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Bonney Lake renames highway for veterans
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Sumner-Buckley Highway to be known as ‘Veterans Memorial Drive East’ through city limits
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By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
Bonney Lake Food Bank executive director Stew Bowen sits near an almost-empty shelf. Donations are down this year at the food bank while the need continues to increase. Photo by Brian Beckley/To view or buy photos go to www.blscourierherald.com.
Need outpacing donations at Bonney Lake Food Bank By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
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Thanksgiving may now be int he rearview mirror, but the need at the Bonney Lake Food Bank is greater than ever and donations are lower than they have been in a long time. “Normally by Thanksgiving, we have three times the food back here,� Executive Director Stew Bowen said, waving toward the back storage room. “Donations are way down.� According to Bowen, things right now on their shelves are “very slim,� even after the traditional pre-Thanksgiving increase in donations, which this year were not a high as in the past. “We were so low up until this last week, instead
How to help 4The Bonney Lake Food bank is located at 18409 Sumner-Buckley Hwy. E. It is open from 9:30 to noon on Tuesdays and Thursdaya and from 5 - 7 p.m. Fridays. Donations are accepted at any time. For more information or to schedule an appointment call 253-863-4043. of giving them one item per shelf, it was one item per rack,� Bowen said. “So instead of getting five items, they were getting one.�
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After several years of discussion and months of council debate, the Bonney Lake City Council Tuesday night renamed the stretch of Sumner-Buckley Highway through the city in honor of veterans. By a 4-2 vote, the council officially designated the road “Veterans Memorial Highway East.� “I’m happy,� said Councilman Mark Hamilton, who led the effort to change the name. “I think it’s a great addition to the city of Bonney Lake.� The idea of renaming the road in honor of veterans began in 2008 with a proposal from the Greater Bonney Lake Veterans Memorial Committee, but it did not gain much traction until Hamilton rejuvenated the idea in the wake of the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the invasion of Afghanistan. Hamilton hoped to pass the change before Veterans Day, but the move prompted a backlash from businesses on the road worried about confusing customers and changing advertising, as well as from longtime residents who told the council changing the
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