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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS July 10, 2012 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Delegates are N.C.-bound BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Two local residents will travel to Charlotte, N.C., in September to participate in the Democratic National Convention. Eli Waite, 32, an unemployed economic analyst, and Emilia Navazio, 23, a college student, will serve respectively as a delegate and alternate to the convention, where President Barack Obama is expected to be nominated for a second term. “It is really unusual to have two people from Jefferson County attend-
of this year’s event. “They have already selected the nominee, so this convention will be less eventful than in years past.” “But it will give us the opportunity TERI NOMURA to meet other people and share best Democratic chairwoman practices, to talk about ideas as to how to get our message across.” ing the convention,” said Jefferson County Democrats Chairwoman Teri Pay their own way Nomura. Both Waite and Navazio will have “Lori Macklin went as a delegate to pay their own way to the convenin 2008, but before that, the last pertion, which Waite said will cost around son from Jefferson County to go as a $2,000. delegate was back in the 1960s.” Waite downplayed the excitement TURN TO DELEGATES/A4
“It is really unusual to have two people from Jefferson County attending the convention.”
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Emilia Navazio and Eli Waite, both of Port Townsend, will be traveling to Charlotte, N.C., as, respectively, an alternate and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
County hopefuls sound off
‘Rich man’s boat’ goes to work
Memo to Jefferson: Be more youth-oriented BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — One issue the three candidates for Jefferson County commissioner agree on is that the county can be more hospitable to young people. “This is the reason I am running for office,” said Tim Thomas, vying for the District 2 position along with incumbent David Sullivan and challenger Dan Youra.
‘No opportunities for work’
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“My son just graduated from high school, and there are no opportunities for work around here. I would like that to change,” Thomas said. Youra said: “There is a need for more tax revenue so we can attract the people and the jobs we need for this area.” “There are opportunities for young people in the farm industry,” Sullivan said. “I think this is a good place to go into business.” The candidates spoke to a crowd of about 75 at the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce weekly meeting Monday.
Suva was designed for Northwest waters and has always sailed out of Puget Sound harbors. Once owned by a descendant of a Pratt & Whitney founder, it came to its present home in a roundabout way.
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Suva now a day-tripper
No murder charge for DUI driver
Owner had vowed he’d own a schooner ‘like that’ BY JENNIFER JACKSON FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — When Lloyd Baldwin was growing up in the 1950s, his parents owned the Tides Inn on the waterfront on Sims Way. The family also lived at the motel, which for Lloyd, had two advantages: He could go sailing off the beach at his back door, and there were always interesting people coming through to talk to. His mother, Dorothy, ran a beauty salon at the motel. His dad, Dennis, used to take guests salmon fishing in the bay. Lloyd Baldwin still sails, and like his father, enjoys taking visitors out on the water — but in a much bigger boat. Baldwin is owner and captain of Suva, a 68-foot schooner built in 1925 for a phi-
lanthropist who had an estate on Whidbey Island, now part of Ebey’s Landing. Professionally maintained for 87 years, Suva was designed to take the philanthropist’s guests cruising on Puget Sound in the Gatsby era.
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Day sails and charters Now, it takes people on day sails and charters out of Point Hudson, with Baldwin at the helm. “I’m the peasant who has stepped into a rich man’s boat,” Baldwin said. Named for the capital of Fiji, Suva was designed by yacht designer Ted Geary for a descendant of Francis Pratt, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney, now one of the big three aircraft-engine makers.
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Lloyd Baldwin talks with Lorilee Houston, left, at Point Hudson Marina in Port Townsend.
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PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County judge has dismissed a first-degree murder charge against a Port Angeles woman accused of being nearly three times over the legal limit for alcohol in a head-on wreck that killed a nurse in March 2011. But Superior Court Judge Ken Williams, saying that the allegations that remain against Amber D. Steim, 25, are “deplorable,” ruled that Steim must face three serious charges — vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and witness tampering — in the crash that killed Ellen Joan DeBondt on state Highway 112 west of Port Angeles. TURN TO STEIM/A4
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