April Fools

Happy 102nd birthday to City Light, created from the Department of Light and Water back on April 1, 1910.  City Light was created largely because the public were not fools and feared monopoly control of elecric services.  Private utilities didn't much like City Light, especially when it started building dams on the Skagit River, as that meant they would further lose out on the Seattle electric market.  City Light also was responsible for the town of Cedar Falls and Rattlesnake Lake.  Both the townsite and the lake are very important to those of us living in the upper Snoqualmie Valley.