Our immediate plan is to take the creek from the mouth and work our way up to (Roger Creek) park. We'll do some riparian planting and some rock placement.

We are, after all, at the centennial of the Olmstead park plan.

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

What we have now is a world-class stream, right in the shadow of Wal-Mart.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

You know quickly, typically, if you're having an allergic reaction -- you get an immediate sensation in your mouth that you've been exposed to something, ... So I knew it within seconds, literally.