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VOLUME 1, NO. 21 | 19 AUGUST 2011
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Levy costs not as told Commissioners cite ballot costs for vets and homeless levy at three times est. amount By GREG SKINNER gskinner@kitsapnavynews.com
For months, the cost of November’s countywide vote on a proposed levy to fund
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THIS EDITION Rudy Muriel, a formerly unemployed veteran who now helps others in their search for work, teaches a class at Worksource Kitsap Monday. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO
Vets face dilemma
Veterans struggle to transfer credentials to civilian world By TOM JAMES
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Despite federal action, Kitsap County veterans face difficulties transferring military experience and job-specific qualifications into the civilian world.In some cases to issue extendes periods of unemployment. Veterans at a recent “listening session” held the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs senator Patty Murray voiced frustration over job access issues, according to Pete Cholometes, commander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars 239, the post where the session was held. Cholometes said that several participants claimed to have been passed over for skilled work in Washington in favor of applicants with less experience, primarily because those record of experience or credentials weren’t recognized by the state and local civilian employers. Problems frequently arise, said Midge Joiner, a veterans’ employment specialist with Kitsap County Worksource, from the fact that military job titles can be ambiguous, and often do not specify exactly what a service member did on a day-to-day basis in the military. The result, Joiner said, is that a service member might in reality have several years of experience with a given trade or a certain type of equipment, but after their discharge be left without documents showing anything other than his or her rank and pay
grade. Compounding the ambiguity is the size of the military and the nature of deployments that send service members around the world, making it difficult to locate supervising officers who, even if they do remember a service member well enough to give a reference, may be difficult or impossible to locate outside of the military. Steven Warnick, an eight year veteran about to leave the Marine Corps, said he feels he has a good chance of finding a job in his field, security, outside the military, but that his search has been made harder by the fact that his military security qualifications don’t meet requirements set out by civilian employers. “It’s kind of frustrating,” said Warnick, “Because I’ll look at a job, and I’ll be like, ‘I’ve done this before,’ but then I’ll get down to those prerequisites and it will list a lot of
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Tom Rogers, retired sub Capt. turned protestor ....pg. 2 Sen Murray listens to veterans .................pg. 3 Been there, done that| Sarah Smiley ....................pg. 4 USS Manchester crushes Korean coast .........pg. 5
Q&A with Tom Rogers
Q&A with Tom Rogers, a former submarine commander turned antinuclear protestor was arrested Aug. 8 while blocking the gate at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor, home to a large nuclear weapons stockpile. The date was chosen to commemorate the Aug. 6 and Aug. 9 bombings of Heroshima and Nagasak, Japan in 1945. What led you to protest at the gate at Bangor?
In the years following the end of the cold war I became less and less comfortable with the concept of nuclear deterrents when there really wasn’t anybody out there that we were deterring. What we were doing was spending a whole lot of money not to be any safer. It made me mad as a former naval officer who dedicated my life to the Cold War – that’s what I did – and as a taxpayer, and as a resident of Kitsap County, because the continuing presence of the weapons at
Bangor is a danger to people and the environment, even though thew folks out there do as good a job as they can.
You knew what was going to happen? It was the culmination of a process of discernment and deciding if it was the right time for me to do that. Getting arrested was a step I hadn’t taken. I’d been at ground zero for eight years and I’d been very active, I’d testified at trials, I’ve written things, I’ve done a lot of work. But I was always dubious about the value of getting arrested. Four of us decided we would symbolically close the base by dragging that big inflatable missile into the road, and closing the base. And that’s what we did. Was it hard to step over those barricades? No. Not at all. Once I had gone through the process of discernment, and decided
that it was time for me to do that and we made a plan and we rehearsed it, and had three other people with me that were going to cross the line with me there was no looking back, there was no recrimination.
