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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS May 9, 2016 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Sequim woman ready to fight
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2nd in state to train for artillery BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
JESSE GORDON
Port Angeles resident Jesse Gordon captured Sunday morning’s Northern Lights display in this photograph taken in Sequim looking north at 1:42 a.m. He added that the show lasted for several hours, echoing reports from around the North Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound region.
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FORT SILL, Okla. — Should Alisha Stone of Sequim be called into combat in a war zone, she said she will be ready and eager to fight. Stone, 19, a 2014 Sequim High School graduate whose maiden name is Hagberg, is the second woman from Washington to train for an artillery role in the U.S. Army — a combat role only recently made available to women. In December 2015, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced his decision that all combat roles be open to women in all branches of the military beginning this year. “Honestly I think it would be exciting” to participate in military operations in a combat zone, Stone said recently over the phone from Fort Sill, Okla. TURN
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BY CHARLIE BERMANT AND LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — The boating season has begun. Yacht clubs in Port Townsend and Sequim celebrated opening day on Saturday with boat parades and other activities. In Port Townsend, about 40 boaters joined in the parade while more than 200 people observed them pass by as the temperature hovered in the high 60s. The event was sponsored by the Port CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Townsend Yacht Club with TowBoatUS, The schooner Martha, in foreground, one of about 40 vessels formerly known as Vessel Assist. TURN
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participating in Saturday’s boat parade, passes in front of the Adventuress as it heads toward the viewing stand in Port Townsend.
TRACY HAGBERG
Alisha Stone, middle, is the second woman from Washintgon to train for a combat role in field artillery. She is seen here in a U.S. Army recruiting office with parents Eric and Tracy Hagberg of Sequim.
Blue Heron readers collect bicycle prizes Kids rack up bikes as rewards BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A contest at Blue Heron Middle School that awards bicycles to students who do the most reading gained an unprecedented high level of participation this year. A bowl containing slips of paper, each with a student’s name and a book the student had read, was filled to the brim by the time of an assembly Friday. “I don’t know why it got such a large response this year,” said librarian Cheryl Brady, who estimated the bowl held about 10,000 slips.
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“Maybe the teachers are promoting it more. For some reason they are exceptionally into it this year.” Five bicycles donated by the Port Townsend Masonic Lodge were awarded to students during Friday’s assembly. The awards connected two important activities, according to the school’s principal.
Great incentive “This is a great incentive for kids to read, and participate in physical exercise,” Matt Holshouser said after the assembly.
“It provides the perfect combination of academics and physical skills that will be with them all their lives.” Receiving bicycles were seventh-graders Skyler Zabranski, 13, and Sorina Johnston, 12; sixth-grader Payton Clanton, 11; fifth-grader Adriana Wright, 11, and fourth-grader Indigo Gould, 10. Throughout the school year, each student dropped a piece of paper with the title of each book read into a large bowl. The more books a student had read, the better the chance of winning a bicycle. CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS It took some time to wrestle all Blue Heron Middle School seventh-grader Sorina the slips out of the bowl and into a Johnston, 12, was one of five students who won a bicycle TURN
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