manaco@whidbey.net
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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BROADOUS CLAIMS VICTORY IN LATE COUNT
641 vote lead: To win, John Bumford needs more than 58 percent of the uncounted votes.
By Joel Cottidis
The Olympian nov 1994
The tally of 11,475 mail-in
ballots Monday has almost certainly given the race for Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney to Bernardean Broadous.
"To God be the glory
for, this victory," Broadous, a Republican and county deputy
prosecutor, said Monday night.
"A lot of people said this could not be done," she said.
But the mood was somber at the prosecutor's office Monday, where the vast majority of Broadous' colleagues had supported her co-worker John Bumford, also a deputy prosecutor in the office.
After the Election Night tally, Broadous held a 76-vote lead over Bumford. That lead increased to 641 votes after Monday's count. Broadous had 30,304 votes to Bumford's 29,663. Bumford would need to pick up more than 58 percent of the estimated 4,000 ballots that still need to be tallied. Counting is scheduled for Friday. "It's mathematically doable, but the probability is very low," deputy auditor Bob Van Schoorl said.
Bumford could not be reached for comment Monday, but Prosecutor Patrick Sutherland offered his.
"I'm very disappointed," said Sutherland, who's retiring after 20 years. "I think John is the better candidate by far," he said, pointing to Bumford's 15 years of experience. Broadous has been an attorney for three years, one year with the prosecutor's office.
Sutherland criticized Broadous' campaigning. "I've built a record here for 20 years and she's been very critical of it, yet she's been here only for a little over a year. A lot of people feel she's slammed the office and the individual deputies."
Broadous defended her tactics: "This was not an attack on people or the personnel in the office," she said. "I did say our office is operating out of the (1970s) and I believe that sincerely."
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.
Robert Van Schoorl says that he knew nothing about the troubles of the OKBR until it was in the newspapers in late 1992.
Mr Van Schoorl became an Olympia Kiwanian on 6/22/87, was President of the Olympia Kiwanis in 1992, has been budget program specialist for DSHS, has worked for the Washington State Senate on the DSHS budget, has worked for the Washington State Department of Licensing in which he oversaw 50 boards and commissions about their licensing, was a budget manager for the Department of Natural Resources, is presently a chief deputy for the Thurston County Auditor (Olympia Kiwanian Sam Reed) and is presently (1999) an Olympia Port Commissioner, running for reelection this year. Mr. Van Schoorl ran for Thurston County Assessor in 1998, but he lost. The troubles at the OKBR since the early 1980's were common knowledge, among many Kiwanians, Thurston County Officials and citizens, Olympia Police, DSHS officials, ect..., but Mr. Van Schoorl said he was in the dark until late 1992.
Bob Van Schoorl gave a deposition on June 30, 1994 about his involvement with the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch. Mr. Van Schoorl was an Olympia Kiwanis member since June 1987, and was Olympia Kiwanis President in 1992, but he said he knew very little about the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch troubles.
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There were many obvious and long-term warnings about the 1970-94 child abusing Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.
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