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LIFE AND CULTURE
PUMPKIN
PICKIN’
FUN! Kitsap’s pumpkin-picking fields are full, and that’s not all there is to do this Halloween season
BY LESLIE KELLY Kitsap Week
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ctober days are meant for finding just the right pumpkin, trying your hand at a corn maze and taking part in a variety of other fun-on-the-farm activities. And if seasonal fun is on your agenda, there’s a number of places in Kitsap County to go. Bremerton
Minder Farm: Off of Highway 303, at 1000 Gluds Pond St. NE, Bremerton. Hours are Wednesday through Friday, 3 p.m. to dark; Saturday 10 a.m. to dark and Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Info: 360-620-3707. This is the eighth year of the Minder Farm’s corn maze. See PUMPKINS, Page 2
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Hoover thought he was ‘luckiest man alive’ Nov. 8 celebration of life for former mayor, retired educator, volunteer By RICHARD WALKER
rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
Hal Hoover
POULSBO — Hal Hoover had so much enthusiasm for people and for life that injury and pain couldn’t keep him down.
According to his daughter, Kristy Trione, Hoover spent much of his life in pain. His back was injured when he was a child growing up in Idaho, but that didn’t keep him from leaving high school early to join the Navy during
World War II. When he was 23, he injured an eye while working on a car. Years later, after he suffered a stroke, he joked that he was “doing pretty good for a guy with one good
eye and half a brain.” Perhaps you’ve walked on a North Kitsap trail and bumped into Hoover and his wife, Helen. He likely stopped
Ebola
Poulsbo’s stormwater rates next up for increase
NKHS students collecting supplies for Sierra Leone
By RICHARD D. OXLEY
By KIPP ROBERTSON
roxley@northkitsapherald.com
krobertson@northkitsapherald.com
POULSBO — The death toll from the Ebola virus numbered 4,447 as of Oct. 14, according to the World Health Organization. Students at North Kitsap High School are doing what they can to help West Africa fight the virus. A donation drive will take place at the high school Oct. 13-24 for Children of the Nations, a nonprofit based in Silverdale. The donated items will be part of a shipment heading to Sierra Leone’s Moyamba district in December as part of a long-term outreach project, said Dave Schertzer, resource direc-
Staff members at a Children of the Nations clinic in Sierra Leone unpack sprayers that will be used in decontamination, in an effort to stop the spread of the Ebola virus. Children Of The Nations tor for Children of the Nations. The supplies will be expected to arrive March 2015, he said. The nonprofit has been working in Sierra Leone for more than
20 years and continually sending needed supplies and resources, Schertzer said. However, with the outbreak of Ebola, there’s been an increase in efforts.
“We’ve really ratcheted up our activity,” he said. See EBOLA, Page A10
Q&A: Candidates for Kitsap County District Court T
Claire Bradley
Tracy Flood
See HOOVER, Page A3
his is part of a series of Q&As with candidates for local office in the Nov. 4 general election. This Q&A: Claire Bradley and Tracy Flood, candidates for Kitsap County District Court judge. Kitsap County District Court judges are elected at-large and serve four-year terms. They are
paid $144,544 a year. The District Court has jurisdiction over misdemeanors and gross misdemeanor crimes which carry a maximum penalty of 364 days in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. The court also has jurisdiction over unlawful harassment petitions, protection orders, and traffic infrac-
tions. District Court services include probation, small claims not exceeding $5,000, and civil actions not exceeding $75,000. CLAIRE BRADLEY Residence: Port Orchard Occupation: Chief deputy prosecuting attorney for District and Municipal courts, Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s
POULSBO — The Poulsbo City Council has directed city staff to proceed with a process to increase stormwater rates. Without the rate increase, city staff told the council that the city would fall behind the curve in maintaining the stormwater system and run afoul of state and federal regulations. “We have to bite the bullet sooner rather than later,” Councilman Jim Henry said at the council’s Oct. 15 meeting. The process to raise rates will include a public hearing on Nov. 12 and will take into account See STORMWATER, Page A18
Office. Education: B.A. from Occidental College, 1993; juris doctor from Seattle University School of Law, 1997. Relevant experience: 199697, intern as public defender in Bremerton Municipal Court; 1997-present, Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office; 1997-1998, deputy prosecutor, District and Municipal courts; 1998-2003, deputy prosecutor, See DISTRICT COURT, Page A16
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