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Page 4 City Desk June 2024 Drain Chamber of Commerce Updates Story by Rusty Savage The Drain Chamber of Commerce connues to work for the beerment and beauficaon of the town. At the May 19th Chamber meeng, members addressed a number of potenal acvies and events that will be of interest to everyone. The first item to note, is the Victorian Garden Tea Tour beginning at Ame Beard’s, 105 W 1st Ave in Drain on July 7th. With a theme of vintage Mad Haer Tea, the tour will feature Passports of each stop with door prises at the end. Wear your party clothes - costume contest. From 2pm to 5 pm, enjoy live music, tea, hors devours, art and lovely gardens. The Saturday Market at Rays parking lot is now commencing for the summer and is bringing some local interest. The Chamber discussed several opons for creang events or regular acvites to direct visitors around town, from businesses to points of interest. Possibly by way of making maps or even postcards available around town or locaons out of town, Sponsors and adversers would help with prinng and distribuon. At last, plans for the Drain City Wide Yard Sale has finally come together and it is on for August 10th 2024. Look for details in the July issue of the Herald and all the local noces. A couple of final topics that are very creave and deserving of some planning and input. First, I know you have all seen the ugly boulder laden curb endings that DOT installed earlier this year. One idea was to paint them or possibly have some contests or sponsorships to do colorful effects, scenes or even abstract art, reflecng Drain’s personality and history. Outdoor themes or logging or agricultural influences. Let’s get some folks on board with this fantasc idea. I see streams and turtles, fish trees and wildlife, wow. Not a part of the Chambers agenda, but I know that Bonnie Pyles supports a the noon that, the corner lot between Exclusively Bridal and Napa auto parts would be a perfect locaon for a town landmark of a Colorful, Drain themed, structure with a lighted Fountain. With the curve of HWY 38 winding past, it would be a statement that resonates the sparkling personality of our city. The Chamber of Commerce is an important voice in our community as all of our cizen groups are. The next meeng is June 16th at 6:00 pm at Exclusively Bridal,101 E. “B” Ave. If you want to get acve and be part of a great effort, maybe you should stop by. North Douglas Herald 4 Way Stop coming for Drain Intersection More construction for HWYs 99 & 38 Story by Rusty Savage It was in April that the DOT approached the Drain city governent to weigh in on their impending acons regarding the stop signs at the intersecon of HWYs 99 and 38. It has been a 3 way stop for a very long me with no stop for west boun HWY 38. Their choice for the city council was a tesng period of opons that DOT offered. First was for only a 2 way stop on north bound 99 and south out of Dolar General, leaving 38 east and westbound with no stopping. I think it’s a general concensus of the town that that is a very bad idea. DOT made it clear that the present configuraon of a 3 way stop is not going to stay, it’s going to be changed, they have all kinds of reasons. So the only other opon was turning the intersecon into a 4 way stop, all sides. Being as that’s the only 2 opons, there was only 1 reasonable choice, a 4 way stop. Since that was the obvious choice, there seemed no need to do it so much as a test but to go ahead and vote to make the intersecon a 4 way stop and it was unanimous. So, because of DOT rules, the turn lanes will be taken out, the crosswalks will be altered and 4 stop signs installed. It was reported at the May Council meeng that the work should start by summer. Well, it is June so watch out for the coming construcon mess, hopefully they’ll get right this me.
