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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Until Oct 1999, I believed that the Kiwanians and their friends were guilty of careless neglect or callous indifference. After hearing frightening audio depositions from some of the abused kids, I now believe that these Thur Co citizens were involved with an "active collaboration with evil." According to these depositioned kids, (which was not contradicted by Kiwanian attorney Don Miles), the OKBR staff was involved in long-term molestation and sadistic abuse of these helpless children. DSHS, Olympia, & the Kiwanians criminally ignored the warning signs and then justified their inaction by claiming ignorance. Many of these inattentive judges, lawyers, & politicians want your vote for re-election.
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There were many obvious and long-term warnings about the 1970-94 child abusing Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.
Olympian March 26, 1979
Richard Q. Nichols is the man who, at luncheon today in the Vance-Tyee Motor Inn, was proclaimed Thurston County Citizen Of The Year.
Nichols and the rest of the top 10 citizens of 1978 were so designated by a panel of judges acting for North Thurston Kiwanis Club in its annual Citizen Of the Year project. The judges, headed by Judge Hewitt Henry, selected the winners from 22 men and women nominated by Thurston County organizations and individuals.
The assembly In which the distinguished guests, their friends and relatives, former citizens of the year, and Kiwanis Club members gathered to hail the new top citizen, was a joint meeting of the North Thurston and Olympia Kiwanis clubs. Master of ceremonies was Harris Hunter, a former district governor of Kiwanis. Judge Henry introduced the guests.
The voice of Dick Nichols is a familiar one to persons who listen to high school ball games over Radio Station KGY; or to those who belong to the Tumwater High School girls' softball team; or to others who, in the rather recent past, attended meetings of the Turnwater City Council.
Nichols, who is administrative assistant to the superintendent of Tumwater School District, was described by enthusiastic nominators as spending most of his waking hours serving the community. Last year he was president of the board of trustees of Morningside (a rehabillitation center for the handicapped) after serving 10 years on the board.
He is a trustee of the Olympia Area Chamber of Commerce, a position he has held for seven years. According to Chamber President David J. Paget, Nichols "has been an important cornerstone of the chamber's education committee, where the chamber's effort to support the local schools Is developed."
Annually, he is a volunteer In the United Way campaign for funds.
Nichols was a charter member of The Evergreen State College staff as its public affairs director, through years in which his was the only crew haircut on the educational acreage out there along Eld Inlet. His vocal support for the the brash young college never thinned or wavered, no matter how many eggs he saw in a sometimes conservative audience.
Nichols, with his wife Joyce, a librarian, and their two daughters, live in Tumwater.
The other guests of honor at the luncheon rounding out the top 10, were Jack Anderson. James G. Brown, Virgil Clarkson, Lois Mae Graham, Nancy Hoff, Thelma Jackson, Lyle Long, Stephen Lee Robinson, and F. George Warren.
Below is an e-mail I received from a former Olympia, Washington resident.
From: ~~~~~~~~@aol.com
From: louis a bloom manaco@whidbey.net
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.
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