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About working together
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Port Townsend Police Detective Luke Bogues reads a report about a recent mental health-related police action.
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Gary Buckman, a Lakota tribe member who owns the Gray Wolf Trading Post in Port Townsend, tacks up a poster for the upcoming showing of “The Cherokee Word for Water.”
Native American struggle focus of Film Fest feature Cherokee chief’s story to be told with screenings in PT, PA BY CHARLIE BERMANT
Janette Force, Port Townsend Film Festival executive director, of “The Cherokee Word for Water,” a biographical film of one-time Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller. “It shows how unlikely groups can work together.”
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PORT TOWNSEND — A film that tells the story of a Native American activist will inspire people to take similar action in their own lives, according to the exhibitor. “We can all learn a lot about getting down in the trenches and working with people who don’t agree with you,” said
The film’s first screening will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park. Director Charlie Soap, who was married to Mankiller, and producer Kristina Kiehl will speak after the film is shown. The group will travel to Peninsula College at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., in
Port Angeles for an afternoon discussion followed by an evening showing on Jan. 26. There will be a 6:30 p.m. screening on Jan. 27 in the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s community room at the Tribal Center, 1033 Old Blyn Road, Force said. The following day the group will screen the film in LaPush for the Quileute tribe, she added. The public events are free, Force said. Mankiller led the Cherokee Nation for a decade — from 1985 to 1999 — and was the first woman to lead a tribe in modern times, according to a news release. TURN
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Irrational behavior protocol crafted BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Two public safety agencies have collaborated on a process for dealing with people determined to be behaving aggressively because of medical problems rather than criminal purposes. The Rage Aggression Delirium protocol, known as RAD, represents collaborative action between the Port Townsend Police Department and East Jefferson Fire Rescue and is invoked when a person is acting unreasonably and irrationally — in a way that poses danger to themselves, others and property. “In many cases this behavior has a medical origin, either due to drugs or mental illness, and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as a criminal suspect,” said Deputy Chief Ted Krysinski of East Jefferson Fire Rescue, who helped to create the protocol. “By doing this we can prevent what would most likely become a terminal situation,” he said. TURN
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Governor targets guns, suicide in new plan Data-driven strategy for prevention BY DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BURIEN — Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at curbing gun violence by improving data-sharing among government agencies and starting a new public health campaign on suicide prevention. “We are not afraid to take action here in Washington state,” Inslee said after criticizing inaction by Congress on gun violence. The governor praised President Barack Obama’s plan to take executive action to tighten control of firearms in the U.S.
inviting them to lunch in the cafeteria, authorities said. Earlier, a 19-year-old student was killed Obama’s plan would create a and two others wounded in a more sweeping definition of gun shooting at Seattle Pacific Unidealers to increase the number of versity. sales requiring background Firearm deaths statistics checks. As the result of a 2014 voterIn his executive order, Inslee approved ballot measure, the said firearm deaths now exceed state already has expanded back- motor vehicle crash fatalities in ground checks to include online the state and that 80 percent of sales and purchases at gun shows firearm deaths are suicides. Inslee, a Democrat who is seekTwo last year ing re-election later this year, outlined his plans with representaThe initiative came as the tives of the University of Washingstate saw two mass shootings ton School of Social Work and the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that year. director of the Harborview Injury In Marysville, a high school Prevention and Research Center. Gov. Jay Inslee speaks at a news conference announcing a statewide public health initiative to reduce and prevent student killed three 14-year-old firearm-related injuries and deaths. T URN TO G UNS /A5 girls and a 15-year-old boy after
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