PORT ANGELES — A second Pacific Northwest waterfront city is apparently interested in challenging Port Angeles for the right to be home to the rusting art deco ferry Kalakala.
The ferry’s owner, Tumwater developer Steve Rodrigues is scheduled to reveal the city during a news conference Saturday at the Kalakala mural on Laurel Street in downtown Port Angeles.
Rodrigues and Cherie Kidd, Kalakala Alliance Foundation president, will announce that a waterfront city other than Port Angeles has expressed interest in having the 276-foot-long, 1935 silver streamlined ferry vessel renovated there, Kidd said Tuesday.
Everett has been mentioned as the other city interested in the Kalakala, which once carried passengers between Port Angeles and Victoria.
Rodrigues didn’t return numerous calls on Tuesday and Kidd refused to answer questions about what other city is interested — saying only that any the information will be announced at Saturday’s news conference.
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The rest of the story appears in the Wednesday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.