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Valley Voice - Incorporation Special Edition 03/29/2003 - -- ___ = —--AINIIIIMINIIMIRMIKINIIIIM= FIEN SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2003 • SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE EDITION • THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 1111 Vail ' °ice..„, ' .- IIe Iiii8, : ;' 4 a . ..v.-, k • i illirt 5;:i w , • .. 1. • .• -,$),., . .:;.... a - -i ...--- -u. •eo ir ... . . .„ i Si 111 .... . - . . _ • • \II' .,.,3 ,,, }coo • ••00 I ° I ibillt 1113‘. V 1 •0 0• 111 11100 CELEBRATING THE NEW CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY Extra circulation of this Special Commemorative Edition of The Valley Voice is being made possible by Best Blinds & Awnings as a public service. Be sur'e to 111111 .— E ........, - i 4 -/ ' We. 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Spokane 89-BLINDS(509)892-5463 Coeur d'Alene (208) 664-5858 's-1.2111.0 Mt!111.N.li: . _ T.,.0- -=r. -. - . - - —..-- _ - •X- - --•- — T !i q.' ,. q, .,S,I,+•,r•. , f -M'C�'Y o'‘6% 1 • 41 1 y r . . Page 2 Saturday. Marefi 29:2003 ---- -- - - - - --------W-The Spokesman-Review { WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION A s.. ,. o ane a e celebration ,. ,.. l Special section cheers as a new city looks ahead ,. By Jeff Jordan d'Alene tribes called the area home. _ , ,�,r }, Valley editor "History didn't begin 100 years `--` ._ � Spokane Valley business leaders ago,"said Bryan Flett,tribal heritage `' `- • `-�� . first proposed incorporation in 1937. coordinator for the Spokane Tribe, ' ��..�,� _�� 1 It took 66 years but those dreams "We've been here for 10,000 years." �� I L- � —___�_- V% ITom Luteprofiles the Falcon, _q�� become reality Monday. Y r;,r, t �+.. • When the City of Spokane Valley one of several third generation � _ :'so.�,`.� f,/: opens for business in its modest East families whose enterprises still �- -- Sprague City Hall,it will be the operate at their original Valley f�� f second largest city in Eastern location. Washington-ninth in the state- "My dad would have been all for �.: r with more than 80,000 citizens. incorporation,"Joe Falco Jr.said. _`lalli' =1 Today's Valle Voice "Just basically being self-controlled, ` t r, ,, `� . J ; Y Yc commemorative section celebrates . 1111111 he was always into that.And he was : 1 f _ the city's birth by looking back its always complaining the taxes taken a.0» " _ j r from Sprague businesses weren't !-' % ° -`r I j•M •' �'"''' ; rich,rural past and looking ahead to ® - _ - f its rapidly-changing urban future. being spent here." - r, La i*,yu - ,t I Trinity Hartman asked readers i' ' IA Our staff enthusiastically ht _ . to share their memories of growing i ''i. ----....m._. J embraced the project.You'll see it . - *;,_ _ reflected as you read these pages. up in the Valley and we received , _ .1! ,_3 ) „ • - ' Here's a sample of what you'll find stacks of letters and e-mails.Cruising _ '0 - r- fl i Ron's Drive In,swimming in the V `` ' � . from our staff writers and freelance irrigation ditch,raiding vegetable --� I , a e`►t - ' contributors in today's section,all of -- ` , it illustrated with historical pictures gardens,drag racing and making a J� _ A \�, _ - _ V or recent photographs by Steve wish at the University City fountain ` _ �> _ �•— - • -X are among the many stories readers - \<.. - Thompson and Holly Pickett. -..--r---` . ■ Lone Hutson recounts the recalled. history of the Valley through the I Don't miss Molly Quinn's lively Pham courtesy Barbara Schanz voices of four current residents and unique map of the new city. ■ Our look ahead includes four - )' In 1939,Frank r Hewas 7 e s of-old Clyde Clark. essays from Valleyresidents Patrick Simons pumped He was 7 years old when he moved to Y the Pasadena Park area in 1918.He Haight,Cindy McMullen,Mike _-. pli gas and owner Ormsbyand Diana Wilhite.And staff ?: "Doc"Dockendorf could mark the passing time by the .. appearance of Salish Indians heading writer Stacy Schwandt checked in 1; washed windows at to a camp upriver along a well-used with Valley teenagers,who offered ` suy Doc's Snappy path on the north side of the Spokane their advice to the new City Council. H , f i STOVES 12r a" . ,~ Service gas station River. ■ Finally,there's a clip and savejI k� , ,, on Sprague Avenue When Joe Polello's family moved directory for the City of Spokane I I �'It _ , �P.i MullanValley • .�.�... vana �, At left,the same fields of watermelons,strawberries, Enjoy the nostalgic look back.Be .d, L` a , i' ' . l i " f"',, spot has changed ' k i I 1 !. •• 111 .I i along with the rest cantaloupes,you name it,"he assured,however,we'll aggressively ;_ - fir` -' tS 1 ' I recalled."The air was pungent with report this new chapter in Valley = ,��"L-' - Z T- r r' ,' I - F of Spokane Valley. i si -t produce odors.You could tell when history.For the first time amajority -� ,( (I 4 U the strawberries were in bloom,the of Valley residents will govern t I r _• • J.,_ . strawberries in the air,you could just themselves.It starts Monday.We'll ' - j ;' "' o 3 smell them.Oh,it was beautiful." be •there. -- "- ■ Nina Culver digs deeper in • I -#t-'71"-•-`:" --4-7'-_,='; history.Long before Antoine Plante •Valley editorJeff Jordan can be reached at -` ' -._ P '_l`i ' built his cabin near the Spokane 927-2170 or by e-mail at River in 1849,Spokane and Coeur jeffj@spokesman.com. SteveThompson/The Spokesman-Review INSIDE ,- '.'I =rte, INDEX `�" - ` • Introduction 2 ~ o 'ei. History of the Valley 4-10 SEASONS OF CHANGE valley life continues "'+ Mi rTrcttl: i /"- 7 The story of incorporation 12 to be shaped by the seasons./4-10 i .: T t tit One family's story 14 , '> ` Growing up in the Valley 20-23 i a' =•7` 1 • � Indian perspectives 28-29 FAMILY A E FA I R For three generations,the Falco - 1. 1 1 ,.:m... .r„ „'1 •- family business has been a fixure in the Valley./14 .. r��` , - . ` - 4 ,--- I } _ Valley history timeline 34-35 = ` • D�shr„an ' 0. m Valley vision:Patrick Haight 42 ._`'tet i, f Y Valley vision:Mike Ormsby 43 DEAR C0UNCILTeenagershaveafewthingsto G: �� SP" ue . a,d Valley vision:Diana Wilhite 44 - say to their government./40 ' r t,,, :- „`_ Vallay vision:Cindy McMullen 45 - ,=Sit'- • q, \ Oppa ty i • ir'w _71 Meet your city government 48 VALLEY VISIONS Four Valley residents look at ' -op' at ,.„.-1 ,d • rt Y��l future challenges and possibilities for the new city./42-45 " t LS 0 Special pullout map NEWS Y 0 U CAN USE Meet the Spokane [fir ve N �" ai'( .- commemorating the creation of Valley City Council,plus key phone numbers./48 x*f++�'M.IT 0.111 a the city of Spokane Valley./26.27 Page 4 Saturday, March 29,2003 W-The Spokesman-Review 1„4 t Y F i c ,'i. .,e 1,,:1, WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION 4 I ii r R, i m 1 lit �• a w t � .. s , f s s - r W 1 • iti Y: c1 Aret i • i ' ' k Akitiro--. -.---. - 48? . .4, - ., . "LAU. ' - tr- Ilk i. * i M �Y Alt. * Si) , tA6,4 . `'' I.- .i, '. 4411, *an .4"4*, • .,*,r., _ - - . - — — Growers reported a late but plentiful tomato crop in 1953 as farmer Paul Scaramore drives the tractor and foreman Kenneth Kenny loads boxes at the Scaramore farm at 9106 E.Mission. A • fulfil d The past 1The real pioneers who are still left can say of a truth. By Lorie Hutson tighter neighborhoods. "We have seen the desert made to blossom as the Staff writer As Valley homes swelled up and over the hillsides rose."Under irrigation the valley produces wonderful and filled the landscape between,residents with an as�t^rong crops of alfalfa,fruits and vegetables.Some of the For those first to call it home,life in the Spokane eye on the next century began to search for a way to I foundation most beautiful suburban homes in the west are to be Valley was shaped by the seasons. oversee the land they've settled and govern ,f found in the Spokane Valley. We also have the best The years were marked by the winter caps of snow themselves. as Spokane schools,churches and civic enterprises to be found in on Mica Peak and Mt.Spokane,the springtime After several failed attempts,the Spokane Valley any of the Western states.Moreover,we are new yet. swell of melt along the river banks,the annual is on the cusp of yet a new season.Residents in the Valley builds What the future will bring forth can only be return of the salmon,the bounty of summer's long heart of the Valley voted last spring to give conjectured. sunbaked days. themselves the power of a city government. a new future About 90 years ago Rev.Samuel Parker,in writingSpokane Valley life more than a century later is On Monday,that new government becomes r, of his journey from the(Spokane)falls to Lake Coeur m many ways still framed by that landscape and the official. predictability of passing years.The thousands of The promises of a new citytouch the lives of d'Alene said:"I climbed an eminence(perhaps Myrtle people drawn to call it home have in return created everyone within the broad Valley,whether or not Point)and looked down into the pleasant vale somethingof their own seasons to complement . rY bordering the winding river,and drew in fancy a P their house falls inside the map lines.The path the nature's will. cityand its residents choose will surelyshape the picture of what this valley will be when settled by P civilized people." The earliest days of sparse settlement gave way to future course of the Spokane Valley. widespread irrigation and cultivation of the once- How interesting it would be if we could only empty prairie.Declining farmland,disease and compare his vision with the present day,but how much development later pushed the Valley residents A wide-open land more interesting to imagine the growth of the nevi 90 farther from the land into manufacturing and other Clyde Clark was 7 years old when his family years. industries.A flood of people moving to the Valley moved from a wheat farm near Reardan. in later years made the idle farm fields the perfect In the fall of 1918,the Spokane Valley was a wide- -Millwood pioneer Seth Woodard,1930 article for The place to fill with more homes.It remains a favorite Spokesman-View. solace for those want to escape bigger cities and Continued:Valley history/5 __ __ _ _ -- - - - _ _ — ■�1 I ,' ' t 1! 1. 1 r - - - --'- fart). C,it`.s'dt v>t4u:p1 , :,;6'l Spokane,Wash.%Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-W- - - _ - -— - - Satwday;Maas 29,2{K1a -Page-5 WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION , yEDMr Y ,.., . VE-_ _ W. H _ . 1..,.., rill r M ple at T t �- .- , - - +o. x 4,- _. _ _.. - _._`' 11 , 14.6_ .. ..4.... ii . yi,_ , . -.._~,_.,,,,,„,,- n°fr. 1 tatx i ;EA14 • 1 1III ilakiL -' :A •l t' o :. 5 le i b ;. ,,,,. 4 • ' lib ir .,....t. . t .... • 7. < L- .� i- __-- .P"�-` _ � > ► .l, �. _ .fir µ ,. ..• • d t-i fir t. Ph0t0 courtesy of Sister Mananne Therese Bananas for 5 cents a pound?Charles Domke bags some at Ed's Market at 7525 E.Trent. Valley history diverson fora young man. "� ���w��+��, —_ "I was a fisherman,that was the first thing I'd Continued from 4 do when I had the time,"he said. He'll even admit finding ways to make open land still shared by the families of early mischief along the river as well. settlers and the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene After inventor Royal Riblet perched his Indians. Eagle's Nest on the cliff above the Spokane Clark's father chose two 5-acre tracts in River in 1925,Clark said he and his friends Pasadena Park south of the Hutton Settlement 1411111" MI - ' + and an easy walkup from the river bottom. g a j` i - discovered they could reach the bottom cable of the tramway from the tallest rock in the Clark was the only boy of four children at the Or - iiiilit RIII,c III - Spokane River. time.A little brother would come along later. Ii i l "We all slept in the same bed in the one � M 1 11 [: They would shake the cable until it smacked t against a buildingat the topof the cliff.When bedroom with our parents,"he remembered. lib AI 1 �� g The Valley's first permanent settler,Antoine '� ~ w Riblet came out to holler and cuss at them, ymin 1 • = Clark said theywould jumpdown to hide Plante,had chosen a similar site just upriver4 t more than 70 years earlier.Plante,a former 1.� r behind the rock. French-Canadian trapper,shuttled people By the time he was in high school,Clark's across the river on a cable-and-pulley ferry t` P family had traded most of the farming for a there for many years. "ih g• ie 12 2. small dairy operation. Clark's father built a small frame house,and , w h His job tending one of the cows twice a day latera barn,for his family.They began planting + 1s lir 7 vr and keeping the barn clean kept him busy when the land.Soon,they were raising raspberries, ,_ ._- he wasn't going to West Valley High School. blackberries,tomatoes,cucumbers,sweet corn t, "So I couldn't turn out for sports or and more. - • .'1' _� anything,"he said. "It was a typical old truck farm,"Clark said. ' Clark quickly learned therewas a technique By then attempts to turn the dry,rockyValley SteveThomQcon/TheSpokesman-Renew to the morning and evening milkings—most bottom into lush soil for agriculture were well Clyde Clark at the tool shed in the back yard of his Millwood home.His father bought these few acres in people either strip or squeeze a cow's teats. under way.Irrigation canals had been built to 1918,and Clyde has lived here most of his life. "[was a squeezer,"said Clark,showing off draw water from the Spokane River,area lakes his large hands that suited his work."I could hit and the aquifer had been tapped for some 1900 and the mid-1920s the population in the heading to a camp upriver along a well-used a cat's mouth from here to the wall every time." areas.Nearly two million apple trees had been Valley grew from barely 1,000 people to some path on the north side of the river. The Clarks also continued to grow planted,especially along Sprague Avenue. 10000. "They came through every year back then," cucumbers for the Wilson Pickle Factory. One The promise of irrigated land was drawing Yet,the Clark family could mark the passing Clark said. more and more families like Clark's.Between time by the appearance of the Salish Indians The river always provided a welcome Continued:Valley history/6 J Page 6 Saturday, March 29,2003 W-The Spokesman-Review • WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION Valley history Continued from 5 • �' ',,_r of young Clyde's first jobs was irrigating the —t 4 • cucumber fields near his house.Even through ;: { the Great Depression,when owner Fred .'I ; �' t Wilson couldn't afford to pay for a crop of ----,� cucumbers,the Clark family kept planting. ...._... ' Later on,Clyde Clark passed on other -mg _ opportunities to stay with Wilson.Wilson rewarded his dedication later by making him a partner in the business and eventually left the - . factory to him.20 Clark ran the business until 1966 and later l� ,{ worked for 20 years as the custodian for AN R e Millwood Presbyterian Church. / ' `a`` Now 91,Clark still lives near his childhood • home in Pasadena Park.His back yard is a (WY71:417 ' reminder of those simpler times.This spring, like all those before,he'll plant the garden with 'ro . SALES - ` sb tomatoes,cabbage,squash,enough sweet corn P - r.;, to sustain him for another year,andyes, cucumbers. R - E 4 A young boy's heaven S •Joe Polello's memories of growing up in T �` Dishman are filled with the earthy,sweet scent R - ,��� t# Born in Spokane,Polello's family moved to ' - - - , the Spokane Valley in 1938 when he was 12 ` \ ok - ^' years old. 111 ^ , 1 J N1� "My father built the first house on Second + _ Avenue east of Park Road.From the woods to - — ^I—;~�` the highway and as far as the eye could see �`' �� there was nothing,"Polello remembered."Old i i • 411CK6 � J + man Bascetti came over one Saturday with a big ,STRIKE ^` ,2 white horse with a straw hat on,with its ears ------- , sticking up.He dug my dad's basement by hand "A f - with a shovel...by the end of the day all I could see was the head of the horse sticking up ! .. above the ground with the straw hat going up and down. Although early frost,disease,and the Depression had taken their toll on Valley agriculture,many continued to feed their In March 1931 the corner of what is now Sprague and Appleway was a narrow road with small business on either side of the street. families and eke out a living with their crops. For young Polello,farming had never been bigger. "There were fields of watermelons, strawberries,cantaloupes,you name it.The air "It's hard to describe in words • was pungent with produce odors,"he said. "You could tell when the strawberries were in what the Valley used to be like. ` bloom,the strawberries in the air,you could You know, it's like going to just smell them.Oh,it was beautiful." "It's hard to describe in words what the heaven someday and then coming Valley used to be like.You know,it's like going I,,i to heaven someday and then coming back down back down here and trying to tell - ;.! here and trying to tell everybody what heaven is like." everybody what heaven i like. '' Polello admitted he and a group of his . buddies would sometimes sample the goods. Joe Polello,longtime Valley resident "The Bascetti family on Park and Mission _ ,_- • „'1"' had acres and acres of produce...I know �� because we used to go at night and raid their canteloupe patch.But they knew it...We'd sit Behm's Creamery;movies at the Dishman lir - out there in the moonlight.You'd always take a Theater. ,-. I spoon with you and a little knife.