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Martin Luther King Jr.

Errant 911 calls tying up lines

Honoring his dream

Reaching for vision of justice

■ Recent strife

drives message at county event

By Chris Henry

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FAIRGROUNDS— Kitsap County’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., like others across the country, took place against the backdrop of what has arguably been the most racially divisive year in decades.

The deaths in 2014 of two black men — Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York — at the hands of police officers, and widespread protests that followed, were on Andrine Joyner’s mind as she filed in with the crowd of roughly 350 to honor the slain civil rights leader King.

Joyner, a Bremerton mother of two adult sons and two young grandsons, said national events in 2014, which included the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice with a toy gun in Cleveland, “didn’t make me bitter. But it made me more vigilant.”

Joyner hoped the celebration — hosted by Ebenezer

■ Dispatchers’

attention is being diverted

African Methodist Episcopal Church, Kitsap County, the city of Bremerton and Olympic College — would be a constructive call to action.

“I pray that it will bring the community together and open our eyes that we really need each other, she said.

Most of the speakers — elected officials and black community leaders — steered clear of current events. Keynote speaker Drayton Jackson, an Olympic College student, touched on the topic after talking about King’s emphasis on education.

“I want to talk about how he used wisdom and education to defeat his enemies,” said Jackson, who is a member of the Kitsap Sun’s editorial board. “How is it that we don’t see in today’s time that education is needed to get back to service?”

Jackson cited Washington state’s struggles to fully fund basic education.

Education alone isn’t enough, he said. What’s needed is education built on the character King said was needed to address injustice and inequity head on without violence.

King’s strategy of nonviolence was anything

By Josh Farley

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Olympic College student Drayton Jackson delivers a speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.

Zariah Huston performs as part of the MLK Community Praise Dancers at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration held Monday at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.

A whole world of info in their hands

By Martha Bellisle Associated Press

■ Devices will bring rich learning

opportunities to poor African kids

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MANCHESTER— Port Orchard Rotary member Bob Cairns is hellbent on improving the lives of school-age children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Through Rotary, the Manchester resident has worked in polio vaccination clinics and raised scholarship money for orphans who otherwise wouldn’t attend school.

Cairns’ latest campaign, to equip students in the Kenyan outback with computer technology, is gaining ground thanks to a device called the Raspberry Pi. About the size of a deck of cards, the Raspberry Pi can accommodate a 32-gigabyte storage drive loaded with a staggering buffet of information: Wikipedia for schools, Khan Academy videos on a range of topics, K-12 textbooks, e-books, reference materials, educational

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EDUCATION SPOTLIGHT

By Chris Henry

BREMERTON — A single phone in South Kitsap has dialed 911 thousands of times in the past year, though emergency responders have never been able to find the caller.

The number has been identified by the county’s 911 center as an “uninitialized” phone: It lacks a service plan and can only dial the emergency line. And that’s what it’s done — more than 4,000 times between July and the end of November.

That amounts to more than one call an hour.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to Kitsap County Central Communications Director Richard Kirton.

“That’s our top problem phone right now,” he said.

“But that’s not the only phone we get these kinds of calls from.”

Cellphones have made it easier to reach a first responder in an emergency.

But Kirton said the phones have also increased 911 hangups, which eat up dispatchers’ time.

Dispatchers make every effort to ensure callers are safe — sometimes even sending a police officer to check in on them. But mistaken calls to 911 tie up dispatcher time, which can have consequences, Kirton said.

“That’s 30 seconds or a minute or two where that (911 line) is in use and can’t be accessed by someone who has an actual emergency,” he said.

Kitsap’s 911 dispatch center — which has eight landlines and 10 wireless lines — conducted a survey in the spring to determine how often it was getting 911 hangup calls from

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Rotary International members Chris and Bob Cairns power up a pair of tablets that are used with a device called the Raspberry Pi. The device is loaded with e-books and other learning resources. Add a Wi-Fi card, and it is able to become a wireless server for tablets.

games and more.

The Raspberry Pi, which sells on Amazon for around $35, was developed in 2012 by researchers at the University of Cambridge who wanted to give young people a low-cost way to get into computer programming.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation promotes innovative uses for the device.

The e-learning package, called RACHEL (Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education and See SPOTLIGHT, 4A

SEATTLE — One by one, more than a dozen parents and other family members choked back tears Monday as they urged lawmakers to pass a bill to remove what they say are roadblocks to getting treatment for mentally ill people in crisis.

“Joel’s Law” will save lives, they testified, by allowing family members to ask a judge to review cases whenever a designated mental health professional decides against detaining someone who could be a danger to themselves or others.

