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Trucks off the street, please, says North Bend City bans commercial truck parking on local streets, effective soon By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
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It’s official, but not effective just yet; commercial trucks can’t park on city streets. Amendments to the city code on adopted by the North Bend City Council on Tuesday, Aug. 6, specifically ban parking on six city streets and in any multi-family residential area in the city for commercial trucks, except as needed for
making deliveries, permitted construction projects, or emergency closures of the interstate highway. The penalty for parking on city streets outside of those circumstances will be $250. North Bend’s action is both an attempt to address citizen concerns, and a gesture intended to draw attention to the city’s ongoing parking problems. “The goal is to see if the state will step up to help address these issues,” North Bend City Administrator Londi Lindell said by phone last week. See truck PARKING, 7
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Semi-trucks have long parked on the streets of east North Bend. No more, thanks to a new $250 penalty.
Faces and action at 2013 Boeing Classic: photo gallery Pages 2-3
Choosing to home-school For some Valley families, educating at home means choice, cooperation, hard work By Kira Clark
Rebecca Mott, like most upcoming seniors, is nervous and excited about her last year of high school. She is working on college applications and dreaming about the perfect dress for the spring formal. Mott doesn’t attend a traditional high school, though. She studies at home.
Volunteers bring Fall City’s all-town garden to colorful life Pages 9-11
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Opinion 4 6 Movie Times 6 Calendar Back to School 12 On The Scanner 14 14 Obituary
Vol. 100, No. 14
Photo by Karen Wegehenkel
Horses make a healing connection when military couples and families reconnect at the Warrior Family Retreat. The equine therapy program returns to the Northwest Natural Horsemanship Center in Fall City this weekend.
Healing the family unit
Fall City center lets horses do the therapy for families riven by deployments By Seth Truscott Editor
Horses usually look to people to lead the way.
But some well-trained animals in Fall City are the ones leading Washington’s military families toward a better life. For five summers, James Hutchins, owner of Fall City-based Northwest Natural Horsemanship Center, has hosted the Warrior Family Retreat. See FAMILY RETREAT, 7
Adventure Festival enlivening North Bend Downtown North Bend is the scene of the annual Adventure Sport Festival, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7. The event happens in conjunction with the Iron Horse Relay and the new Mount Si Run, and includes an equestrian show by Mountain Meadow Stables, geocaching by Compass Outdoor Adventures, parkour by Mount Si Gymnastics, a zipline courtesy of John Day Homes, and many other all-ages activities. Learn more at northbendwa.gov.
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