-Us kids would "You could go to Olga's and have a nice sit out there and cut cantelopes in half and take lunch and go to Behm's and have a milkshake �, ' the spoon and clean it out.When we'd leave and go to the Dishman Theater and out of two , there would be about 20 cantelopes laying on bucks you'd have some change left." f ~"'' the ground,"he said,laughing heartily at the memory. The school bus stopped at University and " ,; > Sprague and Polello remembers they would 1 By day,the youngsters made some spending toss the football around in the street with the money working in the fields.But they still girls. couldn't resist sampling. . "We would getup at 4 o'clock,5 o'clock in "Once in awhile a car would come by and the morning before the sun got hot and we'd go we'd be mad,'Here comes another car.Why down the row and pick these big,luscious don't they go around the block?"'he said. e illistrawberries.The problem was we ate half of "Playing football on the street at the corner of 411111111 ")A7 them and we got sick.We couldn't just put them University and Sprague,try that today and see _ i in the basket.We'd say,`Here's one.It's bigger what happens to you.In about two seconds than yours,'and eat it." you'd be gone." ' 141.001 He can still remember every business on the Polello went into the Marine Corps during fr4' Main Street of Dishman;the price wars World War II and when he returned home the between Falco's and Scaler's fruit markets; Steve Thom pson/The Spokesman Review Olga's pies;the world's finest milkshakes at Continued:Valley history/7 Joe Patello,a longtime Valley resident,finds a seat at Falco's Nursery. Page 14 Saturday, March 29,2003 W-The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION , Th ere was a wa s c an e in s ore As the Valley grew, a t • iny family market ,,• � r;' - ell •, ^`,. ', ,, always managed to keepupwith the times4. ,- #' '' 4' . `i, e=">- ` 'tsii. ''` FS'�- `it- Al 4114nif - Ar F r-1 E.,' i'„ -.. By Tom Latey was a big prune orchard.And apples . , . . ` r S H ,'' . Sraff nnz r were all over. I VALLEY R U I T —�. '-';-ft*, , `'E.; East Sprague Avenue wasn't a strip Joe Jr.says when his dad couldn't V�'r'+ t, ` , get what he wanted locally,they , ,; TA LES yet just a long dirt road two lanes *t E•s beyond being a cow trail.There would make a sometimes-harrowing • pL A-� , aur HIRE weren't many car lots or giant trip in the family truck to California a- E for produce.The trip west always `t -- 1.. J 0 r Srt.�cr inflatable animals.There weren't any went well,but on the way back to ,, • couplets. �-- J I,f� ,�. ANDtAYr•i'10g1LY P Spokane Valley with the truck r I � tr T E ,; " • " Falco's Market wasn't Falco's.It -J ;' . • weighted down with vegetables,there .- € IPOtal-` was just a small fruit stand owned by was frequently trouble.Trucks "" ' d �p • ', ; Italian immigrant Joe Falco,a father weren't the high-powered machines "` �iJ , 1 of nine daughters who yearned fora �� ++ 541 �"� awit they are today.Falco's pickup was '_. L; son.The roughshodss made of fence small-engined and struggled to make ,ss ��r I• �:'"" t ' 1 ., posts and boards,was it u hills. + r"""�� --'` known as Joe's Market. p ' �► • •Nii -.-1 `Or`'°' f This is the story of one seed among My dad used to take an old truck i � �. ,;, rY g with hard tires all the way to Carmel, �' R ' man sewn along an east-west 4z— -- -�vi - Y g Calif.,for produce.To getup over T- furrow,which in two days becomes the hills,he had to put it in reverse "` Spokane Valley.It's the story of a and backup,"Joe Jr.says."One time -r L` ice` A family enterprise that lasted longer he got so desperate.He was hauling • r• r than its founder could have dreamed celery and it was icy and he tipped - • ' I "� , +, :: "' in a city Joe Falco never would have over.He was going to light the truck imagined. on fire to get rid of it,but it wouldn't .,4 r .a `' :,. • "My dad would have been all for light." - . incorporation,"Joe Falco Jr.says. Louie Falco,who now owns the "Just basically being self-controlled, family business,remembers making r' he was always into that.And he was the same truck trips,except it was his 1 always complaining the taxes taken father,Joe Jr.,at the wheel.Three or from Sprague businesses weren't four days a week,the father and son being spent here." would drive to Wenatchee or Yakima ---. • 4 The Falcos gave more than their for produce.It was a five-hour trip -1 _="``% I. . r The Falco Market, taxes to Sprague,they gave it their one way. C e above,was founded land.The ever-swellingroad Y by Joe Falco Sr.early . "My dad would work 15 or 16 • '.,, (%` in the 20th century. undercut the family's property four hours a dayseven days a week,"Y ,t4 Now known as Falco times.And every time the county Louie Falco said."My brother and w added a lane of traffic,the Falcos me,if we wanted to be with my dad, ` '' `� Garden Center,it's jacked uptheir buildings, g t • now run by his g ,including we had to work with him." the family home,and moved them Sprague was an exciting place to . grandson,Louie Falco, back from the street.Even today,the grow up,Louie Falco remembers. 17 _ _ t,2' ,t i' • . . and his wife,Krista. business at 9310 E.Sprague bears the r. - The strip bustled with action,but the �, j Ij )sza• family name. family never felt threatened.Joe Jr. (ti I ''I J - Joe Falco Sr.sold his vegetables at remembers his kids actually feelinglam Ng- whatever price his customers could homesick when the family moved off — afford,his son says,even when the strip in the early 1970s. 7 • - i 1, customers could afford nothing, But Sprague was less hospitable -_ kr j , which was often during the Great when the Falcos moved than it had Depression. been previously.The large chain Clara Shimek,Joe Jr.'s older sister, stores that Joe Jr.remembers making " - said her father always catered to the Valley look more like anywhere people who couldn't shop anywhere USA,were moving in.To the Falcos, ' else.Her best memory of the family it seems like every generation has SteveThompson/The Spokesman-Review business growing up was the ribbing had a large competitor to deal with. her father took for all the girls he For Joe Sr.,the competitor was had,seven at one time and no boy. Safeway,but the Falco's leased land recognizable on the lot Louie now sales have surpassed what his family adding on,doing something to the People asked him when,if ever,the to the grocery store.And the family runs with his wife Kristi.The business made selling produce. building,"Louie Falco,said."They business would become Falco and was also diversifying so less of their is now called Falco Garden Center But there are a few rusting steel did the poles to put the canopy out Son.Shimek said the day Joe was market was shared with their renting and Stove Shop.Louie,45,and poles at the front of the lot,that keep and pushed a little too hard on the born,the name of the business was rival.Falcos began selling trees and Kristi,44 are actually two of the older Louie Falco in touch with the original last one." changed. bushes. fixtures of the business;they met as market.Joe Sr.and Joe Jr.planted On the 12th post,with the bit The Falcos would get shoppers Joe Jr.'s business rival was larger teenagers,working for Joe Jr.The the metal posts 40 years ago,as a getting dull and the elder Falco from as far away as Post Falls and and more daunting.Seattle-based couple now sells flowers and frame for their store canopy. pushing hard against his son's back, Freeman.The worse times were,the Ernst Home Center opened a shop in landscaping plants in the summer, The dozen steel uprights Joe Jr.'s lung collapsed,Louie Falco better business became. the Valley with a garden department fireplaces and wood pellets in the supported a horizontal beam,over says, "They bought big carrots in that competed directly with the Falco winter.They have evolved,like the which the stand's green-and-white- bunches,"Shimek said."A lot of family business. city-to-be around them. canvas top was draped.At night,the The fourth pole is now a perch for people stopped because it was during "He thought for sure he would go Several years ago.Falcos started men draped a giant cloth wall from a backlit Lennox Stove sign.The 12th the Depression.People bought out of business,"Louie Falco says of selling man-made fireplace logs at the frame to protect their produce. post marks the end of the property. produce because it was cheap," his father."But Ernst Home Center their business for a local But the posts needed to be drilled for Joe Jr.says it was a truck frame he The produce originally came from closed.I was worried about Home manufacturer.The log company holes and the two Joes,armed with a was drilling when his lung collapsed, Spokane Valley.There were gardens Base.They were right up the street. wanted to branch out into wood heavy drill and a dulling bit,bored but like everything else,the story has everywhere,Joe Jr.says.At the Now it's them that went out.We pellet fuel for wood stoves,but each post.Joe Jr.worked the drill, changed.When Louie's children corner of University Road and believe that the thing that has kept us discovered they needed a business Louie Falco recalls.Joe Sr.pushed return from college in a few years,to Sprague,there was a giant tomato going is being able to change." willing to sell the stoves as well as the on his son's back,trying anything to take over Falco's in the new city of patch.At the corner of Mission So much as changed at Falco's in pellets.Louie Falco agreed to add get the bit to bite. Spokane Valley,story of the posts v rl Ar onne Roal1 there the last 80 years that few things are both roductsdo his lineup.His stove "Dad was always rebuilding, may have forever faded. I enu p g, , , • Y` g, Spokane,Wash./Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-W Saturday, March 29, 2003 Page 7 WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION • V '-11` Yom$ 4a '4& • x ..,J� : - _ x7 -; GREENACRES �,.���+ ,,v-dgF � = - ".." SHOPPING CENTER 1 _ . A n ___ i. , - s.� `T aT ryy� i•�.��•.�ci,•+, '4, .is 4 ' f �`Lx WL • 7 4 , �:• 44.4. „nit' -tet ,.&.,. .A �\"' ;am P 7 y s,/ •} ww, ,. Tan.. .e. ,--�...r,fa! t I t �. mu 0-.0..--P',.,, tf ■r a.., + i..-4r.6 > - _ fye, .-- .2•1k , SLOW in4 .r.. . 2 ' .-- -•�' t4'"' SLS ,.. S t -- I i - - i -I' J r Mr. "l * l File photo/The Spokesman Review The Greenacres Shopping Center located in the Spokane Valley. Valley history later spent 20 years as a civilian supervisor at .;; . Fairchild Air Force Base,and since 1970 he's —u...++..ti,;. - been an inspector for the Spokane Regional -* Health District.He's never left the Valley. Continued from 6 Y "I didn't dream the Valley would grow to the v % de degree it has, days of pickup games in the street were done. "he said. �_ �,, There was more development the orchards and He still sees the old places of his childhood - '-'•'� , _ ; fields were disappearing and filling up with when he drives through the Valley.Mary's of - homes and apartments. Place,the Italian Gardens,and Cotter's,which w His childhood home had been bought and served up hamburgers to customers at a demolished to make way for a new car 12-stool counter off Trent near the old West - 11r91 1 dealership,now Dishman Dodge. Valley High School.It's now the site of Like many of the young men returning to the Albertsons near Trent and Argonne.Cotter's Valley,Polello went to work at the Naval old building is still there,now a little tavern. - Supply Depot.In the early 1940s as war "When I drive by there,"Polello said '. loomed,the federal government had chosen the inhaling deeply,"I can still smell the 4 1ti Valley for an aluminum plant and the inland hamburgers." supply depot. The Trentwood Aluminum Rolling Mill Building a future -;, opened in 1942 with 450 employees.By 1944, The war boom brought Jerry Miller and his t r the Velox Naval Supply Depot included 12 family from Chewelah to the Spokane Valley. ' `� general storehouses,five heavy material Miller worked the afternoon shift at the warehouses and outside storage for some 3,000 Northwest Magnasite plant,while his wife, %-. : _ railroad car loads.There were manyother y Virginia,would run their little grocery store. industries,the cement plant,brick and lime They had an opportunity to sell the store and plant,match factories,seed plants,canning Jerry went to work for another grocery. t factories along with the dozens of other smaller "Then we got a letter from the draft board businesses at the time,according to a history of that said,'You get back into nonferrous metals Jerry Miller worked in the Kaiser Trentwood aluminum mill during World War II,then returned to the grocery the Valley compiled by Mary Jane Honnager. work or you're drafted,'"Virginia said."We business he enjoyed. The Naval Depot also had a championship had three little kids by that time and that's why basketball team,Polello said. he came down here in 1943 and went to work at "The reason I went out there is I wanted to Kaiser." play on the Navy basketball team...We went Jerry drove to the aluminum plant and a to the nationals two years in a row,in 1946 and handful of others would ride with him to save 1947." gas.His job was flipping the big sheets of metal Polello also met his future wife working there.She was in the personnel department.He Continued:Valley history/9 Alb, ii f Spokane,Wash./Coeur d'Alene. Idaho-W Saturday, March 29,2003 Page 9 Valley history - h i _ Continued from 7 ,.�, ... ... __:_ ��_ y�� •.' - . •dt_ - , �� _ -.`---..r.. . • � . -_,; as they rolled off the machines. - ,. ...� `'' .�' "' �" "I enjoyed working there but I knew I " may,AL ~ - a wouldn't want to make it my life's work.The _ '"" day the war was over I went down and resigned t -�' i •.v, rt._ " , from the aluminum plant and went back into - ...- r ``r`,r ` the grocery business,"he said. ;�= � � ` _ The Millers built a house on the south edge '�" tee°"'' "" of Millwood,where they raised their four '`*ti` ,. children,all West ValleyHigh School `�~ s �-` -401:••07,-. -, graduates. 441!► _Y Jerry worked as a grocer for others and even _ L. 1,.��;r i- ,. did a short stint delivering milk for Early Dawn --A--.01.0.- _ r` �,. i? Dairy before building their own store in 1962 - -- „.---- •`• '- i out on Trent Avenue near the mill,East Valley :. ` Thrift 4- ` 3 ,Xt x L ' The store provided a good living for the - _” ", •',w ,� r .;,, «,.- a. 5 om._-'- - • Millers,each of their kids and a future son-in- > r' 1,4".....' =5 = law worked there over the years.The Millers ,, Y' �',; �' -. 4, <. -`x.: later sold the store to their sons. " - `. r^ i-A , - ' '` . _ 41- -1'..X- "We . "We did a lot of weekend business,selling to k. �j - -..� •... -%%4;i:,-,- . _ the people who were going out to the lakes, Allp ' Jerry said. T .