You excelled in the military, and you say you’re still pro-military? I was a child of the sixties. I lived in Haight-Ashbury for a little while in the mid-60’s, the summer of love, I was a hippie. Then I got drafted – the vietnam war was raging – it was 1966, so the first thing I did was I went home, to connecticut, and I went to the local navy recruiter and I said, ‘I’m not into this army thing, what can you do or me?’ ‌ and I said thank you very much, let’s do it. And that’s how I stayed out of the Vietnam war.
smart, knew how to work. Then they just kept making me offers I couldn’t refuse. I never was really was committed to making the Navy a career, it just sort of happened. They kept promoting me. I was surprised at every promotion board. What is it about nuclear weapons that makes it okay to break the law protesting them?
So I was an unlikely candidate for my subsequent career, but I kind of fit. I was technically proficient,
Because I’ve testified for people who’ve broken the law – felonies – and here’s the deal. In 1996 the international court of justice, which is the judicial arm of the United Nations, was asked for a judgment on whether nuclear weapons were illegal. And after a year of hearings and deliberations, they came back and said unequivocally, that the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is illegal under international law. That came out of ‌ the geneva accords. If you look at those, its obvious that the use of
installations. “People sometimes don’t realize how much of the Navy is here,� said Dosher. Placed at the entrance to the museum, the display introduces visitors to the region’s naval history. The family room occupies the same space it did before the remodel, said Dosher, but the similarities between it and the old family room end there. In the refurbishment, said Danelle Feddes, an educator who works with children at the museum, the museum worked to engage young visitors on as many sensory levels as possible in the space, which now includes projections of soft blue and green sea-themed patterns on the wall, and features a submarine play structure filled with beanbag chairs and a small screen that shows
videos on Navy history and segments of ocean-themed science films, such as the Discovery Chanel’s ‘Blue Planet’ series. Also featured in the family room is a play galley, donated by sheet-metal apprentices from the nextdoor shipyard. Beyond giving kids a place to relax, said Carolyn Lane, curator at the museum, the space, with its new, handson element, gives kids a chance to put into action, or at least play-action, what they’ve learned in the actual museum exhibits. “We usually find some of our puppets, like the the lobster and the octopus, in the deep fryer, so the kids are having a good time,� said Danelle Feddes, an educator who works with children at the museum. The first phase of the proj-
Kitsap resident and retired nuclear submarine captain Tom Rogers outside the Silverdale headquarters of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO nuclear weapons is illegal under those accords. Now here’s the leap. I believe that deployment of nuclear weapons on board trident submarines who are on alert patrol and can shoot those weapons within thirty minutes at anybody in the world constitutes a continuing threat of use. So we believe that the united states is doing something illegal.
in the continuing protest?
Is it hard to go on base now that you’ve taken part
Absolutely not. I exercise my rights and obligations as a citizen of being an activist off the base. When I’m on the base I’m a Navy veteran, I use the facilities, and I feel very justified in doing so. I really have no relationships with anybody who is actively working on the base now, but if I did I would not compromise those relationships. I can live these two lives very happily within myself.
ect, taking up much of the museum’s second floor, was the creation of an exhibit about the John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, featuring uniforms, pictures of life aboard, and informative displays on the day-to-day operations of a carrier. The second phase, which concluded in October of 2010, closed the museum for five weeks during construction. That phase created two exhibits, one taking up half of the first floor and dedicated to the history and working of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and a smaller exhibit on the second floor with information and displays explaining the use of submarines in covert and special operations. In addition to the permanent displays, the museum also features two rotating exhibits, which change about
yearly, said Lane. This year’s focus on Code 700, the division of PSNS responsible for lifting and rigging during the shipbuilding process, and the history of women in the shipyard. Next year’s exhibits will feature the shipyard’s Shop 38, which handles marine mechanics, and fancywork, or the craft of using knot tying and embroidery to embellish marine tools and quarters. Taylor Studios, an Illinois firm specializing in designing and building museum displays, carried out the first and third phases of the project, while a similar Boston firm, Experience Design completed the second. As part of its Science, Art, and Interactive Learning, or SAIL program, the museum hosts ‘Set SAIL Friday� every Friday, and invites community members in.
