2016 Municipal Excellence Award: Longview
Empowering citizens: Neighborhood Park Grant Program and Cloney Skate Park Revitalization, Longview
The Neighborhood Park Grant Program provides up to 50% financial assistance for capital improvements within Longview’s parks and play spaces. Projects can include renovation or replacement of existing facilities, property acquisition, and major pieces of equipment or amenities at city parks. Community groups, businesses, nonprofits, youth sports organizations, and individuals submit project proposals to the Park and Recreation Advisory Board. Learn how one community member used the process to clean up a local skate park.
Wet Weather in Longview WA
Now that I am retired, I just might show my life and some of the towns around me. My Brother and Dad, live on the same Dead End Road and yea, maybe we just might get into trouble a little, but have fun doing it. It is time to start smelling the Roses on the way instead of looking at them and passing them by.
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Longview, WA July 4th parade, 2019
Longview, WA - Thousands gathered to celebrate the birth of the United States, in the city that gave birth to the State of Washington.
The annual parade is organized by the Longview Go Fourth Committee, which consists of twelve highly motivated community minded volunteers.
Great Race - Longview, WA - June 29, 2019
The Great Race at Longview, WA on June 29, 2019
The 2019 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty will start in Riverside, Calif., on Saturday, June 22, and finish is Tacoma, Wash., on Sunday, June 30, race organizers have announced.
This marks the first time the Great Race, the world’s premiere old car rally, will start and finish on the West Coast. The 9-day, 2,300-mile adventure will bring 120 of the world’s finest antique automobiles to 18 cities in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. More than $150,000 will be awarded to top finishers in multiple divisions.
“We are excited to start the 2019 Great Race in Riverside,” director Jeff Stumb said. “Especially with Riverside’s great connection and long history of racing at the old Riverside Raceway.” It will be the first time the event has been to Riverside since a 2001 overnight stop.
“We are also pleased to be working with our friends at LeMay – America’s Car Museum to host the finish of the 2019 Great Race. We have started in Tacoma in 1996 and 1998 and we finished there in 2005, but this will be the first time we have had the honor of holding the race in conjunction with America’s Car Museum.”
Teams and cars from Japan, England, Australia, Canada and every corner of the United States will converge in Riverside in mid-June with vintage automobiles dating back as far as 1916.
“There are more than 450 people just in our entourage from all around the world,” Stumb said. “And along the route they will see amazing sites, including Lake Tahoe, Redwood National Park, Northern California’s coastline, Crater Lake, Mount Hood and Mount Rainer.”
Overnight cities along the 2019 route are scheduled to include Lancaster, Calif.; Gardnerville, Nev.; Chico, Calif.; Eureka, Calif.; Grants Pass, Ore.; Bend, Ore.; Vancouver, Wash.; and Olympia, Wash. Lunch cities are scheduled to include Victorville, Calif.; Bishop, Calif.; Grass Valley, Calif.; Ukiah, Calif.; Brookings, Ore.; Crater Lake, Ore.; Hood River, Ore.; and Longview, Wash.
The Great Race, which began 36 years ago, is not a speed race, but a time/speed/distance rally. The vehicles, each with a driver and navigator, are given precise instructions each day that detail every move down to the second. They are scored at secret check points along the way and are penalized one second for each second either early or late. As in golf, the lowest score wins.
Cars start – and hopefully finish – one minute apart if all goes according to plan. The biggest part of the challenge other than staying on time and following the instructions is getting an old car to the finish line each day, organizers say.
Each stop on the Great Race is free to the public and spectators will be able to visit with the participants and to look at the cars for several hours. It is common for kids to climb in the cars for a first-hand look.
Cars built in 1974 and earlier are eligible, with most entries having been manufactured before World War II. In the 2017 Great Race a 1932 Ford won the event from Florida to northern Michigan. The 2019 winners will again receive $50,000 of the $150,000 total purse.