• �``- They never thought about moving,even as -r Y F - �' �,,_- '`;.4 the development filled in around them. t "I guess we were small-town people in the >• first place,"Virginia Miller said. '� -•�,�,� - Aplacetoraiseafamilyo" '_' , �" Wes and Eileen Hendon didn't know much about the Spokane Valley when they moved to ,01)0*--: /, f' - - rVeradale in 1971.But it had what they were f �;'lookin for:A nice three-bedroom,two-bath - "' 'g a i Y, Y t home with a garage for the right price. . .;e ter« �: '`+< yUr.Eileen grew up on the North Side of Spokane > i ,. 4 . .r ` *1„ �„d;'.r 7'7. �' 12 y r• and her late husband's Air Force career kept s I�. y` a�, "� "t', .- 'i4w- , ;'' '. • '`r ;' • them moving across the country in the early - : M'°"''r , �+ `�' f ) years. ....=.'14.- .. . _ b �: , ,. ` _ , *' r When Wes retired,they started looking for a 1 �. �- ^�% place to raise their kids. t1 wr ,'" • *- Th .r w • They found their house tucked back on 18th .••`'41- 3 . �', 1 ° ' � 1 '> r' . Avenue off Evergreen on the fringe of the :� "gib ;• ^4 ' - - Valle Their closest neighbor to the south was r t, '� `� the Early Dawn Dairy.Eileen remembers her ` #f ,,.r:• ` ''" - s.. .�4�0.% 4 `. h t ,� • . daughter and a friend would ride horses from J. ,„r ,t x= ° • ; 3' ' N , ;i �` ', ' the foothills into their backyard. '-•�: %.,....-... • r mss. �. { tom•. NJ Eileen said her family teased the kids about - rt �` �',' l ,....„"r454:47- 11"."'''''1' , ,rv. s"+4 -e,s. . r _ si, ....f.: .1-1,-4,-;;k • living in the boondocks. t .` - " . .s = i-'# "They really thought we were moving out to '` #� . ' E 3 r ,r_.�: ' the country,"Hendon said. ' The neighbors shared the cost of maintaining File/TheSpokesman-Review In mid-November 1956,part of Interstate 90 that was being built through the Spokane Valley was opened to traffic.One of the areas that was ready for use was Continued:Valley history/10 the Broadway overpass. Now Open! \ o't''�° J• V. G. S. A. ft. 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L, 1Ubll Trent Ave. • \ezt,i00,tu'llome.Lain"1 692-?U99 .'.= - -- --- —. --�-- —� r - -_ - :.--..—_._ - 11M Page 10 Saturday, March 29, 2003 W-The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION I Sulf ., .. . , ,.., , .., • 4 ,_,, . .a,J. ._ .... . . . , , ..,, ...,,, ,,. ....,:., ,, ,,• ,:,21pi,414410.... ... 1., I I ,r F hill _ x s .. nlp1, f; t s� �;F �� r„ii ' ' r ><r • YY Abillif. . : I - t'•: \ , J t f '. i la 'h. ,S .� 4 s �`j 4 ti• ' l t 1, Y , ' 't r t • 4- A1 - ..,\ a'^} 'A' -- t 1' 1 3 .ir► - x. • Y 't ti 4 ','' . ' J J+' t•• •'t �,�.xx. • ' 1t.-. r 4 /7"‘,4. V• • ' •• .x- s ."4,f ,�i� 1 .,• �, ,, -- 2, .�' ��, n .'A, Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review i' *1 444. v. r ,1" • ,` iy .aI. ♦ d `!` i F ` ' b 1 '-t } `-.......,.s. The Valley"built up so fast that we i ,,er4 .r.sr �.O • �•- 4 t U ,,� .y,,. '* •".VE �� ,, t -4 ._ wished we'd moved out further,,,says a _4',,S •r i :'`g' -..t, 4. 'r`4 mow► t ._ �.. • . ... v-. 7� , I • "T' 4 a f.. IA.h'., ! mayIL :.. Eileen Hendon. '+ , `� `'j .t r< �` - �'. N' • -` ' ., V`..'+‘•• ■ lick j.• • 4 r " ��:,i,t".:-..,- - '2..4°1, '•� •�-'f,'�y^ _ . ,fir �: �. iy, , r • ti '. Valley history `� ' , .* 1/4 ,!` -,. , . - ,• >~ '\ : - ;- , Continued from 9 ,.� �{ } � w _ - a small swimming pool for the subdivision.The kids could ride their • . - bikes in the quiet street because ri:e/The Spokesman-Review there were never any cars.The road These fields near Opportunity have long since given way to growth in the Valley. didn't go through then. Others continued to flock to the moratorium on growth after again and again during the next incorporated in 1927. the City Council and staff have built Valleyfor the same reasons.The discovering that septic systems were decade. Six months later,Valley residents the Valley's government over the semi ural lifestyle meant families leaching into the aquifer. Chief Joseph failed at the polls took the same step.A growing tax past year. could own enough land for a garden, Spokane County extended sewer with just 34 percent approval in 1990. base and talk of annexation by the Since her husband passed away they could keep horses and their lines and learned how to bring City backers redrew the city of Spokane spurred a majority of Hendon said she sometimes thinks neighbors were just far enough away. services to a rapidly changing area boundaries in 1994,leaving out voters to approve a city of their own. about moving,especially since she _ But less than 10 years later,the that looked more and more like a city Liberty Lake,Pasadena Park, The proposal passed by a slim doesn't like the idea of living in a city each year. Northwood and other after 30 years.But she'll probably Hendons were no longer at the But startingin the late 1980s and neighborhoods,but it too failed with margin with 51.3 percent voting in stay. Valley's edge.Their back window, favor of the city,48.7 percent of which once featured a broad view of throughout the 90s,some Valley just 44 percent approval. voters were against it. "It's comfortable and I feel safe the fields all the way to the residents pushed hard for a city A year later an even smaller Incorporation stalwart Ed here." mountains,were blocked by government. proposed city of Spokane Valley wasan neighboring houses. Incorporation has been discussed denied again as 41percent voted in Mertens,who ledhthe successful f80,000-plus, Some have aign launchedtuback g g for years.There were studies of favor of municipal overnment. effort to form the city of unlikely campaign to turn the Just the highest skiff of snow is now said on the day the Spokane Valley's city government. visible over the rooflines. different governments starting in the In 1997,there were two separate first City Council was sworn into One thing is clear whether Valley 1950s.By the 1970s,cityhood was Valley cities on the ballot. office,"This is the evidence that residents are rooting for the "It built up so fast that we wished again considered by a group of Valley Opportunity received just 27 percent something great has happened.I g we would have moved out further," residents. government pioneers,just watching voter approval.Evergreen fared know we're going to have a great as the CityCouncil and staff build the Eileen said. The Spokane Valley Chamber of worse with just 26 percent. city." new city or wishing it would fail— The steady growth in the Valley Commerce published a report on a Finally,in 2002,Liberty Lake Others,like Hendon,are still this is the beginning of the Valley's started causing problems the Valley different government for the Valley broke the long string of skeptical but are watching intently as newest season. hadn't seen before;roads were in 1984.But the first serious attempt disappointments as they clogged;schools became crowded. to form a city in 1987 was denied by overwhelmingly decided to make a In the late 1980s,the Washington the Boundary Review Board. city of their suburb.It was the first ■ n-�� Department of Health threatened a Voters defied the city dreams of new city in the Valley since Millwood LOVE &LEARNING (' D-RENS CENTER Where learning&fun Become one! ■ IIIIMEn ■ nME ■ ■ ■■ ■■ ■■II■ ■• 1111O■1111111 ■ ■■•■LII■■ ■ We are a state licensed Facility where children are MAR I(A n • Encouraged to create, explore& pretend with dozens of Y y • ■n a p+ educational activities in a safe,welcoming environment. simple : Bi miS ESPRESS_ ;� % up. 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' ' ' - - . - _ 'Expireset/27/2003- -■ • \ -;_= ' - Call Now 924-1598 - - - = - le- Page 12 Saturday, Mazda 29,2003 VV The Spokesman Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION Vote of confidence iit n t come eas Tom Rousseau Insurance TAKEDS SNs��(�Y Representing O�� © � A brief history of Valley incorporation of the cities of PEM CO �. III4 LOSE WEIGHT • MAKE FRIENDS • NAVE FUN Evergreen and Opportunity.The ''� incorporation efforts: g proposed city of Evergreen got just INSURANCE '1,�, ,�� TOPS Chapter#WABgS,Veradale Millwood forms 1927 26 percent approval and Opportunity 1 Invites You to Join us at Our Open Nouse received only 27 percent approval. April 3rd,2003 at The city of Millwood is Because those two cities failed to incorporated along the Spokane garner at least 40 percent voter Good Samaritan Center,12715 E.Mission Ave. River in the Valley. approval,those areas could not be - included in another incorporation . 7918 Fast Sprague•Between Vista 8 Park 'Betty Ross-487-0883 • 'Pat Blum-0126-7740 attempt for three years. Serving The Spokane Volley 8 Eastern WA Since 1963 This is a tree meeting.No charge.No obligation Chief Joseph defeated P924-2242 November 1990 Valley residents in 70 precincts overwhelmingly rejected Liberty Lake incorporates LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES a ballot proposal that would have November 2000 Liberty Lake LEGAL NOTICES formed Chief Joseph,a Valleywide residents overwhelmingly agree to ' city of 90,000 people. make a city out of their lakeside City of Spokane Valley IN THE SUPERIOR COURT The 33.7 percent approval rate suburb,with 65 percent voter 11707 E.Sprague OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON Spokane,WA 99206 FOR KING COUNTY CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY kept incorporation off the ballot for approval.It was the first attempt to (509)921-1000 three years. form a cityNO 0�4 044P�g SEA SPOKANE COUNTY, NO.WASHINGTON in Liberty Lake.At the NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSED 56 time of incorporation,Liberty Lake BY SPOKANE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL NOTICE TO CREDITORS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY,SPOKANE COUNTY, had about 3,300 residents. The following is the title and summary of Ordi- (RCW 11.40.010&.015) WASHINGTON,ADOPTING BY Clloser,but no cigar nonce No. 34 passed by the City of Spokane REFERENCE CHAPTERS 5.04 AND 5.12 Valley City Council on the 11th day of March, In re the Estate oi: OF THE SPOKANE COUNTY CODE April f rt for a ballot One more time... 2003. EUNICE B.MOREAUX, AS THE ANIMAL CONTROL REGULATIONS p Support Deceased. FOR THE SPOKANE VALLEY proposition to form Spokane Valley, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE a proposed city of 76,(100 people,was May 21,2002 Spurred by a growing VALLEY,WASHINGTON,ADOPTING AbetteThe executor named below has been appoint- WHEREAS, the City Council has deter- tax base and byannexation BUSINESS REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR ed and has qualified as personal representative mined that •the regulation and licensing of ani- again,but not good enough.Voters Valley THE CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY. (PR)of this estate. All persons having claims mals within the limits of the City of Spokane talk in Spokane's City Hall,Spokane against the deceased must, prior to the time Valley will protect human health and safety and again gh the share incorporation,f"ysvotesp ars ra hs state the City de- such claims would be barred by any otherwise to the greatest degree practicable prevent m- although the of"yes" Valley voters will consider the latest Theintroductory paragraphs lsinesspegistration system. applicable of limitations, serve their jury to property and cruelty to animals;and to form a city of their own. tclaims on the statutePR, or on the Attorney(s) of rose to 44.3 percent. • proposal Section 1 provides definitions. record at the address stated below,and file an WHEREAS, the City of Council has deter- The new city would have.$0,700 Section 2 requires registration of business. executed(signed)copy of the claim with the mined that it is in the best interests of the City residents and could have an Section 3 exempts certain businesses from re- Clerk of this Court within four months after the of Spokane Valley to adopt animal control regu- Thirdtry was no charm estimated annual budget of$34.5 gistration. date of firstaftepublication of this Notice,or within Chapters rs and h4and requirements the set in Section 4 establishes the application pro four months after the date of filing this Notice, Chapters 5.04 and 5.12 Spokane forth May 1995 Voters rejected a third with the Clerk of this Court,whichever is later t Code as the Animal Control Regulations for n- million.The city would cover almost Sion 5 states there is no fee for 2003,there- or, except under those provisions included in the City,of Spokane Valley; Valleywide incorporation effort.This 39 square miles from the Spokane after the Council may establish a fee. RCW 11.40.011,or RCW 11.40.013,the claim proposal sought to form a city of citylimits to roughly Hodges Road, Section 6 relates to transfer of a business. will be forever barred. NOW,THEREFORE,the City Council of the Section 7 provides a penalty. City of Spokane Valley, Spokane County, 73,000 people,but drew only 41.3 excluding the town of Millwood. section 8 establishes a severability clause in DATE OF FILING COPY OF NOTICE TO Washington,do ordain as follows: percent approval from voters. the event some portion of the Ordinance is CREDITORS with Clerk of Court 3-25-03 held invalid. Section_1.Animal Control Regulations. Section 9 states this Ordinance shall be in full DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION:3-29-03 Pursuant to RCW 35A.11.020 and RCW 1City-county 5 Afteridation fizzles Current force and effect five(5)days after publication by reference the City of Valley adopts wrk by November elected lde s,years of Ca'1 For of the Ordinance Summary,and on the date of /s/Randy R.Moreau 35 reference Chapter Spokane entitled"Dogs and work by freeholders,58 iN & incorporation. Executor/Personal Representative Cats" and Chapter 5.12 entitled "Inherently BARGAINS}� V /s/Dennis K.Pflug,WSBA il11930 Dangerous Mammals/Reptiles" of the Shot percent of the voters say"no"to a f, The full text of the Ordinance is available at the g, kane County County Code as now in effect CLOSEOUT ' City of Spokane Valley Cie ofaices as identi- Attorney for Estate SR5264 and as subsequently amended as the Animal proposed charter that would have T S■ lied above. A copy will be mailed out upon Control trons for the City of Spokane consolidated Spokane's city and request. Valley,any reference to Spokane County"in SUMMONS Chapters 5.04 and 5.12 of the Spokane Coun- ty governments. sl Ruth Muller SR5259 CASE NUMBER:411729 ty Code shall be construed to reler to the City Interim City Clerk NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: of Spokane Valley. Five city plan collapses DOORS VERNICE ZANCO an individual,VERNICE Saturday Valley Voice Legate: ZANCO,Trustee of the ZANCO TRUST Section 2.Amendment entto Chapter 5.04 en• May 1996 Valley incorporation Only 84e per line per day! YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFFS: titled "Dogs and Cats." Section 5.04.031 of backers proposed forming five Call 459-5121 or fax 622-1189 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO a the Spokane County Code entitled "Cat Li- smaller cities.Two,Evergreen and email:legals�spokesman.com Municipal Corporation and the PEOPLE OF THE cense-Required"is hereby deleted in its entire- WINDOWS STATE OF CALIFORNIA by and through DENNIS ty.It is the intent of the City that cats shall not Opportunity,garnered enough 3.HERRERA,City Attorney for the be licensed. City of Spokane Valley CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Section 3.Copy to Be Available. copy petition signatures to go to a vote. poka E. 1-1000p Spokane,W 99 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this sum- of Section Co and 5.12A it the One copy However,in a flap over how voters (509)921-1000 mons is served on you to file a typewritten re County Code shall be available in the office of would be polled,proponents of theINSUI. T1ON sponse at this court. the City Clerk for use,inspection and copying NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSED A letter or phone call will not protect you:your by the public. two separate cities appealed the • Hardware • Lumber BY SPOKANE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL type written response must be in proper legal Boundary Review Board's final form if you want the court to hear your case. Section 4.Reference to 1-fearing Bodies. • Roofing • Railroad Ties The following_is the title and summary of Ordi- If you do not file your response on time,you may When the animal control regulations