PORT ANGELES — Mayor Cherie Kidd will travel to Victoria today to present a proclamation at the Victoria City Council and meet with Mayor Dean Fortin.
The Port Angeles mayor, who will make the 90-minute journey across the Strait of Juan de Fuca alone on Thanksgiving Day, will present a proclamation to the eight council members and mayor “in honor of our shared 150th anniversaries,” she said.
“We have a lot of common history,” Kidd said.
After the council meeting, which will begin at 7:30 p.m., Kidd plans to meet with Fortin “about opportunities for our cities to engage each other,” she said.
“I’m promoting greater involvement between Port Angeles and Victoria,” Kidd said.
“Several decades ago, there used to be a lot of activities back and forth. I’m trying to encourage shared activities between the two cities.”
Kidd mentioned the popularity with Canadians of October’s Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival in Port Angeles.
“The Coho [ferry] was sold out,” she said.
“We had a couple thousand people come over from Vancouver Island,” Kidd said.
She wants to promote more such shared events.
“I want to encourage trade back and forth,” she said.
When asked, Kidd said she plans to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday during the Festival of Trees gala — a fundraiser for the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and the Port Angeles Exchange Club — at the Vern Burton Community Center on Friday night.