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Many hands make a Tiny House By EVAN PAPPAS
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The Sallal Grange worked with volunteers to build a “Tiny House” for the Nickelsville Tiny House Village in Seattle last weekend. Volunteers worked from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Sallal Grange in North Bend to build one of 15 homes for Nickelsville Village, located on 22nd and Union in the Central District of Seattle. Melinda Nichols, president of the board of directors for the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) in Seattle and a North Bend resident, said that the Nickelsville Village is one of the first of its kind the in the U.S. However, because of a lack of funds, LIHI looked to get community involvement from volunteers. “My background is in construction and project management, so I said ‘let’s ask folks if they will build these tiny houses. It will be a great way for them to learn more about what’s going on in the homeless
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Jake Cohoran, a volunteer at the Sallal Grange’s Tiny House build Saturday, climbed a ladder to check the work on the the top beams. The Tiny House will be given to one of the homeless residents of Seattle’s Nickelsville homeless encampment. community and it’s a positive thing to do,’” she said. The Institute supplied the materials and Home Depot in Bellevue delivered them to the site for the Grange to build.
“I’m proud to say the Grange totally stepped up to the plate like they usually do and is building this house,” Nichols said. Leah Aichele, director of family living at Sallal Grange, said that the
Cops, streets are Carnation priorities By CAROL LADWIG Editor
Carnation residents have a rare opportunity this election, a choice. Stuart Lisk, moderator of the Carnation Chamber of Commerce forum for Carnation City Council candidates, Oct. 22 at the Sno-Valley Senior Center got a laugh with that observation, but he continued in earnest, “This is the first
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Forum moderator Stuart Lisk tells the audience how to submit their own questions to city council candidates at the Chamber of Commerce forum Oct. 22. time in a long time we have people to choose from.” For each of the three council seats on the November ballot, there
were two contenders: Incumbent Fred Bereswill and challenger Steve McFall for Position 1; Incumbent Lee Grumman, who was
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base of the house was built Friday night and the rest was constructed on Saturday in the parking lot of the Grange. It was weather sealed
unable to attend the forum, and challenger Jim Ribail for Position 3; and Dustin Green and Ernest Fix for Position 5. There were distinct differences of opinion on city spending, but the candidates shared many common themes in a series of questions on their plans for the 1,000-person city, now in a growth period after more than a decade. Public safety, specifically police services, was a toptwo priority for each of the candidates. “Public safety and infrastructure, every city needs to focus on those two things first,” said Ribail. He added
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that he thought Carnation could fund more police services now, if the council would simply spend some of its general fund money. Green said public safety should include more conversations about disaster preparedness, especially as the city grows. “And the way we’re going to pay for it is with more households,” he added. On the subject of economic development, both Bereswill and Fix cited studies that reported a city needed at least 1,000 homes to support a retail business community. SEE FORUM, 6
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