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* Yelm’s city council rejects Term Limits,
* Plan for I-5 Fife area closure nights of Aug. 28, 29,
* Best of Nisqually 2020 nominations open thru Sept. 3,
* FEMA: Lost Wages Grant for Washington to provide $300 per week!

CNBC: Here’s why new cases of the coronavirus are down across most of the U.S.

** PERTINENT LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL NEWS **

+ The Yelm Council Term Limits Ordinance [pg 111] was not authorized [Ed. note: The usual 4-3 vote tally occurred with Councilors Curry, Stillwell, Wood, Kaminski voting “No,” in yet another perfect example of why term limits are necessary here!]

+ FEMA Announces Lost Wages Grant for Washington to provide $300 per week — on top of their regular unemployment benefit — to those unemployed due to COVID-1

+ Puyallup’s Ezra Meeker lauded in new book for saving the Oregon Trail [by retired Yelm High School history teacher Dennis Larson]

+ Consolidated Communications Wins Silver Stevie® Award for COVID-19 Response

+ WSDOT: A five-mile stretch of I-5 [Fife to Federal Way] is closing for two consecutive nights this coming weekend – Aug. 28 and 29. Be prepared

+ The Yelm Council adopted a resolution authorizing an application to the Recreation and Conservation Office for a grant to design and construct Phase 2 of the Yelm Prairie Line Regional Trail from Yelm into Pierce County. [see page 91 on the hotlink]

+ NVN’s Best of Nisqually 2020 nominations now open thru Sept. 3 [Ed. note: Been a long time since the public has heard from our newspaper’s Editor, so this event is timely and uplifting.]

+ NVN: Yelm Prairie Lanes Prepares for Return

+ NVN: Yelm Secures Funding to Finish Mossman-Longmire Connection

+ Thurston County is currently ranked third in the state for response to the 2020 Census

+ Here’s why new cases of the coronavirus are down across most of the U.S.

+ American Airlines is cutting 19,000 jobs when federal aid expires in October

+ We are acting ‘immorally, unethically and self-destructively’ -Al Gore [about our planet]

Posted by Steve on August 26, 2020 at 12:10 am | Permalink

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2 comments

  1. Yelm Secures Funding to Finish Mossman-Longmire Connection

    Finally! We have pursued this for many years.

    Comment by Carlos Perez on August 26, 2020 at 12:59 pm

  2. However, this is still awhile off. Quoting the story, “The city also plans on utilizing the grant funds possibly as match money to secure more grants in the future, with hopes of finishing the project with little-to-no cost to the city.” Yelm does not have the resources to currently complete the job with declining revenues during the pandemic, without doing major damage to the budget and the public’s interests.

    Comment by Steve on August 26, 2020 at 2:08 pm

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