Gooseberry Security, Dry Dock, Ferry Budget, LIFAC

The PLIC Board updated community members on a range of top-priority ferry issues at the PLIC meeting last Tuesday night.  Major  topics included the fast-approaching deadline  for the 2013 fiscal year ferry budget, the County’s new Lummi Island Ferry Advisory Committee (LIFAC) activities, security at Gooseberry Point, fares, dry dock concerns (especially many fewer parking [...]

The Ferry Returns to Service 9/30/2011

If all goes well, our ferry will return to service this Friday, September 30th at 5:40 a.m.—-Hooray! To get the details, read the press release from Whatcom County Public Works:        Lummi Island Ferry Returns to Service    

Passenger Ferry Delays Sunday, probably Monday

Due to high winds, passenger ferry service is off schedule today.  As long as the winds hold up, delays are apt to continue. NOAA weather is predicting more high winds tomorrow, Monday (9/26/2011). Wish list for the future:  fixed boarding dock for any passenger ferry at both the island and mainland terminals.

Dry Dock Update 9-23-2011

Looks like dry dock is proceeding on target. Thanks to Paul D (and Brown Betty, of course) for sending out this information today.  >From: thetome@lummiislandcable.com >Sent: Sep 23, 2011 2:48 PM >To: thetome@lummiislandcable.com >Subject: c   Brown Betty:  Ferry maintenance update Frank Abart is Out of Office for a few days, but I just got a [...]

Dry Dock: 8 PM and Early Morning Open Parking Spaces

UPDATE:  Kremen made the decision on Friday 9/1/2011 to not run a shuttle this year to any off-site parking. Yesterday, Pete Kremen asked for a check on parking spaces last night ~8 PM.  Frank  Abart did the check himself — and not just last night but also this morning around 5:20 AM!  Thanks so much, [...]

POLL! Dry Dock Parking Preference

POLL IS CLOSED – Kremen said he’s got enough information to move forward. FINAL RESULTS from Paul Davis’ email poll and this one are at the bottom of the post. This seems as good a time as any to try a first very very very overly simple-minded opinion poll on the Ferry Forum, based on [...]

Dry Dock Photos, Movies and Stories

OK,i t’s time to start taking pictures and movies of dry dock experiences. Cell phones photos are fine. Email them to the Ferry Forum, to the County Council, Exec AND all candidates for Council and Executive offices, news outlets (including Jared Paben at the B’ham Herald and KGMI), facebook (lummi island friends), etc. Maybe even [...]

Dry Dock Confusion

Latest from Brenner and Kremen on the dry dock parking situation. —–Forwarded Message—– >From: thetome@lummiislandcable.com >Sent: Sep 7, 2011 8:32 AM >To: thetome@lummiislandcable.com >Subject: c   Brown Betty:  Parking at Gooseberry Point > > >The out-of-control dry dock parking situation at Gooseberry has been extremely stressful to many Lummi Islanders whose lives depend upon reliable parking. The [...]

Day Before Dry Dock Update on Parking

The following is a string of emails between Nancy Ging and Whatcom County officials regarding dry dock parking and includes the latest parking map: ———- Forwarded messages ———- From: Nancy Ging <nancy@turtlehome.com> To: ”Whatcom County Council Office (council@co.whatcom.wa.us)” <council@co.whatcom.wa.us>, Pete Kremen <PKremen@co.whatcom.wa.us>, Frank Abart <FAbart@co.whatcom.wa.us> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 23:33:38 -0700 Subject: SITUATION CRITICAL–Ferry Parking Update Hello, all– [...]

More Gooseberry Pt. Parking!

Below is Pete Kremen’s response to Nancy Ging’s email about our dry dock parking problems: From: Pete Kremen <pkremen@co.whatcom.wa.us> Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:19 PM Subject: Re: Where Do We Park? To: nancy@turtlehome.com Cc: Council@co.whatcom.wa.us, Frank Abart <FAbart@co.whatcom.wa.us> Nancy, I have just received another very firm verbal confirmation that parking will be available at the usual area, [...]