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Grant Street Elementary third-grader Jedidiah Sanders, 8, climbs down a ladder as part of a field trip to the schooner Adventuress on Thursday.
PT students get hands-on education with schooner Kids see marine life and learn boating navigation, operation BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A group of third-graders had their first experience working and learning on the schooner Adventuress on Thursday. About 60 students split into smaller groups to learn about marine life, navi-
gation and boat operation. “It’s a good thing anytime that you can get kids out of a classroom and give them an opportunity to correlate what they learn in the classroom with real things,” said Caitlin Harrison, former Port Townsend Education Foundation president and a chaperone on the field trip. “It’s one thing to see a picture of a bird in a book. It’s another to watch them catch a fish,” she said.
Program partnership The field trip was part of a partnership between the Port Townsend School
District and the Adventuress through the Maritime Discovery Initiative, which is in its second year. “This is an incredible opportunity for the kids to get out on the water and experience a 100-year-old schooner, which most kids never get to do,” said Kelley Watson, the maritime studies teacher at Port Townsend High School. “This can change their lives and get them working in maritime careers.” The Maritime Discovery Initiative is a place-based learning program designed to incorporate Port Townsend’s maritime heritage into all levels of public education. TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — An assistant East Jefferson Fire-Rescue chief has received a commission from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in a unique arrangement. The move will increase the fire department’s enforcement capabilities. Brian Tracer, 44, was commissioned as a sheriff’s deputy in December, which gives him the power to cite people who have conducted illegal burns without needing to call law enforcement. “This puts a little more Tracer teeth into enforcement,” said Bill Beezley, fire department spokesman. “We don’t expect him to be giving out a high number of summonses, but he can issue them if the sheriff’s department is shorthanded and can’t get a deputy on scene.” Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Stanko said the agreement “illustrates the spirit of cooperation between law enforcement and the fire service.” “On occasion, firefighters will respond to an illegal burn and need the presence of a deputy to issue a citation,” he said. TURN
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Peace walk a reminder of Dr. King legacy March from Port Hadlock to PT BY CHARLIE BERMANT
King’s legacy as a civil rights leader is celebrated in a national holiday on the third Monday of PORT TOWNSEND — A 13.5- January. His actual birthdate is mile Peace Walk is meant to honor Jan. 15, 1929. Martin Luther King Jr. on the actual date of his birth, according Gather near Indian Island to an organizer. Participants are asked to “This will not be a mass event,” said Douglas Milholland, who gather across from the entrance expects at least a dozen people to to Naval Magazine Indian Island, participate in the first Pacific 100 Indian Island Road in Port Northwest Interfaith Peace Walk, Hadlock, at 8:30 a.m. They should park in the county scheduled today. “In the words of Martin Luther lot on the water side of the road, King, we need to come together Milholland said, and shuttles will nonviolently to fight the milita- be available to take them back to rism, racism and materialism that their cars at the event’s conclusion. The walk to Port Townsend will exists today,” Milholland said. PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
begin at 9 a.m. and end at Pope Marine Park. A rally is planned at the park at about 3:30 p.m. Participants will be invited to share their thoughts and feelings as to what King meant to them, Milholland said. After the walk, participants and supporters are welcome to a potluck dinner at 6 p.m. at the Port Townsend Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan St.
Words still resonate King was assassinated in 1968, but his words resonate today, Milholland said. CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS “We are in 2016, and the war A group meets Thursday to make last-minute plans for games are continuing,” he said. today’s Peace Walk: from left, Caroline Wildflower, Doug TURN
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