I am going to send a copy of this to the governor and to the mayor of Seattle; will they do what needs to be done? I wrote them a few years back and no one cared. I am going to try again.

Most of the people here now come from other states, but this has been my state for 75 years. I've been here in the bad times and all the good times. People are now feeling the hard times starting.

But to get back to what I was writing about, our ferries. This is a problem that is easy to take care of. The state has let tax dollars be spent on computers to run the ferries, which are not appropriate for such a task. Let's go back to the drawing board and take a look at the Kalakala built and finished in 1935 and manned all trips until 1967. Everyone making dissension on the plan for new ferries sold the Kalakala to Alaska Fisheries Co. The Kalakala served as a processor for 31 years of wonderful service.

When the ferry came back to Seattle I wrote to save her, but Seattle administrators had to have faster, bigger ferries that weren't built to last. Now I ask you all to step up and have a say. How long will you let your tax dollars go down the drain?

Bring back the real builders and get the plans for the Kalakala. And rebuild the wonderful ferry she was. Maybe she was a little slower, and people are going too fast to stop and look at what we have-the views are beautiful.

Get more bang for your buck. Sixty-three-years-old and she may be in bad shape now, but could today's ferries go safely to Alaska and back? The governor just released money to build new ferries. Please build good ones-like they used to. When the captain had to watch where they were going.

Kathleen Vogel

Delridge