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...double-wides.) Interest is already beginning to grow--among both consumers and investors. Rocio Romero, 32, an architect from Perryville, Mo., has sold five of her Laguna Verde (LV) kit houses, which are priced at $31,050. Andrew Reid, a sales manager for Countrywide Home Loans in Woodinville and Chelan, Wash., says he has been swamped with inquiries since Kaufmann's Glidehouse was featured in Sunset magazine. "I had several hundred calls from potential buyers," he says...
...were on a hiking trip in the Cascade Mountains near Chelan, Wa., reportedly tried to dispose of toilet paper by burning it in the wooded area on June 27. Because of the dry spell plaguing the West coast this summer, the men's action ignited a blaze that took three days and about $500,000 to contain, said Wenahatchee National Forest spokeswoman Marti J. Ames...
...hikers apparently tried to extinguish the fire themselves before being boated to safety across Lake Chelan, where a Forest Service official in a guardhouse had spotted the smoke. "I imagine it was tense for [the hikers], but they probably didn't have much of a chance," Ames said...
...blaze scorched a considerable portion of the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness Area, about 90 miles northeast of Seattle...
NORTHWEST POWER partnership will get big boost this fall with start of $200 million Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River. Last obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...