Kent Kammerer: Seattle loses its neighborhood 'Yoda'
The late activist and writer loved talking to people, wherever he found them, and he served as ringmaster for a crucial level of civic debate in Seattle.
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Kent Kammerer, neighborhood activist and writer, dies at 78
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