Working Waterfront

This month on Our Working Waterfront, we join Port of Port Townsend Executive Director Eron Berg, and Port Commissioner Pam Petranik give us an update on happenings around our Port.

Eron talks about the ongoing budget 2021 planning process, our International Airport runway project, the Airport’s mission for emergency management, and the delightful Port Townsend Aero Museum and its program for teens.

Pam explains the ways in which the Port weaves itself into the community and the ways of connecting to current activities, ways of conversing with the commissioners, and ways to explore the Port and its history.

We talk about derelict vessels, lift tires, houseboats, developing transportation links to the airport, COVID-19 recovery, and Pam gives some shouts out to local Icons and businesses around the Port.

This month on Our Working Waterfront, the Port’s Executive Director, Eron Berg, and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek summarize a flurry of activity around our Port. We get a glimpse into what it means to be in the middle of budget season, and we discuss grant and funding options for the Port, current and planned projects throughout our Port properties, significant airport improvements,  and a very busy boatyard.

We talk about sea life on the current jetty pilings and its disruption during renovation, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s proposal for an upwelling system in the Point Hudson marina for oyster spat, and the tribe’s idea for a potential retail seafood outlet and restaurant there.

Eron recounts his walkabout with State Representative Steve Tharinger, and Pam highlights two of our local maritime workers, and she also acknowledges recent Leadership Awards and their recipients.

Chris Bricker joins Port Commissioner Pam Petranek and Port of Port Townsend’s Executive Director Eron Berg for our monthly update on news and issues surrounding our vibrant Maritime Community.

This month, Pam and Eron discuss businesses in the Port, how their proprietors grew up in the Marine Trades, and how they value the environment and creative community in which they work. 

We talk about the Quilcene Port property, its uniqueness, the Linger Longer Advisory Committee and its long range efforts to plan for the future while keeping the Port property in public hands.  Good planning can provide good jobs for the community and access to the world.  Pam also talks about how a local idea has hatched a creative project in the making, for a proposed video walking tour of the Quilcene Port area.

Eron also gives us an update on Point Hudson and the Jetty, and the updating of the spending plan for the Port, an expedited Comp-Scheme Update,  which can be followed by a substantive update later on. 

On the second Tuesday each month, on Morning on the Salish hosted by Chris Bricker, Our Working Waterfront explores news and issues from The Port of Port Townsend with Port Commissioner Pam Petranek and Executive Director Eron Berg.

This month we explore the 2018 Economic Impact Study of the Marine Trades in Jefferson County, public access to our waterfront, maintenance projects, the budget process, a Point Hudson update on the historic preservation of the Jetty, our Quilcene update, and we talk about the Intergovernmental Committee groups – their purpose, process, and time frames.