Cosi mayor cuts ribbon on new Mill Creek Dam Saturday

October 1, 2018 7:00 pm
COURTESY PHOTO A nice crowd gathers atop the new Mill Creek Dam in Cosmopolis for a ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday. The new $3 million concrete and earth structure replaces the old earthen dam, which was washed away by heavy rains nearly 10 years earlier.
COURTESY PHOTO A nice crowd gathers atop the new Mill Creek Dam in Cosmopolis for a ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday. The new $3 million concrete and earth structure replaces the old earthen dam, which was washed away by heavy rains nearly 10 years earlier.

Some of the VIPs at Saturday’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Mill Creek Dam in Cosmopolis included, from left: former Senator Jim Hargrove, Rep. Brian Blake (D-Aberdeen), former Cosmopolis mayor and current Grays Harbor County Commissioner Vickie Raines, current Cosmopolis Mayor Frank Chestnut, and Cosmopolis City Administrator Darrin Raines. Also attending was Rep. Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen).