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BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — The twoweek mark has come and gone with not much more than frustration to show in the search for a 23-year-old Sequim woman who has been missing since May 1. “We’re really doing everything we can to find her, and you get frustrated when [the efforts are] unsuccessful,” Port Townsend Police Chief Conner Daily said Friday. Garrett Lauryn R. Garrett, a 2009 Sequim High School graduate, was last seen at the Port Townsend Safeway supermarket just before 8 p.m. May 1. TURN
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Rhododendron Queen Addison Richert acknowledges a viewer of Saturday’s Rhody Festival Grand Parade as the royalty float makes its way down Port Townsend’s Water Street. From left are float driver Harlan Lafollette, Princess Lane Hill, Prince Shiloh Lanphear-Ramirez, Queen Addison and Princess Kaycee McGuire.
Rhody Parade has ‘wow’ factor, bids Redskins mascot farewell BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Port Townsend High School alumni show Redskins colors in the Rhody Parade for the last time.
PORT TOWNSEND — Overcast skies did not dampen the enthusiasm of the observers or the participants at the 79th annual Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade on Saturday. The two-hour parade had 106 entries, including 10 bands and eight festival floats. There was no official crowd estimate, although parade organizer Rita Hubbard said “there was way more than last year.” “God loves Rhody,” Hubbard said. “Every year, there is the ‘wow’ factor,
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Democrats dominate vote filings BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
which this year came from the cat loader from Port Townsend Paper. It took up the whole street,” she added. “People came out. They showed up, and everyone is having a great time.” It even had a poignant entry as Port Townsend High School alumni rode the parade brandishing the Redskins mascot for the last time in a Rhody Festival. The parade began by the Port Townsend Fire Station on Lawrence Street, headed north and turned east on Monroe Street and south on Water Street. TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County Republicans didn’t apply for partisan county elected offices. Of the 14 candidates for partisan offices, 10 filed as Democrats while four — three for county commissioner and one for sheriff — filed with no party preference during the candidate filing period that ended Friday. Of the nine county races, three have two or more candidates. Those with more than two hopefuls will have one eliminated in the Aug. 5 primary, with the top two vote-getters advancing to the Nov. 4 general election. Only one candidate, a Democrat, declared for the treasurer’s post, which will be filled by a Republican to fill out Judi Morris’ unexpired term. TURN
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‘It just gives me chills’: Whalers back in water BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
NEAH BAY –– Fifteen years after returning from their tribe’s last legal whale kill, some members of the crew of Makah whale hunters who led that hunt set out again into the bay aboard the Hummingbird whaling canoe Saturday. “It gives me chills. It just gives me chills,” said Charlotte Williams King. Descended from a long line of
whalers, King thought of her ancestors as she watched the canoes paddle in Neah Bay. Her great-grandfather, John “Hiska” McCarty, dove underwater to tie closed the mouths of harpooned whales. “I didn’t really realize it, but 15 years is a long time,” she said. Saturday’s paddle, which included a chase canoe, was organized by the Makah Whaling Commission.
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Harpoon on the bow, members of the 1999 Makah whaling crew head for shore after TURN TO MAKAH/A6 Saturday’s paddle commemorating the 15th anniversary of the tribe’s last legal whale kill.
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