CrapFestering does nothing to help any other business in downtown PA.
It actually makes all the other restaurants suffer. It is not a community event, it is an event to line the pockets of a very few, and relies on "volunteers" and hype.
So, work for free and get a t-shirt and half-a-crab dinner, a volunteer drawing. While you sell crab that has a wholesale price of $2.90 a pound, for 10X the amount.
It is NOT benefiting any 501(c)3, it is ONLY a WA nonprofit corporation (and not listed as a "charity" on the WA Secty of State pages).
It is not to help a club or organization. It is not fundraising. It is not a community event. It is a community rip-off.
It is pure and simple profit for a very few. The corporation doesn't have a board of directors, only a president and secty. (Oooh, gee, and aren't THEY RELATED?)
It also has, in the past, violated a number of health codes (using salt water from Hollywood Beach to hold the crabs in. (Nom nom, more sewage, please, we just had a big rain!)
These violations, as well as poor food handling practices, and lack of sanitation (have a smoke, go serve food, without washing hands) are all overlooked.
Food prepared by unpaid volunteers is always questionable in my book.
YUM. More please? No thanks. I wouldn't be caught dead at that rip-off.
First, you take a big ol' dump in my living room.
And now, you want to eat me, too?
You people are sick!
And let's not forget that the same people in charge who think this is a wonderful, tourism-inducing event are the exact same people who will deny that climate change is real - the effects of which are making it ever more difficult for crustaceans to form shells. (Run that one by Cherie Kidd, eh?) Also, as mentioned above, let's not forget all the times that Crab Fest really has been Crap Fest due to the fact that it occurred right after a CSO (combined sewer overflow) event - with said CSOs having been engineered by those very same geniuses in charge. Yes, that's Port Angeles for you. A place that's flush with good ideas...
Yes, "funny" how the Crabfest has so often coincided with big rain events, with untreated sewage being dumped in the very same waters the Crabfest crabs get dunked in to keep them alive. Yum Yum..
ReplyDeleteOh? Where is the city? Records will reveal them sending staff out to deal with sewage issues during Crabfest. FOI, anyone?
Was the public ever informed baskets of crabs were kept in the waters near the Crabfest event, while CSO events were happening in the same waters? Gee. Check the dates of the events. Get statements, under oath.
Where is the PDN in this? Oh! That's right, they don't do anything but do what they are told by the city, and powers-that-be.
If only the Victoria and Seattle news media were informed.
You know the PDN's motto for Crap Fest: Eat shit and lie.
DeletePDN is the prime sponsor of this rip-off event.
Delete...and today, the PDN has to publish a SECOND fluff piece about how successful it was.
DeleteOf course it is. PDN has it's arm so deep up the ass of the crapfest that it it tickling it's tonsils.
DeleteThe PDN, meanwhile, ignores anything that would help our town.
It will be interesting to see if Scott asks for more money, next year. Successful? By what measure?
DeleteHere's the real kicker. The crab fest is located at the very bottom of the sewer run in town. All the city's shit runs to that area. Last year during a heavy rain a sewer manhole cover blew off and sewage spewed out on the street in the middle of one of the food tents. They kept right on serving. The rest is true too, only Scott and a few insiders make any money on this. They keep bragging about all the crab are caught locally. They also say the bottom of Port Angles harbor is thick with pollutants from the mills spills over the years and will need a hundred million dollar cleanup to get all the toxins out. These crab live in/on these toxic beds. Then we eat them.
ReplyDeleteYou know what they say: Location, location, location.
DeleteYou know what they also say: You are what you eat.
So...If enough people at enough Port Angeles Crap Fests eat enough pollution eating crabs...Will the harbor then be clean?
DeleteYeah, YUM YUM... more of that crap and crab please.
DeleteHollywood Beach has a lot of issues right there where the Crapfest pulls out seawater to keep those crabs alive.
(We don't call them craps for nothing).
"Due to heavy rains ...the four combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls in Port Angeles discharged approximately 15 million gallons of a mixture of stormwater and raw sewage into Port Angeles Harbor. Two of the CSO outfalls are near Hollywood Beach." This is a recurrent, and KNOWN problem (and why the city was forced to do something, and decided on the Cutler turd tank).
Clallam County Environmental Health Division bulletin: ..."contact with fecal contaminated waters can result in gastroenteritis, skin rashes, upper respiratory infections, and other illnesses. Children and the elderly may be more vulnerable to waterborne illnesses."
So, we had heavy rains, and high run-off with the last storm.
Too bad our health department doesn't work on weekends. Wonder what the fecal content of those crab holding tanks were?
Uh oh, Cutler's turd tank only holds 5 million gallons of shit. Where did that other ten million gallons go?
DeleteWhere do you think all of Port Angeles' shit goes? Magically to Mars? Evaporates into nothing?
DeleteThere seems to be a pipeline into city hall...
