Pete Kinch, former Everett mayor and advocate for poor, dies at 80

EVERETT — In his book, Pete Kinch called himself a “person of action.”

Friends and family say he was the kind of man who made things happen. It was a level of determination that in 1967 led him to help deliver a garbage can filled with petitions to Everett City Hall in protest of a new ordinance. Decades later, the activist was elected mayor.

His four-year tenure in the early 1990s saw further investment downtown and an increase in citizen involvement in local government, according to The Daily Herald’s archive. He was a well-liked man, but an unpopular administrator who was criticized for increasing city spending that contributed to a budget crisis. In recent years, Kinch was better known for his nonprofit work aiding the impoverished in Guatemala.

Kinch died Aug. 18 in East Wenatchee. He was 80. His daughter Alanna Kinch remembers him in the evening always putting together a to-do list for the next day, something he called his “action steps for the day.”

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