SEQUIM — While thousands of lavender lovers packed Fir Street on Saturday to celebrate Sequim lavender, downtown merchants’ moods — and their cash registers — were more subdued.
“Festival? What festival? Son of a gun, I must have missed it,” Marti McAllister Wolf, owner of Pacific Mist Books, said in her empty Washington Street store.
She voiced sentiments similar to those of other business owners who Saturday longed for last year’s customer traffic.
In 2002, the Celebrate Lavender Festival’s Street Fair was just a block away from the downtown core.
The Street Fair this year was moved from Cedar Street three blocks north to Fir Street between Third Avenue and the entrance to the parking lot near the Sequim School District administration building.
Many merchants said they want future Street Fairs back at or near the downtown core.
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The rest of the story appears in the Sunday Peninsula Daily News.
