Good Year for Port Townsend Farmers Market
Port Townsend Farmers Market vendors had a much better year — better by $85,000 — than in 2008.
The market director said: “This was our biggest year ever. We saw our most vendors, most sales and most customers in 2009. It was a solid year of growth.”
Hopefully the Port Angeles Farmers Market also did better this year than in 2008. (Here’s their website.) Their Gateway location seems to have more vendors and customers than when they were at the Courthouse parking lot.
The market director said: “This was our biggest year ever. We saw our most vendors, most sales and most customers in 2009. It was a solid year of growth.”
Hopefully the Port Angeles Farmers Market also did better this year than in 2008. (Here’s their website.) Their Gateway location seems to have more vendors and customers than when they were at the Courthouse parking lot.
Labels: Port Angeles Farmers Market, Port Townsend Farmers Market
posted by Tom Harper at 4:58 PM
8 Comments:
I'm sure they'll do a whole lot better now that we have a new city council free from dead enders with their stale, tired, out dated thinking.
"I'm sure they'll do a whole lot better now that we have a new city council free from dead enders with their stale, tired, out dated thinking."
Well, after seeing how Betsy Wharton turned out, after making very similar promises to get our votes, I'm not holding my breath.
Betsy talks a good line, but when it counted, she voted with the regime she said she was there to change. In some contexts, she was worse than Williams and Rogers. At least with Williams and Rogers, we knew what to expect from them: self serving reactionary rhetoric. But Betsy promised us she would be an agent of change, we voted her into office, and then she turned her back on us when it counted. I think a lot of folks got disillusioned by her. Hopes were betrayed.
Hopefully the new crew will remember to be the people they presented themselves to be to voters, when they take office.
Betsy played the accomodating council member, the let's all get along person, and she paid the price when it came election time. No argument there.
There's only one dead-ender left on the council, Don Perry. Brooke Nelson will probably vote "old council" but Dan DiGuilio, Cherie Kidd, Larry Little and Max Mania will be the progressive bloc.
While I don't expect these four to agree on every isuue, I do believe it will be near impossible to keep the city from moving forward now. And absolutely impossible to sneak Edna on should someone decide to cut out early!
" .. Dan DiGuilio, Cherie Kidd, Larry Little and Max Mania will be the progressive bloc.
While I don't expect these four to agree on every isuue, I do believe it will be near impossible to keep the city from moving forward now."
I hope you're right. I'm definitely in the "Wait and see" mode.
I have yet to see Dan DiGuilio do anything but be a yes-man for the "old regime". And Cherie has strong ties to PABA, whose membership includes Don Perry, and the people who have been hijacking Port Angeles' future for their personal gain and benefit for years and years. Cherie DOES have the courage to stick her neck out, unlike virtually ALL the rest of them, though.
Again, I hope you're right. I don't know how much longer this poor community can limp along with all these self serving interests making sure they get theirs, first.
i otta run for cyti cowncul.
"There's only one dead-ender left on the council, Don Perry. Brooke Nelson will probably vote "old council" but Dan DiGuilio, Cherie Kidd, Larry Little and Max Mania will be the progressive bloc."
Yeah, Don Perry is pretty much as Right Wing as they come. Lots of rhetoric, but not much substance. He is not much of an initiator, though. He may vote along with others, but I never see him make many motions, himself.
What do you think about Pat Downie. I noticed you left him off your "list".
jack,
It's spelled Clowncil
"Betsy played the accomodating council member, the let's all get along person, and she paid the price when it came election time. No argument there."
ya would think that after a couple of months of THAT ploy not working, she would have re-thought that strategy. Not too S-M-A-R-T
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