The measure was named for Joel Reuter, who was

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suicidal when he was fatally shot by Seattle police in 2013. His parents, Doug and Nancy Reuter, told the Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health and Housing that they repeatedly tried to get the state to step in and force their son into treatment but repeatedly were turned away, with disastrous results.

“His illness turned him into a paranoid stranger, causing him to say things he would never say in his right mind,” Nancy Reuter said of her son.

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LOCAL/FROM THE COVER Teacher spotlight

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Mullinex Ridge Elementary School teacher Ryan Manning looks over homework assignments as class begins.

Ryan Manning School: Mullenix Ridge Elementary, South Kitsap School District Grade: Fifth grade Total number of students: 27 Years teaching: “This is

my sixth year.”

What inspired you to get into teaching?: “I think

it’s a lot of fun to work with kids, and I think the best part is when they have struggles and you help them to learn something. I took the education track in college, and I started to enjoy it right away. I haven’t

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Learning), is free online content courtesy of another organization, World Possible, which offers instructions on using the Raspberry Pi to create a remote learning system.

Powered by a solar battery, the Raspberry Pi can bring a technological desert into the 21st century.

“It’s not the Internet, but it’s the closest thing,” Cairns said.

In October he and his wife, Chris, with their granddaughter Ashley Carter, a student at Western Washington University, delivered Raspberry Pis to nine schools in East Pokot, Kenya, near the Rift Valley.

In a recent presentation to East Bremerton Rotary, Cairns talked about his trip to East Pokot, where the literacy rate is 4 percent. The arid region inhabited by nomadic herders lacks the most basic infrastructure, like roads and running water. Most schools have no electricity, or the power is unreliable.

Collins Nakedi is a friend of Cairns who grew up in East Pokot and beat astronomical odds to complete a college degree. Although government efforts to support K-12 education in Kenya have improved since 2010, Nakedi said, cultural resistance and lack of resources remain daunting obstacles even for kids who know there is something better out there.

“Attaining elementary education level alone is like organizing a journey to the moon using a vehicle,” he said in an emailed statement.

“Economic instability and community reception means the line between being a student and a dropout is thinner than a thread.”

Cairns is not a tech guy, but with help from Olympic College engineering student Spencer Foxworth, of Manchester, he’s adapted the Raspberry Pi for the needs of Kenyan students.

Foxworth’s parents — MaryBeth Foxworth, a member

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from 1A but passive, Jackson said, and many whites in the 1960s failed to recognize its effectiveness.

“It took a smart man not to react to his enemies. It takes an intelligent man to outwit his enemies. It takes a brilliant man to outthink his enemy,” Jackson said.

“So for every march that Dr. King had led, he was playing chess while they were playing checkers. He was moving in a way that they could not understand.”

Jackson then connected the dots between King’s era and today.

“Dr. King was not just the leader of the nonviolent movement or the leader of the civil rights movement.

He was an intelligent, wise

looked back since.”

Name a rewarding moment from your career:

“My favorite moment is at the end of the year you get handwritten cards from kids explaining what they learned and what they enjoyed that year. That’s my favorite part of the year.”

What’s your biggest challenge: “I wish I had a

longer school day. Every day I’m about two hours short on what I want to teach, whether it’s science or social studies. I tell the kids that every day.”

Finish this sentence, “I wish……”: “I wish our

school had some extra help to work with struggling students. We can always use additional support. I can’t always give all 27 students individual attention. I wish I had the opportunity to give every student individual attention, whether they’re struggling or highly capable.”

Arla Shephard / Special to the Kitsap Sun Do you have a teacher you’d like to nominate for this feature? Email sunnews@ kitsapsun.com, or call 360792-5263.

of South Kitsap Rotary, and Mark Foxworth — provided the roughly $1,500 in funding for the first phase of operation Raspberry Pi. Teachers at the Kenyan schools will spend the next few months getting familiar with the devices and making lesson plans. In the meantime, Cairns is raising money for beefed-up batteries and an additional 125 Android tablets. The Raspberry Pi has a port for a Wi-Fi card, which turns the device into a wireless server. The goal is to have at least one tablet per two students at each school.

Nakedi and two other friends of Cairns will help distribute the devices once they arrive by container some time this summer. Nakedi is co-founder of NGO Hifadi Africa, aimed at expanding educational opportunities. Other members of the group are Charles Mwakio and Jovenal Nsengimana, a young man whose education Bob and Chris Cairns helped sponsor.

The three — Nakedi, Mwakio and Nsengimana — met at the United States International University in Nairobi and have dedicated their lives to activism on the part of youth, both in nomadic communities and in city slums.

The Raspberry Pi is a game changer, Nakedi said.

“It empowers students with massive information that they would have never been able to access,” Nakedi said. “Lack of electricity will no longer be a setback to elearning as the system is compatible to the sun — the only abundant resource Pokot was given by God.” Cairns’ Raspberry Pis generated an excitement and curiosity in East Pokot that has sparked a new interest in education, Nakedi said.

