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Initial tally shows Wolfe leads Streissguth by two percent
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County commission candidate Ed Wolfe celebrates election returns with his wife, Wendy Miles, Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the Kitsap County Conference Center in Bremerton. BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
The initial tally of votes for the Kitsap County Commission race for District 3 shows Republican Ed Wolfe leading his Democratic opponent, Linda Streissguth, by 1,021 votes – two percent of the votes cast so far. Wolfe had 26,827 votes, or 50.9 percent of the total. Streissguth had 25,806 votes, or 48.9 percent. Wolfe’s Facebook page read, “Thank you voters! From your next Kitsap County Commissioner Ed Wolfe!” About 70 Democrats gathered in
Silverdale peered at their cell phones or looked at election web pages projected onto the wall as initial results came in around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. “If I had nails, I’d be biting them,” Streissguth joked. Katherine Woods, chair of the Kitsap County Democratic Central Committee, wasn’t willing to throw in the towel. “This is nowhere near the end,” Woods told the crowd. “All the results you saw tonight are ballots received as of yesterday,” she added. “So, this doesn’t include anyone who mailed in their ballot in over the weekend that hasn’t been processed at the auditor’s office. It doesn’t include anyone who voted today or dropped it off in a dropbox today.” Streissguth echoed Woods’ sentiment. “There’s lots of votes left to be counted. I am cautiously optimistic,” Streissguth said. “I spent some time today thinking about the last year,” she added. “I have an enormous feeling of gratitude for the voters, supporters, volunteers, friends – all the people that have been there to support my campaign.” A representative with the Kitsap SEE COMMISSION, A9
Hauge has slight lead of 214 votes in Kitsap County Prosecutor race BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
BREMERTON — On a night in which Republicans rolled to victories in several races in Kitsap County, longtime prosecutor Russ Hauge, a Democrat, may have just held on. The results, though, are far from definitive. Initial returns show Hauge leading Republican challenger Tina Robinson by 214 votes — 26,460 for Hauge, 26,246 for Robinson. At an election party on the third floor of the Kitsap Conference Center in downtown Bremerton, Robinson said she isn’t giving up. “It’s not over,” Robinson told a supporter shortly after the results were posted on the county auditor’s website. “Don’t give up on me.” Robinson acknowledged she was
nervous prior to the early returns being posted, but said the closeness of the race had a calming effect. “In the beginning of this, everybody was, ‘Anybody, but Hague,’” Robinson added. “As time went on, people went away from [thinking] I was just ‘Anybody, but Hauge’ and started believing I was really the right person when they had an opportunity to actually meet me and talk to me. And I did a lot of speaking engagements and forums, which are just one-minute soundbites and you can’t really do anything with that. But, people actually took the time to let me come in and sit and talk and they were convinced I was the right person for the job.” Robinson said she felt like she could not have done anything more SEE PROSECUTOR, A9
A REALLY BIG CHECK
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Olympic College President David Mitchell, left, watches John Ebert sign a $2,010,000 ceremonial check at the college’s science and technology building on Oct. 31. The funds will be used to pay for 23 annual scholarships. At right is David Emmons, director of the OC Foundation.
An eye on the future, Trust invests $2 million in Olympic students BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
The number of Olympic College students who can benefit from a science and technology full-tuition scholarship every year will triple thanks to a $2 million endowment given to the OC Foundation last week. The Robert B. Stewart Trust donated the funds to invest in students studying science, technology, engineering and math. The gift brings the trust’s total donations to the foundation over the past eight years to $3 million. The number of scholarships – valued at $4,000 each – jumped from seven per year to 23 according to David Emmons, director of the OC Foundation. Olympic College President David Mitchell addressed an audience of around 100 people during a gift announcement ceremony at the college’s science and technology building on Oct. 31. “I’ve been doing this president thing for almost 18 years now and
Robert B. Stewart.
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this is the biggest single gift that I’ve ever been a part of,” Mitchell said. “It’ll impact, literally, hundreds and hundreds of students. This will go on in perpetuity.” Stewart, who died at age 85 in 2011, made millions by investing and living a frugal life. He was born in 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota. When he was 15 he moved with his mother to Seattle. John Ebert, trustee for Stewart’s
estate, said the Great Depression left an impression on Stewart. “He witnessed extreme poverty and the hopelessness of the people. And Bob decided then and there that he did not want to be poor again,” Ebert said. Fortuitously, Stewart dated a girl whose father was interested in investing. “That changed Bob’s life because Bob found his passion and he became a lifelong investor,” Ebert said. Ebert said Stewart was proud to tell how he sold his stock for a healthy profit. But some of those stocks continued to climb in value after he sold them. Stewart didn’t like talking about those particular trades, Ebert joked. “The lesson learned was ‘always be a long-term investor.’ And now you know why Bob Stewart always invested for the future. What better way to invest in the future than providing scholarships for promising students?,” Ebert said. SEE STEWART, A9
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