October is a busy month for those running for public office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent has scheduled three candidate forum\/debates for residents to attend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On the menu:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0The Kent Chamber of Commerce and MultiCare Kent Clinic present a Kent City Council debate from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9 at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Those scheduled to appear are City Council Position No. 2 candidates Jim Berrios and Wade Schwartz, and City Council Position No. 6 candidates Bailey Stober and Ken Sharp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cost is $20 for those who pre-registered, $25 day of the event and $30 for guests $30. Register at www.kentchamber.com<\/a> or call 253-854-1770.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Voters can hear from candidates for mayor and the City Council at a candidate forum from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 at Sunrise Elementary School, 22300 132nd Ave. SE.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A group of Panther Lake residents are sponsoring the forum. Panther Lake’s 24,000 residents became part of the city of Kent in 2010 through annexation. The Nov. 5 ballot marks the first election for both the mayor and council positions since the annexation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Those scheduled to appear include mayoral candidates Suzette Cooke and Tim Clark, and the four vying for City Council seats.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0The Kent Black Action Commission hosts a debate for mayoral, City Council and school board candidates from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 in the Kent Commons’ Green River Room, 525 Fourth Ave N.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bruce Elliott and Maya Vengadasalam are vying for a school board set.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Child care will be provided. For more information, visit www.kentblackactioncommission.com<\/a> or www.facebook.com\/KentBlackActionCommission<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October is a busy month for those running for public office. Kent has scheduled three candidate forum\/debates for residents to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}