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October 13, 2017
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Bulb-outs: Main Avenue beautification in works
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13-foot statue and base from
the VFW – will be at the four-
way stop and is the group’s
first project during this sec-
ond decade.
Next is a way to fix the pow-
er pole bulb-outs.
“This is one of the proj-
ects that was identified in
the (agency’s) plan and, 10
years in, I think we’re hap-
py to move forward in the
downtown area and make an
impact,” City Manager Linda
Engbretson said.
On Tuesday, landscape de-
sign consultant Beth Hol-
land presented plans to city
commissioners, who also act
Plants would go in bulb-outs.
as the Urban Renewal Agen-
cy. They’ll dig out the con-
crete around the bulb-outs,
enhance the soil, and add
small crabapple trees and
low-maintenance shrubbery.
The reflective posts could be
painted green to fade into the
shrubbery.
While some agency mem-
bers were skeptical, most
were enthusiastic.
Holland’s third proposal is
to turn an area north of the
high school into a pocket
park.
The intersection of Main
Avenue with Alternate High-
way 101 would be plant-
ed with grass, trees and
shrubbery with a half-dozen
benches added and sidewalk
improvements.
“That’s what urban renew-
al funds are meant to do;
they’re meant to rejuvenate,”
Engbretson said. “To see peo-
ple using the downtown area,
well, it will be real nice to do
it right.”
Restaurants: Pizza restaurant under construction
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a lounge. They won’t be open
24 hours initially, although
it may evolve into that,
Lounsbury said.
She closed her Seaside
restaurant, Guido & Vito’s
Italian Cuisine, a month and
a half ago. Raniero worked
for her there as a cook.
As the official owner of
Jim’s Place, Raniero said he
will be in charge and his mom
will work for him.
In some ways, opening a
restaurant in Warrenton is
like coming home, Lounsbury
said. She graduated from
Warrenton High School and
her son was born in Warren-
ton.
There’s more news among
Warrenton’s dining estab-
lishments.
• Domino’s Pizza is under
construction next to Panda
Express in the North Coast
Business Park. This week,
plumbing and other infra-
structure improvements were
going in. A timeline for com-
pletion wasn’t available.
• Katrina and Ronald Hunt
are taking over operations at
Rod’s Bar & Grill, purchasing
the lounge and eatery from
her father, Rod Mullins.
They plan to change the
name to Trina & Ron’s Place.
• Tacos El Catrin in the Pre-
marq Center has changed its
name to El Catrin Mexican
Cuisine.
The restaurant, known for
its authentic Michoacan, or
Central Mexican cuisine, has
added a business partner, Li-
brado Perez Gutierrez.
El Catrin expanded recent-
ly, adding a larger lounge
and a few more seats in the
former hair salon next door.
Emiliano Alvarez, also a part-
ner at El Catrin, moved his
hair salon to the other end of
the center.
• And, of course, Uptown
Café has changed hands.
New owners have remodeled
the 4-year-old restaurant and
moved the lounge into the
former community room,
making room for more tables.
Intersection: Bottleneck near school to be widened
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Tem Rick Newton urged fel-
low commissioners. “I’d like
to move forward on that.”
The four-member panel,
with Mayor Henry Balensifer
absent, unanimously ap-
proved the plan.
“That’s really good news,”
Warrenton-Hammond
School District Superin-
tendent Mark Jeffery said
Wednesday morning. “It’s a
busy intersection, particular-
ly from our perspective, and
tight for buses getting in and
out of there.”
Last school year, a student
was struck by a car in the
crosswalk there.
“It’s one of two major inter-
sections we impact – the oth-
er is Ninth and Cedar – and
it’s a challenge for everybody,
even me in my pickup from
time to time,” Jeffery said.
City Engineer Collin Stelzig,
who is also interim Public
Works director since the de-
parture of Jim Dunn, said his
department has done some
property surveys to find out
where the right of way is so
corrections can be made.
Work would be done during
the summer so it doesn’t con-
flict with school.