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participating in the Dog Walker Watch program.

“This is really new and we’re very excited about it,” said yacolt Clerk Cindy Marbut about her town’s participation in the Dog Walker Watch program.

Following is a list of planned National Night Out activities in our area. All take place on Tue., Aug. 4:

La Center6-9 p.m., Holley Park, 1000 E. 4th St.

Hosted by la Center’s police and fire departments, this event will feature burgers and other food, as well as two performances by the BlackPearl Friesian Dance Troupe, which features the beau-tiful Friesian horses — known for their shiny coats, high-stepping trots and flowing manes. Visitors are asked to bring one can of food per person to donate to the lewis River Food Bank.

Ridgefield 6-8 p.m., Abrams Park, at the end of Division Street, off of North 5th Avenue, near

the Union Ridge Elementary School

This is the city of Ridgefield’s 10th annual National Night Out event. last year’s crowds topped 1,100 and city official expect even more visitors this year. The event

features a barbecue, live music courtesy of students at the local Opus Music School, a disc-golf course and 35 vendor booths.

Yacolt6-8 p.m., Yacolt Town Park, 202 W. Cushman St.

yacolt will celebrate the event with a variety of family-friendly activities, such as a sock puppet show — and free sock puppet making booth — courtesy of the yacolt Community Church, a dunk tank, visits with the town’s

first-responders and SWAT team, information about yacolt’s participation in the national crime-prevention Dog Walker Watch program, and free pol-ish hot dogs, chips, cookies and rootbeer floats.

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FIRST RESPONDERS, SUCH as the ones pictured here from Clark County Fire and Rescue, will be on hand to meet and mingle with community members during this year’s 32nd annual National Night Out. Cities throughout the nation, including La Center, Ridgefield and Yacolt, will participate in this year’s crime-prevention event on Tue., Aug. 4.

Photo courtesy of the city of Ridgefield

THE FAMOUS BLACKPEARL Friesian Dance Troupe, featuring horses known for their high-stepping trot and luxurious manes, much like the Friesian horse shown here, will perform at La Center’s National Night Out event from 6 to 9 p.m., Tue., Aug. 4, at Holley Park, 1000 E. 4th St., La Center.

Photo courtesy of the BlackPearl Friesian Dancers

Riverfront set aside by state and federal agencies, pur-chased for private use, or used as wildlife sanctuary, officials believe Ridgefield could pro-vide public waterfront access for to a large region.

“This is one of the few places the public can get to the water in north Clark County,”

Grening said. “So if you want to get to the water, there's very few places where you can get to the river north of Vancouver. That means there's going to be a large number of people where this is going to be their closest access to the Columbia River.

“Basically what we're trying to do is create the next great water-front for the Northwest,” he said.

Grening expects boutique retail shops, hotels, restaurants and offices will one day occupy the space.

“I suppose there's some ability to do some very light industrial, some assembly work and that kind of thing, but that's really not what we're aimed at,” he said.

With new development on the horizon, authorities in Ridgefield

needed consistent access to the waterfront that avoided unsafe and time consuming railroad crossings.

Officials made plans to con-nect Pioneer Street with an over-pass across the tracks. Pioneer Street in downtown Ridgefield sits atop a small bluff. As Grening described it, the proposed over-pass will extend Pioneer at-grade off the bluff and over the railroad tracks where it will sweep north toward the ground and land at Mill Street.

Planners divided the project into three phases and work began after the first stage of funding was received in 2006. Workers completed phase two of the proj-ect in 2014.

Grening said the current

package represents the last part of the project.

“Now with this transportation bill we are able now to go to phase three and get that constructed … it is coming and we will be work-ing on it,” he said.

The Washington Department of Transportation will oversee the project accounting. Con-struction should begin in 2016 and is expected to last into late 2017, which is faster than it could have been. The funds will be made available during the first four years of the roll out of the $16.1 billion transporta-tion funding package recently passed by Washington State lawmakers.

“It's one of the earliest projects receiving funding in the revenue package,” Stuart said. “All of the money for this project comes from the first two biennia … of a 16-year package.”

With all government per-mits already in place, the new money will be almost exclu-sively used on actual construc-tion, Grening said.

“It guarantees that we can get to work on building this project and it will help sent the stage for a downtown renaissance in Ridge-field,” Stuart said.

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