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Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival

June 30, 2011

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The 35th annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival in Seattle begins on this Saturday July 2nd and continues on until the Fireworks on July 4th.  The Center for Wooden Boats declares the event to be “an old-fashioned, down-home waterfront festival where everything is fun, almost everything is free and nothing much is fancy.”  For more details: http://cwb.org/2011-wooden-boat-festival

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