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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STATEMENT JANE SANDS November 27, 1995 95-687
    I am Sergeant Glenn Cramer of the Washington State Patrol, Internal Affairs Section. The date is December 3, 1995. The time is 8:15 p.m. The following notes have been dictated from an interview Lieutenant Dan Eikum and I conducted with Jane Sands at 4:30 p.m. on November 27, 1995. Jane is the widow of Brian Fischnaller who was on the board of directors for the OKBR.
    During the Summer of 1992, Sands indicated her late husband had come home upset. He mentioned there was a police investigation going on and they had asked for the behavior logs at the OKBR. This is what first brought the problems at the OKBR to his attention. Jane indicated Brian said there was a supervision problem at the ranch. He told her DSHS had placed a known sexual predator at the OKBR. He felt the staff did not know this about the boy. She did not know who the boy was. In early Fall of 1992, Jane indicated Brian had some concerns about Tom Van Woerden. On Fridays, Van Woerden was very rarely at the ranch. A lot of times he'd be out fishing, and if he did come in it was only for a short amount of time. Again, he felt there was a supervision problem. He was concerned about a the unsupervised shift during sleeping hours at the ranch. Brian also indicated to Jane that he knew the incident of sodomy occurred between one of the older and younger boys. She said he thought there might have been some altered behavior logs at the OKBR. Jane mentioned that Brian had a great deal of pride, and he went through a lot of agony with everything that went on at the ranch.
    Brian discussed with her his feeling that the criminal charges were going to be filed. When he expressed this to the other board of directors they were unhappy with him. She told Lt. Eikum and I her husband felt like. he was an escape goat. In January of 1993, the board of directors let Van Woerden go, and gave him a buy out.
    Brian was concerned about the unsupervised shift when the boys were suppose to be sleeping. She said he had a great deal of pride, and he went through a lot of agony with everything that went on at the boys ranch.
    Jane told us her husband had talked to Patrick Sutherland, the Thurston County prosecutor about the criminal charges against Van Woerden. Jane said Brian told Sutherland they better dismiss Van Woerden or they were going to have to charge him. She went on to say Brian felt Jerome Buzzard, the attorney for Van Woerden and at times, the attorney for OKBR, was a liar. Apparently, during a trial Brian stood up in court, on the record, and called Buzzard a liar. She indicated, when her husband died an attorney named Gretchen Gale took over his practice. In conclusion, Jane said she did not know of any outside influence that may of contributed to keeping the OKBR open.

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 people were involved with an "active collaboration with evil". The OKBR staff was apparently actively involved in long-term molestation and sadistic abuse of these kids. The Kiwanians and their friends could/should have stopped the abuse.

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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.