John Louk

An interesting thing was decided at the Leadership Board meeting a couple weeks ago. It wasn’t a big issue. It wasn’t controversial. But it was a decision with vision. When we purchased our current property in 2010, we also acquired a small, triangular piece of land between our property and 33rd Avenue. It’s just to the front of our land. It runs along 33rd Avenue and comes to a point where Wiley and 33 Avenue split and then follows 33rd Avenue to the west. We went through the process of putting the two parcels of land together. This made sense as we would have just one deed. Also, we didn’t want someone to come along and purchase the land and put up a billboard in front of Salem or put some business in front of us. Recently we sold a small strip of land to the City to put in a sidewalk along 33rd Avenue. When the City sent us the new paperwork, showing how much our property is worth after selling the sidewalk land, we received two documents. Even though we previously filed to