A 1916 Hudson Pikes Peak Hillclimber, a 1916 Chevrolet Phaeton, a 1917 Peerless Racer and a chain-driven 1918 American LaFrance Speedster are the oldest cars scheduled to be in the 2018 Great Race from Buffalo, N.Y., to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Over the decades, the Great Race has stopped in hundreds of cities big and small, from tiny Austin, Nev., to New York City.
“When the Great Race pulls into a city it becomes an instant festival,” Stumb said. “Last year we had five overnight stops with more than 10,000 spectators on our way to having 250,000 people see the Great Race during the event.”
The event was started in 1983 by Tom McRae and it takes its name from the 1965 movie, The Great Race, which starred Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood and Peter Falk. The movie is a comedy based on the real life 1908 automobile race from New York to Paris. In 2004, Tony Curtis was the guest of the Great Race and rode in his car from the movie, the Leslie Special.
The Great Race gained a huge following from late night showings on ESPN when the network was just starting out in the early 1980s. The first entrant, Curtis Graf of Irving, Texas, is still a participant today.
The event’s main sponsors are Hemmings Motor News, Hagerty, Coker Tire and Reliable Carriers.
LONGVIEW LAKE, MISSOURI SUPERCELL
Supercell time lapse cinematography stock footage by Stephen Locke. Longview Lake, Missouri Supercell July 1, 2015.
City Skinny - Living in Longview, WA
Fences and Flowers
Longview Fireworks
Trying to find a good spot to watch the main fireworks show. Longview, WA, 10:07 p.m. on July 4, 2012.
UFO Kelso/LOngview
this time it was over Longview, west of us.
UFO caught the other night in Longview, Washington.
Friday night light. #UFO #Drunk #Flying #Aliens
History of Longview Streets - 1994
This 4-minute video captures a bit of the history of the making of Longview streets using hexagons. This program was provided courtesy of Bruce T. Chattin, Executive Director of Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association. The video was produced in 1994.
Lower Longview Lake Dam Rehabilitation - March 2018
I March 2018, we got video of the Lower Longview Lake Dam Rehabilitation project.
4th of July Parade
New Longview neighborhood parade.
JAPANESE GARDEN LONGVIEW, WA.
AUGUST 2, 2014
Columbia River View Estate in Longview, Washington
Presented by Brazen Sotheby's International Realty
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Stunning 10 acre property with outstanding views overlooking the Columbia River, with Oregon in the distance. Three bedroom, three bathroom home situated within a gated community of five homes, with views of the river from all bedrooms.
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Monticello Hotel Renovation - The Historic Landmark of Longview, WA
Many residents of Longview Washington call the Monticello Hotel Our Hotel or refer to it as the Local Celebrity. Memories dating back to 1923 make this hotel one of the most important landmarks of this community, and we are ecstatic to see this restoration project in progress.
Kevin Hunter narrates this documentary video on the Monticello project, and led a tour group of local officials to see the progress. The group included council members, city mayor, port commissioner, county commissioner, state representative, local publisher and editor, and several other key members of the community.
Beautiful sky views of Longview, Washington - 4K Drone video by Kevin Hunter
Kevin Hunter resides in Longview WA. The photos in this video are shot from the perspective of the 1300 block of 14th Ave in downtown Longview. First half are pictures at dusk, second half are pictures shot after dark. They were not photographed on the same day.
Kelso Longview, Pictures from Facebook Page
These pictures are from the You Know You're from Kelso/Longview When... Facebook page.. this is just a few.. to see many many more Join the page.. its fun fun fun...
7 4 12 fireworks grand finale princeton indiana
as the title says, this is the grande finale of the public fireworks display in Princeton, IN July 4th 2012.
shot with my Sony HDR-FX1
Sacagawea
Sacagawea , also Sakakawea or Sacajawea, was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States. She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806.
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Longview honors officers with 'Back the Blue' rally
Longview honors officers with 'Back the Blue' rally