PORT ANGELES — A meeting to stir up interest and volunteer recruits to do a sprucing up of downtown Port Angeles during the six-week Hood Canal Bridge closure will be held tonight.
The 6 p.m. meeting in the council chambers of City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St., will be to gauge support for the proposal to paint and clean-up the downtown area so it will appear brighter, fresher and cleaner when the bridge reopens in mid-June.
The state is closing the floating bridge to repair the 48-year-old eastern half and remove its infamous center bulge.
Civic and business leaders envision a program that while the bridge is repaired, downtown Port Angeles buildings will be repainted, windows will be washed and weeds will be pulled.
“I hope we get a whole lot of people excited, and excited enough to want to help make this happen,” said Barb Frederick, Port Angeles Downtown Association executive director.
Because of the meeting, the scheduled city Community Conversations meeting has been canceled.