adopted boundary decision,derailing the •election five weeks before it was to • Landscape Block nance No.35 passed by the City of Spokane lose the case,and your wages,money and prop- in Section 1 of this ordinance refer to Board of ValleyCity Council on the 25th day of Febru- erty may be taken without further warning from County Commissioners, Board of Appeals, take place. • Moldings • Plywood ary,2003. the court. Hearing Examiner or any other similar body,the SAVEMO RE AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE There are other legal requirements. You may City Council shall serve in such roles,but re- want to call an attorney right away.If you do not tains the right to establish one or more such VALLEY,SPOKANE COUNTY, know an attorney,you may call an attorney refer- bodies,at any time without regard to whether No, times WASHINGTON,CREATING A PLANNING rat service or a legal aid office (listed in the any quasi-judicial or other matter is then pend- BUILDING end- two BU 1 LD1 N G COMMISSION AND ESTABLISHING THE DUTIES THEREOF. phone book). for the purpose of delegating the appeal or The name and address of the court is: other matter for hearing and disposition. Feburary 1997 After proponents withdrew an appeal over a plan to S PPLY The introductory paragraphs state the City de- SUPERIOR COURT OF THE Section 5.Severability.If any section,sen- pollsires to establish a Planning Commission. STATE OF CALIFORNIA tence,clause or phrase of this ordinance shall Valleyvoters with a mail-in 922-2934 • Spokane FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN be held to be invalid or inconstitutional by a Section 1 establishes a Planning Commission FRANCISCO court of competent jurisdiction,such invalidity ballot,an election was finally held on E.16215 SPRAGUE Section 2 states the qualifications, appoint- 400 McALLISTER STREET Rm 103 or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validi- ment, membership, removal, vacancies and SAN FRANCISCO,CA 94162 ty or constitutionality of any other section,sen- ...'mi. conflicts for members. tence,clause or phrase of this ordinance. Section 3 provides for meetings and rules. The name,address,and telephone number of the A BE'S AFFORDABLE Section 4 provides staff support for the Plan- plaintiff's attorney,or plaintiff without an attorney shall Section e in n 6.Effective Date.full force and effect This thethofficial ning Commission. s: LAWN CARE & MORE Section 5 states the duties and respon- sibilities. DENNIS).HERRERA,CITY ATTORNEY date of incorporation providthereof ed publication o JOANNE HOEPER,CHIEF TRIAL ATTORNEY the Ordinance r i al newspaper of the City as occurs in `� Section 6 establishes a severability clause in (SBN 114961) portion of the Ordinance is bylaw. • Weekly Mowing the event some MARGARITA GUTIERREZ, held invalid. DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY PASSED by the City Council this Krth day • Spring Cleanup Section 7 states this Ordinance shall be in full SBN 166215) of March,2003. 1 • Core Aeration force and effect five(5)days after publication 41 554-3824 �i4110— a • of the Ordinance Summary,and on the date of M CHAEL S.WEISS,DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY • Shrub Pruning incorporation. (SBN 169378) /s/Michael DeVleming A,... 010 {415)437-46d4 Mayor r ,• • Power Raking The lull text of the Ordinance is available at the FOX PLAZA, 1390 MARKET STREET, SIXTH -� • Ask About our Discounts City of Spokane Valley City offices as identi- FLOOR,SAN FRANCISCO,CA 94102 ATTEST: tied above. A copy will be mailed out upon /s/Ruth Muller SR5262 Licensed ESTI REE request. DATE:AUG 21 2002 Interim City Clerk & Insured CALL Abe Today! MgrE � I Valley 24189: 1 tied/6021911W /s/Ruth Muller GORDON PA PARK-Lt,Clerk Call Saturday Valley or fax Voice Leg 89 509-893-9544 or cell 509.998.4064 Interim City Clerk SR5258 By/y/PARAM NATT,Deputy SR5084 j �i� k T Page 20 Saturday, March 29, 2003 W--The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION r , _ r„tex _ 4 ', .A. .gyp;, V..' "'At., . yr' - . .'� i1s �'r ' A .Y., t;.- . e 4. Vit ' y- c91k�' ..�l -�� .- .. _ - .. _ - i` ,. .t t ,4 y j"ese-orlon Y t - _ ,4 ;,f.j -.s-+ fir-. _ -•a-- -. wry ' .l y .L «.R, zc amain _ AY .• - Y • y " r , file/The Spokesman-Review Children frolic In the Spokane River near Greenacres. Growing The landscapes have changed, butFor some Valle.y dski , summer was the season of The Ditch' memories of the old Valley endure -. - The Spokane Valley has certainly changed a lot since I grew Editors note:We received a stack of letters from readers up.I remember nothing but farms and orchards and the about growing up in the Spokane Valley.What follows '1 , .• occasional country store.Rulies'store sat on the corner of are excerpts from some of the submissions.The full ` t Trent and Harvard—there is a little"strip mall"there now. versions of these anecdotes,as well as others we didn't s, Staffords'Fruit stand on the west corner.Across Trent, have space to include,can be found on our Web site at - Pringles'Garage. www.spokesmanreview,com/valley. I grew up in Otis Orchards in the 1940s and'50s,in a house - - my grandparents,Asa and Emma Gilkey,built in the 1800s,on I grew up...in Millwood,about three blocks from Harvard Road.Otis was acres of apple orchards then, Millwood Park. separated with stone fences built when the lan�was cleared, Every now and then I go back and drive through the old 'll, `, , as they did in the"old country.". neighborhood.It is funny the hills that we used to sled '1{, r� I was an only child,and my summers were spent reading down don't look nearly as steep or as long.The home-run _' fence in right field not so impossible to reach.Drive by a, under the big tree in the back yard,teaching my dog,Butch, to climb a ladder so we could sit on the roof of the barn and our old house and see the same roof I use to jump off of \ count stars—and falling through that roof.Grampa was not thinking I was the bionic man.I see the tree I planted air R happy with that one.I remember riding my bike to Sandy from Expo'74,when they had the logging exhibition,and ��` Beach at Liberty Lake and getting up at 4 a.m.to pick berries i everyone there got a little sapling.That tree is huge now, for spending money. and 29 years old. Reese R.Riggin,Spokane Valley My fondest memories are learning to swim in"The Ditch," at Uncle Jim's,with my cousins Jim,Penny and Meg My dad was a residential milkman for Early Dawn McLachlan.I challenged myself to swim under the little Dairy in the days of glass bottles and milk delivery trucks wooden bridge on Kenny Road.I only had to hold my breath that were refrigerated by ice.In the summertime,we for 30 seconds,but I agonized over this challenge for days,and could always tell where Dad had been on his route by the SteveThompson/The Spokesman-Review the day I did it,I felt like Esther Williams! Arlene Mork enjoyed swimming in various places in the Valley. It was a wonderful place to grow up. Continued Memories/21 Arlene(McLachlan)Mork,Millwood r Iriim Spokane,Wash./Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-111 Saturday,March 29, 2003 Page 33 Congratulations to the New City of Spokane V II Welcome to the Neighborhood! ,. From all of us at The Spokesman-Review Valley Office Serving Generations of Valley Readers �. , _ - • r __ - - 7 : \- _ 1 i • voi46...., .......... . :1-• r = • . 1 - - ._.. .. . _:_..,_, , .....,... .. . 2...• r ____.,... 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Local Delivery We are in YOUR neighborhood! THE SPOKESI \' /4, 1 \'‘ —REVIEW Valley Edition and Valley Voice ke up and Read it. - = a 13208 E. S•ra•ue Avenue, Spokane, WA 99216 (509) 927-8100 [ 4 7!x!!-Z1 : S'3!!!! irwir AZT.. w v'� t �i+T ...� - v'tTR�-L‘Th -. "f.l�!-i -.warm- v. -"i l:�-'=`!ice! r T : _ — _ Spokane,Wash./Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-VV Saturday, March 29, 2003 Page 21 WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION Memories . Continued from 20 melted ice water trail left on the streets in the • Valley. Dave Chandler, Walla Walla N. I grew up in the Central Valley area,near Terrace View Park.My parents had built their split-entry home for$25,000 in 1968!We moved in January, 1969,during a particularly T r snowy winter.It really seemed like we had ,r moved out into the"boonies"as there was i. nothing but empty lots behind us.We kids -�. t'�, ". w called the empty lots"the woods,"building ' ` e r°' '� k"'u� ` it,, � '- ' y ''' `''• forts and playing back there for hours. - + _.,: Christy Thomas,Spokane Valley _� �;' � �, +-•t + . -—1.' I've lived in the Valley since I was 4 years old. l - z.4..,'.�r�. At Vera School in the winter they would flood .Y , / • '.l r the playground and we would ice skate at T_ _ . — recess.It seems like we spent most of our time • � j: ^�~err% / f-" � outside playing,no matter what the weather t. -, -- — r. t ``: , �I was like. • • t ".. "-~ 41.11111111.11111.ki 1 . Diane Hunter,Spokane Valley w s We moved into our house in Parkwater in 1944...These were the days when ice delivery — trucks still came down the alley delivering large ,,, \ s chunks of ice to those people who still had ice ` ,•' i J` ' i. boxes.If you were lucky,you could beg a large - • chip of ice to suck on a hot summer day. . ' Carlin Clark,Spokane Valley i _ --- - I'm 39 years old and still live in the Spokane ' Valley.I grew up on Maxwell Road by ttVUniversity.We used to walk exactly a mile to go to U-C(University City shopping mall).We J or r always brought pennies with us so we could make a wish in the fountain that was in the File/TheSpokesman-Revive middle of the mall. In one of the stores, I The University City shopping mall,now mostly vacant,was a popular destination in 1964. Continued:Me11ories/22 yam( t/,ice -_ 'r 7 —y ir Bob Salsbury treasured — a='" - - ,:' 'fir • his'74 Galaxie XL 500, - - , • • shown here in 1976. r. Salsbury,far right,grew up in Opportunity in the 1960s and'70s and , r ' ~ . .,- remembers spending his _ teen years riding dirt hikes ' - - ; in Painted Hills and drag racing down Sprague • Avenue. a Photo counesy Bob Salsbury ,. ,,L,. Teens ha• room to re , ..,.. ,.`,,,,,\ , r ,I,.}z in the wide-open valley N."....., Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review I grew up in the Opportunity Terrace area of in and around Terrace View Park. _ the Valley during the'60s and'70s.Finding a 3.Catching frogs from Dishman Hills ponds 6.Making out in the back seat of said'64 9.Sledding down 23rd Avenue on bright,cold single anecdote to describe Valley life during and releasing them on busy Sprague Avenue Ford on hot summer evenings with Aerosmith January days,grabbing the back runner of those days is difficult.Instead,I submit my "Get Your Wings"playing in the cassette deck. someone's sled and spinning him or her out. (our pre-video game version of Frogger). nonranked Top 10 list of"cool stuff I did in the 7.Poking dead bloated cows with sticks on 10.Swiping chunks of prime rib from the Valley": 4.Drinking copious amounts of Stateiht Boy Scout outings during the spring of'69 kitchen while working at the Red Lion and purchased Coors on creepy moonlessess nights 1.Riding noisy two-stroke dirt bikes all overparked next to the Saltese Cemetery. (after the BIG winter). being chased by the angry,cleaver-wielding Bella Terra,Mica Peak and the Painted Hills. German cook. 5.Drag racing up and down Sprague in my 8.Building labyrinthine tunnels in the snow 2.Engaging in fiercely pitched BB gun wars '64 Galaxie XL 500 with a built 427. during the BIG winter of'68-'69. Bob Salsbury, Veradale Pa 22 Saturday, March 29, 2003 Page Y W-The Spokesman Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION • Memories ' Continued from 21 remember a huge stuffed polar bear stood on its hind feet in the back corner. MaryJo Kraut,Spokane Valley I - `I have lived here since 1932.We i lived at the end of Ely on South River Way on the south side of the river.I remember watching for logs coming down the river.Grandpa and Grandma had a row boat and when i . anyone saw a log just coming under - _ the bridge at Argonne,we would holler that there was a log.They 4} _.'• �. �^ would take the boat out,tie on the _ = 4/ , aA log with a grappling hook and pull it into shore.When the logs dried outaft p • they were cut up for our winter wood. ;- „„/ .; - 'i'" • Doris Dean,Spokane Valley • :� •' e. — _ � - : ,� - .14 I grew up west of Dishman at Main I rf and Bessie in the Depression days. - Sprague Avenue was a block south of us,and the things my sister Virginia .. and I could do were endless.Play in __-_ _ - the Washington Brick and Lime.We would crawl over,and around,and through the big tile pipes,play hide and seek,all this and more in several acres of fun places. Mrs.Nor na Koch Panther,Spokane .. - _ -_. _ . - Valley ` When I was in high school,our -_. favorite thing to do was to go to _ . .. - • Ron's Drive-In(the old one)and drive around the building over and • over again(to impress the girls and to Photo courtesy Ron's[)ove In be cool).We also marked off a Ron's Drive-In,which has changed along with the neighborhood on Sprague Avenue,is a treasured memory for many Valley residents. 44.1.11 quarter-mile drag strip on Sullivan Road(then it was only one lane in each direction).It started right in •gwent south just past 1th.1 wonafew Jven a at tire didn't stopthe races in my'51 Chevy 4-door deluxe. Life was good in the Valley in the '60s. - -�-rr .r,. 9F When my two sisters and I were Rick Tnher,Otis Orchards ,� t �' .. •. ' growing up in the Valley,we lived • # �� next door to Floyd Coffin.In the back We have been lifelong residents of • , • =FM` f t yard of their home sat a black Model the Spokane Valley for most of our `• �' �: T truck.We coveted that truck ��- although it looked rather seedy.One 84 years.After graduating from CV spring day,Mr.Coffin told us e we married in 1939 and lived in a - two room house,and during the next • 4 r. wanted to sell the truck.The asking • several years we built on as we had . ts#�ttA i - price was$7.We very excitedly •money.We got to enjoy 80 acres „r counted our meager treasure and all- theacrossthe street from us—nothing - together we only had$6.By some but huge boulders—and in the persuasive bargaining Mr.Coffin let spring time the irrigation ditch where _ . i = -, ; it go for the$6. we swam in the summer.We also had What fun to go riding in that old lots of beautiful wild flowers to pick ,. • �' 1 truck on a dime's worth of gas,the and see the squirrels scurrying summer breezes blowing in our faces. • around and lots of pheasants and some wild rabbits.At age our • One day my friend Virgil,who daughter had a pony and then a horse loved the truck as much as I did,and and dog that she had until graduating I were tooling around among the scrub pine trees in what is now from high school. Sherwood Forest.We had a flat tire Ray and Elsie Kirkpatrick, Veradale ,. �'" and no jack in the truck.Virg - k' suggested I take the battery out of the The experience of living in ,� �_ `� truck,which Hid. Spokane Valley during the earlier r,�+ He then got under the rear of the days was a treat!We certainly had ` (' �"t� - truck,archehis back a sufficient time to soak up the daily events in f amount,liftingthe truck so I could our lives.Time to smell the violets s • slide the batteryand a couple of dead around my playhouse,build with the tree branches der the axle.The tire match blocks,swing in the big old was off the ground enough so we apple tree,slide down the hay stacks, couldput on the spare and continue i and mama had to call Rover so he on our waywith the summer wouldn't follow me to school. merry Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review breezes again blowing in our faces. Joyce Meek Budig,Spokane Valley Jim Bertis has lived in this Valley house for all of his 76 years. Jim Bertin,Spokane Valley •*t:r_hr+_t.t_t.ay t t v.ve t r.t.tisr*•_ t_1-♦ -•_tw• - .- _ _ i Spokane, Wash./Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-W Saturday, March 29,2003 Pape 23 WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION . _ Hot days ya : , . .•._.,..=.. _ .. ..•:„... ._=.__, made cool, ‘. -. � ,,. • ,, . - ,p i 4F'+ •�'' e. it; ♦ y(y1.11 cr` . 