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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS May 19, 2016 | 75¢
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Missing worker search still on
Raising the bar
Sonar, mini-sub look near bridge BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Shae Pozarzycki works out on a homemade strength-training structure behind his Port Angeles home, a device he used in preparation for an appearance on the “American Ninja Warrior” television show.
‘Northwest Ninja’ vies for $1M in televised contest Shae Pozarzycki, 24, competing on NBC’s ‘Warrior’ BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man known to fellow trainers as the Northwest Ninja is competing in a televised athletic game show in which he could win $1 million. Shae Pozarzycki, 24, competed for season eight of television’s “American Ninja Warrior” in Oklahoma City on
Friday and Saturday — but said he is contractually refrained from revealing the results before the show airs. Pozarzycki is a Port Angeles High School graduate, Roughrider Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) fitness team alumni and U.S. Army veteran. Viewers can find out if he made it to the next round by watching the show each Wednesday beginning June 1 on NBC. The date of the episode that will show Pozarzycki’s round of competition was not known this week. “I will be in Las Vegas for the finals in June, either to compete or to show support for [my new friends],” he said. The final round of the competition
will be held June 15-20 and filmed to be aired at a later date.
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SHINE — A search for a state Department of Transportation employee and his vehicle after reports that a car had gone off the Hood Canal Bridge on Monday night had found nothing by Wednesday afternoon. A Department of Transportation bridge maintenance technician’s personal vehicle is believed to have breached a pedestrian cable railing on the lower deck of the bridge while leaving his work shift Monday evening, Roger Millar, acting secretary of transportation, has said. The search began at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in an area of the canal estimated to be between 350 feet and 400 feet deep. The person has been identified as a man, but his name, age and personal details are being withheld at the family’s request, according to Millar. The search continued until about 1 a.m. Wednesday, when it was suspended because of swift currents, said Trooper Russ Winger, State Patrol spokesman.
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“American Ninja Warrior” is an athletic game show on NBC in which contestants power through timed races. It includes parkour routes — parkour is a method of physical training that develops the ability to overcome obstacles — balance challenges, freeclimbing walls and obstacles that require the competitor to make awkward leaps or dangle from shifting or spinning ropes, ladders or hoops without falling to mats or the water below. TURN
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Searchers began again at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and were attempting to identify new targets to check using sonar and a remote-controlled submersible, Winger said. They had exhausted all targets by 4 p.m. Wednesday, Winger said, adding that it is unknown when the search will continue. The missing employee was the last person on the bridge crew to depart Monday evening, and a welfare check at his home showed he did not return home that night, according to Petty Officer George Degner, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman in Seattle. TURN
Quilcene job fair tonight Focus on inspiring kids for future BY CHARLIE BERMANT AND LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
QUILCENE — A job fair planned today for public school students will provide fodder for one of childhood’s nagging questions: What will I be when I grow up? The job fair for students from kindergarten through 12th grade and their parents will be in conjunction with a display of the best work of elementary school students as well as a free community chicken dinner. All are invited, said Bill Breakey, a learning specialist in the Quilcene School District.
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The job fair, called Show Us Your Work, will be from 5:30 to 7:30 this evening in the gym and multipurpose room at the Quilcene School District, 294715 U.S. Highway 101. Also showing their work will be elementary school students. In the elementary school next door, classrooms will display students’ best work, whether it be art, mathematics, writing or some other work. “We left it open-ended,” Breakey said. “The teachers worked with the kids to make sure that in the classroom are samples of their best work.”
The free chicken dinner, which is open to the public, will be from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria. No RSVP is needed — “but get here early; when it’s gone, it’s gone,” Breakey said, adding that enough was purchased to feed 300 people. “We have such a supportive community,” he said. “We feel blessed to be in this community.” The inaugural job fair was prompted by a trip to a technical exposition in Kent along with Austin Davis and Derik Davis, brothers who work at the school as reading teachers, Breakey said. Breakey said he would like for the event to occur on an annual basis. TURN
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County election lineups unchanged PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Election contest lineups for Jefferson County races remained the same Wednesday when no additional candidates filed with the county auditor. Candidate filing week continues through Friday. In the state’s top-two primary, set Aug. 2, the two candidates with most votes will advance to the Nov. 8 election regardless of party affiliation. Races with only two candidates will be on the Nov. 8 ballot.
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Filings so far pit state Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, D-Sequim, against Danille Turissini of Port Ludlow, who filed with the preference of “Independent GOP Party” for the 24th Legislative District Senate seat now occupied by Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, who is retiring. In other 24th District legislative races, Mike Chapman, a Port Angeles Democrat, filed for the two-year Position 1 state representative position being vacated by Van De Wege. TURN
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