Farmers Market at Gateway Permanently

Hooray!

A majority of the Port Angeles Farmers Market’s vendors has voted to make Gateway their permanent location. Several longtime vendors who voted not to relocate, will not be joining the market at Gateway.

City Manager Kent Myers said the Gateway pavilion will be reserved on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the Farmers Market in a contract (which hasn’t been signed yet).

And speaking of farmers markets and the revitalization of downtown: My wife and I were in Olympia yesterday and the day before. That city has a huge thriving farmers market which is open four days a week. It’s part of a much larger downtown/waterfront complex of pedestrian walkways, shops and restaurants.

I’ve heard that Olympia used to be a lot more rundown and crime-ridden; that these changes are recent. I wouldn’t know, but if that’s true, the city has sure fixed itself up. Olympia’s population is just over 40,000 (according to the 2000 census) — just a little more than twice Port Angeles’ population.