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IN THIS EDITION
KITSAP PRIDE TURNS 19
Looks to get past his wife and a team player
BUSINESS Dick’s Sporting Goods coming to Kitsap Mall
BY PETER O’CAIN POCAIN@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
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OPINION Spend CDBG money elsewhere
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Drag performers Indika Haze, Cannoli and Delylah Delight lip synch a song at the 19th Kitsap Pride festival July 18 in Bremerton. BY PETER O’CAIN
NEWS Pot shops pass compliance tests
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BREMERTON – For most of the afternoon July 18, Evergreen Rotary Park looked like the beginning and end of a dozen rainbows. Kitsap’s Pride festival rang in its 19th year with drag performances and dancing. Over
500 people RSVP’d on Facebook. “We’re super happy with the turnout,” said Michael Goodnow, president of Kitsap Pride Network. He expected over 1,500 people to pass through the event. It’s a far cry from its origins at a private farm in Southworth.
“The way it’s grown it makes my heart really happy, I’m not gonna lie,” said Indika Haze, a drag performer who’s attended the Pride festival for over a decade. “I never would have thought 10 years ago that poor little Kitsap County would have this great festival.” After changing locations several times, the festival
landed at Evergreen Park in 2005, where’s it’s been hosted ever since. “I think it’s really important that we’re here now,” Haze said. “Bremerton being such a heavily based military presence, I think having it here at the park is really a great opportunity to bring all those differSEE KITSAP PRIDE, A9
THC level for driver in crash that killed three teens was below legal limit BY CHRIS TUCKER
CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
SPORTS Meet Pumas star Michael Chamberlain
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Runyon seeks another term
The driver of a Toyota Corolla that crashed on Seabeck-Holly Road NW on Jan. 11, killing three young passengers, was not under the influence of marijuana at the time of the wreck, Kitsap Sheriff ’s Office Deputy Scott Wilson said. Wilson said he spoke with an investigator who told him
that the levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, – the psychoactive chemical in marijuana – found in blood drawn from the driver after the crash was below the threshold for being considered “under the influence.” The driver, Marcus Allen McKay, of Bremerton, admitted to law enforcement he had smoked marijuana around 2 a.m. at a party prior to crashing the car.
McKay lost control of the 1996 Toyota Corolla he was driving on Seabeck Holly Road NW on Jan. 11 around 3:16 a.m. McKay was speeding 75 mph in a 45 mph zone when the vehicle left the roadway, struck a tree and overturned. His passengers, Olympic High School students Kassidy Miranda Clark, 16, Jenna M. Farley, 14, and Luther James Wiggins-Stoudermire, 18,
died in the crash. McKay plead guilty to three counts of vehicular homicide for driving without regard for the safety of others. He was sentenced to 45 to 108 weeks in juvenile detention. The actual time spent in prison would be determined by the Juvenile Justice Rehabilitation Administration’s assessment of McKay’s behavior in jail.
BREMERTON — Much has been made about teamwork in the District 6 City Council race, by media and the candidates themselves. Challenger Richard Huddy sees himself as a Roy Runyon collaborator and missing link in an effective city council. “I really believe in collaborating with people to achieve results,” Huddy said. “I think teamwork will get us where we want to go.” Incumbent Roy Runyon was first elected to council in 2007 and resigned 2013 when he moved to another district. He was elected to his current position later that year. He views himself as the council’s watchdog, its enforcer of the Bremerton Municipal Code. He thinks Huddy’s definition of teamwork means going with the flow, contrary to the U.S. style of government. “Our system of government was not based on the main concern of everybody being a team player,” Runyon said, who works as a driver for Kitsap Transit. “It was designed to provide a separation of power, checks and balances, a constant questioning of what we do and how we do things.” SEE RUNYON, A9
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