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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2015 | Vol. 18, No. 22 | WWW.BREMERTONPATRIOT.COM | 50¢
Huddy, Dubos take primary
IN THIS EDITION
Only 20 percent of ballots returned BY PETER O’CAIN POCAIN@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
PORT ORCHARD — Primary elections on Aug. 4 yielded the lowest voter turnout since at least 1998, as only 20 percent of voters completed their ballots. (The county auditor only provides election records online to 1998.) In the Bremerton City
NEWS Stennis tested in major exercise
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OPINION Get to know candidates before election
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BUSINESS Kitsap Humane Society gets $90,000 grant
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Eric Lyons Photography
Northwest Derby Company players jockey for position. The team has competed since 2012.
Northwest Derby Company jamming in new venue Derby team attracts talent throughout Kitsap County BY CHRIS CHANCELLOR CCHANCELLOR@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
NEWS John Gese appointed undersheriff
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BREMERTON — She acknowledges it is a unique contrast. Port Orchard’s Aimee Durgan, who coaches and competes with the Northwest Derby Company, works as a head server at best-selling author Debbie Macomber’s Victorian Rose Tea Room. “I spend my day in a pink dollhouse waiting on little old ladies, feeding them tea and sandwiches,” Durgan said with a laugh. “Then I come here and knock people down at night.” Here is Skateland in Bremerton. Northwest Derby
C ompany competed at Sk8town in Port Orchard until that business shuttered earlier this year when a bank evicted the tenants at 1501 Piperberry Way. “We miss our home rink, but this rink has been extremely welcoming,” Durgan said. “They’ve been really good to us and we’ve been able to pick up right where we left off. It caused no interference in our season. We were really lucky.” While Durgan misses the crowds at Sk8town, which she said dwarf those at the current location, the centralized Kitsap County venue has buoyed participation. Durgan said 24 women pre-registered for their Aug. 2 orientation.
“We’re getting a lot more North Kitsap and Bremerton recruits than we did ever in Port Orchard,” she said. “Before our whole team was Port Orchard with a small handful of Bremerton girls.” Among those was 20-yearold Olympic High School graduate Brianna Carlson. She was at Skateland in March when she noticed the team working out. “I was just in awe of the skills they had that I was like, ‘I have to do that,’ ” she said. Carlson enrolled in the Northwest Derby Company’s three-month “internship” program. That runs twice per SEE DERBY, A9
Council District 6 race, Richard Huddy (55.9 percent) and incumbent Roy Runyon (26.7 percent) advanced to the general election on Nov. 3. Kim Faulkner, Runyon’s wife, received 17.2 percent of votes. Huddy said he feels “validated” by the results, but there’s still work to be done. SEE ELECTIONS, A9
Chief Strachan: less child abuse means less crime STAFF REPORT
SEATTLE — Bremerton Police Chief Steve Strachan spoke at the National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit Early Learning Fellows meeting Aug. 2, part of the nation’s largest gathering of state legislators and staff. At the summit, Strachan advocated for research-based
home visiting programs and high-quality early learning programs as effective crime prevention strategies. “As police chief, my number one priority is to protect public safety, but I know from personal experience that we can’t just arrest, prosecute and incarcerate our way out of crime problems,” Strachan SEE STRACHAN, A9
Eight arrested in prostitution bust BY PETER O’CAIN POCAIN@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
POULSBO — Police used social media to contact and arrest several people involved in prostitution July 30 at the Guesthouse Inn on the 1900 block of Seventh Avenue. A 47-year-old man from Bremerton and a 29-year-old
woman from Port Orchard were referred to the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office for charging for promoting prostitution. Six women were arrested for prostitution during the operation. The 47-year-old man was later released without charge. SEE PROSTITUTION, A9
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