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02/08/2007: "WSF Petition Drive Speeds Up"

( (left to right)Louise Dustrude, member of a petition drive group, watches as Lunnette Higdon Hertel and Marita Dillery sign the petition)

Petition Drive surges forward as county residents and county visitors sign a petition calling for a roll-back of the proposed ferry fare increases that have been proposed by Washington State Ferry officials. The organizers of the drive are asking the public to sign the petitions, and to attend one -or more- of the following WSF meetings:

• Monday, Feb. 12 Orcas Island - 6:30 to 8 p.m., Orcas Center 917 Mt Baker Rd Eastsound
• Monday, Feb. 12; on Lopez from 9 to 10:30 am at the Lopez island Community Center
• Friday Harbor from 2 to 4 pm at the Mullis Center
• Thursday, March 1 Anacortes - 9 to 10:30 a.m. Flounder Bay Cafe 2201 Skyline Way

Petitions are available to sign at locations on all of the ferry-served islands. Retitions are available on San Juan Island from Anne Sheridan Photography, 135 Second St; On Orcas at Rainbow Service (376-2150); On Lopez : Sandy Bishop 468-3654, and last, but not least, on Shaw the petitions are available for signing at the kiosk.

Copies of signed petitions will be presented to representatives of the Transportation Commission and WSF attending the Friday Harbor meeting. A subsequent delegation to Olympia is planned to deliver the petitions to the legislature.