DeleteWould you prefer a crab from San Francisco Bay? A Dungeness crab may travel up to 20 miles along the bottom of the sea, so the crustaceans may very well be dwellers of estuaries in Sequim or Victoria. But casting aspersions is the sport here.
ReplyDeleteActually, as a vegetarian, I'd prefer no crabs. But a side of aspersions sounds delightful!
DeleteHey,, 7:38, no one eats crab from the SF Bay. It's illegal to catch Dungeness crab within the San Francisco or San Pablo Bays because of the problems with water quality.
DeleteIt is never legal to take crab from there. All the "California" Dungeness is caught off the coast, from Mendocino to San Luis Obispo.
Clearly you don't know anything about crab.
I prefer to roast my aspersions with bacon, garlic and lemon juice. But that's just me.
DeleteHey 3:38. As a former commercial crab and lobster fisherman, it sure is refreshing to get information from a Google expert like you. The SF/San Pablo Bay closure is temporary due to domoic acid in algae. The range of crab fishing also is also much further south-I sold my catch in San Pedro. Thanks for jumping in and enlightening everyone-not.
DeleteWhat the previous poster refers to disparagingly as "aspersions" most of us just call "the truth."
DeleteReally, 3:38?
DeleteThe SF BAY was declared "off limits" for crab fishing, but locals stopped eating the crab and the "bottom feeders" because of the known contaminants in the bay.
A 1994 advisory was pretty stark, and in over a decade of more recent data -- San Francisco Bay fish contain mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
Every single SF bay fisherman I know, KNOWS a dozen or more (fairly young) people who have passed away or are fighting from cancers (stomach, brain, and lymphomas).
Every single person I knew who was an avid bay fisherman (as in, off the pier in Berkeley) is now dead. Pretty chilling, if you ask me.
The dioxins present in the bay silt alone raise the cancer risk to 1:1000, compared to the average risk of 9:100,000.
But you are in the know, huh?
Go eat some SF Bay fish and crab....we need more dead fishermen.
The crabs might not be forming shells somewhere, but in Marine area 6 it's been two awesome years for crabbing. Personally I won't take them out of PA harbor though, too risky. I'm hoping that's not where they came from for the fest. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteIf you want a delightful local crab feed, check out the one the Lions Club in Sequim puts on. It's sometime in May, the weather is much better, it is currently a much smaller event but we met visitors who happened upon it and were thrilled! It is a true fundraiser and they have live music, a beer garden, and silent auction. It takes place in Pioneer Park. I've attended a couple times now and it is well worth it.
ReplyDeletethat sounds like a MUCH BETTER option, 10:21. I'd rather spend my money helping the Lions Club than helping further the scam artist that pushed the CrapFest in PA.
DeleteHe's shameless. It's all about him, and the concept of a "community event" without an real community is disgusting.
When I hear about the Lions crab feed happening next year I'll post something about it here.
DeleteI guess we're officially trendy now...Someone just landed on this blog today by searching for "bad clowns in port angeles."
ReplyDelete"Informed" reader? High Tide Seafood supplied the crab. They operate one of two locations in La Push under tribal ownership. Could the crab have been fished elsewhere? There are no commercial crab buoys set in Port Angeles harbor (big hint).
ReplyDeleteAlthough, if you go down to the city pier, you'll see dozens of crab pots set, with lines tied to pier railings.
DeleteThe issue is not where the crabs came from, originally. The issue is that the CSO outlets are under and near the city pier, and in past Crabfest events, the storms have caused raw sewage to be discharged into the harbor waters, as the Crabfest has been going on. That water from the harbor was used to keep the crabs alive. That raw sewage flowed across the floors of vendor tents.
(Big Hint)
Exactly!
DeleteSave the children! Fiero Marine pumps saltwater from under the pier into their exhibits and invites kids to put their hands in it!
Delete"Soylent Green is made of...poople!"
DeleteOh boy! I bet Fiero Marine lets everybody know they're pumping sewage laden, polluted water through their systems. What great PR!
DeleteThanks for making that point, Anon 6:53
Any celebration of local wildlife and resources will be meaningless unless brought to us by the indigenous people. The crab fest corporate sham just echoes the mediocre gimmicks that sell this entire country shortcomings and wasted potential. To decolonize our minds is to bring virtue back into our society.
ReplyDeleteTotally unrelated. But this afternoon bright boy Adam Chamberlin, a leader in the Our Town group known for harassing homeless and drug users, was busted for a sex crime - Disclosing Intimate Image. The street story is he posted a nude pic of someone on the Internet, alleging it was a drug user. He's in jail, bail is $1000.
ReplyDeleteTake a walk along the waterfront. The rain/sewer overflow today is stinking up the harbor. Nasty!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be poetic justice if this event draws a lot of their crowds from Victoria? Where 130 million liters a day of raw, un-screened sewage is dumped daily in to the Straight of Jaun de Fuca.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, it does. The Coho hypes the event on the radio over there, sponsors contests to get attention, offers travel/ticket package and adds extra ferry runs to Port Angeles and back.
DeleteIf only all those people knew the truth.