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Big Spring Creek project set for summer
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King County plans begin restoration of the creek in August
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By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer
State and district tournament coverage begins on page 10
Weather The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies Wednesday with a 30 percent chance of rain during the night. Highs expected to be 46. Thursday’s forecast calls for rain continuing through Friday and changing to showers over the weekend.
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The Enumclaw Hornets gymnastic team won the state crown Feb. 15 at the Tacoma Dome for the second consecutive year. Saturday the girls competed in individual events taking gold, silver and bronze awards home. From the left are Emily Berte, Molly Mattheis, Olivia Bannerot, Victoria Hernandez and Maddison Ward. Story is on page 10. Photo by Dennis Box
Golf course management back on the council table City has received two proposals from private individuals By Dennis Box Editor
The Enumclaw City Council has spent the past few weeks and meetings wrestling with proposals for
the future management of the cityowned golf course. The council directed city staff to send out a formal request for proposals for management of the 18-hole course in November. The course has lost about $40,000 in each of the past two years, with the deficit made up from the city’s general fund. King County transferred owner-
ship of the golf course to the city in 2004. Scott Galbraith, a private manager and operator, ran the course from 2005-09. According to a 2010 CourierHerald news article, Galbraith elected not to continue as operator when his contract expired. The city interviewed five applicants but decided each was asking the city to assume too much risk and the city elected to take over the operation of the course. When the city first took possession of the course from King County it was a profitable venture while the pool was thought to be
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Efforts to return a local creek to its historic route – a project many years in the making with a price tag in excess of $4 million – will begin this summer. That was the word delivered Feb. 11 to members of the Enumclaw City Council by Josh Kahan, a project manager with the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks. Big Spring Creek bubbles to the surface just north of Enumclaw and, in its prime, was a salmonspawning waterway that fed into Newaukum Creek. Newaukum
See CREEK, Page 4 a financial problem. In 2002 John Wise, the mayor of Enumclaw at that time, reported the course was making about $115,000 and the pool was losing between $150,000 and $180,000, according to a Seattle Times article. Since at least the Great Recession the opposite has been the case, with rounds dropping for the golf course and the pool carrying its own financial water. The requests for proposals sent out by the city at the end of 2012 attracted two applicants from private parties.
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