YOU’RE INVITED! Meet the new publisher, and retiring publisher, of Peninsula publications at reception in Forks today

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, September 23, 2015

FORKS — Terry Ward, new publisher of the Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette, Forks Forum and Olympic Peninsula Homes-Land, will be introduced to the West End community at a reception today.

It will be held at the Rainforest Arts Center, 35 N. Forks Ave., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Today’s Forks reception also will honor John Brewer, retiring as publisher and editor.

The public is invited. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served.

Two previous community receptions were held in Port Angeles and Sequim for Ward and Brewer.

A fourth reception is being planned in Port Townsend.

Ward, 43, took charge Sept. 8 and is working with Brewer until his retirement Oct. 9.

Brewer, who will turn 68 next month, is retiring after 50 years in journalism.

He has been PDN publisher and editor since January 1998 and in charge of the other three publications since 2013.

Ward is the former CEO of KPC Media Group Inc., overseeing daily and weekly newspapers and online publications in northeastern Indiana.

He and his wife, Quinn, have three young children.

They are leasing a home in Port Angeles.