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Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant, also known as Cedar Falls Historic District, is a public hydroelectric plant near North Bend, Washington operated by Seattle City Light. The plant on the Cedar River was the first publicly-owned electrical generating plant for Seattle and one of the earliest in the country for a municipality of its size.
North Bend is a town in King County, Washington, United States, on the outskirts of the Seattle metropolitan area.The population was 7,461 at the 2020 census. [4] The town is 30 miles (48 km) east of Seattle on Interstate 90 and lies in the foothills of the Cascade Range near Snoqualmie Pass.
Community economic development (CED) is a field of study that actively elicits community involvement when working with government and private sectors to build strong communities, industries, and markets. [1] It includes collaborative and participatory involvement of community dwellers in every area of development that affects their standard of ...
[citation needed] CED was first formed to help the U.S. economy transition from a wartime to peacetime economy. [2] At the end of World War II, CED worked to garner support among the American business community for the Marshall Plan. [2] [3] In January 2015, the Committee for Economic Development merged with The Conference Board.
Camp North Bend, also known as Camp Waskowitz, is a 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 acre complex of wood-frame buildings. Constructed by and for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [ 1 ]
North Bend is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States with a population of 9,695 as of the 2010 census. [6] [7] North Bend is surrounded on three sides by Coos Bay, an S-shaped water inlet and estuary where the Coos River enters Coos Bay and borders the city of Coos Bay to the south. North Bend became an incorporated city in 1903. [7]
North Bend Air Force Station was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the Air Defense Command permanent radar network. Prompted by the start of the Korean War, on 11 July 1950, the Secretary of the Air Force asked the Secretary of Defense for approval to expedite construction of the permanent network.
The North Bend/Coos Bay Airport opened in 1932. The U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, North Bend was started in 1936 and commissioned on May 10, 1943. The airport was transferred to the City of North Bend in 1947 as military surplus property. The first airline flights were West Coast DC-3s in 1947; successor Hughes Airwest pulled out in 1979.