$1.2 million museum upgrade complete Third phase of project gives downtown Navy museum new lobby and family room By TOM JAMES
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The Puget Sound Navy Museum is greeting visitors with an upgraded lobby this month, since the completion of an 11-month facelift that included a new interpretive display and remodeled family room. The project comes as the third and final phase of a three-phase upgrade at the museum, begun in 2008, that has included three new exhibits since that time in addition to July’s remodel. The $1.2 million project,
including the $200,000 lobby and family room remodel, was funded entirely by earmarks attached to federal funding bills by Congressman Norm Dicks, said museum Assistant Director Lindy Dosher. “Before, it was pretty much a long white hall,� said Dosher of the refurbished lobby. Along with a new volunteers’ station next to the front door, the lobby remodel included an informative display with rotating pictures on five separate screens about the region’s five Navy
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Murray Hears Vet Concerns Senator listens to vets concerns at Bremerton VFW post By TOM JAMES
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Ninety-seven Kitsap veterans voiced their concerns and asked a few questions of the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs senator Patty Murray during a morning listening session last Thursday. Among the issues raised, said Pete Cholometes, commander of VFW Post 239, were the distances that some “older veterans� are routinely asked to travel to see VA medical staff and doctors, such as south Tacoma and Seattle. Others, he said, have difficulty transferring their military credentials and experience into the civilian world. Those issues and several questions did not draw answers from Murray, he said. Matt McLavanah, a
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Cholometes said Post Traumatic Stress Disorder became a discussion topic during Murray’s visit when a veteran said he was unable to obtain the security clearances necessary to work in his field as a result of the disorder. Speaking for Murray after the session, McLavanah said he was unaware of the requirements for security clearances, and that
Murray’s office needed to examine them more closely before it could comment on the specific issue. Senator Murray is aware of and has worked to combat the stigma surrounding the disorder, he said. While Kitsap County offers some opportunity, even for low-tech workers, the county’s construction sector has been hard-hit by the recession.
A significant portion of Kitsap’s pre-9/11 veterans entered construction trades after their service, and have subsequently been displaced by the downturn, said Midge Joiner, a veterans’ employment specialist with Kitsap County Worksource. A 2010 listening session is behind some of the Hiring Heroes Act 2011, McLavanah said he was unaware of any new legislation that Murray
as of Thursday planned to sponsor in response to Thursday’s session. Heroes awaits a full Senate vote For many of the veterans gathered to speak with Murray, Cholometes noted, the session was an opportunity not only for listening, but to find out information straight from the source. “A lot of them just wanted to hear what was going on with the VA,� he said, “It was a good listening session,� said Cholometes. “Now it’s a question of what’s going to get done.�
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When Senator Patty Murray took questions from a group of veterans gathered at a local VFW last week, most were pre-9/11 veterans and many were concerned about the lack of available local jobs or access to them. It was much the same information that Murray heard when she passed through Washington state last summer on a similar listening session tour, but before her rise to Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. Out of last year’s sessions came the Hiring Heroes Act 2011, legislation that seeks to open a wide variety of venues into the tight job market for post 9/11 veterans, such as tax breaks, preference, but mostly a few weeks of job search preparation classes. As Murray continues to push her Heroes Act, which boasts a solid name GREG and the bi-partisan support of 28 SKINNER senators on Capitol Hill and is waiting a full vote of the Senate, she pushes the idea of a high rate of unemployment among recent veterans age 18 to 24. Up to 27 percent, she says and her offices cite. The numbers remain largely disingenuous as there is no statistical difference between unemployed veterans and unemployed non veterans in that age group. Vet and civilians face the same unemployment picture through all the age groups tracked by national and regional economists. If the point of the act is to give a leg up to veterans over the 99 percent of Americans that have not or will not serve the nation in uniform, fails to deal with the thousands and thousands of “heroes” from decades of war prior to the post 9/11 cadre already living and struggling in her home state. It’s a tired game to satisfy the current and future crops of veterans while previous generations fade into memory with lesser benefits. The Hiring Heroes Act forwarded and voted on before the full Senate should work to better the lives and employment picture of the other 87 percent of veterans living in Washington state.
