3 Apply for Council Vacancy

Robin Turner's seat will be filled via appointment this month

So far just three Kent residents have applied for the seat on Kent City Council vacated earlier this month when Robin Turner handed in his resignation. And all three names should look familiar to Kent residents. The three who have applied so far are former Kent health commissioner John Ferlito, Kent Planning Commission member Melissa Long and longtime community activist Doria Daniels. Daniels founded the Thomas Anderson Development Corporation with other residents of Kent's South End neighborhood more than 20 years ago to address deterioration of the neighborhood and to foster home rehabilitation and ownership. Ferlito retired as health commissioner in 2011 after spending 38 years working in Kent — the last 25 of which were as health …

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