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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS October 23, 2013 | 75¢
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State seeking anti-I-522 donor penalties BY MIKE BAKER
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SEATTLE — The state attorney general still will seek penalties against a food industry group that recently identified donors who contributed money to oppose an initiative requiring labeling of genetically modified foods, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Attorney General Bob Ferguson will move ahead with a law-
suit filed last week against the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
Ferguson has accused the group of improperly collecting the cash in a manner that shielded the identities of the companies to protect them from scrutiny. The Grocery Manufacturers Association has since identified about three dozen companies who contributed a combined $7.2 million to help defeat Initiative 522, a food labeling measure on the Nov. 5 ballot that is
Replica of 18th-century German organ will debut in concert Thursday DE LA
More than five years It has taken more than five years to assemble the 22 ranks of about 2,000 pipes, noted Purnell. On Thursday night, Bernas will play the music of Buxtehude and Bach, including preludes and fugues and chorale preludes, to exploit the variety of tonal combinations possible on the Silbermann organ. “This concert will offer listeners a rare opportunity to travel back in time,” the musician said, to hear music from these 17th- and 18th-century composers on an instrument that sounds much like the organs they played.
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PORT TOWNSEND — At long last, Elwood “Woody” Bernas will come to Trinity United Methodist Church this Thursday for a debut of the church’s newly completed replica of an 18th-century Gottfried Silbermann Baroque organ. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. Candlelight Concert at Trinity, 609 Taylor St. uptown. Admission is a suggested $10 donation, while children are invited to come free. Refreshments will be served afterward. “Trinity is fortunate to have two pipe organs,” said concert coordinator Dan Purnell. Its 1902 Mudler organ has been heard before, but Thursday will see the first performance on the Silbermann Baroque instrument. A modern copy of one built by Silbermann in 1735 in Reinhardtsgrimma, Germany, the organ is designed to play the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and other Baroque composers. It was built on-site at Trinity with parts from various places across the United States.
with many parts of the food industry contributing large chunks of cash to oppose the measure. PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Nestle each contributed more than $1 million to the Grocery Manufacturers Association’s effort to oppose the measure, according to records filed with the state Public Disclosure Commission last week.
Cash due on boat linked to Steinbeck
Going for Baroque BY DIANE URBANI
already before voters in all-mail elections statewide. Janelle Guthrie, a spokeswoman for Ferguson, said the office still believes a penalty is appropriate. “Ultimately, they didn’t comply because they originally concealed,” Guthrie said. No court date has been set in the lawsuit. I-522 has shaped up to be one of the costliest initiative fights ever in Washington state,
BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Woody Bernas, at the console here of Trinity United Methodist Church’s Mudler organ, will debut the church’s second pipe organ, a newly completed replica of an 18th-century Gottfried Silbermann Baroque instrument, in a Candlelight Concert on Thursday. Bernas, who has studied with teachers at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. James in Chicago and the Cathedral of St. Paul, Minn., was asked in 2010 to play a series of recitals in Stockholm, Sweden. His performance at the Marcussen and Sons organ in St. Jacob Church there was recorded and released on the CD “Live in Stockholm.” The disc will be available for purchase after Thursday’s performance. Proceeds from the Candlelight Concert series benefit local charities and Trinity’s music and historic Victorian restoration program. For more details on these monthly concerts, phone 360-774-1644.
PORT TOWNSEND — The owner of a boat once used by author John Steinbeck and which is now housed at the Boat Haven has promised to bring his account current by today, according to the Port of Port Townsend director. “If he wires us all the money tomorrow, he’ll be current,” Larry Crockett said Tuesday. Gerry Kehoe, the owner of the Western Flyer — which was brought into the Boat Haven covered in mud and barnacles earlier this summer — owed the Port of Port Townsend $10,099 in fees as of Tuesday, Crockett said.
Deposit paid Kehoe has paid only a required $25,000 derelict-boat deposit since bringing the boat into the port, Crockett said. In a message Monday to port personnel, Elizabeth Kehoe, Gerry Kehoe’s wife, promised the money owed would be paid in full today and requested the current amount and wiring instructions, Crockett said.
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The twice-sunk Western Flyer sits encrusted in mud and barnacles in the boatyard of the Port of Port Townsend. Gerry Kehoe did not respond to a Peninsula Daily News inquiry about the disposition of the boat Tuesday. The 72-foot derelict vessel was built by Tacoma’s Western Boat Building Co. in 1937 and was chartered in 1940 by Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts — who became the model for the character of Doc in Steinbeck’s 1945 book Cannery Row — for a six-week expedition to Mexico’s Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — After 20 years, four fire districts and a variety of roles, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue Assistant Chief Bob Low is hanging up his helmet. “East Jefferson is an extremely well-run fire department, and I’m proud to have been a member here, but after a tough decision, my wife, Barb, and I decided to retire and move back to the San Juan Islands,” Low said in a statement.
that the posiLow, 61, is making a little more tion would be than $70,000 in his current posifilled from tion, but that won’t necessarily be within the the salary for his replacement, department. according to department spokesLow joined man Bill Beezley. the fire dis“We expect we will cast a wide trict in 2012 net to find someone to fill this after serving position since it has a pretty big as fire chief at skill set,” Beezley said. the Quilcene “We’d like someone who is an Low Fire Departex-firefighter who also has manment for a litagement, finance and fire martle more than two years. shal experience.” He was hired to succeed Chief Beezley said he did not expect
Bob Wilson, who died of cancer in 2009. Low resigned from his position as Quilcene fire chief in July 2010. He said he was quitting because of interference in the operations of the department by two fire commissioners, Dave Ward and Mike Whittaker, who were serving at the time. Whittaker and Ward were recalled by voters in November 2012. East Jefferson Fire-Rescue Chief Gordon Pomeroy said the
department will begin a search for a replacement in late November, with a goal of bringing an assistant chief on board by Low’s departure Jan. 31. Low joined East Jefferson FireRescue as it ramped up the replacement of the Chimacum Fire Station and oversaw coordination of the deconstruction of the old station and the site preparation and construction of its replacement. TURN
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