“Education is the future of a Pokot child,” he said.

“Technology holds keys to this future, and Raspberry Pi system is part of (those) technological innovations that will open up East Pokot to the rest of the world. The use of tablets and e-books alone is a realization that

many precious things exist other than cattle, goats and grass.”

Not that Cairns or Hifadi Africa seek to erase the local culture. The beauty of the Raspberry Pi, Cairns said, is that it allows for learning in the environment where students live.

“That’s the whole idea behind this,” Cairns said. “It’s inexpensive technology that can go to a school that has no technology, no textbooks.”

“It offers flexibility that fits into pastoral culture without being disruptive,” Nakedi said. “Pokot have been resistant to changes that disrupt positive traditions, but this innovation accommodates and complements them and offers solutions to real-life challenges affecting the local institutions.”

The RACHEL system can be adapted for different areas of the world. In Kenya, English is widely spoken, and that’s the language of Cairns’ Raspberry Pi materials. The devices also store articles potentially useful to locals on topics such as first aid, sanitation and basic medical care.

Some people ask Cairns why he’s focused on education when people in East Pokot are dying for want of clean water and from inadequate nutrition and lack of medical care. He answers that education will allow the people of East Pokot to solve their own problems.

As for the basic necessities, Cairns also is part of Rotary efforts to install sustainable water collection systems in the area.

The second phase of the Raspberry Pi initiative is being funded by Port Orchard Rotary and its supporting District Rotary 5020. Rotary clubs in Kitsap and North Mason also have expressed interest in supporting the project. Donations received beyond those required for the second phase will help with scholarships, clean water and expansion of the e-learning network, Cairns said.

To donate, visit http:// www.gofundme.com/raspberrypiafrica.

and strategic leader, a leader of people of all races,” Jackson said. “If the country today would think about education as a solution to the issues that plague America, America may look very different today. Because if we were intelligent, there might not have been a Michael Brown at first. If there was wisdom, there might not have been an Eric Garner in New York. If there was education, there might not have been a killing of a 12-year-old boy with a fake gun in Ohio.”

Jackson’s remarks earned a flutter of applause and a couple of amens from the crowd. He closed by calling on Kitsap County to “let our intelligence through education outthink our enemies.”

A performance of Michael Jackson’s “We Are the World” by students

from John D. “Bud” Hawk Elementary School seemed a fitting segue. One woman wiped away tears as they sang, “We are the world, we are the children. We are the ones who make a brighter day so let’s start giving.”

“I liked what he said about education, intelligence and character,” said Cynthia Portis, of Bremerton.

She home-schools her children Raichel, 14, and Noah, 12, because she wants a bigger hand not only in their education but in molding their character. Portis thought Jackson could have made a stronger connection between character and personal responsibility, however.

“I think he had a good message as far as his approach on how to solve problems,” said Jordan Ferraro, of Bremerton, 22, who

of Bremerton Feb. 25, 1933 to Jan. 13, 2015 Mary Jo (Koehler) Berg passed peacefully on Jan. 13, 2015, at the age of 81. She was born on Feb. 25, 1933, to Fred and Blonnie Koehler in Mancos, Colorado, as one of 5 siblings. When she was 16 years old, Mary’s family relocated to Sandpoint, Idaho, where she would later meet her husband, Carl Richard “Bud” Berg. The couple married in 1952 and had three sons, Carl M. married to Laurie, Randy F. married to Marlene and Alan S. married to Nancy.

Mary and her young family followed Bud’s Naval career, with stations in Virginia, Scotland, Hawaii and California. They retired to Seabeck in 1969, where Mary started a ceramics business in the family home. Always an entrepreneur, she and a friend later opened the popular Silverdale restaurant Granny’s Pantry. Later, she ran the restaurant as the sole owner until she sold it in 1994. Her patrons might remember her famous peanut butter pie and the “Bud,” sandwich, named for her husband. Mary kept busy after selling the restaurant; playing cards, enjoying cooking, painting and crafts of all kinds. She is survived by her husband, sons and their families, including her five grandchildren, five great grandchildren and several nephews and nieces.

The family is holding a memorial in Mary’s honor at Evergreen Lutheran Church in Seabeck on Jan. 24, at 2 p.m.

Joseph Lee Wines of Bremerton Sept. 24, 1961 to Dec. 24, 2014

Joseph Wines, 53, of Bremerton, fought his final battle with cancer on Dec. 24, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Faye, Uncle Jerry and Aunt Cherie Wines, and Aunt Mary Beth Houghton.

His memorial service will be held at Abundant Life Foursquare Church, Sunday, January 25 at 5 p.m. Please visit www.alfc.us for more information.