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Been There, Done That. There Again. I know about deployments: the pre-deployment crazy feelings, the arguments, the anxiety, and the eventual guilt for it all after the service member leaves. I’ve even at times been hired to talk to groups of other spouses whose loved ones are about to leave. I tell those families to recognize that their feelings are normal. Everyone goes through it, I say. And I tell them not to be surprised if, just before the departure date comes, they find themselves thinking, “I wish he’d just leave already!” I know all these things. I preach these things. So it was a surprise when, unbeknownst to me, I was experiencing them myself. I should know better, I thought. If anyone can handle pre-deployment, it should be me. Haven’t I been the “teacher,” telling other spouses what to expect, how to recognize it, and what to do about it? Oh, but wait; hadn’t I also told them that one of the worst situations to be in is having too much time—too much knowledge of—a deployment? I knew about Dustin’s deployment too soon. There has been too much time to plan and think. And worry. I almost envy the wives whose husbands come home and say, “I’m leaving for a deployment next week.” Rather than pulling off the BandAid, if you will, one excruciating tug at a time, they can rip it off and start feeling better. They don’t watch the milk’s expiration date move closer and closer to the the departure day. They don’t spend every passing holiday thinking, “This time next year, he will be gone.” But then, no; too short of notice and there is not
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enough time to get things in order. There is no time for the serAVY vice member to set up their family for success while they are gone. ISE No time to clean out the garage, change the air filters, get the car ARAH serviced, or change all the fire MILEY alarm batteries. Dustin is doing all those things now. Every day it seems he has a new to-do: “I should vacuum the basement for you before I leave.” Or, “Before I go, let’s sell my car.” Before I leave. Before I go. This is the center of conversation lately. And it’s still awhile before that day comes. It is a slow march to the inevitable. So in hindsight, it’s no wonder that I’ve been breathing more shallow, waking up twice in the night and finding every possible reason to be mad at my husband. But I didn’t recognize these things as they were happening. Neither did Dustin. “Wow, you seem so mad lately,” he said one day. And then a couple weeks after that: “Do you think you’re going through some pre-deployment stuff?” What? Isn’t that like accusing a woman of being mad because she has PMS? I turned up my nose at the idea. “I am NOT going through pre-deployment anything,” I said. But was I? When I passed by Dustin’s closet, I caught myself thinking that I could probably use half his rack while he is gone…if only his side wasn’t so messy. And I
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Manchester muzzled Korean coast Light cruiser earned nine battle stars in 10-year of active duty Kitsap Navy News
The light cruiser USS Manchester was built in the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., and commissioned on Oct. 29, 1946. The ship displaced exactly 10,00 tons. It was 610 feet long, 66 feet abreast, and had a draft of 25 feet. The ship was swift at 33 knots and its 992-man crew had a battle stations job of manning a dozen 6-inch guns; 12, 5-inch guns; 28, 40mm anti-aircraft guns; and 10, 20mm guns. The ship was a member of the Cleveland class of cruisers. The ship completed shakedowns in the Caribbean and returned to her Boston hompeport to be given experimental plastic cover to be tested on her first Atlantic crossing. On April 18, 1947, she steamed for the Mediterranean in support
of the Truman Doctrine. She would later complete On March 18, 1949, she departed Philadelphia
for assignment with the Pacific Fleet and arrived at Long Beach. She would steam toughout the Yellow, East China and South China Seas until returning to Long Beach on Nov. 28. During this time North
Korean communists on ordered troops to cross the 38th parallel into South Korea. At the time the USSS Manchester was docked at San Francisco for overhaul. Work was sped up, and by Aug. 1, 1950 she was under way to the deep Pacific blue. She arrived at Sasebo, Japan in early September and immediately commenced carrier operations in the Yellow Sea. She supported air attacks against communication lines by making coastal patrols, and doing port blockades and bombardment. On Sept. 15, she provided fire support for the U.N. forces’ landings at Inchon. Manchester then steamed around the Korean Peninsula to support the U.N. invasion at Wonsan with massive shore bombardment and patrol duties as airplanes from Task Force 77 swept inland on raids against road and rail centers, warehouses, and supply depots as far north as Songjin. The U.N. Forces reached the Yalu River and heavy fighting
