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Zombies invade area for filming
IDYLLIC SEINE SCENE
IN THIS EDITION
I spent a day as an extra on ‘Z Nation’; here’s what happened
NEWS Q&A with Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-6th District
BY PETER O’CAIN
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OPINION The USS Turner Joy needs support
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BUSINESS Harrison and First Choice come to terms
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NEWS Gaeta hearing set for Oct. 23; trial Jan. 11
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breath,” Wetzel said, because it can hold more oxygen. She said the overcast skies made it harder for the fish to see people, and
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 strung-out. 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
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Steve Trunkey, left, and Paul Dorn lay out a net in Dyes Inlet Sept. 26 during a beach seine.
Chris Tucker / staff photo
Wild chinook among fish studied at seine 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 sponsored the Sept. 26 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
Chris Tucker / staff photo
Emily Soth, left, shows a herring and chinoook to Gabriella and Katrina Noble. 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
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