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Counties hold back forms as some leave party blank BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The state-funded primary election that ends Tuesday includes a party-allegiance ballot requirement that is clashing with the North Olympic Peninsula’s independent streak — and is costing taxpayer dollars to address. Election officials in Clallam and Jefferson counties said that more than 1,300 voters had failed to declare a Republican Party or Democratic Party affiliation by leaving the box blank next to a declaration statement on the envelope. The ballots are “held,” or set
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Retiring state Sen. Jim Hargrove received folding chairs, a bandana and motorcycle sunglasses from members of the Port Angeles Business Association. Hargrove is flanked by PABA members Phil Kitchel and Edna Petersen.
Hargrove: Lawmakers facing hard decisions Retiring senator looks back after years at capital BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — State lawmakers are faced with “tough decisions” in the coming years to solve the education funding problem, retiring state Sen. Jim Hargrove told Port Angeles business leaders this week.
Hargrove, who announced in March that he would not seek re-election, said the state needs to come up with $7.3 billion to fulfil leftover obligations of the McCleary decision by the state Supreme Court and to cover the cost of a state initiative to lower class sizes. “I believe they’re going to get it done,” Hargrove told Port Angeles Business Association members Tuesday. “We’ve gone right up to shutting government down a couple of times in this state, but we’ve got it done. And I believe that in this state that there still is the
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will to do that. “I just won’t be there to be in the middle of it.” Hargrove, 62, will retire when his current term expires at the end of this year. The Hoquiam Democrat has spent 32 years in the state Legislature, having served in the House of Representatives from 1985 to 1992 and the Senate since 1993. He represents the 24th Legislative District, which covers the North Olympic Peninsula and much of Grays Harbor County. TURN
aside, while party declaration requests are mailed to the voters. The forms must be returned to county courthouses in Clallam and Jefferson counties by June 6, the day before the primary election results will be certified. Voters’ party affiliations become public information.
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PORT TOWNSEND — A three-way race formed Thursday for the two-year Position 1 state representative position being vacated by Kevin Van De Wege. Tammy Ramsay, a Hoquiam Democrat, and George Vrable, a Port Ludlow Republican, filed for the 24th District legislative seat, joining Mike Chapman, a Port Angeles Democrat now serving on the Clallam County commission, who filed
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Other races In other 24th District legislative races, Van De Wege, D-Sequim, is pitted 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 retiring Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam. TURN
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Grand parade, cake to cap PT’s Rhody Fest Community embraces traditions BY CHARLIE BERMANT
There, 2,000 pieces of double chocolate cake will be served until supplies run out. PORT TOWNSEND — The The picnic’s float will be at the Grand Parade is the 81st Port end of the parade. As it passes, Townsend Rhododendron Festithose on the sidelines are invited to val’s main event during Saturday’s join in and walk to the finish line. grand finale, but for the fourth “Not very many people particiyear, the picnic will take the cake. pated in the first two years, but The Grand Parade will comlast year, about 300 joined in,” mence at 1 p.m. at the Port Townsend Fire Station, 701 Harri- organizer Danny Milholland said. “This year, a ton of people son St., and travel down Lawrence Street, then turn right on Monroe have committed to marching with us.” Street and right again on Water In its short lifetime, the picnic Street and Quincy Street. has grown popular enough to be The Cake Picnic will begin at a continuing part of the long-runPope Marine Park immediately after the parade ends, estimated ning festival, Milholland said. “The Cake Picnic has been to be at about 2:30 p.m. or 3 p.m. PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
fully embraced by all of the major Rhody organizations and partners,” he said. “It has caught on as a festival tradition.” A dance party will take place simultaneously with the Cake Picnic, beginning with a “flash mob” organized by the Madrona Mind Body Institute, followed by more free-form activity. It is all part of Rhody, Port Townsend’s annual homecoming, a festival for the locals before tourist season kicks in. This year’s Rhody Royalty consists of Queen Fiona Shaffer, 16; Princesses Kayla Calhoun and Morgan Wilford, both 17; and Princess Eryn Reierson, 16, in the new ambassador position.
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Zach Weins, 8, admires Sparky the pug at the Pet Parade on Thursday. Rhody Festival activities continue through TURN TO RHODY/A6 the weekend in Port Townsend.
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