1' a, • • '''f. • % •I ''''� �� Y'1. • ' ':•r-� ' f . t1 ., `-...di ''•(�3,J.-'� {' •t Yu.Q, `'t ✓f.y ' . t-•'. memories � .rt' -4;r• .441; 4 rt K' t f".,--*,:," J�' rr 'Z•"i .i1� C X ,-',,•^41., �� rr [ff� � 'i •'•' -aou .1;741i!� Jt �: K3 fi�/u.�ytt• .:',Y-• } ) f f• . j •�. + .., • r 1.1 1 • '.i • ' ,4 •} A -,, u.. ' r. s j.� Agreat sunamerdrxy Irrigation ditches i• +! iia' '.-k .'� f`„ `r'" I t , ,. 11'A-1 -• was spent px0lsule like this one were a j� - ty. 44. big treat for kids ! ;:3 •' ' y 'u ;.,..e .a, L�t ++ y' I like Sharon A" I� �' != �' '" ;' "* ' y� - • ' ` -_' y. It was the summer of'61.A .fi"‘ , . rl- 'ms Y - - • `-f %� �� 1C'� ,ak ' Mardon,below,and , .q • 9ey t rather warm summer,as I even more `' , .{• • • d .y+ •,. •c •' remember,and the source of r. r 1►." ."Nri t '' < ••'a.. , c g► 'i many warm memories. excitement when , �r , ► x+ Y,t . -. -rt'a. w : Between m eighth and ninth the water ran fast c{J ,; • . �y ;'��, ". ' e , . -.>?. •.•!,' Y Mardon,known as 1 4- '11,4s., ^• ' �,s . � ofdikl ` year of school,I was anticipating ao, ar_•: -1- 'ti "y1" ` u . r how different life would be as a Sharon Jones as a 1,,' , •- • . Y 7"Y& t.i i : ' . ; „ ,ti' "w `+;.,e. •- `ar MI , 4i 4,mac .•r freshman at West Valley High child,lived in this �, . r,r i.s .h• • o . - , • �°� 40�w. ' 7 - is ;. 1'$`- - _ School.By mid-August,a pattern house on Knox and •-+, , r+, : -.4' j, i L, • , '.' "' 4 ti •- _ r Vista while growing u w 1•:' ° - •} ---...'-*‘• s�1 /. " �.; L of behavior had started that would u in the 195Us. • `A • tz r • i ;r ` �!,'`' ` `• • �`�., i`� �`. occupy many of my summer P f!. ' `- --• • �1• ' ' i= • L 44724.1r ��- evenings until the start of school. File/The Spokesman Review A friend of mine would ride his bicycle from his home in Foolish • in Millwood to my place in Pasadena n 1 1 s rus e a ove t minutes watching my small flock of pigeons fly circles above my pasture,then hop on our bikes We moved to the Spokane underground pipe,but just before -i and ride down a two-lane Valley in 1948.Mom and Dad she did,a strong neighbor boy ,�y `Y:, �' ► a Argonne Road to Millwood Pool, purchased a new home on the . pulled her out.After that,we were - z ,a �" -s ,. 1, + behind the old West Valley High corner of Vista and Knox just not allowed too swimmingin the '•'� -:-+f 4 School. south of Trent Avenue.The area at ditch.We had the pool at West - 4.444...6- w > -.., _•. Here,we would swim and cool that time was rural.There was a big Valley High School to swim in,so ;' i�+ '" �,i.' our heels until the pool closed at - + ' dusk.The water alwaysseemed a red barn behind our house that from then on we used it. . . ,-•-.: housed horses and cows.Mysister v_, . Ir bit chilly at Millwood Pool and My dad was a big tease and loved , . '� would do agreat of coolingus and I loved to dress up like job cowgirls and ride our stick horses. kids;he had nicknames for all the down after a long,hot summer One daywe each went back to the neighborhood children.Bonnie i t f Y evenings and Bev Humrich were called , .,,,r da The at the pool were barn and picked up cow pies to put `,:L_ t i far less crowded than the Humdingers.Billy Bankcroft was afternoons.I remember beingthe behind our stick horses.Dad came hs 'N,. called Billy Bankrupt.JoAnn : . �. home and saw what we had done r only ones swimming on several and laughed and laughed. Babcock was called Hole-in-the- 1 _ ` . occasions. Chin(she had a large dimple in her • The bike ride home was far We had an irrigation ditch down chin.)We always had lots of kids in s - ' ' ' more pleasant,havingbeen Y our and and Dad was always there the blockfrom our house.One da - ,i � P �my sister and I went swimming,as to play games with us.Those were I' ,t = revitalized by the magic waters IPS '�r from thea aquifer.A simple all the neighborhood children did. the good old days in the'50s. Ill -. Q P For some reason that day the water - `M -• - a �� pleasure,but one we looked was deeper and seemed swifter My dad's name was Ted Jones. — _., .,, ,.,.e forward to repeating evening after than usual.My sister got in and I'm sure a lot of people remember ti. .. s- evening in those waning days of started swimming,lost control and him. summer vacation. was headed down into the Sharon Mardon,Spokane Valley Torn Herrmann,Pasadena Park - M 00 M ilN Mi IN /N N M M N Mt /N 04 MN N as rairie alis '� Spokane _ 2! DRIVE•INi ; TAX BREAK Baseball .�. Weekly •Special . " ,. 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Call (208) 457-0210 ~ Office opens March 4th. ill OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Weekly Specials Good At All Valle Zip's Locations 3200 N.Spokane St.,Post Falls Saturay 9:W AM until Moon.Any questions call the office:922.0420 — Y P Y P re Take Spokane St.Exit and All players guaranteed to play half of game.No Select.No Tryout. ~ Check Out Our Other Daily Specials follow north for 5 minutes. N WI MI MO Mill - MI MN Mil N M/ 04 NMI 04 Ni — - _ - r Page 26 Saturday,March 29,2003 W-The Spokesman-Revie • 11...;a-,-S CPQ - - , - ._ _ - _- • - - ... • *lir 0 . . . ___. _ __ . sr „Ise 46....__ ''#t11 ,4 _ or Uri(,iY _.1 411# _...,.....„ 116 . -__, , a • t-. il ii / .$— .!"- - .._. ii it Ili _... _ i - I ,11 Trend 1 fission Alia 4 al 01 -- 4 .._, Ake BroadwayCO p c y = PETERS* .,.. nc y_ x1 `�. is ` .. 4th --O;sh "r� _a- afro f tint CtS 1 1 i is;t4644434,‘':i' _....,- CZ.3 NI of, 41 ili/ 0.4 A/ ' ' -=.447 . 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We weren't the earliest evolved into Spokane. other landmarks are named after local American The Spokanes actually include three bands; Coeur d Alene. We weren t all mark on the Indians,but few know the history of the people Upper,Middle and Lower,apparently in who lived in this area for centuries before white reference to where they lived along the Spokane these things that we are now. We Spokane settlers arrived. "History didn't begin 100 years ago,"said R►ver' weren't classified in that way.))Valle�I Bryan Flett,tribal heritage coordinator for the The Coeur d'Alenes got their name,which I.. means Heart of the Awl,from French fur J Spokane Tribe."We've been here for 10,000 traders.The name was bestowed because of how Bryan Flett,tribal heritage coordinator for the years. the tribe carefully guarded its resources from Spokane Tribe. "A lot of our history is oral.There's very little plundering."We didn't allow any forts to be built imiii I written down.You lose so much in the in our area,"said Mullen."What was here we translation from the Indian language into English." Flett and Richard Mullen,vice-chairman of wanted to protect.To them,we were stingy." The Salish name for the tribe,Schitsu'umsh, salmon season,"sale Flett."You had access to means Discovered People."We have been here the firewood and the water." the Coeur d'Alene Tribe,often visit schools to since creation,"said Mullen. speak about their history.It's their job to repeat The rivers were central to the life of the Some of those sites are still there."Every time the stories,much as the stories were told to them Northern Plateau tribes.In the spring and fall,all I drive through Spokane I can point to places by their elders. the tribes came to pull giant salmon weighing where I know my family camped,"said Mullen. The Spokane Valley was populated mainly by hundreds of pounds out of the river.The fish The various tribes used many of the same food ! members of the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene provided about 70 percent of the tribes' sources.They traveled to Mt.Spokane to pick tribes,though other tribes often came to the river nutrition. berries.They dug camas roots on the plains near to fish for salmon and trade.All the tribes "We had salmon chiefs,"said Mullen."It was Wenatchee.They harvested tule,a hollow reed, roamed over large areas. their job to make sure things were done properly. that was dried,woven into mats and used to "We didn't recognize boundaries,"said Flett. You fished when they told you to fish,you did make lodges."What was there belonged to "We went everywhere.We didn't have fences. not fish when they said not to.It was their job to everyone,"said Mullen. "We weren't Spokane.We weren't Coeur make sure the salmon runs would come back the Until settlers brought horses to the area, d'Alene.We weren't all these things that we are following year." Indians followed well-worn paths on foot."We now.We weren't classified in that way." The river was the gathering place for just didn't meander around,"said Flett."It's well The names of the tribes were given to them by powwows,trading and more."Almost every flat the first whites to enter the area.The name piece of ground was a camp,especially during Continued:Indians/29 Spokane,Wash./Coeur d'Alene. Idaho-W Saturday, March 29, 2003 Page 29 WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION A chronology of Indian history :` Indians: Cultural left,the Coeur d'Alenes have only 11 ,V, five. in the Inland Northwest ; '�' • "They're all in their 80s,"said _ sites plentiful Mullen."One of them is 102.Their ,...4. -Tx,,,,,,...f �`. \ knowled a and wisdom is resected 1809 Fur traders are among the first non-Indians to arrive in g P the northern Plateau. I. _ Continued from 28 above those who have degrees." 1855 Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens summons SouthernEfforts have been made in recent known that whenever theybuild a .� -_ � ?. years to record the stories that the Plateau tribes to a treaty council at Walla Walla. i new highway or a new road,it's elders tell.Language programs are 1858 Troops under Col.George Wright defeat Indian warriors, N F -,I usually over an old Indian trail, now offered in tribal schools. then hang tribal leaders who come in voluntarily under a flag of ,Vit' because we got from point A to "When elders die,we view it as the truce to parley,and slaughter the Indians'horse herd of nearly , , , point B in a fairly expeditious Smithsonian burning down,"said •1,000 animals. r1 manner. {The slaughter occurred near present-day ,_ , , 104.•••- x Flett."All that knowledge and i ' tr. -, "That's wh we work closet with ' milepost 292 on Interstate 90.) r yY Y history goes. - i, ! I 1 ti I the Federal Department of May 17,1858 U.S.Army troops cross the Palouse River, E j '; f `. I �! >� Transportation when they start The Northwest Museum of Arts although their leader,Lt.Col.Edward J.Steptoe,had been warned 1s✓/ '_ of Culture has an exhibit focusing 'ia :'"4 putting in roads.There are sites against the action.Steptoe was surrounded and besieged byI on the Northern Plateau tribes, g ' f - 1 , i�� ; along these routes because people allied Indian forces near present-day Rosalia,Wash. x �;^7 �t .. which include the Colville and lived and died along these routes. `;:_, i' r i �1' •••'.;;L i •`�` 'a There are no doubt numerous Kalispel tribes as well as the 1859 Spokane Garry begins years of unsuccessful efforts to 1 .1•, ''t Spokanes and Coeur d'Alenes.The obtain a formal treaty with the United States for the Spokane (',1' ' : ' .• d„, such cultural sites along the Tribe. V, , .' ,;� ;.' Spokane River,but the tribes guard exhibit was five years in the making. hf !,I `" their locations closely."We don't "The tribal people led this 1872 The Colville Reservation is established by executive order .� '" lilt �:s_' . , 1q 1� like to talk about spiritual areas exhibit,"said Lynn Pankonin, for the Methow,Okanogan,Sanpoil,Nespelem,Lakes,Colville, °`�� { .,r; , "q ,'.- '„ y• " because of the vandalism and curator of the museum's American Kalispel,Spokane and Coeur d'Alene peoples and scattered looting,"said Flett."Even the old Indian collection."I was simply a tribes of the Chelan,Entiat and Southern Okanogan. R stone tools they go for a lot of coordinator." • 4,14-.-•,,--... .f.4.:1,.:. ti money." The exhibit features numerous 1873 A 592,000 acre reservation is established by executive , - ; The sites that are known include order for the Coeur d'Alenes. f artifacts,oral stories,photographs Coyotes Rocks near Plantes Ferry. and a short video."We wanted to 1881 An executive order by President Hayes establishes a ��"4 �' N - �� ' The widening of Upriver Drive was do it right,"she said."We were reservation of nearly 155,000 acres for the Spokanes. -• delayed for years as the tribes From the Cheney Cowles collection struggled to preserve the site.The reseworking with four different 1892 Death of Spokane Garry. Petorvya,a 115-year-old Indian who claimed to have road still went in,but it was smaller reservations.Out of respect to the g witnessed the Lewis and Clark expeditionIndian people,had towe tell had us. listen ho 1894 An agreement reduces the size of the Coeur d'Alene of 1804-06,is than originally planned. what they had It was their Reservation to 345,000 acres. shown in this photo taken in 1906. "It was painful,"said Flett."It story to tell,not ours." 1906 Allotments begin on the Spokane Reservation, 1958 A new law restores all vacant and unused ceded lands was a lose-lose situation.We have a moral and and legal obligation to Flett and Mullen have taken on 1909 The Spokane Reservation is opened for homesteadingbyto the Spokane Tribe,returning nearly 2,800 acres to tribal the responsibility of learningas protect those sites." P ty non-Indians.The Coeur d'Alene Reservation is allotted and ownership.The Coeur d'Alene Tribe is awarded a total of$4.3 Another site is located near I-90 much of that story as they can. opened to white settlement. million in compensation payments from the Indian Claims just short of the Idaho Washington "Sometimes I sit there and think of Commission. the burden we carry,"said Mullen. 1911 Little Falls Dam is built on the Spokane River,destroying border,where nearly 1,000 horses "If it's not said,nobody will know." 1967 The Indian Claims Commission approves a settlement of were reportedly killed by Col. an ancient salmon fishery and trade center. $6.7 million for the Spokane Tribe as compensation for land George Wright in 1858.The bones As the tribes look to the future of 1939 Grand Coulee Dam goes into operation,ending the cessions in 1887. were visible for decades. the Valley,Flett is hopeful that salmon fishery at Kettle Falls and flooding land belonging to the Now the tribes are struggling to tribal history will become more Spokane and Colville tribes. 1994 A Federal court decision determines Coeur d'Alene preserve the stories and language of than a brief mention in the ownership of the lower portion of Lake Coeur d'Alene. their culture.The Spokanes and classroom."That's one of 1946 The Indian Claims Commission iss established to end my Coeur d'Alenes speak different hopes,that this new city embraces Indian land claims by making cash awards in compensation for ■Timeline is from the"People of the Rivers:Lifeways of the Northern dialects of Satish.The Spokane tribal culture and tribal values and lost land and resources. 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Mission Avenue•Spokane, WA 99216 ID CONTR LIC NO 10980-D-4(17.47)•WA CONTR NO IDAHORC227KH ' Page 34 Saturday,March 29,2003 W-The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION • i .,.- .44 v r ! ' 'f. • -. -2--- .-:...-,1..f,,,,,--`a► .,. - _ t}5 - .C': ._.�, a - - , lr"'Q`� -,.T „r <_p yid j ' 3�' r ,} tY�a' ,Y. .� z3 •. l ' � • a ia . :- i to - ri \.:• 1 i ,4, .f � ,. ._ ' .' a ! '1..: ItAJE ' " i . a ' 1f .-_,,,t,.. ...1:---:,.. .-- , , -' 'f 1-2_ , w ' A ' 2 nil C`'' "t - _ • :-t t ..:. i.'. . fir • - (+ • 4 ti,. . �/ --,,,r:,- _ 4 SLS 1 }Vii_ - _ < la '.,l. ` •§ �ti .... 1'' + ..i;22, File photos/rhe Spokesman-Review Crews work on the Corbin Ditch,an irrigation canal in the Spokane Valley. { The Valle mugh the years _ - �_ v , . .,. , . _ 1849 Antoine Plante,a retired French-Canadian 1899 The Spokane Valley Land and Water Co.,later 1911 Inland Empire Paper Co.begins �',;' j trapper,builds a cabin near the Spokane River. owned by longtime irrigation advocate D.C.Corbin, production at Millwood. 41„,ill'-' builds a canal to irrigate areas of Greenacres with 1851 Plante builds a cable ferry across the river. 1911 The Spokane Valley Growers 1 1 water from Liberty Lake. .;t Union builds a huge packing plant. 