appeared to be over and the Manchester was dispatched to patrol the Taiwan Straits. But a massive, full-scale intervention by Chinese Communist troops in Korea forced the return of the Manchester. The ship helped in the evacuation of U.N. forces from untenable positions. On Jan. 8, 1951, the Manchester was involved in a rescue operation involving the Taiwanese Navy corvette Prasae which had run aground behind enemy lines near Kisamon To Korea’s East Coast. Gunfire kept the enemy pinned down and away from the Prasea until the crew could be rescued ad the vessel declared unsalvageable. Accompanying Allied destroyers then sunk the Prasae. Later the ship’s crew settled into a routine of firing their guns at port after port ashore and saving Allied pilots downed at sea while her medical department worked overtime aiding sick and wounded U.N. forces personnel. By May 1952, she had
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Amidst scattered brass casings, a lone sailor observes the enemy coastline as the cruiser USS Manchester (CL-83), her shore bombardment completed, steams away from Wonsan Harbor. 7 July 1953. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH completed her second patrol to Korea and she returned to Long Beach and then to San Francisco for overhaul and repairs. Peace talks at
Panmunjon were going nowhere, so the Manchester was dispatched to Korea for a final time, arriving March 4, 1953.
VETERANS| FROM PAGE 1 local veterans and the county’s homeless has been shared with the public as $75,000. The real price tag that will likely be sent to taxpayers is less than onethird of that. The Kitsap County Auditor’s office released the cost of The Kitsap County Veterans and Human Services Levy, and, at least, two county commissioners have been quoted in several stories in local papers, including ours, saying the price tag was $75,000. Kitsap County Auditor Walt Washington Monday said that commissioner Robert Gelder’s and Kitsap County Board of Commissioners Chairperson Charlotte Garrido’s telling of the $75,000 amount in recent meetings and newspaper article was indeed incorrect. Washington estimated the cost to be closer to $20,000, and the ballot measure cost could be further reduced as the full bal-
lot comes into shape during the week. “It is premature to say how much it will cost,” Washington said. While human services levy was created and presented to the public for consideration, commissioners promised transparency with all monies raised from the levy, including money used for administrative costs shortly before Gelder said the BOCC was justified in spending $75,000 to put levy to voters. If the levy wins approval by voters in November, the cost would be payed back to the county from funds raised through the increased property tax. Josh Brown, Dist. 3 Commissioner, said he’s not sure why fellow commissioners started using the $75,000 number, but said the levy would surely not cost $75,000. Gelder said the $75,000 number he cited originally came from documents pro-
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should be concerned about what’s important for the community long term.” Garrido said she thinks that voters are paying attention to the cost of elections and ballot measures, but that they also follow the issues within the measures, such as the veterans levy. Garrido offered no prediction on how much weight voters give to cost vs. substance of any ballot measure. “As a voter myself, I’d like to think that people are paying attention,” she said. Leif Bentsen, Human Services planner and Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Program director, presented the levy with the inflated cost to the BOCC and the community on July 25. Bentsen said he only later found out the auditor’s number was wrong for “whatever reason.” Bentsen said he was not aware of any negative perception attached to the levy as a result of the inflated cost being attached. But,
could use his sink while he is gone…since he never fixed my leaky faucet. Eventually it was, “Geez, maybe things are going to be so much easier once he just leaves.” Yikes. In my pre-deployment talks, I tell spouses that this is called emotional separation. It’s easier to say goodbye to someone you’re mad at, or to someone you don’t
