They offer a service no one else is offering.

You'll notice there are a couple of other communities added to that list this year that have not been there in the past. Because we are now called Leavenworth County Development Corporation, it only makes sense that we are all-inclusive of all communities that are in this county. We are going to visit with the folks in Easton and Linwood about participating, stepping up and being involved in the organization.

There's a number of partnership opportunities. We have a long-standing relationship with the Leavenworth-Lansing Chamber.

With the winds blowing all day, we'd get one customer back up with service and then we're get a report of another area without power.

They (Forest Service regulations) had a limit then of 20 people in a party, and so what we had was many groups of 20, each with a leader. Twenty people would go off, and when the last one was off and maybe a couple hundred feet up from Timberline, the next one would take off. And they just kept moving out.

Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.