Adam Lynn

A map in the special pull-out section inside Thursday's Valley Voice was incorrect. In the Edgecliff neighborhood, the sourthern boundary of the proposed city of Spokane Valley is 12th Avenue. The map showed the wrong street as the boundary. This correction was published on Saturday, May 13, 1995.

Sue Delucchi, at one time a vocal opponent of incorporation, is now a political consultant to the Citizens for Valley Incorporation. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

CORRECTION: Thursday, May 11, 1995 The age of Joe McKinnon, a leader in the Valley incorporation effort, was incorrectly reported in Saturday's Valley Voice. He is 53. Also, McKinnon was recalled in the early 1960s from a national committeeman post with the College Young Democrats of America, not the postition stated in the story. 1. Howard Herman Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Joe McKinnon Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

John Bording has had the "Vote No" sign since the last incorporatin election in April of 1994. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

The membership of the Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce is split over the question of incorporation, an informal survey shows. Those members who live within the boundaries of the proposed city of Spokane Valley tend to support the issue, the survey found, while those who live outside are overwhelmingly against it.

Many of the people who attended a Wednesday forum on the direction of local government had the same destination in mind. Most agreed that local officials should provide more accountability and better representation and be more receptive and inclusive. Which path to take to get to the magical place was a matter of opinion, however.

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Incorporation supporter Howard Herman discusses municipal financing at a recent town hall meeting. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

A man who lives across the road from a gravel pit near Moab Junction said Thursday that heavy equipment at the mine roused his infant son from sleep one recent day. At 5:10 a.m. "It wasn't pleasant," he said at a community meeting held at the Tri-Community Grange near Newman Lake.

1. Hazel Kugler of Robinson Research polls Valley residents on their current stand on the incorporation issue. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Employees of Robinson Research make telephone calls to Valley residents about incorporation. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

A Spokane Valley man said this week that an incorporation supporter tried to keep him from asking questions about the effort at a recent meeting. Bob Blum, a one-time candidate for county assessor, said that Gene Hinkel of Citizens for Valley Incorporation approached him before Tuesday night's town hall meeting at North Pines Junior High. According to Blum, Hinkel told him not to ask questions during the meeting because he had already asked plenty during previous gatherings.

A proposal to consolidate city and county government isn't very popular among Spokane Valley residents, according to a recent poll, and the thought of annexing to the city of Spokane is even less attractive. The poll of 400 residents of the proposed new city in the Spokane Valley who are likely to vote on May 16 was conducted for The Spokesman-Review by Robinson Research earlier this month. One of the questions in the poll asked what voters think would be the best government option for the Valley.

Leaders of the effort to form a city in the Spokane Valley predicted they'd be playing to a tough crowd when they took their show to Horizon Junior High School. They were right.

Spokane Valley voters appear poised to form the seventhlargest city in the state. Results of a scientific poll released Tuesday show that Valley voters are likely to support the latest incorporation effort, the third in five years.

Donn Livoni's infectious energy pushed him past the 38 other candidates for the top job in the Liberty School District, the school board president said. "Probably the most impressive thing about him is his enthusiasm," Sharon Colby said this week after the board announced it hired Livoni to replace Superintendent Armin Vogt. Vogt is retiring after spending 33 years in the district as a teacher, principal and administrator.

A gravel pit on the south side of Trent near Moab is disruptive for some of its neighbors. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Spokane County will complete work on the Argonne Road underpass regardless of the outcome of an incorporation vote, the county engineer said this week. "That project is going to need to go ahead no matter what happens," Ron Hormann said Wednesday. The fate of other county road projects in the Valley isn't so certain if residents vote to form their own city on May 16.

Signs in favor of incorporation litter the main streets of the Valley. No one seems to be willing to take charge of organizing an opposition moverment. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

The incorporation bandwagon is starting to fill. Spokane Valley Fire District commissioners voted unanimously this week to endorse the incorporation proposition. They joined Carnhope Irrigation District No. 7 and the 4th District Republican Action Club in throwing support behind the effort to form a city in the Valley.

A developer who wants to build a 300-home project in the Spokane Valley will be required to submit an in-depth analysis of the plan before he can try to win approval. The Spokane County Planning Department has asked Richard Dahm to prepare an environmental impact statement for his Morningside Heights development. Dahm's preliminary plans show more than 300 homes on about 150 acres between Sullivan Road and the Saltese area in the southern part of the Valley.

1. Dick Trowbridge was plaesed to see his neighborhood along Orchard Avenue included in the proposed city boundaries. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Midilome resident Jeff Reed, with son Colin, is against incorporation. 3. Bill Faith, who spent an afternoon this week pulling parsnips from his garden, is a retiree who's lived in the Ochard Avenue neighborhood since 1952. He opposes incorporation, believing a new city would bu underfunded. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

It turns out that Stan Schultz is a man of his word - where Spokane Valley incorporation is concerned, anyway. The local attorney recently came through on a promise he made during the 1993-94 incorporation campaign.

1. Ed Meadows wears his position on Valley incorporation. 2. Howard Cox looks for his land at 32nd and Progress, just inside the incorporation boundary. Cox attended the town hall meeting at Evergreen Junior High on Monday night. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

The EPA has already nominated the Old Inland Pit as a high-priority cleanup site. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review