To mark the Rotary Club of Port Townsend’s $10,000 gift to the Community Boat Project — which is constructing tiny homes for local farmworkers — boat project director Wayne Chimenti, far right, and shop organizer Gillian Kenagy, second from right, quickly painted a “check” on a piece of wood. Rotarian Carla Caldwell, far left, and club president Jim Cunnington were among the volunteers who joined a work party toward finishing the project’s latest wooden tiny house last week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

To mark the Rotary Club of Port Townsend’s $10,000 gift to the Community Boat Project — which is constructing tiny homes for local farmworkers — boat project director Wayne Chimenti, far right, and shop organizer Gillian Kenagy, second from right, quickly painted a “check” on a piece of wood. Rotarian Carla Caldwell, far left, and club president Jim Cunnington were among the volunteers who joined a work party toward finishing the project’s latest wooden tiny house last week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Donations for wooden tiny houses

To mark the Rotary Club of Port Townsend’s $10,000 gift to the Community Boat Project — which is constructing tiny homes for local farmworkers — boat project director Wayne Chimenti, far right, and shop organizer Gillian Kenagy, second from right, quickly painted a “check” on a piece of wood.

Rotarian Carla Caldwell, far left, and club president Jim Cunnington were among the volunteers who joined a work party toward finishing the project’s latest wooden tiny house last week.

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