<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, all,<div><br></div><div>In case you haven't heard, our ferry is dead in the water and has been all day. The ferry folks won't provide any clue as to when we might have it back in service. See below for their comments. Suggest folks stay here tonite and enjoy Concerts on the Dock and a lovely evening, or else they'll have to take the KINGSTON-EDMONDS ferry, which currently has a 90-minute wait time.</div><div><br></div><div>How many folks would like the fine ferry folks to take the millions of dollars budgeted (and not being used) for maintenance and fuel for our 4 steel electrics and use some of it to fix the hull of at least one of them and bring it back into service before we become a ghost town? All in favor say "aye." </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Susan</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Verdana" size="5" color="#073366" style="font: 16.0px Verdana; color: #073366"><b>Port Townsend/Keystone route temporarily out of service</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>Contact:</b> Hadley Greene, Communications Manager, 206-515-3913</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">PORT TOWNSEND – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Ferries Division announced this morning that the Steilacoom II ferry is out of service for necessary repairs to the electronic control unit for the auxiliary generator. Port Townsend/Keystone ferry service is cancelled for the remainder of the day. Customers should use alternate routes (Mukilteo/Clinton and Edmonds/Kingston). <br> <br> “We apologize for the inconvenience this disruption in service causes our customers,” said David Moseley, Assistant Secretary, Ferries Division. “Our crews are working hard to repair the generator so we can resume service as quickly as possible.” <br> <br> For updates on Port Townsend/Keystone ferry service, please visit the WSDOT Ferries Division Web site at <a href="http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries"><font color="#073366" style="color: #073366"><u>www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries</u></font></a> or call 1-888-808-7977 or (206)464-6400. <br> </font></p></div></body></html>