedicalCenterdidn’toriginally informtheBiglersand31 other patients that they were involved in the outbreak. “VMMC, contrary to its well-publicized policy of ‘transparency,’ chose not to tellthefamilythatMr.Bigler died due to an infection caused by a contaminated Olympus duodenoscope,” states the complaint, filed bytheLuveraLawFirmof Seattle. Virginia Mason has since reversed an earlier decision and is notifying patients and family members who were part of the outbreak between2012and2014,The SeattleTimesreportedin Thursday’s newspaper. “In retrospect, we should have circled back to these patients about the likely source of the infection,” Dr. Gary Kaplan, the hospital’s chairman and chief executive, said Wednesdayinameeting with The Seattle Times editorial board. Health officials have said it’snotclearwhatrole,if any,theinfectionsplayed in the patients’ deaths. Virginia Mason and Olympus officials declined tocommentonthelawsuit. Thelawsuitisthelatest developmentinagrowing national problem of hardto-clean medical scopes spreading dangerous bacteria among patients at hospitals. At least 135 patients who underwent socalled ERCP procedures, or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, between 2013 and 2014 developed multidrug-resistant infections, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration. The Seattle outbreak, one of the nation’s largest, involvedstrainsofmultidrugresistantE.colibacteria. It was followed by reportsofseveninfections, twodeathsandscoresof patients being notified that they’d been potentially exposed to dangerous carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriacea,orCRE,ataLos Angeles hospital between October and January. ORCAS from 1A onlyafoggyideaofhowfar theytraveled,whattheyate and the risks they encounteredduringthewinter. NOAAplanstoupgrade habitat protections for the sound’sorcas—knownas SouthernResidents—toinclude the Pacific coast from Cape Flattery on the Olympic Peninsula to Monterey, California. Hanson said a highlight of thetripwasspottinganewborn orca — the third born in two months. “It had an impressive energylevel,”hesaid.“Itwas particularly heartening to see that.” Onecalfwasbornin2014; none was born in 2013. The mortalityratefornewborn orcasishigh,andfewsurvive long enough to return to the sound. The Southern Resident population stands at 80. Thetrip’sunusuallygood weatherallowedresearcherstospendalotoftimein smaller vessels collecting dozens of biological samples, including feces, mucus and leftover bits of orca prey. NOAA will analyze the samplesoverthenextseveral months. Researchers kept tabs on theorcas’locationsviasatellitetagsembeddedinafew ofthewhales’dorsalfinsand through underwater listening devices that record the whales’ distinctive vocalizations. Theorcasarestickingto their usual diet of salmon rather than the seals and other marine mammals favored by their ocean-roaming cousins,knownastransient orcas. On several occasions, the orcasdidtheunexpected. They didn’t range as far southastheyhaveinthe past.Lastyearthewhales ventured to Northern California,butCentralOregon wasthelimitthiswinter. The whales, which keep in regular vocal contact with each other, would go mysteriously silent for days atatime. On one stretch of coastline with consistently good salmon hunting, a group of whales skipped a meal and simply“raftedup,”floating silently on the surface before swimmingon,Hansonsaid. Researchers also were surprised to see the whales huntinginwatersasshallow as 25 feet. Thetrip’sdatawill“directlyinform”whatcoastal areasneedprotection,said LynneBarre,aNOAAprotected resources specialist. The Sound’s orcas are listedasadistinctpopulation under the Endangered CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/NOAA A research ship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration running along the Pacific coast had an “unprecedented” opportunity to collect information about Puget Sound’s SouthernResidentorcas,includingthiscalfinL-pod. SpeciesAct.In2006,NOAA designated the Sound as critical habitat for the whales. Extendingthecriticalhabitat designation beyond the Soundmightconflictwith aNavyplantodramatically increase the number sonaremittingbuoysoffWashington’s coast. The buoys help Navy aircraft train for anti-submarine warfare. Environmental groups say the noisefromsonardisrupts whalemigration,nursing, feeding and communication. Navy officials acknowledge that more buoys will harm marine animals but contend that much of the impact will be short-term. NOAA is required to consider national security and economic impacts before revising its critical habitat designations. “The more we understand (about the orcas), the better wecanworkwiththeNavy to mitigate the impacts,” Barre said. NOAAexpectstohavea proposal for coastal habitat protectionsin2017. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN TheUSSSeawolfdepartsBremertononTuesdayafternoon.TheNavyhopestomovethe home port of the Seawolf and the USS Connecticut from Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton to Naval BaseKitsap-Bangor,inpartbecauseofdifficultiesintransitingRichPassage. NAVY from 1A draft environmental impact statementforthepierwork. Bangor’s service pier wouldbeextended540feet toatotalof1,040,underthe Navy’s preferred alternative.Theotherchoiceisto builda975-footextension. Associated new facilities in eithercasewouldincludea pier crane and pier services and compressor building, 50,000-square-foot waterfront ship support building, shoreside emergency generatorand421-carparkinglot.Theestimatedcost is $89 million. Thechangeswouldallow maintenance to be performed on all three subs simultaneously,thoughonly twowouldnormallybein portatthesametime. Problems at Bremerton cut into the subs’ availability. Seawolfs can only transitRichPassage,which separates Bremerton from open water, in the daylight during high slack tides, the Navy says. On144daysayearthey have less than 90 minutes to slip through. On 12 days theycan’tgoatall.In2012, four of every nine transits weredelayedfrom12to48 hours,resultinginfivelost days. Pier D, where they’re berthed, is designed for aircraftcarriersandisn’t configured for submarine maintenance and ordnance handling, the Navy says. TheSeawolfsareassigned to Submarine DevelopmentSquadronFive,headquartered at Bangor, and thetrainingfacilityalsois there. What isn’t there is space for the Seawolfs. The DeltaPierisfullyusedby Ohio-class subs and isn’t configured for Seawolfs, Project Manager David Gibson said during a public meeting Wednesday night at NorthKitsapHighSchool. The Marginal Wharf is 70 yearsold,inroughshape and appropriate only for smaller service boats. Subs canwaitthereinapinch, butnomaintenancecanbe performed. The Navy supports the shorterpier,wheresubscan be maintained side by side, overalongerpierwheretwo could pull up alongside. “Itcoststhetaxpayerless money and has less environmental footprint,” Gibson said.“Theshorterpierhas fewerpilesandlessoverwater coverage.” The main disruption wouldbenoisefrominstalling the pilings, accordingtothedraftEIS.During construction, which would require about 225 workers, peak-hour delays would be expected at both gates, andtherewouldbemore Hood Canal bridge openings.Workwouldbeginin July2018andwrapupin two years. More than 322 Seawolf personnel would move from Bremerton to Bangor. Gibson said the project’s primary benefits would be “theabilitytogetinand out when they want with no issues with the tides and the ability to save money if you consolidate the logistics support and training function already customized for Seawolf submarines.” The project isn’t considered controversial, and only a few residents attended Wednesday’s meeting.Severalothersshowed up to scout out potential business opportunities. Julianna Sullivan, a Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe memberandstudentatThe Evergreen State College in Olympia, became interested in Bangor after writing a case study about the second explosives handling wharf. “I’m just making sure tribaltreatyrightsarebeing acknowledged,” she said of the new project. TheNavyisaccepting comments until April 13. Written comments may be submitted at www.nbkeis. com/lwi or by mail to NAVFAC Northwest, Attn: Mr. Thomas Dildine, LWI/ SPEEISProjectManager, 1101 Tautog Circle, Suite 203,Silverdale,WA98315- 1101. 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