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  CITY OF FERNDALE  NOTICE OF DECISION                                October 17, 1996 (The street tree condition is condition #4 below:)                                           This public notice is provided to interested parties to inform them of the recommendations reached by the Ferndale Planning Commission at the public hearing held on September 18 and continued until October 16, 1996. The following applications submitted by Homestead Northwest, Inc. were reviewed: A planned unit development and preliminary plat to construct a 104 lot residential development on 33.5 acres located adjacent to and East of Vista Drive and approximately 1/4 mile North of Thornton Road in Ferndale and located in the Southeast quarter of Section 18, Township 39 North, Range 2 E.W.M. The project is kno...
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For sale: 2003 Scamp 16 foot trailer located in Ferndale, Washington.

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  I haven't quite decided on a fair price for this yet.  Make me an offer.  I should have a price in a day or so.   This Scamp has A/C, a propane furnace, a gas cooktop, a 2 way refrigerator (propane/electric), many 12 volt receptacles & USB plugs in four different locations, an awning, 2 propane tanks, and a weight distribution hitch.  The former owner used the weight distribution hitch, and it came with the trailer when I bought it, but I never used it.  I did use a sway bar, and that also comes with the trailer.  It has EZ-Lube hubs.   I've seen a few variations of the Layout 6 - here is a diagram of ours: In addition, there are cabinets above and below the fridge and some storage compartments below both dinette seats.  We left the bed down all the time and used 4 large black plastic storage boxes from Home Depot to store things under the bed as well, under the spot marked "TABLE" in the diagram above.  I made the p...
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My fridge door would no longer latch shut in my 2003 Scamp 16'.  The latch looked OK, but the spring inside was broken.  New latches are available, but they cost $40 on Amazon.  I've seen them for $70 elsewhere.  I decided to see if I could fix mine.   This is what a good spring looks like.   I bought some .025" music wire, a.k.a. piano wire, at my local well stocked hardware store for a few dollars.  I took the latch off the fridge by removing two screws.  The latch is made from two pieces of plastic held together by a long steel pin.  I removed the steel pin by pushing it out from the bottom upward with a stiff wire of smaller diameter than the pin.   Starting with a 5 inch length of the music wire I bent the wire into shape.  I used the steel pin as a form to wrap the wire around as I made the coils.  I trapped the wire and the pin between two small pieces of wood held together with vice grips as I made some o...