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A DAY WITH THE LIVING DEAD
IN THIS EDITION
I spent a day as an extra on ‘Z Nation’; here’s what happened BY PETER O’CAIN POCAIN@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
NEWS Q&A with Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-6th District
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OPINION The USS Turner Joy needs support
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Peter O’Cain / staff photo
BUSINESS Harrison and First Choice come to terms
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Keith Allan (“Murphy”) and Nat Zang (“10K”) pose for a photo with Doug Wood, a fan who waited an hour to see the “Z Nation” actors in Bremerton.
BY PETER O’CAIN POCAIN@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
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SEE Z NATION, A9
Wild chinook among City considering McClure Consulting fish studied at seine Firm would replace role of KRCC; lobby for infrastructure funding on city’s behalf
NEWS Gaeta hearing set for Oct. 23; trial Jan. 11
BREMERTON — I walk into a room in the Kitsap Conference Center called Glacier Cove 2 with my friend Wade. It’s 9 a.m. on a Thursday and I’m a little groggy from the night before. Wade lives in Cle Elum. We don’t see each other often so we had a few beers and played pool with a group of lesbians at A & C Sports Bar. We won on a technicality. Glacier Cove is a strange place. About a dozen people do about dozen things. There’s a pair of sailors in blue coveralls with pale faces and dark red circles around their eyes. They look strungout. There’s a nurse in blue scrubs. She looks healthy. There’s man with blue skin wearing dusty, black wingtip shoes, tight red pants and a black dress shirt. He looks dead. Or at least half dead. His name is Keith Allan. Fans of Syfy’s “Z Nation” know him as a smartass antihero named Murphy, humanity’s best hope of surviving the zombie apocalypse due to a government experiment that left him more or less immune to zombie bites. “It’s a great character for me,” Allan said. “I have a lot of fun playing him.” Allan, along with 36 other misfits from “Z Nation” are in Bremerton to film a handful of scenes on the USS Turner Joy on Sept. 24. “It’s cool,” Allan said. “I mean, how many times do you get to film in a destroyer?” It happened almost by chance. In August, Bremerton City Councilman Dino Davis was touring businesses in Eastern
BREMERTON — The Bremerton City Council is considering hiring McClure Consulting to lobby for infrastructure funds on behalf of the city. The firm, led by Mary McClure, would fill the void left when the city opted to leave the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council. The city was given six months to reconsider its decision. It will officially be out of the KRCC in November, although it hasn’t been an active member since voting to leave in May after a long dispute over the group’s
voting structure. The purpose of the KRCC is to help cities and groups in Kitsap County compete for transportation funding and develop countywide plans. The agreement with McClure has a maximum payout of $60,000. The figure is based on an expected average level of consultant effort of 6 hours per week at $120 per hour. The contract was never put out to bid — it was only offered to McClure. Council members Roy Runyon and Leslie Daugs took exception to this, saying it doesn’t show due diliSEE MCCLURE, A9
Salmon netted by beach near Clear Creek BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
SILVERDALE – Like some kind of fishy celebrity, the silvery wild chinook salmon was a magnet for the dozens of people gathered at Dyes Inlet near the mouth of Clear Creek for a weekend beach seine. The fish was in a narrow clear plastic display case filled with water, easily visible as the case was carried by Central Kitsap High School student Emily Soth. She walked from person-to-person to show them the fish. The chinook shared its small temporary home with a herring. The two fish moved their mouths open and closed as people gawked at them. The Clear Creek Trail group spon-
sored the event, held on the beach near Old Mill Park on Bucklin Hill Road. Event organizer Paul Dorn and Kitsap Sailing and Rowing club member Steve Trunkey slowly motored out in the water with a 100-foot-long net. They deployed the net just off the shore in a large semicircle. When deployed, two groups on the shore pulled the net toward the shore to catch the fish. “It’s a beautiful day for a beach seine,” said Jill Wetzel, who is a salmon recovery intern working for Dorn. “The cold water makes it easier to breath,” Wetzel said, because it can hold more oxygen. She said the overcast skies made it harder for the fish to see people, and SEE SEINE, A8
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