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KUSTOM KULTURE FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND SILVERDALE — Hot rods and classic cars. Pinup girls. Live music. The fourth annual Kustom Kulture Festival is Saturday and Sunday at the Silverdale Beach Hotel. All-day admission is $20. Children 12 and younger get in free. This year’s festival — the theme is “Pinup Patriots” — includes a car show, bike show sponsored by Rottweilier Custom Motorcycles, poker run, pinup girl pageant, live bands, and a beer garden featuring local beers by Silver City Brewery. The car show will feature pre-1973 customs, hot rods, ratrods, muscle cars, stocks and traditionals. Bands currently scheduled to perform: Three Bad Jacks. The Rocketz. The Infamous Swanks. Hard Money Saints. Hot Roddin Romeos. Hopeless Jack. Dragstrip Riot. Graceland Five. Hard Fall Hearts. Roy Kay Trio. Ghost Town Hangmen. The Back Alley Barbers. Tickets are available at The RockIt Roost in Kitsap Mall, and at the event.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012 | Vol. 27, No. 38 www.CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.com | 50¢
‘Unforgotten III’
Liquor sales go private today By KEVAN MOORE kmoore@soundpublishing.com
Patrick McDonough/Staff Photo
Above, the remains of one of five veterans is carried before a Marine Color Guard during “The Unforgotten, Run to Tahoma III,” Saturday in Bremerton. Right, A folded American flag rests atop the remains of a veteran honored during a ceremony held May 26 in Bremerton. ‘The Unforgotten, Run to Tahoma III,’ was held to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans who might not otherwise be remembered.
BY Patrick McDonough pmcdonough@soundpublishing.com
As the final notes of “Taps” resonated into a solemn silence, salutes were offered by a crowd that numbered in the hundreds. A folded American flag was then presented in honor of five fallen veterans Saturday at the Kitsap County Cornor’s Office. The ceremony, “The Unforgotten, Run to Tahoma III,” was held to honor veterans whose remains have been unclaimed at the county following their cremation. The four unclaimed veterans were John Thomas Johnson of Port Orchard, Air Force; Pamela Leona Davis of Bremerton, Army; James Allen Lewis Jr. of Bremerton, Army; and Joseph Dahringer McKnight of Bremerton, Air Force. Another veteran, Joseph Gary Garibaldi of Bremerton, a Navy veteran,
was included in the ceremony at his family’s request. Following an hour-long ceremony, the flag and the five veterans were carried to Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, by an entourage escort of hundreds of motorcycles. The ceremony included a musical prelude and a call to the Sacred Circle, the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner,” a flyover by a VP-40 aircraft, a eulogy by Mark Lowe, chair of the Kitsap County Veterans Advisory Board, a blessing and a presentation and retrieval of the colors by a U.S. Marine Color Guard, among other ceremonial events. Lowe spoke of the sacrifice made by the veterans being honored at the ceremony. He spoke of the extended family that the veteran community comprises and of his own father, who had served
America during World War II. Lowe said that he did not understand his father’s sacrifice until he himself had become a veteran. Lowe also spoke of his son who had expressed his respect for the nation’s veterans by writing a poem saluting the bravery and honor of military personnel who have served and continue to serve the nation. Standing before the crowd, his voice thick with emotion, Lowe spoke of the unbreakable bond that brought hundreds of attendees to gather in honor of people they did not know as individuals. “If you died tomorrow would you be remembered? Would family and friends gather to say goodbye to you? Or, would you be placed on a shelf to be forgotten for years, always overlooked until See VETRANS, A7
Washington state private liquor sales begin today, but several area stores have been gearing up for weeks. At the Safeway in Silverdale, the shelves in Aisle 2 were stocked with a plethora of booze bottles and shielded with see-through “NOT YET. (BUT SOON)” drapes for several weeks leading up to today’s statewide opening of retail liquor sales. “We have had some customers actually, while we were stocking it, try to purchase a bottle or two,” longtime Safeway manger Duane Vickery said. “But, of course, all of our scanners have it all locked out so they couldn’t actually make the purchase.” While many are bracing for steep price hikes associated with private sales, Vickery said that he hasn’t gotten many questions in that regard. “We haven’t actually ran across that yet,” Vickery said. “We realize that the legislation calls for increased taxes on the liquor, so we’ll be relaying that information to our cashiers to let customers know. The only questions I’ve had from customers is about when they will be able to purchase it.” Vickery said that the reason behind a lack of questions having to do with price points is probably two-fold. One, the liquor hasn’t been up for sale until today and secondly, final pricing had not yet been announced. Voters approved Initiative 1183 last fall, allowing stores larger than 10,000 square feet
and some smaller stores to sell liquor. As part of the initiative, the state imposed a 10 percent distributor fee and a 17 percent retail fee on spirits to reimburse the state for millions of dollars of lost revenue. The major discount wholesaler in the state, Costco, spent more than $20 million statewide to lobby in support of Initiative 1183. A few shoppers at the store earlier this week seemed to be taking a wait-and-see approach when it comes to private retail sales and what that might mean for changes in cost. “There will be some special pricing out of the gate and we will have additional lobby displays above and beyond what is already on the shelves,” Vickery said. “Of course, we’re not going to display liquor by the front door and will be taking precautionary measures in that regard to meet state law and maintain standards within the company.” Vickery said that the store’s liquor area will be staffed with a beverage manager and an already in-place wine steward to keep an eye on the adult beverages and to assist customers. When it comes to existing wine and beer sales at the Silverdale store, not to mention the prospect of profitable liquor sales now that it is legal, Vickery is optimistic. “It’s one of our categories within the store and traditionally it does well in good times and it does good in bad economic times, too,” he said. “The people like their drinks, I guess.”