Sequim mayor vows to become a kinder and gentler candy man

SEQUIM — Mayor Walt Schubert has his candy back. And he promises not to misuse it.

In recent weeks, the mayor has ducked rants and letters to the Peninsula Daily News decrying his insistence on tossing candy into the Irrigation Festival Grand Parade crowd May 13.

Schubert said he’d been doing it for years, despite parade organizers’ prohibition on the practice.

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Besides, he told the PDN, he’s “very careful that the candy makes it to the side of the road . . . so nobody has to run out in the street [to get it].

“The kids love it and that’s why I do it,” he added.

But the protests kept coming. Some saw the mayor’s candy as a symbol of an uncaring attitude.

So he apologized, in a letter of his own.

“It was wrong of me,” to throw candy, Schubert wrote in a letter published in the PDN on May 30.

Disobedience “sets a poor example for everyone, especially the young people,” he noted.

“I will, however, throw candy in the Forks and Port Angeles parades if it’s allowed.”

Brown paper bag

Monday night, a brown paper bag was placed before the mayor.

City Councilman Don Hall said it was full of mayoral candy that had been picked up.

Who collected it?

“People,” Hall replied cryptically.

Seems that what goes around comes around.

People, Schubert announced Monday, may receive that candy during Port Angeles’ Fourth of July parade, which will start at 6 p.m. in front of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.

The goodies are slated to reappear for redistribution beside the mayor’s parade car.

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