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Brinnon’s ShrimpFest to take a year off Group going through rebuilding phase, event organizer claims By Leah Leach
Peninsula Daily News
BRINNON — ShrimpFest organizers are taking a year off to seek more help and consider a new location, so no festival is
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promised Joe Baisch, president of the Emerald Towns Alliance Committee, which organizes the event. And he expects it will be better than ever.
planned next Memorial Day weekend. But Brinnon’s biggest annual Not enough people event, which has drawn thousands to the Hood Canal town “We just don’t have enough in the past, will be back in 2013, people to do it,” Baisch said Fri-
day. “Our plan is to rebuild the team, starting now.” Baisch said that after 17 years of the festival highlighting the Hood Canal spot shrimp, the planning committee, which once had about 10 people, had shrunk to about four or five people. “It’s normal attrition,” he said. “It’s not a fight.”
“It just takes a team to do this.” He sent out a letter last week asking for volunteers. “It’s kind of exciting because I’ve got people calling,” he said. “I’ve got three or four people with experience who are interested in helping.” Turn
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Family, friends remember life of slain woman
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By Tom Callis
Peninsula Daily News
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About 75 people dressed up for Port Townsend’s inaugural Zombie Walk on Saturday night, shambling down Water and Madison streets to the Jefferson County Memorial Field to perform a rendition of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.”
PORT ANGELES — Jennifer Danielle Pimentel was remembered Saturday as a giving, strong-willed woman who easily earned the admiration of those she met. About 350 people attended the funeral for the murdered 27-year-old woman at Bethany Pentecostal Church before she was laid to Pimentel rest at Ocean View Cemetery. Port Angeles police said Jennifer Pimentel was strangled to death Oct. 9 at the hands of Kevin A. Bradfield, who has been charged with seconddegree murder. But she was remembered at the service by how she lived: whole-heartedly and generously.
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Richard Taylor, cousin of Jennifer Pimentel, displays a tattoo honoring his slain cousin prior to funeral services for Pimentel on Turn to Remember/A6 Saturday in Port Angeles.
Hearing set for Coast Guard co-pilot accused in fatal crash Two accused of ‘Charge sheet’ against lieutenant not being released By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
A Coast Guard helicopter copilot who was the only survivor of a July 7, 2010, crash that killed three crewmen off LaPush will be questioned Dec. 7 in a public, trial-like setting: a U.S. Code of Military Justice Article 32 hearing. The hearing at the federal building in Juneau, Alaska, could lead to Lt. Lance Leone’s courtmartial and 7½ years of confinement, said Greg Versaw, Coast Guard deputy staff judge advocate in Juneau. Leone, based at Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, Alaska, has been charged with two counts of negligent homicide, two counts of dereliction of duty and one count of destruction of government property in what the Coast Guard has said was the only fatality-
crash involving a Coast Guard helicopter in 2010. Leone said, “I’m not allowed to talk,” in a voice mail last week. “I can’t talk Leone about anything,” he said. “Anything can and will be used against me.”
Charges Versaw would not release the “charge sheet” that contained the counts against Leone, saying last week the investigation into the crash has not been completed. But Sitka’s public radio station, KCAW-FM, reported Leone is being charged with failing to navigate the helicopter away from charted hazards, failing to fly above 500 feet in accordance with Coast Guard policy and destroying the helicopter, valued at $18.3 million. He also is being charged with
negligently causing the deaths of crew members Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Hoke, 40, of Great Falls, Mont., and Aviation Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Brent M. Banks, 33, of Rock Spring, N.Y. Leone is not being charged in connection with the death of the pilot, Lt. Sean D. Krueger, 33, of Seymour, Conn. Versaw said Friday the information is from the charge sheet. Leone will be represented by legal counsel at the Article 32 hearing. It will be overseen by Coast Guard Capt. Andrew Norris, an investigating officer who will make a recommendation on the disposition of the charges — from dismissing them to recommending Leone undergo a general court-martial, Versaw said. Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo, commander of District 17, which includes Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, will determine if the case will proceed to a court-martial, District 17 spokesman Kip Wadlow said in an earlier interview. Turn
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murder of woman plead not guilty By Tom Callis
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Two people charged in the death of Jennifer Pimentel pleaded not guilty to separate charges of second-degree murder and first-degree rendering criminal assistance during a brief court appearance Friday. Their trials are scheduled to occur separately in December in Clallam County Superior Court. The trial of Kevin A. Bradfield, charged with seconddegree murder for allegedly strangling Pimentel to death Oct. 9, is set to begin Dec. 5 and last at least four days. His attorney, Harry Gasnick, told Judge Ken Williams the trial likely will have to be rescheduled because of the
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large amount of evidence he is anticipating to have to review. The trial for Bradfield’s girlfriend, Kendell K. Huether, is scheduled to begin Dec. 19 and last between three and four days. Huether, Pimentel’s childhood friend, is charged with firstdegree rendering criminal assistance for allegedly helping Bradfield dispose of the body in woods near the Hood Canal Bridge. Turn
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