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Bonney Lake reduces speed limit
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Motorists on state Route 410 will be required to slow their roll through a portion of city
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Weather The forecast calls for cloudy skies today, Wednesday, with a high near 54. Rain returns tonight and sticks around through the weekend – on and off – with highs into the 50s and low temperatures to the mid-30s.
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Colton Tracy, left and above (left), celebrates winning the 132-pound state championship Saturday at the Tacoma Dome. Chili Sabin, top right and above (right), took the 182-pound title at the Mat Classic. Story on page three. Photos by Dennis Box and Vince Miller.
City places emphasis on arts Community Culture Plan spearheads new commission Sarah Wehmann Staff Writer
The idea to create an
Arts Commission was introduced to the Bonney Lake City Council during a Feb. 4 workshop. The council later adopted it at a meeting on Feb. 11. The Commu nit y Culture Plan, a subelement of the city’s comprehensive plan, is why the council
decided to adopt the resolution, City Administrator Don Morrison said. Morrison added, the Community Culture Plan includes the “goal to preserve and promote the arts, and to support the development of facilities and programs for public art and cultural oppor-
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The Washington State Department of Transportation did a study on speed limits. One area the WSDOT looked at was state Route 410 from Myers Road to 214th. The conclusion from the study is that the most appropriate speed limit should be 40 miles per hour rather than 45 as it currently stands. The speed limit will remain the same from 214th east, City Administrator Don Morrison said. During the Feb. 11 Bonney Lake City Council meeting, the council adopted the ordinance to reduce the speed limit in the downtown and midtown area of Bonney Lake. Morrison added that reducing the speed limit won’t only be a safety measure for the city but it will also allow a median to be built when
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tunities that create and nections and highlight enrich a strong sense of cultural assets including community identity and public art and community promote a high quality of history.” life.” This arts commission He said there are will help promote the supporting goals arts and advise the such as “advomayor and city Arts cating for visual with regard to and performing Commission art related projarts facilities to ects taken on by serve the needs of Bonney Lake. the community and The city is looking incorporating the arts for and accepting appliinto its downtown plan to See commission, Page 5 enhance pedestrian con-
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