“We are all one, under the sun.” That’s what Bailey Tupai told me this morning at Evergreen-Rotary Park, the site of this Bremerton’s first ever Pacific Islander Festival this Saturday. Thousands are expected to attend the event, which will highlight and celebrate the cultures of islands all over the Pacific.

Elsewhere in this week’s Bremerton Beat Blast, you’ll learn:

The cause of a West Bremerton couple protesting for women to be able to be topless in public;

The trek of a Bremerton man to Antarctica for the past two years;

How the big fly-in at Bremerton National Airport went;

A special cause this Saturday for a boy fighting cancer.

Questions? Comments? Send ’em to me at josh.farley@kitsapsun.com.