1 r 1854 Work begins on a military wagon trail between Fort Benton,Mont.,and Walla Walla.Capt John 1903 The Spokane Canal Co.forms to bring water Orchardists and farmers formed the Mullan was put in charge.The 624 mile road was from Newman Lake to Otis Orchards. union to help market their produce. • finished in 1862. 1904 The first apple trees in the Valley are planted in 1912 Otis Orchards officially named. ) 1858 Col.George Wright destroys hundreds of Indian Opportunity as an experiment. 1912 Vera High School built.The Valley I horses at Horse Slaughter Camp on the Spokane 1905 The Spokane Canal Co.builds a canal to Otis had long struggled to support a high l, River just west of the Idaho state line. Orchards with water from Newman Lake.Modern school because students could not 1864 First bridge across the river near the Idaho Irrigation and Land Co.taps the aquifer to irrigate travel long distances to get to school. 3,000 acres in Opportunity. By 1915,the school had only 30 state line at A.C."Charley"Kendall's store. 1905 Vera School is built at Sprague and Progress. students enrolled. f 1865 William Newman,an escort to boundary1912 Nearly 2 million apple trees grow — surveyors for the U.S.Army,settles and farms at 1905 First recorded burial at Pines Cemetery. in the Valley. Newman Lake. Y. 1913 The first fruit shipments of any -. - 1867 Daniel Courchaine builds home in Saltese area. significance from the Valley begin. ff 1871 Steven Liberty settles on the west side of Leading varieties grown include Liberty Lake. Jonathan,Wagener,Rome Beauty, . 1873 James Glover,the father of Spokane,settles in Winter Banana and Delicious. The Edgecliff Sanitarium treated tuberculosis patients of all Spokane. - - 1916 Levi W.Hutton buys 112 acres as ages,including this toddler in 1938. 1880 First sawmill at Newman Lake built to supply - _- the site for an orphanage.Founded - in 1919,it is now known as the timber to Northern Pacific Railroad. Hutton Settlement. 1922 Valley population estimated at 10,000. 1880 Albert Canfield and family arrive by covered - .--.t.....,,, 1916 Appleway(Sprague Avenue)is paved from 1922 Spokane Valley apples win the Pacific wagon to be the first settlers in Otis Orchards. "`� Spokane city limits to the railroad crossing at Northwest Fruit Exposition in Seattle in November. 1881 Tracks of Northern Pacific Railroad extend Dishman. Horticultural census shows 1,164,686 apple trees through the Valley from the West. Inland Empire Paper Co.opened in Millwood in 1916 Edgecliff Sanitarium opens for tuberculosis in the Valley and 12,000 acres devoted to apple II 1911.The smokestack was built in 1922 and was patients. orchards. 1882 Joseph Woodard and family leave Kansas and settle in the Valley. last used in 1973. 1919 Land set aside for a golf course is made into a 1923 Six Valley school districts—Vera,Greenacres, municipal airfield,later known as Felts Field. Quinnemosa,Liberty Lake,Saltese and Lone Fir— 1887 Newman Lake gets fish. consolidate to form the Central Valley Union High 1888 Chester gets its first school with Cora Bussard as 1907 The Opportunity School District is organized 1919 Opportunity State Bank opens. School District.Later,Mica,Chester and the first teacher.She received a salary of$25 a and its first school built at Bowdish and Appleway. 1920 First issue of Spokane Valley Herald printed. Opportunity join the present day school districL month for a three-month term. There were 139 pupils and four teachers,and at the dedication,Estelle Cashett buried a fruit jar in 1920 Inland Empire Paper buys 40 acres near its 1924 West Valley School District 363 forms. 1889 Washington becomes a state. the comerstone that contained their names.When factory for homes for its employees. 1924 Work starts on Eagle's Nest(later called Riblet 1889 Spokane is rebuilding after its devastating fire. the school was demolished in 1969,workmen 1920 The Argonne Bridge in Millwood is dedicated. Mansion.) A.T.Dishman trades his interest in a Spokane livery discovered the jar,which was cracked but still had 1921 Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce is 1925 West Valley High School opens. stable for a work team and wagon and buys land the papers preserved inside. organized. 1927 A national air derby is held at Felts Field. south of what is now Dishman.He begins hauling 1908-09 Several Valley residents begin organizing the granite to help Spokane rebuild.Later,his granite townships of Veradale and Opportunity.The 1921 Half of the Opportunity business district burns. 1927 Millwood residents vote 76 to 5 in favor of built Gonzaga as well as Lewis and Clark High Legislature passes a law authorizing townships.The 1921 The first Apple Blossom Days Festival is held in incorporation. School. Spokane Valley hosts its first national apple show. Otis Orchards.More than 1,000 pies are eaten. Continued:Timeline/Page 35 . Spokane,Wash./Coeur d'Alene,Idaho-1N Saturday,March 29,2003 Pag , - WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION Timeline Continued from page 34 • -„ - e 1927 The first Central Valley High School opens on -' r , t •xi. Appleway.It houses 13 classrooms,170 students - and costs$43,000.The building is erected in less 'I3 '!s- , than four months. 1928 Early frosts,disease,soil depletion and _': a,n •.,. competition from other apple producing areas take t � their toll on the Valley apple industry.Two years '. earlier,more than three-quarters of the apple trees ;.'`1 t• 1 { in the Valley were pulled out.Also,the irrigation , systems and ditches built near the turn of the r , Q. ` r =� - --- .. t • 3; r century are failing from lack of upkeep and repairs. y'�. • Some residents begin to lose their farms or sell ., f; • their land in 5-,10 or 20 acre lots as suburban ; k. _, *-4 ,- i` home sites.Others convert to truck farming,raising ,- :_ e r: `�' I. _ strawberries,raspberries,tomatoes,beans,peas, •, r ?'"°A • •- t ' - _• «�- watermelons,asparagus,squash,cucumbers and %+' 4, 't :- r" .' � r �+lr'- 41,."411-4.,; -tib o.: - oy. t J 4. -. !,. �I thousands of acres of Hearts of Gold cantaloupes. ° _ 1930 Opportunity starts putting up street signs. • 's j =r_ /;:^ ""' 3 - - 1 - 1932 The Diamond,Ohio,and Federal Match ` L � :Z{ .- companies o erste in the westpart of the e`n: f ` ` e �*~'� 1 P Valley. t; �t l v :.. Making match blocks was the largest industry in 'e,�i3 ,<Y` . - .^ 114 �, t' • • ' the Spokane area at that time,and more than • • 200,000 board feet of white pine timber are used ' ° ; t " by the industry each day f t 5+ r -i -,v ° t • f 1934 Peter's Hardware opens. : #` :„"'i •1 ; s. �` l - K .' 1936 Jacklin Seed opens. lit.;,` . '' .1 r ro► 1937 Valley businessmen propose incorporation. s E.r ,�. Nothing comes of it a�"' i r ad° r 4,., 1938 Aslin Finch Feed store opens. ti �, Kff. ,, • ( ` >t v . , . 1939 The Dishman Theater opens. - ,� r f��t ` s 1940 Spokane County Fire District 1 is formed. -• I i .. ; £ Err ` F t, ' ' ' x • �`• a. ' 4. •a,., r tLL ,� ` xs' Y ;. 1941 U.S.government builds the Trentwood Aluminum ,:-,i-,,.. . Rolling Mill. � ,e! ' .••};<v='.. " ° .' -4 ., ` . i '� ` t 1941 Central Valley students raise funds to purchase 'r "r r'f ..,- - ..• •-•,, ,-'.,, .-- • -- ,' , . . r.......„,_ '` � -` lights for the school's football fields. 1Wo girls show off raspberries grown on a Valley farm in July 1951.Valley farmers started converting from apples to other fruits and vegetables in the late 1920s. 1942 U.S.government spends$12 million to build the Naval Supply Depot in the Valley. 1942 Spokane County Library District is formed. districts to form the new East Valley School DistricL 1973 For the first time,Central Valley School District's annexation by the city of Spokane,consolidation of 1942 The Trentwood Aluminum Rolling Mill opens with 1961 A new East Valley High School opens at • opening-day enrollment tops 10,000 students. some or all aspects of city and county government 450 employees. Wellesley and Sullivan. West Valley School District's first-day enrollment is and adoption of a home rule charter. 1944 Johnny's bowling alley opens in Opportunity 1962 University High School opens at Ninth and 3,900,while East Valley School District's is 2,600 1983 Under the direction of Gary Green,the 1944 The$12 million Velox Naval Supply Depot has Herald,the former site of Spokane University,a students. University High School band ranks No.1 in the grown to 12 general storehouses,five heavy four-year liberal arts college.The$1.1 million school 1978 A study of water samples taken from 80 test Marching Bands of America National Championship. material storehouses and outside storage for some has 65 classrooms and a capacity of 850 students. wells reveals that pollutants from septic tanks are 1989 Centennial Trail is built along Spokane River. 3,000 railroad car loads. reaching the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer.This leads to a declaration by 1990 Spokane Valley residents reject a proposal to 1945 Only 50,000 apple trees remain in the U.S.Environmental Protection incorporate the area from Spokane's eastern city the Valley - -- - -- ..... limits and the Idaho state line as the ci of Chief "` "•-< = Agency that the aquifer is the sole ty 1951 The Spokane Valley Chamber of }= L.-_:‘,..„7,--'.....; yrn Joseph,which would have 90,000 residents. Commerce reports there are 30,000 _. source of drinkingwater for the '� Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area,and a 1991 October wildfire sweeps through Ponderosa people living between Spokane's y.- !,V' - ." eastern city limits and the Idaho state � + push to build sewers throughout the neighborhood,destroying 15 homes.Homes in the urban Valley. Newman Lake area are also burned. line.The chamber's count records _.-«••••••8.1 a•• • 9,800 homes,700 businesses,27 .. 1979 Hewlett-Packard establishes a plant 1995 The Valley's Walk in the Wild Zoo,once churches and 11 service clubs. "' near Liberty Lake. described by a national magazine as the worst zoo 1956 The first five mile section of Irv!!. - _ 1980 U.S.Census counts 82,153 people in the United States,closes. Interstate 90 opens between Y ` -= living in the Spokane Valley area-up 1997 The Spokane Valley mall opens. Spokane's eastern city limits and Pines > from 46,458 two decades earlier. 1998 Central Valley School District voters approve a Road.The completed$5 million Valley �-�-�`� According to the Census Bureau,about freeway opens a year later. 30 percent of Valley households have $78 millionhiconstruction bond to build two identical high schools. 1957 Central Valley High School opens at an annual income of more than Eighth and.Sullivan.The$1.3 million $25,000,compared to only 19 percent 2001 Liberty Lake becomes a city. building houses 635 students during '._f • of households in the city of Spokane. 2002 Central Valley opens two 240,000-square-foot its first year. This aerial photo of West Valley High School was taken in 1933.The Some of that is attributed to high- high schools. 1958 Opportunity Township supervisor school opened in 1925 and was replaced in 1958.The larger brick payingjobs at Kaiser Aluminum's 2002 Spokane Valley voters approve a city Grant Groesbeck recommends that building located behind the high school was the Millwood School. Trentwood plant,which the company government for about 80,000 people. Valley residents consider incorporating estimates employes 1,000 Valley the fast-growing suburban area as a residents. city."If something isn't done soon,then it could 1965 University City shopping center opens.The$3.5 1983 State Board of Health officials threaten a IN The timeline was compiled by Spokesman-Review result in piecemeal annexation to Spokane or million enclosed retail center-billed as the largest moratorium on new construction unless sewers are staff with help from Florence Boutwell's three- scattered incorporations or districts,"he says. air conditioned shopping center in Washington- built.Spokane County develops a wastewater volume history of the Spokane Valley,the Boundary 1958 New West Valley High School opens on Buckeye features 29 stores and parking for 1,500 cars. management plan and designs a sewer service area. Review Board study on incorporation and Avenue. 1983 The Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce newspaper archives.Boutwell's books are"The 1969 Spokane Valley General Hospital opens. 1960 After 70 years of education the Otis Orchards announces it will raise$20,000 to pay for a study Spokane Valley/A History of the Early Years,'A School District consolidates with Foothills,Pleasant 1970 The U.S.Census counts 53,407 people living in of local government options for the Valley.Options History of the Growing Years,1921-1945"and"Out Prairie,Trent,East Trent and Spokane Bridge school the Spokane Valley. studied include incorporation of a new city, in the Gravel° Page 40 Saturday, March 29, 2003 W-The Spokesman-Review , I WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION I different nationalities.There was about the days of riding his bicycle to new city to bring in more jobs,more more in this little group than there the top of Valley hillsides and look retail,and more choices. ii �1tYT are in this wholesuentire casetown." but over acres of apple orchards, Still,as is usually the case with but they do remember a time before "With the incorporation,the _Will a youth,all the students said they are the Spokane Valley Mall or when the Valley is just going to grow,"said excited about the Valley's future and Midilome neighborhood was just a U-Hi senior Dave Leach,adding that ' ' the changes that cityhood might field. that growth will likely keep him in the bring. The Valley"just keeps improving," Valley. ves bonn* • They may have given Llewellyn said CV's Specht. "It's not that bad here,you know." Iblank stares when he reminisced The students said they expect the i council. \‘,‘T HE VAtte, r Drape y _ _ Dalley teens want more U-Hi's Travis Hill would like the N U r city to build a sports complex like the ��► 77'......*::;;\_. Sp e C i`a I than family atmosphere new Basketball Cornerstones Facility /l u I near Gonzaga. .� l 3 0 Q/ 0 F F FREE By Stacy Schwandt His classmates also lobbied for a Pick-up& Staffwriter skate park and a venue for high I (Must present coupon with in coming order)Delivery I I school hands to play. Offer Good Through 4130/03 Most Spokane Valley teenagers The CV students agreed that a Hours:Mon-Fri 7:30-6'00.Sat 9.12:00 were too young to vote In the election pedestrian-friendly downtown area C R E E NAC R ES CLEANERS j i that brought cltyhood to their would be fun and Amanda Hansen 'yay a., ��,a I va<cors a7 to community,but they still have a few said the Valleyneeds more shopping. 'ran Stye E.18207 Appieway Greenacres 928 things to say to their new council E.12sto Sprague members. Many of the seniors admitted that Authentic Hawaiian Food L N �h` e they were looking forward to leaving Chicken,Short For one,the Valley may be a good town for college,but none seemed Ten Beef, • •• place to raise a family,but It's not the giveupValley. Ribs,Salmon,Spicy Pork, • \� 1 C 1 1 Y N G-Ft S • readyto on the l(alua Pork ICarsu, i best place to be a teenager. "I've lived here all my life,"said * • I "It's boring,"said Central Valley U-Hi senior Kate Filippini."I'm just Hamburger Steak&Onions • High School senior Chantel Seney. and Many More Island • * Spokane's Exclusive Debut ii f • t g Y ready fora change of lifestyle.' r ,-- Students in Steve Llewell n's Favorites! • • Y Fili tni is one of the seven `I •. seniorgovernment class at Universitypp Now Serving Beer&Wine • *State of the art Motion Furniture Ii v C ORE students in Llewellyn's class who will - • High School recently participated in be attending out-of-state universities. Dine In • Delivery S • a conversation about growing up in Another •seven lan to stay in Take-Out • Drive Thru • ;9 the Valley. S •Spokane for school and five re still www.hulahulgrilLcnm • *Furniture You Love to Come Home To i S H\‘ • Their neighbors at Central Valley undecided. 