PORT TOWNSEND — Supporters of creating the Northwest Maritime Center have raised more than a third of their $10 million goal.
They”ll put fund-raising efforts into high gear this week to raise the remaining $6.5 million to build a place on Port Townsend Bay for maritime history, boats, and environmental stewardship of Puget Sound.
The newly cleared industrial site at the foot of Water Street will be location of a celebration Friday to begin the public phase of the capital campaign.
The event, coinciding with the 2002 Wooden Boat Festival, will run from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on the site near the boat festival entrance to Point Hudson.
Jim Whittaker, the Port Townsend resident who in 1963 became the first American to reach Mount Everest’s summit, is honorary co-chair of the capital campaign.
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