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Sumner celebrated the 16th annual bridge lighting on Friday, Nov. 29 by The Old Cannery Furniture Warehouse. Vendors, music, family activities and a fireworks show rounded out the celebration.
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Vandals strike Sumner bridge lights By Theresa De Lay Staff Writer
Sumner celebrated the 16th annual bridge lighting Friday evening, sponsored by The Old Cannery Furniture Warehouse. An act of vandalism caused the lights to go out one day later. The electrical box was damaged and currently there are no investiga-
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Bonney Lake City Council approved the purchase of the Compass Pointe property in Eastown for $1 million dollars during the city council meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The city is purchasing the property from Union Bank, which is approximately 20 acres. A portion of it, roughly five acres, will be used for a new public works administration building. The city’s public works building is currently located in a residential neighborhood at the old city hall. “Moving the public works operations to a more commercial area will improve the efficiency of the public works operations and enhance the quality of life for the residential neighborhood,” mayor Neil Johnson said. The city has been planning to build a new public works building for several years now, City Administrator Don Morrison said. They had been looking at other locations but the site preparation for those areas would be very
tive leads as to who is responsible, The repairs are expected to take a said Sumner Deputy Chief Jeff couple days but the crew is comEngel. mitted to lighting the bridge “In the past we’ve had kids back up, said Steve Fowler of come by and snatch bulbs,” crime alert The Old Cannery. Engel said. “But this is the “We discourage this first time, to my knowledge, behavior but unfortunatethat the electrical box has been ly it’s become a regular part messed with. It’s too bad someone of the season for us. It’s too bad felt the need to do this.” because a lot of work goes in to the
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bridge lighting … It takes five days to put up over 10,000 lights,” Fowler said. “It won’t change anything. The lights will be fixed and hopefully it won’t happen again. In the meantime, we hope everyone has a great holiday season. Come on down and sit with Santa.” The Sumner Downtown Association (SDA) released comment via Facebook, calling out the vandal as “the spirit of Grinchmas.” Laurie Miller, SDA executive direc-
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