The Olympia Washington Kiwanis members and their friends have cost the Washington State taxpayers over $50 million dollars (so far), because of their willful ignorance of long term, merciless and well known, child abuse that occurred at the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.

October 2006 note: This Olympia Kiwanis stuff is old news. I've left this information on the web, because I like the thought that someone will say to one of these Kiwanis friends or members: "Grandma, (Grandpa), are you still friends with those Olympia Kiwanians?"

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By Char Simons The Olympian Sept. 13, 1990
SPEEDY JUSTICE
Three area judges will team up for the Black Hills Triathlon. Though more accustomed to trials than triathlons, three area judges are set to compete as teammates in Saturday's Black Hills Triathlon.

"The team spirit outweighs anything you can do individually," Olympia Municipal Court Judge Chris Pomeroy says.

Pomeroy, 38, will compete in the last leg of the triathlon - a six-mile run on Millersylvania State Park trails. Susan Dubuisson, 40, will pedal the 30-mile bike course through southern Thurston County and Seattle District Court Judge Laura Inveen, 35, is set to don a wetsuit for the three-quarter mile swim in Deep Lake. The IIth annual race is set to begin at 9:30a.m.  A field of more than 300 entrants are set to  compete, including at least six all-women teams in the judges' age category alone.

In anticipation of the big day, the three judges have not practiced race-style transitions, which will consist of handing off a Velcro wristband. But that's OK, The judges just wanna have fun. "We're just going to improvise," Dubuisson says. Also yet to be determined is how Dubuisson and Pomeroy will bide their time until their events begin. "Maybe I'll read some legal reports," muses Pomeroy, who will probably have a two-plus hour wait before her teammates complete the swim and bike legs. "I can't do anything, really. I'll just wait." 

While lighthearted about the race, each judge has been judiciously training. Inveen puts in 6,000-9,000 yards of pool swimming a week with a master's team in Seattle. Dubuisson has ridden 1,500 miles since May on her new Trek 1100, most of it with the Capital Bicycling Club, and Pomeroy pounds out 30-50 miles a week.

All are respectable competitors. Inveen predicts a 24-minute swim Saturday, Dubuisson a one-hour 45-minute bike ride max, and Pomeroy a 50-minute run. It was Dubuisson who decided to put together a team of women judges. "I put the team together and I wanted to do the bike," says Dubuisson, who has competed against Pomeroy in running races. Finding a swimmer, however, was a tougher assignment. "I was the only logical candidate. I was the only swimming women judge she knew," says Inveen, who has not competed in triathlons since the early 1980s when she did all three legs of two separate triathlons.

On hold during Saturday's race will be the lighthearted banter Pomeroy and Dubuisson shared Wednesday afternoon at Marathon Park, where they showed off their running and biking gear. Pomeroy recites recent running accomplishments, such as the Goodwill Garnes Marathon and 15 miles of the 187-mile Hood-to-Coast   relay race, which she did with the Legal Loafers, a team of lawyers, legal secretaries and judges. "She's saying she's already peaked," Dubuisson pipes in. Pomeroy was the brunt of further jabs when Dubuisson revealed her teammate has been known to stray off course during competitions. "Chris always gets lost", Dubuisson jokes "She usually endsup running an extra mile."

Having fun is the team's strategy, Pomeroy says. Well, maybe, says Dubuisson, who has anchored as a runner two award-winning teams at Black Hills in previous years. "To go as fast as we can and run with dignity.  And I wouldn't mind winning a place, of course,"  she adds.

Below is an e-mail I received from a former Olympia, Washington resident.

From: ~~~~~~~~@aol.com
To: Louis Bloom manaco@whidbey.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:34 AM
Subject: OKBR
Just came across your pages and felt the urge to respond... In the early 80's (81-83) I was at the OKBR frequently as a young kid walking to/from school, I became friends with some of the boys. At one point a small boy confided to me that he was being raped by another boy in the home. The abusing boy talked about it openly!
Days later I walked the victim to OPD where we both gave statements. Later that evening I began to receive these incredibly threatening phone calls from a woman employee of the ranch who's name I believe was Paulette at my home. She kept calling over and over screaming at me calling me names. It was horrible. I thought I was helping someone. Nothing came of it. Then all these years later, it all comes out ... one of the boys that I had known there left as a young adult and still couldn't get it together, he eventually killed himself. As an adult now I don't often think back to those times but it still saddens me. All those boys that needed a safe nurturing place to be, and how many of them were better off for having been taken there? It's not about money. It cost these boys their lives, their souls, their trust. Those people who knew, who didn't care, they should feel such shame. Just my opinion.

From: louis a bloom manaco@whidbey.net
To: ~~~~~~~@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: OKBR
thanks for your e-mail. from what i've read, dshs, the olympia police department, and other "authorities" didn't consider child on child rape to be against the law. it was considered "normal experimentation". The "paulette" you mention, may have been Collette Queener who was an assistant director at the OKBR. Collette, OKBR Director Tom Van Woerdan, and OKBR counselor Laura Rambo Russell were ineptly charged by Wa. St. with "criminal mistreatment for failing to stop abuse". The charges were dismissed by Thurston County Judge Daniel Berschauer on technicalities. The lawyer who represented Collette Queener said, (Nov. 14, 1996 Olympian), that it was a "witch hunt", and that " a more innocent person (than Queener) you could not have for a client. She's an ex-nun ..... I don't see how you could view her in an evil or negative light."
I congratulate you for doing the right thing, when all those adults looked the other way. I repeat on most pages that the " OKBR has cost the Washington State taxpayers over $35 million dollars (so far)", because I think most people don't care about the kids involved, but they may care that it has cost them (taxpayers) money.
louis bloom

There were many obvious and long-term warnings about the 1970-94 child abusing Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.