City Council, Pos. 3
Election Results
| Candidate | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Barron Williamson | 299 | 51.64% |
| Charlotte Lawrence | 280 | 48.36% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
The Candidates
Charlotte Lawrence
- Age:
- 54
- City:
- Airway Heights, WA
- Occupation:
- personal insurance councillor
Lawrence was born in Virginia and moved to Washington in 1982, later graduating from Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane. She describes herself as a recent cancer survivor.
She’s married with three children.
Complete Coverage
Opposition growing to Spokane Tribe casino plan
Eighteen government and business leaders have taken a stand against the Spokane Tribe’s proposed casino in Airway Heights, according to letters sent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Airway Heights to stop using Parkwest well
Airway Heights has agreed to stop using a well that has deprived residents outside the city of water they’re entitled to pump. An “agreed order” with the state Department of Ecology gives the city until mid-2013 to phase out its Parkwest well near the intersection of Craig Road and state Route 902.
Fireworks ban extinguishes fun for some revelers
With new restrictions on the use of fireworks within city limits this year, Airway Heights has lost its spark. The West Plains city was the last within Spokane County to allow “safe and sane” devices in parks and city streets until the City Council voted last month to ban fireworks from public areas.
Fire destroys Airway Heights mobile home
Three adults were displaced this afternoon when their Airway Heights mobile home was destroyed by fire. The mobile manufactured home, in the 1400 block of South Albert Street, was called in at 5:09 p.m. Crews from Spokane County Fire District 10 and Airway Heights Fire Department responded. The home and an adjacent recreational vehicle were destroyed.
Editorial: Overpaying fire districts doesn’t serve taxpayers
When a significant West Plains annexation agreement was reached a year and a half ago, Spokane Mayor Mary Verner hailed it as a sign of improved intergovernmental cooperation. Indeed, the major local entities involved – Spokane, Airway Heights and Spokane County – appeared to strike a deal with less than the usual acrimony that happens when tax bases are juggled. So, at the end of this year, 10 square miles that includes Spokane International Airport will become part of Spokane, the city’s largest annexation in a century. Spokane also will gain some commercially developing property along U.S. Highway 2, and Airway Heights will expand by half a square mile. Spokane County, on the other hand, will lose both area and revenue, but it’s all consistent with the state’s Growth Management Act, which expects incorporated cities to absorb adjacent land that’s needed for the next 20 years’ development.
Mobile home will help fire department serve West Plains
Spokane’s first fire station on the West Plains won’t be the usual classy brick structure typical of the city’s other 14 stations. It will be a double-wide mobile home.
Verner or not, garbage summit is a go
Next week’s regional Solid Waste Summit will occur with or without Spokane participation, County Commission Chairman Al French announced Friday. The two-day gathering of local government officials throughout the county is intended to outline a new framework for the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System, which is owned and controlled by the city of Spokane.