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Forums Contestants set sail to answer in PT-Alaska race electoral questions Legislative, county candidates to speak BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — Candidates for Jefferson County commissioner, public utility district commissioner and a state Senate seat will answer questions at upcoming League of Women Voter forums. Candidates for the 24th Legislative District Senate seat and for the Jefferson County Public Utility District commission’s District 1 seat will be at the Wednesday, July 6, forum set for 7 p.m. at the Chimacum Grange, 9572 Rhody Drive. Candidates for the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners District 1 seat will be at the Wednesday, July 13, forum set for 7 p.m. at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St. At each forum, each candidate will give an opening statement, then answer questions directed to all candidates.

Questions from public The questions will be from the public and will be submitted in writing either before or during the forum, said Sheila Murphy, unit chair for the League of Women Voters of Jefferson County, which organized the forums. If time allows, questions directly from the floor will be taken, and then candidates will give closing statements, she said. Fred Obee will serve as moderator.

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The Port Townsend Police Department is considering charges against a helicopter that flew low over Port Townsend at the beginning of Thursday’s Race to Alaska. An hour after the race began, Team Noddy’s Noggins, below, was toward the rear but finished the race in the early afternoon.

Most mariners make first leg of race to Victoria BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — The starting gun for the second Race to Alaska was fired at 6:05 a.m. Thursday. By 4:11 p.m., 47 contestants had safely arrived at the Port of Victoria, according to the event’s Facebook page. The 40-mile trip to Victoria was the qualifying leg of the race, sponsored by the Northwest Maritime Center of Port Townsend. Those who arrive by 5 p.m. today will proceed on the remaining 710 miles to Ketchikan, Alaska.

Candidates Seeking the state Senate seat, which is open following the retirement of Hoquiam Democrat Jim Hargrove, are Kevin Van De Wege, a Sequim Democrat serving as a state representative, and Danille Turissini of Port Ludlow, who filed as “Independent GOP.” TURN

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PORT TOWNSEND — As the crowd began to disperse after the candlelight vigil in Port Townsend, Ellen Bonjorno felt a tap on her shoulder. “Those women are from Orlando,” the person said, pointing to four women at the edge of the group gathered on the Haller Fountain Plaza. “I went over and hugged them,” said Bonjorno, one of the organiz-

ers of the June 14 vigil in memory of the 49 people killed June 12 in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The Orlando women were in Port Townsend on vacation, Bonjorno said. They told her, “ ‘We happened to drive by and saw you were doing this, and we had to stop.’ “They were really touched that we were doing that,” Bonjorno said, remembering it Wednesday. “They had at times been to that club,” she added. “They said lots of

Another North Olympic Peninsula candlelight vigil for those who were killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is planned Saturday. Port Angeles resident Shanee Wimberly has scheduled the vigil for 6:30 p.m. near the gate of the Coast Guard station on Ediz Hook. Wimberly, 24, feels it’s important to create “a communal space” where people can “express condolences.”

“It’s the perfect opportunity to come together as a community,” she said. Both Wimberly and Bonjorno feel community gatherings to remember the deaths are important. After hearing about the shooting, described as the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Bonjorno said, “I was like, well, we have to do something.” “It truly was an attack on LGBT people and/or Latino people,” said Bonjorno, who is a lesbian — “and you can put that in the newspaper.” She remembers enjoying danc661615972

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ing in clubs. To think of being out having a great time and then suddenly being killed was chilling. And she had met one of the women who died, Kimberly Morris, at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival last year. So Bonjorno and two others, Julia Cochrane and Jason Serinus, organized the Port Townsend gathering that Bonjorno estimates drew 150 people. The Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader weekly newspaper estimated 200 attended, and KPTZ 91.9 FM said 500 were there. TURN

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