The Kent Black Action Commission is inviting Kent City Council candidates to a forum on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at the Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N.<\/p>\n
The candidates forum is 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mount Rainier Room.<\/p>\n
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided. A meet-and-greet session for candidates and attendees is from 6 to 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
There are eight candidates looking to be elected to four seats in the Nov. 5 general election.<\/p>\n
• Incumbent Marli Larimer and challenger Todd Minor for Position No. 1.<\/p>\n
• Incumbent Les Thomas and challenger Hira Singh Bhullar for Position No. 3.<\/p>\n
• Incumbent Bill Boyce and challenger Mizan Rahman for Position No. 5<\/p>\n
• Challengers Awale Farah and Zandria Michaud for Position No. 7<\/p>\n
The forum is an opportunity for residents to learn more about the candidates. The forum will consist of a candidate panel with two moderators directing questions to each candidate. As time permits, organizers will collect and compile questions from the audience so they can pose them to the candidates.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit kentblackactioncommission.org<\/a> or facebook.com\/KentBlackActionCommission<\/a>.<\/p>\n For questions, call Gwen Allen-Carston at 253-486-9029 or Richard Johnson at 253-569-7561.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kent Black Action Commission is inviting Kent City Council candidates to a forum on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at the Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42365"}],"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=42365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}