While the Woodenboat Foundation has a long list of volunteer positions open, the PTMTA also needs booth tenders for September 7th set up, and the festival itself September 8th, 9th, and 10th. Pat Mahon is standing by to sign you up. Volunteers get festival passes and have the opportunity to talk about your business with …
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Diana Talley was recently reminiscing with Ashlyn Brown & Sarah Kolbeck, about the family friendly rowboat racing of early Wooden Boat Festivals. While bouncing around some ideas, a new event has evolved into the RowRowRowMyBoat Rally; an en-mass spectacle row from Boat Haven to Point Hudson. Diana literally had to drag her row boat out …
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Marshall Brennan, one of our friendly faces at Admiral Ship Supply, is currently facing some big life challenges. It is never good to hear when someone in our community is dealt a harsh blow and even worse, a double whammy.. Marshall’s family has set up a website for updates on Consuelo and Marshall’s situation. https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/consuelobrennan …
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Photos of our marine trades people and the work you do are incredibly powerful tools in the working waterfront toolbox. Not only do they promote you and your business, photographs in the public arena inspire, educate, and strengthen the industry which they represent. Have you not studied some of the historical images of Port Townsend …
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If you have not yet volunteered, we need you! If you have served before, awesome, we still need you! Several seats of our nine member board are opening up for 2024. Let’s have a coffee, on us, to learn more. Contact anyone of your current PTMTA board members. Trustee nomination request forms can be printed …
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Please help Public Works get the word out that we want the public’s opinion on what they want to see in a new solid waste transfer station. Attached is a flyer advertising the public survey we are conducting and that we invite you to distribute widely. Thank you for helping us reach every corner …
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The PTMTA Board of Trustees will have several seats open this year. Would you like to know more? This is a call to action in an effort to connect with possible Trustee Nominees for 2024. Not sure what that means? There is a good chance that someone you know in the trades has, at one …
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To our members and new members, Thank you for being a part of the PTMTA community!! Recent updates have been made to our online directory. Please check your listing on the Services Directory and send edits to ptmarinetrades@gmail.com Please double check your phone numbers and click on the word EMAIL to see if your email …
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There is always a need to look ahead because before we know it, crunch time arrives. The PTMTA Board of Trustees will have several seats open this year. This is a call to action in an effort to connect with possible Trustee Nominees for 2024. Not sure what that means? There is a good chance …
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(Smaller fishing and farming operations stand to be taxed under the new Act) [This post complements of Working Waterfront Coalition of Whatcom County Newsletter.] Save Family Farming, a non-profit organization, is seeking to petition the state Department of Ecology and Governor Inslee to uphold the protections built into the Climate Commitment Act for local fishing …
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The PTMTA is registered with a booth so come down to the Chimacum Highschool and engage the next generation of our workforce by talking about what you do and seeing who may be good candidates for summer jobs and future jobs with your business. This is how we keep it all going into the future …
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Small organizations like ours exist because we volunteer to serve on the Board of Trustees. The only way brochures get printed, the website gets maintained, letters get written, taxes get filed, general advocacy and promotion of our members and marine trades community all happens is because we make it happen. It is fun and worthwhile …
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Join us Virtually Friday, May 12th Spend some time on the couch, on your phone, or anywhere you wish at our virtual Admissions Open House this Friday, May 12th 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. PST. The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding offers real-world problem solving through hands-on programs in wooden boatbuilding and marine systems. Register …
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The PTMTA blog was created as a resource for our marine trades and “Jobs” is just one of the categories. If you are looking for full time or temporary help, send us the details and we will post it. If you have a rental and would like to support maritime workforce and student housing, let …
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The PTMTA is registered with a booth so come down to the Chimacum Highschool and engage the next generation of our workforce by talking about what you do and seeing who may be good candidates for summer jobs and future jobs with your business. This is how we keep it all going into the future …
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Hello Marine Trades industry! You are invited to attend a presentation about our program called Real World Readiness. This program serves youth furthest from opportunity and gives them the job readiness skills and exposure and preparation to enter into the maritime industry. As part of this program, we would like to connect the youth to internship opportunities …
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The PTMTA will have a table at the May 12th Job & Trades Fair. We signed up to invite marine trades members with limited budget or time, to tend our table and engage youth and visitors. Come talk about the work you do and potentially find the help you might need over the Summer and …
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Submit your application by March 31st deadline. There’s over $50,000 of scholarship funds available to support students for the 2023-2024 programs beginning October 2, 2023. The school will offer two rounds of awards for the 2023-2024 school year to ensure that students who apply after the first deadline have the opportunity to be considered for …
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Attention Marine Trades businesses interested in our future workforce: As most of you are aware, the NWMC has a program called Real World Readiness. This program serves youth furthest from opportunity which we define as, low income, homeless, disengaged with school, kids in foster care and / or adjudicated. It is a career prep program, …
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Please take a moment to find your business on our Services Directory Page. Note contact information details and double check that your business is assigned the correct categories. This is important! If you have any changes to make, Photos or logo to add, please fill out THIS UPDATE FORM, or email ptmarinetrades@gmail.com. If you forgot …
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