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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS December 29, 2015 | 75¢
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Fort to focus on events, dining
Little warrior
Holidays, parties and brunches in plans for center BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Five-year-old Hartlyn Flores receives an infusion in October. She has a reputation for approaching medical appointments armed with high heels, lipstick and coordinated outfits.
Port Angeles girl undaunted by rare disease, treatments High heels, lipstick and colorful outfits are her defenses BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
immune system attacks skin and muscles, resulting in skin rashes and muscle weakness, fatigue, fever and stiff joints. Serious complications include the inability to walk, ongoing pain, disfigurement and even death, according to the Cure JM Foundation. On June 16, 2013, the family was gathering berries and having a day outside and found that Hartlyn, then 2 ½ years old, couldn’t walk without falling and was extremely fatigued, said her mother, Marnae Flores.
PORT ANGELES — Five-year-old Hartlyn Flores is known to her family as their “diva warrior,” since she approaches medical appointments Tumbled over armed with high heels, lipstick and coordinated outfits. “She would tumble over, like a baby Two years ago, Hartlyn was diagnosed just learning to walk,” Flores said. with a rare and life-threatening autoimThe next morning, she was worse. mune disease called juvenile dermatomyTURN TO DIVA/A5 ositis, known as JM, in which the
PORT TOWNSEND — The Fort Worden Lifelong Learning Center Public Development Authority is working to make the former military installation a dining, entertainment and holiday destination. “We want people to know we will always serve a brunch or hold an event on a major holiday,” said Todd Gubler, general manager. The first such event took place on Thanksgiving. The public development authority skipped Christmas for a special event, but officials plan to celebrate New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and others in 2016. On Thursday night, it will host a New Year’s Eve dance party featuring local band Locust Street Taxi from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., followed by a Friday brunch. Both are available for a fee with reservations; overnight packages are available for those who don’t want to drive home. For more information and to make reservations, go to http://tinyurl.com/PDN-New-Years or call 360-344-4400, ext. 304. Gubler said that reservations have been lower than expected but he predicts a flurry of last-minute sales. “The idea is to let people know that we are here and then build the business,” Gubler said.
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Hartlyn shows off her nicely polished nails with those of her mother, Marnae.
The Valentine’s Day celebration will feature a performance by soul band Freddy Pink and well as one from Key City Theatre, beginning what Gubler hopes will be a continuing partnership. TURN
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Music fest moving to Fort Worden in 2016 New site replaces barn in Quilcene BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — After three decades based in a historic Quilcene barn, the Olympic Music Festival will move to Fort Worden State Park for its 33rd season next summer. Founder Alan Iglitzin in October told the festival’s board of directors he planned to retire as executive director and revert the festival grounds he owns — an iconic barn with hay bale seating for concerts — into private property. That led to a new partnership with Centrum, a nonprofit organization based at Fort Worden that
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organizes art festivals, workshops and performances year round. Next summer’s festival performances will be held inside the Joseph F. Wheeler Theater at 25 Eisenhower Way. They will begin at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays from Aug. 13 through Sept. 11. “I know all of us in the OMF community will miss the concerts in the barn in Quilcene,” said Julio Elizalde, a renowned pianist and the festival’s artistic director. “However, the board of directors voted unanimously [in November] to continue presenting world-class performances in honor of our supportive audiences
on the Olympic Peninsula, and I am confident that this new partnership will usher in a rich new era for this great organization.” This partnership “is a natural fit for us and we look forward to a richly diverse and artistically ambitious year of extraordinary music making on our campus,” said Robert Birman, Centrum executive director. “Centrum’s chamber music series is thriving in Port Townsend and Lucinda Carver — Centrum’s chamber music director — our staff and board all agree that working in partnership with OMF can only help broaden interest and appreciation for classical music in our region,” he said. TURN
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A century-old dairy barn was the venue for Olympic Music Festival concerts from 1984 through 2015. Patrons came to sit inside on straw bales or outside on the grass at the Olympic Music Festival Farm, a 55-acre spread in Quilcene.
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