If you were driving through North Bend’s downtown core in the early morning of Sunday, June 4, you would have seen nearly 30 volunteers helping with “Downtown Clean-up Day,” organized and led by the City Council and North Bend Economic Development Commission.

All of your elected city officials and your seven appointed Economic Development commissioners worked together with other volunteers, business people, many Mount Si High School students and our neighborhoods to ready our downtown for summer visitors. Although it was a very rainy day to clean sidewalks, the weather did not slow down the determination of our volunteers who power-washed sidewalks, planted flowers in the barrels, picked up trash, weeded and cleaned the street lamps.

On behalf of the North Bend City Council and the Economic Development Commission, we thank the following local businesses: George’s Bakery, Huxdotter Specialty Coffee, Coin Laundry, Chaplin’s, Nursery at Mount Si and Claffey’s Painting and Roofcare.

In addition, a special thanks goes out to the several high-school students, community members and public works employee Larry Shaw. Everyone who helped with Downtown Clean-up Day made it a day to be very proud of being a part of the North Bend community.

It was a fun, simple project with a goal of making it an annual event, which could attract participation by many more of our community members. Please plan on volunteering next time. With North Bend’s front door ready, we are pleased to welcome our summer visitors to downtown. Thank you

Ken Hearing,

mayor of North Bend

Terril Perrine, chair,

Economic Development Commission

North Bend