Video Describes Project, Impact Of Proposed Facility

For 18 months, the Logan neighborhood has fought a city plan to build a truck maintenance facility in the neighborhood. Residents have written letters, spoken at council meetings, and opposed studies.

Now, the debate is available on video.

With the Logan Neighborhood Steering Committee’s blessing, Clyde Timboe has produced a 30-minute program describing the project and its possible impact on the neighborhood.

The program will be shown on Channel 25, the community access channel, Friday at 5:30 p.m. “There are a lot of hours involved in this, ” said Timboe. “It was an experience, but I’m gratified by it.”

Timboe has already played the video for a number of groups, including the West Central Community Center.

“I’m going to show it wherever anyone wants to watch it,” he says.

Some of the information on the program is presented by Franz Schneider, a retired Gonzaga University professor who has lived in the Logan neighborhood for decades.

He recalls the neighborhood of the ‘50s and ‘60s was a “veritable paradise for kids.”

“Our house was within walking distance of everything,” he said. “I walked to work, the kids walked to school, we could walk to the library, to church, to shops and to the park.”

Today, the traffic is so dense, said Schneider, crossing the intersections is dangerous for children and senior citizens.

Schneider, concise and impassioned, asks how much sense it makes to add hundreds of trucks to Hamilton Street, which already carries 40,000 vehicles a day. “How moral is such a project?” he asks.

Other Logan residents featured on the program include Grace Tonani, who reminisces about the early days of the neighborhood.

Bill Frazier Sr., now 90, moved to Logan in 1954. “It was a regular neighborhood then,” he said.

“There was a lot more to put in, but our time ran out,” said Timboe.

, DataTimes