PORT ANGELES — Eight Clallam County candidates filed for election Wednesday — the third day of filing week.
That brings the total number of candidates who have filed to 35.
Forty-eight local positions will be up for grabs in the all-mail general election Nov. 3. Only 30 offices had a candidate running when the Clallam County elections office closed Wednesday.
Shan Pak, a former software engineer, filed Wednesday to run for Port Angeles City Council. He was running unopposed for the seat being vacated by retiring Mayor Dan Di Guilio.
Meanwhile, incumbent Sequim City Councilman Ken Hays, incumbent Forks City Councilwoman Juanita Weissenfels and incumbent Port Angeles School Board member Lonnie Linn each filed for re-election Wednesday.
Other incumbents who filed Wednesday were Nedra Reed and Gordon Gibbs of the Quillayute Park and Recreation District, Donna Kay Buck of the Joyce-based Clallam County Fire District No. 4 commission and Susan Hopper of the Crescent School Board.
Races with three or more contestants will be narrowed down to two in the Aug. 4 primary.
Only two races were headed to a primary at the end of filing Wednesday.
Sequim schools
The Sequim School Board District 1 and District 5 positions each were contested by three challengers.
Heather Jeffers’ District 1 seat was being contested by Robin Henrikson, Willard Naslund and Rebecca Bratsman; Walter Johnson’s District 5 seat was being contested by Heather Short, William Payne and Charles Meyer.
The only other contested race was for Port of Port Angeles commissioner.
Port Angeles City Councilman Lee Whetham and Clallam County Planning Commission Vice Chair Connie Beauvais are vying for the port commission seat being vacated by retiring Commissioner John Calhoun.
Filed Monday
Candidates who filed Monday included Brandon Janisse for Sequim City Council, David Gedlund for Quillayute Park and Recreation District, incumbent Cherie Kidd for Port Angeles City Council, incumbent Candace Pratt for Sequim City Council and Thomas Oblak, Jim Cammack and Jim Leskinovitch, all incumbents, for the Olympic Medical Center board.
Others who filed Monday were incumbent Trisha Haggerty for Crescent School Board; Henrikson, Naslund, Short and Payne for Sequim School Board; incumbent Bill Rohde for Quillayute Valley School Board; incumbent David R. Whitney for Port Angeles-area Clallam County Fire District No. 2; incumbent G. Michael Gawley for Sequim-area Fire District No. 3; incumbent Tom Rosmond for Forks-area Fire District No. 6; and incumbent Albert Friess for SunLand Water District.
Filed Tuesday
Candidates who filed Tuesday were incumbent Jim McEntire for Clallam County commissioner; Whetham and Beauvais for Port of Port Angeles commission; incumbent Sissi Bruch for Port Angeles City Council; Jim Stoffer, Bratsman and Meyer for Sequim School Board; Christina “Stina” Kohout for Forks City Council; incumbent Donald Lawley for Forks Community Hospital board; and incumbent Lowell P. McQuoid for Forks-area Fire District No. 1 commissioner.
Hospital district, fire district and SunLand Water District positions have six-year terms.
Most of the other positions are four-year seats.
Candidates can file for office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Friday at the county elections office in the basement of the courthouse at 223 E. Fourth St. in Port Angeles.
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