9420 E. SPRAGUE AVE. • -w4G/0 Mu • High School agreed to a similar talk 6508 E. Sprague • g g The Central Valley lunch crowd 921-6670 Sun-Thur 11am-7pm • --� around the lunch table. was split SU SO between students rri-Sat I tam Spm • 922-2500 • When asked about the best aspects whose college plans will take them to • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • of their childhood,the students put - Washington's West Side and those the Valley's safety and community who plan to stay close to home. camaraderie on the top of their list. CV's Evan McGuire said he's ■ "I grew upon a cul-de-sac,"said following his brother and sister to f' , 1.1itc-) . , /I) Seney."There were always other Western Washington University in 1 V1 people around." Bellingham. ‘ % \ 1 i Her friend Amanda Hansen "I like it over there;it's close to theIEN agreed. ocean,"he said."I want to go and try ,`•t "It's not too hectic.It's fun because out other places." �� you have your friends around you," His friend Jessica Specht said she ALL SEAS O she said. will likely go to the University of (� They said they enjoyed the Washington. DrivingSchool Inc. mountains,the Centennial Trail and "I wanted to get away from my the youth sports programs. parents,"she said."Get some . But just as quickly as they rattled independence." off the positives,the students offered Students from both schools said up a few complaints. they had a deep desire to live in a First of all,the lack of affordable more diverse community.. things to do in the Valley. "You see the same kind of people * Your Neighborhood Driving School! * "They tried the whole dance club every day,"said U-Hi's Lyons."We Locally Owned and Operated thing,but that closed down,"one should be around different races and student said. different people." ,Learn to DRIVE i n our Five-Week course "You can't hang out in parks or Specht,who has American Indian parking lots or the cops are going to heritage,described an orientation 30 hours of Classroom - 8 hours of In-Car instruction come and tell you you're loitering," she attended at the University of A said UHisentorTamaraLyons. Washington for students of color. Conveniently Located at Sprague and Powdish. They gave a few specific "I was the whitest person there," recommendations for the new she said."It amazed me—all the Behind Blockbuster Video Z Dinners for $25 spring gaup Afternoon and Evening Class Times Begin with an Appetizer to share,or Easy Payment Plans Available! substitute for Soup of the day,our • Aerating Sumner Soup or Crisp Green Salad. Classes Beginning April 8th, April 22nd & May 13th Choose 2 dinners from our selection • Power Raking Call for future class dates. of 12 Delicious • Lawn Mowing Service Cerrif. Entrees plus Accepting New Accounts • Depart aBy T Home Baked � ' .3 Special (i we ne Bread s Senior Citizen Discounts Spring 'ens.W Of and dhDessert Wonderland $25000 PERCY'S -' i'4' Lawn Service Call Now to Reserve Seat a� EANA ... Ca1122-8372 928-3011 4 &CATERING •Bonded E. Sprague & University • • " •insured 11524 E. Sprague Ave. Spokane, WA (509) 928-3011 at U-city • 924-6022 t "`-—•'," r _____ Page 42 Saturday, March 29, 2003 W The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION Four visions for the . future . ,. . . ... i , , . , ..... . . .,.. ._ ,.,..,_.... i.. k� .. . ._ ,.. . . ... .:.,..::,2N..,, ,. A / ti .,• �, M .. 1. ! T it Longtime Valley l f resident and ' machinist Patrick Haight wants to protect Spokane Valley's scenic open spaces from careless zoning and building. - -- _ Holly Pickett/The Spokesman-Review • • an els lne ut Its ou n t e u ,•.• • ns must fight j two that will probably cause the most vicious in- And anyone who's ever attended a public lobby,they get active. fighting. hearing hoping to preserve a way of life can tell Citizens of the new city must be willing to to keep la their esty le Many voted for the new city in the innocent you:Land developers are not accustomed to fight if they hope to maintain the kind of life belief that local control would lower taxes while losing, that brought them here. improving public services.They'll be glad to Seething with indignation,developers came By Patrick Haight know that a bridge in Brooklyn can still be up with a plan to reassert control.What was Getting out of the burning bed will require The old story goes that after rescuing a fully purchased for a ridiculously low price. needed was a new entity they could determination and a couple of clauses added to clothed drunk found asleep on a burning bed, Bad government is expensive;good benevolently guide on the true path.After two the new city charter. the firemen ask him how the bed caught on government costs even more. defeats,they succeeded on the third try and First,they need a Double Fudge Sundae fire? Make no mistake;powerful forces didn't formed a Valley city. Clause,which states that any construction of 25 "I dunno,"replies the groggy fellow,"It was spend tens of thousands of dollars so the But,the citizens of this new city need not be or more dwellings must surround an enclave on fire when I got into it." average Valleyite could cast off the oppressive cattle.They need to remember that they,not containing:a mom and pop store,a post office, A good number of Valley folk,drunk with yoke of county rule for the loving caress of city some small group of sycophants,are in charge. and an ice cream parlor.Oh yeah,and a beat victory in the fight to incorporate the Valley government. The Valley will never return to a setting of cop named Hannigan,or Flannigan. City.are finding themselves in a similar To a real estate developer,pasture and orchards,pastures,and fields of grain rolling in The second clause would ban from city office situation:After climbing into a burning bed, meadow are merely blank canvases upon which waves before the wind,but it need not be ugly. anyone who ever cheered for Mr.Potter, they've gone nighty-night while waiting for the to paint high-rise condos and shopping malls. It doesn't have to look like that post-war anyone who's ever won a game of Monopoly, fire department to show up and put it out. Tall pines and ancient maples are little more Italian movie set overlooking Millwood.Lakes and anyone who thinks a home is an One problem:They are the fire department! than impediments to a bulldozer. and natural settings need not disappear like investment. And the cops!And the tax collector!They're Developers began to feel the pinch of Liberty Lake,a body of water now visible only now in charge of water,sewage,traffic control, responsible restraint a few years back when the in satellite photos. Patrick Haight is a 50-year resident of the snow removal,building codes and zoning laws. county,in a fit of social conscience,instituted a When vacuum-packed,humans become Spokane Valley.He lives outside the city limits on All of which are difficult problems requiring a growth management plan.For the first time, irritable.When their only access to rivers and a 65-acre ranch overlooking Trentwood.He is a great deal of expertise to solve.But,it is the last they knew what it was to lose a public hearing. mountains is through a restaurant or a hotel . machinist fora small local company, • • . • Spokane, Wash./Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-VV Saturday, March 29,2003 Page 45 WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION Make a good A. A . ..i. :., ......v. place even better „...... Pro ress is needed same parks and the same stores,the A �x g only difference is we now have a City -- � � but not too nZUCb Council and so forth....What would make the Valley a better place is to leave it alone,let us be and live our We asked readers to contemplate lives like before.There is no need for the future of the Spokane Valley. all the major change.The Valley to'� -,_ r `- What will likely change in this area? me was once a pleasant place to live What is missing from the Valley that and to raise a family and now I am 1lit; would make it a great place to live? not sure,only time will tell.... , ,':,a; ; We've included some of the following Candy Shoup,Spokane Valley e-mail responses.Due to space restrictions,we couldn't print all the We have lived in the Spokane Valley responses we received.You can read for the last 37 years.We have raised the complete version on our Web site our three girls here,and they ' 4. at www.spokesmanreview.com/valley attended the Central Valley school �\ ~'�' system,which in our opinion is one of `,'` h. ... I graduated from Central Valley in the best in the state.We hope that the early'70s...I watched the the new city of Spokane Valley City �� ' .. beginnings of change during my visits Council will keep the area on track of �� 1111,_ ,.t; _ti; home from the military.They seemed great growth and bring more LAI i y , •`;439 very jarring at the time.As I drive businesses to what we think is going north on Sullivan now and think back to be a great city. �r�'�• on those da s,l see those were ust /ii,�� Y J Royal and Arlene Myhre,Spokane �l ` minor blips on the Valley radar....1 Valley realize change is inevitable hut I hope The story of --- e the new City Council puts a lot of I would like to see some of the old progress is411111 thought into containing the sprawl dilapidated buildings torn down or unending:Avista timi 4If .. and preserving the things that make upgraded.. I want a city I can be linemen Lee Walter filithe Valley special. proud to call home.I envision tree- and Cody Ratner til, s I Jeff Danner,Spokane Valley lined streets which will be pothole- work on power lines �_ free,of course,and business ownersalone Pines Road in ;.�4'0 ! I :1 Why change the Valley?I myself like upgrading their properties as the city the Valley. _- -. la �gi+a Ill nigh •um ate— it the way it is.Tome nothing is p� g p p Steve Thompson/lhe Spokesman-Review missing.It is still the same people,the Continued:The future/46 New cityis a melting somix carefullyll Y We need to pay attention to what is going on in Citizens need to engage, our city and provide input to our elected and F appointed city officials.We also must embrace ,- - but allow;for differences opportunities to be involved in boards and , 1. commissions formed by the City Council. �` : - As a resident of the Valley for only 13 years, The most important quality to exhibit in this _ - I have nevertheless come to call it my . involvement is civility.We all have hopes for community. our new government,and we should feel Community takes many different forms and comfortable in sharing our thoughts with the with the actual incorporation of our new city on knowledge they will he heard and considered. - - March 31,community will take on The best way to ensure courtesy is to be ' 1 "government"as yet an additional form. courteous. I There were many reasons for forming our We all know there will be contentious issues , •i own city,long debated and discussed.The votes to debate,including land use rules and their .14 are in,and it is time to move forward.As we do, application,service levels,financing of sewers 4 let's keep in mind the essential elements of a and other infrastructure,and taxes,to name a few.Just because these issues are contentious a healthy community: t; does not mean our discussion of them shouldrM •Everyone in the community should be - be , "•• .4 � >:' invited to join in discussions Finally,as we move forward with our new city •Alternate viewpoints should be community,we need to remember that we all encouraged and considered. belong to other organizations to which we •And city governments'agendas should be should apply this same approach.The county, 7 broadly shared and discussed. our school districts,utility service providers and The formation of a new city government our fire and library districts can all benefit from c �, presents residents with both challenges and our involvement.Let us all use our new I opportunities.Good government is hard work. opportunity with city government to energize im ��1, We have elected a good City Council,but that ourselves to be a collegial,welcoming and I A is not enough.We all need to be engaged and thoughtful community. ® Oa 1 committed. Mike Ormsby lives in the new city of Spokane '�girl Tl, The new city gives us all one more avenue to Valley.He is an attorney and former member of Stevemompson/The Spokesman-Review be involved in our own lives.It is incumbent the Eastern Washington University board of Valley resident Mike Ormsby. upon each of us to step up to that responsibility. regents. - � —,. — Page 44 Saturday, March 29, 2003 W-The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION A clean s needs careful strokes Responsible government must earn citizens'trust before it moves ahead By Diana Wilhite - •, iiii:]. With incorporation looming closer, itis appropriate to look to future .. possibilities for our great city. Although a few of our citizens feel 11111 •that another layer of government has -, w . been created,what we are doing is . . [ . . " transferring the decision-making . - process closer to the people.With a seven-member council composed of ,yx individuals having the city's best - ra , ,. interest at heart,there will be plenty of dialogue with citizens that will :31 iia: result in decisions that best reflect . .. - . E3 the diverse nature of the community. With the creation of our new city, "' we have a clean slate upon which to rethink how local government canr`' ``f _ best provide services requested by - the citizens.We are thinking"outside the box"when it comes to all types of r . . , city services to determine how to _ most efficiently provide each service, -. whether it be contracting with Spokane County,using private - contractors or providing the services in-house. For instance,the City Council has - the opportunity to review the growth Y management plan and refine it to fit III the needs of our community,giving 1' m irelP our new city the ability to determine � _ ' what types of future growth are =�" :• r' desired.This enables citizens of the City of Spokane Valley to control Steve Thompson/The spokesman-Review their own destiny.History has clearly Deputy Mayor Diana Wilhite hopes citizens and government can"think outside the box." shown that uncontrolled expansion leads to problems with we have the makings of a wonderful Our vision can he endless but must benefit they will derive from the population as a whole,knowing that transportation,unsightly landscapes urban park for our citizens to enjoy. be tempered by the knowledge expenditure.And in tough economic the council will not support any and poorly provided services. The Center Point building will everyone in the community must be times,the council needs to have action that will not provide benefit to The council is laying the house opportunities for many willing to provide the tax revenue to managed budgets to create a safety the entire community. framework for our community to recreational activities,from making support our dreams.However that net ensuring the continuation of city We must realize that growing pains grow at a pace that provides jobs for pottery to playing bingo.Space will tax revenue is collected,it comes services without adding another will occur,but diamonds are not our children and grandchildren while he provided for the arts where we can from the pockets of our citizens who burden on a community already created without a little pressure and making sure the infrastructure watch our children perform or listen must feel they are receiving value for struggling with a downturn economy. sacrifice.Our vision is to become the supports the expansion.This is our to the sounds of a jazz ensemble. that dollar. At first glance this may all seem jewel of the Inland Northwest. hope,our goal. With outdoor activities important To be good stewards of our easy to accomplish.But the delicate Mirabeau Point is a pearl in the to all of us,there is a need community,preserving and balancing act of serving the collective rough waiting to become the cultural throughout our community to protecting our quality of life,we must needs of our community within the Diana Wilhite is a resident and deputy and recreational center of Spokane increase the number of parks in the be constantly vigilant to always available revenue will be a constant mayor of the new city of Spokane Valley.The potential to develop this neighborhoods.We can envision a balance the needs of the community challenge to the City Council. Valle.She and her husband Rick own area to serve various needs of the skateboard park and perhaps even a against the resources available.If we Each citizen of our new city must and operate Safeguard Business community is tremendous.With its covered Olympic pool to provide ask the community to provide more realize that the City Council must Systems and Forms. vast meadows and wandering trails, wholesome activities for our youth. resources,we must articulate the always do what is best for the entire Act Fast in a Cardiac Emergency! InlandNorthwesOM 7/.17 i �+•-- A it's Nene! About 250,000 Americans die 1` •id ;,s `r 4 fii7;iiiid Ata goon from sudden cardiac arrest each year. Many could be saved. If someone collapses and stops breathing,call -` '• r't°.s.,.14- — 4 I �. A Monthly Sports TV Guide That Lists All 9-1-1 immediately,then start CPR. —�``,_9• ft div Sports Programming On TV For The Month! 