really need anyway. The service member goes through this, too. They get into mission mode. Before they’ve even gotten on the plane or ship, they’ve already left. They are busy updating their passport, getting physicals and doing training. In the end, they probably won’t have time to clean the garage or change the air filters anyway. Besides, shouldn’t the
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MOVIE TIMES NAVAL BASE KITSAP CINEMA PLUS THEATER BANGOR Movies are open to all active duty, retirees, reservist, DOD civilians, base contractors, families and guests. Movie schedules are subject to change depending on availability. Call the 24-hour movie line for recorded information (360) 535-5923 or see the line up at navylifepnw.com FRIDAY, AUG. 19 6:00 pm - Transformers: Dark of the Moon (PG-13) SATURDAY, AUG. 20 Matinee 1:00 pm - Cars 2 (G) Double Feature Night 6:00 pm - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (PG-13) 8:15 pm - Green Lantern (PG-13) SUNDAY, AUG. 21 Double Feature Night 5:00 pm - Zookeeper (PG) 6:55 pm - Monte Carlo (PG) WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24 FREE Movie Night 6:00 pm - Fast Five (PG-13) THURSDAY, AUG. 25 6:00 pm - Horrible Bosses (R) FRIDAY, AUG. 26 Double Feature Night 6:00 pm - Friends with Benefits (R) 8:05 pm - Horrible Bosses (R) SATURDAY, AUG. 27
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BREMERTON RECREATION CENTER MOVIE LOUNGE Located in the Bremerton Recreation Center, Building 502. Free family friendly movies are shown Friday and Saturday nights at 6 p.m. Wednesdays are Premier Movie Nights; $5 gets you in the door for the show and covers Pizza and bowling. Call 467-3178 for more information. FRIDAY, AUG. 19 6 p.m. - Rio (G) SATURDAY, AUG. 20 6 p.m. - Rio (G) THURSDAY, AUG. 25 Premier Movie Night -
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designation had stayed the same even after he took on the new responsibilities. Already, Warnick said, he has not applied for at least three jobs because they required a certain number of years of experience that he couldn’t prove he had. Rudy Muriel, a 15-year veteran who now helps other veterans connect with job opportunities through Kitsap County Worksource, said
that although he ultimately found a job, he spent six months unemployed because employers did not recognize his military job title listed on his resume or what experience it translated to. Technically, Muriel was a forward observer. His job was to send target information from behind enemy lines so that airstrikes would have a definitive target. That was for the first five years, he said. For the next ten – the majority of his time in the military – he served as a
recruiter. Even though he was still classified a forward observer when he left the military, Muriel said he sought work in Human Resources. It wasn’t until he took a course at Worksource Bremerton that Muriel realized that employers might be overlooking him because he listed his last job title as ‘combat infantry.’ Only when he changed his resume, to better reflect his experience,
did he stand out. Then, Muriel said, he found work quickly, albeit earning significantly less than similarly experienced civilian peers. According to Joiner, progress is being made. The state Department of Licesning now recognizes military truck driving experience. This year’s Hiring Heroes Act, a bill Murray sponsored, also establishes two pilot projects to push the federal Department of Labor toward
smoothing the transition process for veterans, according to Murray spokesman Matt McLavanah. Still, Muriel said he sees some veterans spending much longer than he did trying to figure out how to present and prove their experience and skills to employers. Said Muriel, “I’m one of the lucky ones.”
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KITSAP COUNTY FAIR AND STAMPEDE through the 28th, 10 a.m. to midnight at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds. Carnival, mainstage and other entertainment (TBA), rodeo, food, exhibits, kids activities. Tickets range from $7 to $9, children under 5 are free.
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THIRD ANNUAL KITSAP WINE FESTIVAL 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Harborside Fountain Park on the waterfront in Bremerton. Tickets are $50 and benefit the Harrison Medical Center Foundation.
BREMERTON FARMER’S MARKET, 4p.m. to 7 p.m. at Evergreen Rotary Park, Bremerton.
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