PORT TOWNSEND — Last week, Dock Street Yachts lost power in its Point Hudson office.
As Port of Port Townsend maintenance workers searched to find the source of the problem, they discovered that the office’s electricity came from a wire that also ran through the ceiling into the kitchen of the Shanghai Restaurant.
There, the electrical wire was hot-wired into a wall outlet.
Port of Port Townsend Commissioner Bob Sokol used the story Monday to illustrate the kind of problems facing Point Hudson’s 70-year-old buildings.
“I don’t mean to scare you,” he said, “but that’s how it is.”
Sokol and his opponent in the Nov. 4 election, former County Commissioner Richard Wojt, faced the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce membership Monday at a candidates’ forum in the Point Hudson Marina Room.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
