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Robert Birman, executive director of Centrum, and Karen Thomas, director of development, show off one of the organization’s new fleet of passenger vans, which are decorated with graphic wraps.
Grants boost Centrum plans Over $200K funds fiddle and blues festivals, new vans BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Centrum has received two major grants, adding up to $205,000 to support arts activities at Fort Worden. The arts organization has recently
received a $180,000 grant from the C. Keith Birkenfield Memorial Trust and a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The latter grant was announced this week. It will provide support for the Centrum Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, a Fourth of July tradition at Fort Worden and the Acoustic Blues Festival, held July 31 to Aug. 7 this year. The trust grant has paid for a fleet of five vans to provide transportation for guests, performers and attendees at the 43-year-old organization, said Karen Clemens, Centrum director of development.
The vans were purchased from Wilder Auto in Port Angeles this week, she said. Each was decorated with a graphic wrap featuring five of the major activities that Centrum sponsors. The vans will transport visitors from the Port Townsend ferry terminal to Fort Worden events and to pick up national and international visitors and guests at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They also will be available for low rental rates to other nonprofit organizations in Jefferson County, Clemens added. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Former Makah Tribal Council member Ryland Chad Bowechop will be sentenced in federal court today for embezzling $30,000 in tribal funds for personal expenditures including clothing, travel and casino cash advances. Bowechop, 38, of Bellingham pleaded guilty Feb. 3 in federal District Court in Tacoma to illegally charging the expenses to his tribal council credit card between June 2010 and May 2014. Bowechop, whose grandfather was a tribal executive director and council member, resigned from the tribal council in July 2014. A charge of embezzling $50,182 from a tribal organization was filed against Bowechop on June 26. The amount was reduced as the result of plea negotiations, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tate London of Seattle said Thursday.
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Fireworks, parade cap fest Schools chief feted urges levy focus Irrigation with many events A break from bond considered BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — Chimacum School District leaders should take a break from trying to pass a bond to update school buildings to concentrate on essential school funding for basic operations, the superintendent has told the School Board. Chimacum Superintendent Rick Thompson said Thursday he told the board during its Wednesday meeting that he recommended the district concentrate on putting before voters a replacement maintenance and opera-
tions levy in February 2017. The district also will solicit ideas from the community about changes members of the public would like see in the district, he said. An online exchange of ideas is set from today to June 5, with a goal of 500 community members taking part, he said. “This format will allow community members the opportunity to provide input about what they see is going well in Chimacum and what changes are recommended,” he said. TURN
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SEQUIM — The Sequim Irrigation Festival’s Grand Finale Weekend will offer strongmen, a logging show, a grand parade and fireworks. The festival, now celebrating its second weekend builds on a 121-year-old tradition, with the theme of “Looking to the Future Through the Past.” Other events this weekend are a golf tournament, fun run and car show. This year’s Grand Parade is full with 120 entries, organizers said. It honors Grand Marshal Jim
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Azlynn Judd of Sequim Acrobatics does a cartwheel for the crowd as fellow acrobats Anna Geer, far left, Garren Pocock, in hat, and Ryleigh Miller, far right, look on during the 2015 Irrigation Festival Grand Parade.
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