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T City of Spokane Valley CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY j,: ,T�}: 1 i. 11707 E.Sprague Spokane,WA 99206 SPOKANE COUNTY,WASHINGTON s %V '-,.: ; = - (509)921-1000 ORDINANCE NO.55 • - • ,' il a NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSED AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE BY SPOKANE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL VALLEY,WASHINGTON,LEVYING THE • r,=+.- REGULAR PROPERTY TAXES FOR THE CITY The following is the title and summary of Ordi- OF SPOKANE VALLEY,WASHINGTON IN nance No.44 passed by the City of Spokane SPOKANE COUNTY FOR THE YEAR`t Valley City Council on the 20th day of March, COMMENCING JANUARY 1,2004 TO 2003. PROVIDE REVENUE FOR CITY SERVICES AS SET FORTH IN THE CITY BUDGET- AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE WHEREAS,State law authorizes the Ci � ^x �- VALLEY,WASHINGTON ESTABLISHING ACity of HUMAN RESOURCES SYSTEM FOR THE Spokane Valley to levy regular property taxes j CITY AND OUTLINING THE BASIC upon the taxable property within the corporate PERSONNEL POLICIES AND EMPLOYEE limits in order to provide revenue for the 2004 i . -.1.• BENEFITS OF CITY EMPLOYEES. current expense budget of the City; n � The introductory paragraphs state the City de- WREAS, g poon sires to establish human resources system. the CityHEof SpokanefollowinValleythe,theincorpropertyratilocat-of ed within the City is no longer subject to the Section 1 establishes the human resources County Road tax and the City is authorized to ' system. levy a property tax in a lesser amount; Section 2 provides for equal opportunity. h Section 3 relates to non-discrimination. WHEREAS,the City of Spokane Valley is au- L. S• 141ection 4 relates to sexual harassment. au- thorized to levy $3.60 per thousand of as- r r Section 5 provides for whistleblowing. sensed valuation deducting therefrom levies collected bya Fire District and LibraryDistrict Section 6 relates to drug testing. Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review Section 7 classifies employees. in the total amount of$2.00 per one thousand Spokane Valley resident Cynthia McMullen is an attorney and a member of the Central Valley School Board. Section 8 provides for the salary plan. dollars of assessed valuation; Section 9 providesfor overtime. WHEREAS, RCW 84.52.020 requires 1D0provides foror social security and equir es thc- medicare. City Council on or before the 15th day of No- Section 11 provides for retirement. vember to certify budget estimates to the clerk Everyone must make effort Section 12 establishes a severability clause in the event some portion of the Ordinance is of the Spokane County Board of Commission ers including amounts to be raised by taxing held invalid. property within the limits of the City;and Section 13 states this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect five(5)days after publication WHEREAS,the City Council pursuant to no- of the Ordinance Summary,and on the date of tice will hold a public hearing on the proposed incorporation. budget estimates for 2004 including revenue T T C1t)T St:Ir(I)rigsources which will fund the provision of tO ee neT /� The full text of the Ordinance is available at the services. , � City of Spokane Valley City offices as identi- NOW,THEREFORE,the CityCouncil of the tied�bove. A copy will be mailed out upon City of Spokane Valley,Washinton,do ordain eq as follows: Is/Ruth Muller By Cindy McMullen These are theualities that come to constants speed, will"hit"all Interim City Clerk SR5257 Section 1.2004 Levy-Rate.There shall be q IT we green and is hereby levied and imposed upon real mind when we think of the Spokane lights.Maybe we want to encourage property,personal property and utility proper- Recently ,I drove down Sullivan Valley. more business opportunities so that 84.55.005 as defined in RCWChapter 84.,J2 and Road,headed north from 32ndpp ingloaregular in the City of Spokane hVellye,Wash- Road, Now that we will officially be a city, our children don't have to go ington a property tax for the year com- mencingAvenue.On the right side of the road January 1,2004 at a rate of$2.10 per we will need to continue to work elsewhere to make a good living. City of Spokane Valley one thousand dollars of assessed valuation.It I saw for the first time a beautiful together for the good of the whole11707 E.Sprue is recognized that fire districts currently levy green sign which said"Welcome to community. Some of our ideas may come from Spokane,WA 206 upon property within the City at the Rate of ty other communities where we have (509)921-1000 $1.50 per one thousand of assessed valuation the city of Spokane Valley."I felt a Last summer and fall scores of and the City intends to provide$50 per one lived,or maybe they are ways to NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSED thousand dollars of assessed valuation pur- thrill our community is becoming an citizens met weeklyto examineBY SPOKANE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL suant to contract for library services with the preserve longpracticed local official city! Spokane County Public Library District. Y• numerous options for every aspect of traditions.It really doesn't matter The following is the title and summary of Ordi- What kind of city will Spokane our new city.They made thoughtful, nance No. 31 passed by the City of Spokane The regular properly tax levied through this what the idea is;it is more important Valley City Council an the 3rd day of February, ordinance is for the purpose of receiving reve- Valley be?When folks hear our well-researched proposals to our City that we listen to one another with 2003. nue to make payment upon the general indebt- name,what will they think of?My Council.Our newt elected Ci edness of the City of Spokane Valley,the gen- ttY open ears and minds.Then we can AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF eral fund obligations and for the payment of parents taught me that our most Council has spent countless hours put our whole community SPOKANE VALLEY,WASHINGTON, services for the City during the 2004 calendar ESTABLISHING A STORM DRAINAGE AND year.The City further recognizes that this ordi- valuable possession is our name,our reviewing these proposals,as well as at the forefront of our decisions. SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY nance shall be amended when the City Finance reputation.So what will"Spokane many other issues which face the new AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS Director obtains form the Spokane County As- The city of Spokane Valley holds PROPERLY RELATED THERETO. sessor the property valuation projections with- Valley"mean to people? city, in the City such that the Finance Director may I hope we will continue to be the But it is unfair to ask only the City the promise of the future.It is up to The introductory paragraphs state the City de- determine, with reasonable accuracy, the sires us to make it what we will.I ho that to establish a stormwater utility similar to amount of property tax to be collected within community my family moved to 25 Council and the soon-to-be-hired city that established by Spokane County. the City of Spokane Valley.The purpose of this ago.Myhusband and I chose staff to shoulder the burden of we all work to preserve the good ordinance is to establish the levy rate as permit- yearsg Section 1 establishes the storface r utility to ted by law. reputation the name"Spokane govern storm drainage and surface water with- the Valley as our home because it is making our new city work well.We t in the Cit Valley"has of a caring community, y Section 2-Notice of Spokane County.Pur- well known to be a community of are all a part of this city and we allSection 2 states the purpose is to protect the suant to RCW 84.52.020, the City Clerk shall dedicated to providingan excellent caring,hardworking folks.We knew need to participate to make sure it public health,safety and welfare. certify to the County this ordinance,Authority a quality of life for all our citizens. Section 3 provides definitions for the true and ecopy tofo this as well our family would be safe here and continues to be the community we ordinance. as,the budget estimates adopted by the City Section 4 imposes the utility charge similar to Council in order to provide for and direct the that we could count on our want it to be, that imposed by Spokane County. taxes levied herein that shall be collected and neighbors.Folks here support their We each have ideas to improve life Cindy McMullen lives in the new city Section 5 establishes a stormwater utility fund. paid to the City of Spokane Valley at the time Section 6 provides for entry upon premises. and in the manner provided by the laws of the schools,businesses and community in the Spokane Valley.Maybe we of Spokane Valley and is a Central Section 7 creates exemptions to the storm. State of Washington. organizations.We work together for would like to see trafr lights Valley school board member.She is an wilicharge. gSeetectionny 8 provides for billing, payment and Section 3.Severahility_Ii any section,see- the benefit of our whole community, synchronized so that if we travel at a attorney. collection. tence,clause or phrase of this ordinance shall Section 9 creates a lien for delinquent be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a a charges. court of competent jurisdiction,such invalidity --z- Section 10 authorizes administrative adjust- or unconstitutionality shall not affect the valid- Need dlrectu�n• meets. ty or constitutionality of any other section,sen- Section 11 states the City's intent to cooper- fence,clause or phrase of this ordinance. I arrcota..rpu3riUe!+ EIp ate with neighboring junsdictions regarding COMS stormwater control. Section-4.Effective Date.This Ordinance TWO ttaa�.nr Section 12 establishes a severability clause in shall be in full force and effect on the official .v.. -..�� the event some portion of the Ordinance is date of incorporation provided publication of �*- held invalid. this Ordinance or a summary thereof occurs in MsF Whel<e to go and Section 13 states this Ordinance shall be in full the official newspaper of the City as provided *awe, force and effect five(5)daysafter publication bylaw. `-�'- what to do this SUnamert of the Ordinance Suary, nd on te date of Pick up your free copy of COMPASS ata location near you, incorporation. PASSED by the City Council this 20th day or call for a complimentary copy of our premier iaaue! of March,2003. The full text of the Ordinance is available at the (509)459-5095 Ci of Spokane Valley City offices as identi- /s/Michael DeVtenrin at l-set)-t3tt-8501 ext 5095 ry g ('#-<ill fieri above. A copy will be mailed out upon Mayor In Print&On The Welt! request. Don't Mise Ill ATTEST: - www.NWCrmrpassMag.cnm 1s/Ruth Muller /s/Ruth Muller Fro,l.,,v.,n;.ah.,,,,,,r,;,van,xr),,..taxi Interim City Clerk - SR5260 Interim City Clerk SR5255 -..7- .g.1. a'i*c .1. r.n.1% r• n t.- Page 46 Saturday, March 29,2003 VV-The Spokesman-Review WE BUILT THIS CITY / COMMEMORATIVE SECTION , ar ►� ,�,0en ��a i ".••., :It - �. - �t,i _ 1TPS JANITORIAL Inc liil�IF1 rr,. . a, „� :.n 1. Ff. s sil _ c The ultimate in housekeeping! � . . rr �' • '..p� •37 years experience 4 .I, .w. ,,,q -v� ' } •Licensed, Bonded &Insured _`iF � Ore4` lb t�' _ ' � �r 0o •Weekly,bi-monthly, monthly rates ty- 1,�, 4 •4 hours minimum � ^• es 1101€111 s �• • �k f iot'r `�' •.•� f.;t• 0 •Ironing service available - ---- - Hume _ r+� •All work inspected by supervisor. • A .N i..[z nu:: r•, d "11 you want H to shine,call us on our line" . 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You can also find city information on the Web at: www-s p o k a n eva l l ey.o rg. The Web site includes links to the City Council agenda, minutes from past meetings,a description of job openings,a map of the new city,details about the summer recreation 'I r - --- programs that will be offered at city parks and more. Mayor Mike DeVieming,Council Position 3 ;- .t Personal:Age 43,married to Pennie,two children. ',-,J ' -,: The Spokane Valley Building and Permit Center is also Steve Taylor,Council Position 2 �. located at City Hall.There is parking and an entrance at the Employment:Vera Water and Power customer . . ' Personal:Age 27,married to Cassandra, rear of Redwood Plaza. service director,1989 to present. h- '11' - . f no children Permit center hours are 8 a-m.to 5 p.m. Committee and board assignments:Spokane 1 Employment District staffer for U.S.Rep. - Staff can be reached by phone at 688-0036 or fax at Valley Governance Committee and Bridging the - • ' George Nethercutt. 688-0037. Valley subcommittee of the Spokane Regional _vb .. Committee and board assignments: ,�f Here is a directory of some of Spokane Valley's interim Transportation Council. -t r' Spokane Valley Finance Committee and i staff.They can be reach by phone at City Hall,921-1000. E-mail:mdevleming@spokanevalley.org. Spokane County Growth Management I Steering Committee. ' . City manager-Lee Walton,lwalton@spokanevalley.org. E-mail:staylor@spokanevalley.org. Deputy city manager-Stan McNutt Dick Denenny,Council Position 7 ". smcnutt@spokanevaliey.org. >- ``_ City cierk-Ruth Muller,rmuller@spokanevalley.org. Personal:Age 55,married to Kathy,three Y*, children,two grandchildren. Gary SchimmelS,Council Position 4 Finance director Bob Noack,bnoack@spokanevalley.arg. Employment owner Richard H.Denenny and Co., employee benefits insurance consulting. ‘PAccounting manager-Dan Cenis,dcenis@spokanevailey.org. Committee and board assignments:Spokane y ; ' Personal:Age 64,married to Myrna,5 Public Works director-Dick Warren, Valley Governance Committee,Spokane Transit children and 6 grandchildren. - dwarren@spokanevalley.org. Authority,Convention Center and Visitors Bureau, • Employment:Owner of Affordable Lock Express 1. ' I1h,• Public Works superintendent-Mac McDonald, 1 and Mirabeau Point. Committee and,boards assignments: -- 1 mmcdonald@spokanevalley.org. E-mail:ddenenny@spokanevalley.org. Spokane Regional Transportation Council. p g p Parks and Recreation consultant Bill Hutsinpiller, t E-mail:gschimmels@spokanevalley.org. bhutsinpiller@spokanevalley.org. t I -1 Parks and Recreation coordinator-Shelley Goss, t sgoss@spokanevalley.org. Deputy Mayor Diana Wilhite,Council t . Rich Munson,Council Position 5 WI Community Development/Planning director-Jim Harris, i Position 1 Personal:Age 50,married to Janet,three jharns@spokanevalley.org. 1 I Personal:Age 57,marriedto Rick,one grown _ grown children. daughter. :t ! Employment:Assistant vice president _ . A, Current planning manager-Kim Lyonnais, Employment:Partner with her husband in investments,stock broker with U.S. klyonnais@spokanevalley.org. •r • Safeguard Business Systems and Forms for more Bancorp Piper Jaffray for 16 years. Long-range planning manager-Greg McCormick, than 20 years. Committee and board assignments: gmccomiick@spokanevalley.org. Committee and board assignments:Spokane b Spokane Valley Finance Committee and Valley Finance Committee and the Economic •.,''.$ Housing and Community Development # 1 Chief building inspector-Bob Ely,bely@spokanevalley.org. Development Council. Advisory Committee. Personnel/Human Resources-Don Morrison, E-mail:dwilhite@spokanevalley.org. E-mail:rmunson@spokanevalley.org. dmorrison@spokanevalley.org. • - 1