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LEWISTON - A Lewis and Clark sculpture to be created by artist Maya Lin will be displayed in a park on a Snake River island instead of at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers.
Board members with the Washington Confluence Project this week decided against using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers site for a Lewis and Clark interpretive center because of financial and maintenance yard uncertainties.
It instead will be placed at Chief Timothy Park, nearly 10 miles from the bordering communities of Clarkston, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho.
Lin is best known for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala.
Deadlines are approaching on her Lewis and Clark work, said a spokesman for the Confluence Project, based in Vancouver, Wash.
"At a certain stage, you´ve got to make a call," said spokesman Dave Yewman.
The project board decided to move past site uncertainties over clearing out the maintenance yard at the Corps of Engineers property, Yewman said.
When Lin visited the area in 2002, she described the possibilities in Chief Timothy Park as "awesome," and has continued to focus her attention there.
The Confluence Project, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, includes five sites along the Washington side of the Columbia River and its tributaries. Two projects are in Vancouver, one in Pasco and another on Cape Disappointment in Ilwaco. The projects are scheduled for completion in 2005.
The overall cost of the project, $18.9 million, will be covered by state and private donations.
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LEWISTON - A Lewis and Clark sculpture to be created by artist Maya Lin will be displayed in a park on a Snake River island instead of at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers.
Board members with the Washington Confluence Project this week decided against using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers site for a Lewis and Clark interpretive center because of financial and maintenance yard uncertainties.
It instead will be placed at Chief Timothy Park, nearly 10 miles from the bordering communities of Clarkston, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho.
Lin is best known for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala.
Deadlines are approaching on her Lewis and Clark work, said a spokesman for the Confluence Project, based in Vancouver, Wash.
"At a certain stage, you´ve got to make a call," said spokesman Dave Yewman.
The project board decided to move past site uncertainties over clearing out the maintenance yard at the Corps of Engineers property, Yewman said.
When Lin visited the area in 2002, she described the possibilities in Chief Timothy Park as "awesome," and has continued to focus her attention there.
The Confluence Project, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, includes five sites along the Washington side of the Columbia River and its tributaries. Two projects are in Vancouver, one in Pasco and another on Cape Disappointment in Ilwaco. The projects are scheduled for completion in 2005.
The overall cost of the project, $18.9 million, will be covered by state and private donations.
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