UPDATE November 10, 2006

Veterans Memorial Service, Saturday, Nov. 11th @ 11:00 a.m. at Sultan's Memorial wall - Ceremony adding new names to wall.  (The wall is located at 1st and Main Streets in Sultan.)

Flood Damage Estimates are Requested: The County's Dept. of Emergency Management made a presentation at last night's Sultan Council meeting.  They are requesting businesses and residents to send cost estimates of damage incurred during the recent flooding   This documentation will help to secure emergency grant funding relief for Sultan.
Phone: 425-388-5060
email: contact.emergencymanagement@co.snohomish.wa.us
web site index for DEM: http://www1.co.snohomish.wa.us/Departments/Emergency_Management/DEM+Website+Map.htm

VOA - Sultan's new VOA Director Dave Wood made a plea at last night's council meeting for donations, volunteer help, coats, blankets, housing, food, pretty much everything, to help people displaced by the Flood.  Phone: 360-793-2400
Mail Donations: VOA, P. O. Box 368, Sultan 98294
Bring donated items to the VOA offices located on First Street just south of High Street.

Free County recycling/dumping for flood-damaged materials: From now through March, 2007, flood-damaged materials can be brought to county recycling centers at no charge. Vouchers to request free drop-offs can be secured from Sultan's Police Station (360-793-1051, 515 Main Street). Attached is county's information sheet on this program.

CORRECTION of just-in information:  Revised schedule for WSDOT's Open Houses/presentations on U. S. 2's RDP:

CORRECTION to the Monroe Chamber of Commerce WSDOT RDP event:  Instead of 11/14 at the Rock Church (as given yesterday), the event will be an OPEN HOUSE at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce Offices/Visitor Center on Monroe's Main Street (next to the Monroe Monitor).   THE NEW  DATE & TIME:  Tuesday, Nov. 21st, from 12 Noon to 3:00 PM

The other WSDOT Public RDP Events (as given yesterday), remain the same:

Wednesday, December 6th, 12-1 PM
Sky Valley Chamber of Commerce
Dutch Cup Restaurant, Main & US 2 in Sultan

Wednesday, December 6th, 5-8 PM
Open House  - Gold Bar Elementary School

Thursday, December 7th, 5-8 PM
Open House - Monroe High School, Tester Road

Stay dry,
Loretta Storm, Co-founder, G.R.I.T.
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