Hunington Park

Today was the grand opening of the redeveloped Hunington Park owned by Avista (our local electric and gas utility) across the street from the downtown Spokane Public Library. I had previously taken some pictures of Hunington Park under construction and during the spring runoff. They are here .

Rock commemorating the Redevelopment of the park.

Water feature where there used to be a parking lot.

Two of the turbines from the power plant at the falls.

The falls with the Welcome to Spokane sign, by Avista.

Another view of the falls.

Looking downstream to the west under the Monroe Street Bridge.

Looking upstream from near the bottom, notice the gondolas

that go over the river below the falls.

Surprised I got this one, this is the flame on the side of the

plaza, the wind was blowing so hard it looked like it would

blow out.

What You Missed November 2, 2013 EWGS meeting

Today started out rainy, and so you probably did not see all the progress Avista is making on Huntington Park across the street from the Library, so here is a couple of pictures of the park.

The EWGS board meeting started soon after 10 a.m. and I passed some old photo's I took in 1997 of EWGS setting up our booth at the conference at Fife, Washington in 1997 and a photo of Cyndi Howells of Cyndi's List who had a booth near us. She had just finished her talk on Genealogy Research in your Pajamas and Bunnie Slippers. So why was this interesting, EWGS has asked Cyndi Ingles (her maiden name) to be our October 2015 speaker, and the board had to approve this which we did with very little discussion. Note to EWGS members the board meetings are open to any EWGS member.
At lunch in the food court at River Park Square was a concert on the main floor, but a nice serenade while I ate lunch.

After lunch we were shown the new slate of EWGS officers for 2014.

President Donna Potter-Phillips, Vice President Pat Bayonne-Johnson, Recording Secretary Dianne Doneen Bongarts, Corresponding Secretary Evelyn Carpenter-Small, Past President Bill Hire, Trustee Dolly Gorrod Webb, Historian John Ellingson, Librarian Juanita Linton McBride, and Member at Large Lola King McCreary. Not present Treasurer Oweeta Homer Floyd, and Trustee Kathy Bowen. A special thank you to our nominating committee Lola McCreary.

Then the program by John Richards a great grandson of Patrick F. "Patsy" and Mary (Stack) Clark. Very interesting story on Patsy from his birth in Ireland during the potato famine to his ending up in Spokane a very rich mine owner and builder of the Patsy Clark Mansion.

Huntington Park Construction

Back in June I posted a picture of the Spokane Library taken from across the Spokane River, and if you look closely you can see some benches and concrete near the river. That was the end of the trail at Huntington Park. In June it was a real good hike down a lot of steps, but the view of the Spokane Falls is worth the trip. Well a couple of weeks ago Avista (our electric and gas utility) started a project to make Huntington Park ADA accessible, and here are some pictures of the construction. The first one is what it is supposed to look like when done. Mr. Huntington was a president of Washington Water Power. Today they call it Avista, but the park was named for him.

 

 The library is located just below the street near the bottom of the picture.

This and the next photo used to be  the small parking lot next to City hall.

This is the service road for the dam and power plant, it used to have a gate right next to where the construction sign is in the picture. If you did not like steps you could walk down this road to the river.

Some of the construction down by the river.