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News Release

Date: Oct. 20, 2008
Contact: 
Ensign Abigail Lafond
503-325-7213
 email: abigail.s.lafond@uscg.mil

Coast Guard Cutter Alert offers haunted ship tours

SEATTLE  —  The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Alert is offering Halloween tours aboard the ship Friday and Saturday next to the Columbia River Maritime Museum on Marine Drive in Astoria, Ore.

Tours themed for young children are scheduled from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.  Tours for older audiences are scheduled from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The crew will be collecting a donation of a canned food item per tour for the Astoria Food Bank. 

Tour participants may wear a costume.

A feature story about the 2007 Halloween event aboard the Alert can be found here.

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