Meeting set to inform public about Soap Lake Creative District
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SOAP LAKE — The Soap Lake Creative District Planning Committee will host a public meeting Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. to share the five-year strategic plan for the creative district.
The meeting is at the Soap Lake Community and Senior center and will be livestreamed at https://meet.google.com/wcf-yzqe-zgh. The meeting will discuss the planning for creative district certification, application schedule and discussing the draft of the five-year strategic plan, according to Soap Lake.
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