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Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
October 4, 2011
Crash fatal for Peninsula woman She couldn’t survive swim to shore after pilot son must ditch in Chesapeake Bay Peninsula Daily News
RHODES POINT, Md. — Search crews recovered the body of a Sequim-area woman Monday, the victim of a small plane crash over the weekend, from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, police said. Mary L. Lagerquist, 78, who lived on Hooker Road south of Carlsborg, had been a passenger in a plane piloted by her son, Lan-
son C. Ross III, 48, of Fort Washington, Md., a Washington, D.C., suburb. Police said Ross watched helplessly as his mother drowned Lagerquist as they were trying to swim from the wreckage site to an island in the chilly waters of Chesapeake Bay.
‘Music Man’ Mackie’s health going downhill
Ross, an Air Force pilot, told investigators that the two-seat, single-engine aircraft lost power and that he was trying to reach an island near the south entrance of the sprawling bay, Smith Island. Soon after his 3:30 p.m. Sunday distress call to Patuxent River Naval Air Station, he was forced to ditch the plane into the bay. Lanson Ross tends to his plane in this picture from his Turn to Crash/A6 Facebook page.
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Beloved in these parts, he’s hit by series of strokes By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND— Andy Mackie, the former Quilcene “music man” who is credited with changing the scope of music education on the North Olympic Peninsula, is extremely ill in Michigan, according to one of his closest friends. “We are losing him,” said Jack Reid, a musician who has often shared the stage with Mackie. “He had a series of strokes, his organs are shutting down and he is in and out of consciousness.” Reid sent messages to a distribution list late last week saying that Mackie “might not make it through the night,” but Mackie rallied Thursday night. One of his children reported Monday night that Mackie appeared to have suffered another stroke, but not as severe as one last week. A Facebook page sponsored by the Andy Mackie Music Foundation — http://tinyurl.com/pdn mackie — has become a bulletin board where well-wishers can leave messages for Andy and his family, which is at his bedside in a hospital located in Jerome, Mich. Mackie, a native of Scotland, established the music foundation
Andy Mackie Health reports aren’t good in East Jefferson County in 1996 and operated it as a channel for kids to learn and acquire instruments. He moved to Michigan in September 2010 to be closer to his family, so they could care for him. He last visited Port Townsend in May, at which time he met old friends and performed several times. In earlier days, he showed children how to make “strum sticks,” passed out harmonicas and taught hundreds of children how to play a tune, many of them for the first time. Turn
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Gov. Chris Gregoire meets with Kinetic SkulPTure Race course commissioner Michael Bittman. Gregoire was in Port Townsend on vacation and watched the parade.
SkulPTure Race’s great time bolstered by visitor Gregoire By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — Like its predecessors, the 29th annual Kinetic SkulPTure Race featured the expected quotient of odd costumes and bizarre vehicles. So the real surprise was the presence of Gov. Chris Gregoire. Gregoire was vacationing in Port Townsend and was not part of the scheduled festivities. But she mingled with the crowd and was
seen chatting with Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval, among others. The governor’s under-the-radar visit assured that she was not subject to intense politicking, but some lobbying did occur. “I told her what the state needed was more of these parades,” said event organizer Janet Emery. Emery said she did not have any concrete figures about crowd size or money raised, but said the crowd was slightly smaller than 2010. Turn
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Ex-UW student’s conviction for murder thrown out in Italy By Alessandra Rizzo and Colleen Barry The Associated Press
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Amanda Knox cries following the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her roommate. Meredith Kercher on Monday in Italy.
PERUGIA, Italy — Amanda Knox left prison Monday, a free woman for the first time in four years, after an Italian appeals court threw out the young American’s murder conviction for the brutal stabbing death of her British roommate after a drug-fueled sexual assault. The 24-year-old former University of Washington student collapsed in tears after the verdict was read, a stunning reversal in a
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sensational saga that became a cause celebre in the U.S. Her co-defendant and former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007. “We’re thankful that Amanda’s nightmare is over,” her younger sister, Deanna Knox, told reporters outside the courthouse. “She suffered for four years for a crime she did not commit.” About 90 minutes after the verdict was handed down, a black Mercedes carrying Knox was seen leaving the prison. She was
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expected to board a commercial flight for home today. The fatal blow to the prosecution’s case was a court-ordered DNA review that discredited crucial genetic evidence used to convict Knox and Sollecito in 2009. They were sentenced to 26 and 25 years, respectively. While waves of relief swept through the defendants’ benches in the courtroom, members of the Kercher family, who flew in for the verdict, appeared dazed and perplexed. Turn
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Inside Today’s Peninsula Daily News 95th year, 235th issue — 3 sections, 18 pages
Business B4 Classified C1 Comics B3 Commentary/Letters A7 Dear Abby B3 Deaths A6 Lottery A2 Movies C6 Nation/World A3
Peninsula Poll Puzzles/Games Sports Weather
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