SEQUIM — A general election candidates forum featuring candidates for Clallam County commissioner and Olympic Medical Center commissioner will start at 6 p.m. today at Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course, 1965 Woodcock Road.
Sponsored by the Peninsula Young Professionals Network and the Peninsula Daily News, it will feature a 5:30 p.m. social mixer followed by short presentations by Port Angeles City Council and Sequim City Council candidates, who will not take questions.
Their presentations will be followed by questions posed to the county commissioner and hospital commissioner candidates by Peninsula Young Professionals Network co-chair Brian Kuh and PDN Senior Staff Writer/Commentary co-editor Paul Gottlieb.
Forum candidates have been asked to focus on the concerns of young workers and families who are trying to build a future on the North Olympic Peninsula, Young Professionals co-chair Matthew Randazzo said.
Scheduled to take part in the question-and-answer session will be Republican Jim McEntire, 60, and his opponent for county commissioner, Democrat Linda Barnfather, 48; hospital commissioner incumbent John Nutter, 40, and his challenger, Jeanne M. LaBrecque, 63; and hospital commissioner incumbent John Miles, 81, and his opponent, Jack Slowriver, 34.