Clarkston residents protest Lewis and Clark art plan
In Clarkston Washington locals upset that Maya Lin will site a 1.4 million Lewis and Clark bicentennial artwork eight miles away at Chief Timothy Park instead of downtown. Confluence Project aims to place works along the Columbia and Snake rivers funded with over 17 million dollars. Lin met with Nez Perce leaders and sighted island site while locals decry lack of direct consultation and fear tourism impact on town. Chief Timothy island formerly a state park now open May through October with fees.
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Confluence Project
Columbia
Snake Rivers
Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark
Clarkston
Wash
Clarkston, Wash
Maya Lin
Lin
Washington, D.C
Meriwether Lewis
Jane Jacobsen
Vancouver
Spokane
Lewiston
Idaho
Lewis and Clark
Corps of Discovery
Clearwater
Columbia Plateau
Pacific Ocean
Army Corps
Timothy Park
Snake River
Associated Press
Timothy
Jacobsen
Doreen Bridgemount
Donna Engle
Engle
Nez Perce
New York City
Wilfred Scott
Nez Perce Council
Spokesman Review
Chief Timothy
Tri-Cities
Weather outpost in Williston clings to phone forecasts
Williston North Dakota weather station keeps a low tech approach with person to person phone forecasts. Farmers and local professionals rely on spoken reports from technicians like Jim Assid. The site survives a decade of closures aimed at modernizing the National Weather Service and may be the last with human voiced radio forecasts rather than computerized simulations.
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Williston
N.D
Bob Arnson
National Weather Service
North Dakota
Arnson
Jim Assid
Bismarck
Continental United States
John Sokich
The
Weather Service
Silver Spring