Have you been following the City of Port Townsend? Here are some videos recently produced by the city and the EngagePT website for the Hot topics and how to weigh in with your public comment.
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WBF Lifetime Achievement Awards 2023
Let’s congratulate this year’s Lifetime Achievement Awardees Ray Speck, Neil Rabinowitz, & Betsy Davis! Click below to read more on the original announcement:
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King5 on a Port Townsend Boat Funeral
Click the image to see King 5’s reporting on the demolition of the ocean rowing vessel ‘James Robert Hanssen’.
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Free Simulator tours at the NWMC
This is pretty interesting if you have not yet sampled the simulator. Check it out.
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The Power of Photographs
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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Join the PTMTA Board of Trustees
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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KPTZ Our Working Waterfront June 9th
Enjoy the latest Our Working Waterfront podcast, aired June 9th, 2023, featuring Point Hudson history and Sea Marine. Click image to listen on the KPTZ archive
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US Lawmakers want to fund more ocean innovation clusters
From Seafood Source: A group of U.S. lawmakers want to establish ocean innovations clusters to help foster economic growth in the blue economy. The ocean clusters will provide a space for public, private, and academic organizations in a set geographic area to collaborate in promoting economic growth and sustainability, according to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski …
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US Senate introduces legislation to reduce shipping emissions…
US Senate introduces legislation to reduce shipping emissions: Click below to read article. On June 8th, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Sheldon Whitehouse introduced a legislation to reduce air pollution within the shipping industry. READ MORE
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Port Commission Meetings : June 14th
June 14: 9:30 a.m. Workshop and 1:00 p.m. Regular Business Meeting 6/14/23 Public Workshop 9:30 a.m. Packet Agenda Show your port commissioners that you are paying attention. Go to Port Meetings. Submit Public Comment. Raise your concerns. Communicate with our local decision makers directly. You can make a difference.
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2023 PTMTA Services Directories are printed
2023 PTMTA Member Directories are printed. Does your store or shop need some? Let us know. The Port of PT has a whack of them to add to their welcome bags at Point Hudson. They also display them at their office. The Marine Thrift and Admiral Ship Supply also have some on display. We have …
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NWSWB New Scholarships Available
EXCITING SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT We’ve got some awesome news to share with you! The school has recently received new scholarship funds and we’re eager to award them for Boatbuilding and Marine Systems programs beginning October 2, 2023. With the aim to make a significant difference and provide impactful scholarships, we are offering awards of up to …
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New Transfer station; feedback needed
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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PTMTA Board of Trustees meeting 6/13/23
Notice of our PTMTA Board of Trustees monthly meeting: Tuesday June 13th 5:30 PM 385 Benedict St or in the Nomura (“old Skookum”) Building If you have an issue you’d like us to discuss, please email ptmarinetrades@gmail.com by Monday June 12th. Members are welcome to attend our meetings.
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More on the Chinook fishery
Shared from the Whatcom County Working Waterfront Coalition: The U.S. Justice Department has filed an appeal to last month’s decision by a Federal District Court judge who ruled against the Alaskan Chinook Salmon Troll Fishery. The Whatcom Working Waterfront Coalition produced a blog post about this lawsuit, explaining the harm it poses to local families …
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Accurate Project Bidding -EDC Round table event 6/16 @noon
This could be a great opportunity to fine tune your project bidding skills. I thought your members might be interested in the EDC’s upcoming Business Roundtable Zoom presentation on Project Costing. I will be presenting a valuable method for accurate project bidding that includes labor, materials, overhead allocation, and profit. It is already in use …
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R2AK starts Monday but before that….
If you are reading this on Sunday, your really shouldn’t be…because you should be down at Pope Marine Park in Port Townsend welcoming the Seventy 48 racers and checking out the Race to AK boats at the R2AK Ruckus. At least that is what this editor thinks. Many of our local mariners partake in these …
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R.I.P. Peter “Tuck” Etsy
Many here will have known Tuck. Click the image below to see his obituary. Seattle, WA — Peter Tuckerman Esty Jr., of Seattle and Port Townsend, WA, formerly of Deerfield and Wareham, MA, passed away on April 8, 2023, leaving his life partner, Anne Krier. Predeceased by his father, Peter T. Esty, he additionally leaves …
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Classic Mariner’s Race June 3-4th !
Click image to register or see full details for the Classic Mariner’s Regatta coming up next weekend June 3-4th. Into the mix, add the arrivals of the Seventy/48 boats and the R2AK Ruckus (Both NWMC events) at Pope Marine Park and we have a big boating weekend ahead.
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The PTMTA is seeking Board of Trustees nominees
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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