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A Bremerton couple made an unusual discovery in the hedge along their driveway last fall: numerous vintage film reels of various sizes.
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Keith Kisler, left, co-owner of Finnriver Farm and Cidery in Chimacum, and Andrew Byers, cider maker, show off a bottle of the 2016 national Good Food Award-winning cider produced at the farm.
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Good Food Awards crop up for area farms Finnriver among pair of Peninsula entities honored BY CHRIS MCDANIEL
Farm at 193 Harbor Heights southwest of Sequim were announced as winners of the nationwide award during a Jan. 15 ceremony at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco.
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CHIMACUM — A local cidery is among two North Olympic Peninsula businesses that have won 2016 Good Food Awards. Finnriver Farm and Cidery at 142 Barn Swallow Road in Chimacum and the Sequim Bee
Each were rated as among the top 10 producers in the nation from their category. Crystie Kisler, who owns the Chimacum cidery with her husband, Keith Kisler, and their business partner, Eric Jorgensen, was excited to win an award.
“It is a great honor,” she said. “This year, they had a lot more entries, and so we are very honored and just grateful that the Good Food Awards have included cider.” The award was accepted on behalf of Finnriver by Andrew Byers, the company’s cider maker. Being chosen as a winner “was amazing,” said Meg Depew, who co-owns Sequim Bee Farm with her husband, Buddy. “We were flabbergasted to enter and just to be [chosen] as a finalist,” she said. TURN
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40-year-old reels contain family footage for locals
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PORT ANGELES — A mystery spanning the Olympic Peninsula has been solved, with the origin of 40-year-old homemade film reels found abandoned in Bremerton traced to a family still residing in Port Angeles. It is exciting to have the films returned, family member Ruth Raemer, 47, of Port Angeles said last Thursday. “A lot of those [videos] are with my older siblings,” Raemer said. “My grandfather is in there too.”
A mystery is born As reported last Wednesday by the Kitsap Sun, Bremerton Police Officer Jeff Schaefer was dispatched last September to a Bremerton home after the couple living there found vintage film reels — in various sizes — discarded in their bushes. The reels contained several homemade videos with titles such as “Leaving Detroit,” and “At
Farm in Michigan.” Schaefer contacted local media to enlist the help of the public in locating the rightful owners. Peninsula Daily News took up the case Thursday because of several references to locations within Clallam County. Other film titles in the collection, as depicted online by the Kitsap Sun, are “Oct. 71, Moving from Renton to Port Angeles,” “Lake Crescent” and “Neah Bay.” There also was a name and address — Harry C. Withers — on a first class mail envelope. A search online for Withers led to a funeral notice published by the PDN on June, 28, 2005, announcing services for Agnes Lucille Frantz Brady, 89, of Joyce — Withers’ widow. Withers, according to the funeral notice, was the father of Brady’s oldest daughter’s husband, L.E. “Rick” Withers. TURN
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Hargrove takes issue with locker room rule Senator eyes transgender policy BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIA — A state rule allowing transgender individuals to use the locker rooms of the sex they identify with could allow others access to sensitive areas simply by claiming to be transgender, according to state Sen. Jim Hargrove. The rule was adopted in December by the Washington State Human Rights Commission. Hargrove — along with Democratic state Reps. Steve Tharinger and Kevin Van De Wege of Sequim
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was the only Democrat to do so. The bill would have repealed the rule allowing transgender individuals to use the restroom or locker room that best matches their gender identity, according to The Capitol Record. “That particular bill did not repeal civil rights protections for transgenders,” Hargrove said. “It simply repealed the Human Rights Commission rule which . . . seems to me like it is going to be extremely difficult to keep men from entering women’s locker rooms.”
— represents the 24th District, which covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and part of Grays Harbor County. “I will bet you a lot of sex offenders will decide that they are going to claim to be transgender now so that they can enter locker rooms,” Hargrove, who lives in Hoquiam, said Friday. The rule “is broad enough and vague enough that any male can walk into a locker room” if they say they are transgender, he YMCA’s take said. Last Wednesday, Hargrove Hargrove said he has convoted in favor of Senate Bill 6443, tacted YMCA directors concernwhich failed on a vote of 24-25. He ing this issue, “and they just don’t
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Eye on Olympia know how they are going to enforce it or deal with it because you can self identity as transgender regardless of what you look like,” he said. “Any male that walks into a women’s locker room — you just have to assume they are transgender.” The rule will “create all sorts of problems, particularly in our YMCAs and other places where you have locker rooms with open showers,” Hargrove continued. “That is why I voted to overturn the rule, hoping that we would get something that would make reasonable accommoda-
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tions for transgender people. I don’t have problems with bathrooms, for instance. You get separate stalls so it is no big deal.” Hargrove H o w e v e r, “in a locker room setting, I don’t think this is going to be very workable,” he said. “We just don’t know how this is going to play out. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail and at some point in time we will be able to figure this all out.”
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