Helen Marie Hill

of Kingston Dec. 26, 1920 to Jan. 5, 2015

Helen Marie (Sokol) Hill passed away peacefully at her home in Kingston, WA on January 5th. Helen began her life December 26th, 1920 in Keyport,WAwhereherfather was one of the first civilian employees at the newly built torpedo station. She attended NorthKitsapHighSchooland

of Port Orchard Jan. 6, 1924 to Jan. 2, 2015 Patricia Lamey of Port Orchard passed away January 2nd of natural causes.

Patricia was grandmother to 6 and great grandmother to 9. Patricia celebrated her life with family and close friends last year. An online

Frances A. Tallman

of Bremerton July 18, 1928 to Jan. 14, 2015 Frances A. Tallman, of Bremerton, died Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 at Harrison Hospital.

She was born on July 18,1928 to Myrtle and Raymond Hurd in Bremerton.

She was preceded in death by son, Steven Tallman.

memorial and guest book can be accessed at www. rill.com.

Survivors include daughter, Peggy Barker (Rick); grandson, Steve Barker; granddaughter, Jennifer Farley (Reuben); daughterin-law, Mary Jane Tallman; sisters, Maxine Butcher and Bonnie Swanson (Wayne); and brothers, Cliff Hurd and Edward Finney (Linda).

There will be a private, family inurnment at Miller/ Woodlawn Cemetery on Feb. 3, 2015 at 2 p.m.

Ronald Dean Choate

of Port Orchard Nov. 5, 1950 to Jan. 11, 2015 Ronald D. Choate, 64, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend to many died January 11, 2015, at his home in Port Orchard, Washington from cancer.

Ron was born November 5, 1950, at Lewiston, Idaho to Gordon and Gay Choate. He married Jackie Vanderpool May 14, 1971.

Ron is survived by his wife, Jackie, three children, Rachel (Jeremiah), Joni (Jud), and Tate, seven grandchildren, and brothers,

Garold, Doug, and Don. He is preceded in death by his parents, Gordon and Gay. A Celebration of Life will be held at Parkwood Community Club in Port Orchard, Washington, January 31, 2015 at 2 p.m.

Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Kitsap County.

Jerry Tingelstad

of Quilcene Oct. 13, 1952 to Jan. 2, 2015 Jerry passed away suddenly January 2 at his Quilcene home of an aneurysm.

His parents Luella and Leroy moved from Minnesota in 1962 to Poulsbo. They worked at Keyport, as did Jerry from 1981-2000 after three years in the army, and as his brother and sister still do.

Jerry met his own true love Susan in 1996 and built dreams on their homestead at Rice’s Lake above Quilcene. Jerry was an accomplished fine woodworker and gave thousands of hours to his community at the Artists Coop, the Old Church, the 4-H music program, the Food Bank, and the Community Center.

Jerry is survived by his wife Susan, mother Luella, children Michelle King,

Sharon Senner, and Jeff (Kim) Tingelstad; sisters Diane Tingelstad and Becky (Randy) Thomas, and brother Keith (Kelly) Tingelstad.

His beloved grandchildren are Derrick Walther, Jade and Piers Senner, Angel Kee and Cassie King and Susan’s two sidekicks Rocky and Blossom. There will be a luncheon gathering at the Quilcene Community Center this Saturday Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. Everyone welcome.

Call Anne at 360-765-4447 for details.

then went on to WSU, where she met her husband Richard Hill. Following World War II, Helen and Richard settled in Seattle, started a family and spent many years in the Alaska salmon business. In 1967 they moved to Kingston, where they leased and managed the newly built marina, including providing a firsthome for the Kingston Yacht Club. Helen was an active member at St. Peters and St. Olaf’s church.

Helen was preceded in

death by her son Justin, her husband Richard and twin grandsons Alexander and Patrick. She is survived by her daughter, Michelle; her son-in-law, Andrew Toth; three grandchildren, Stefanie, Richard Andy and Alexis; and three greatgrandchildren, Anna, Michael and Sophie.

Her family will gather with friends for a celebration of her life at St. Peter’s Catholic Mission in Suquamish on Saturday, January 31st.

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graduated from Olympic College in 2013.

Jackson’s message about the restraint and courage it takes to push for nonviolent solutions resonated with Ferraro.

“I think a lot of people need to hear that. Especially in our generation, a lot of people want to run on impulses,” he said.

Sa ra h Harris, a paraeducator at Cougar Valley Elementary in Central Kitsap, walked away from the event feeling rejuvenated by Jackson’s words.

“It re-energized me to say when I go back to work tomorrow, when I get in the presence of the students, to mentor them and uplift them,” she said. “I’m excited. I’m energized.”

Harris grew up in Selma, Alabama, the city where King launched his

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