The words "Corner Club" on a mural in downtown Pullman will not be removed.
The city's Lodging Tax Advisory Committee had been concerned the words - which also are the name of a Moscow bar - promoted Moscow business, which was against the terms of a grant that will help pay for equipment artist Patrick Siler used to create the mural.
The committee earlier this month reminded the Pullman Arts Commission, which applied for the grant, that the $1,375 grant wouldn't come through if the words weren't removed.
However, the committee changed its mind at its Tuesday meeting after listening to a presentation made by members of the arts commission. Committee Chairwoman Ann Heath said committee members viewed the actual mural that was painted on the wall of the building and concluded the words didn't have to be removed.
"All things considered, we just decided that there is no promotion of the Moscow business going on" in the mural, she said.
The committee sent the arts commission a grant award letter in mid-June that included a condition indicating the words "Corner Club" needed to be removed from the mural.
The committee voted Tuesday to remove that condition from the grant award letter and made the decision to award the grant, Heath said.
She said when committee members sent the letter, they had looked at a picture of how the mural was going to look.
"In that drawing the words were much more prominent, much more pronounced, than what was actually painted on the wall," she said. "When you look at how the mural is actually painted on the wall ... it is simply not that obvious, so we concluded that the mural does not promote the (Moscow) Corner Club business."
Commission chairwoman Anna-Maria Shannon said "things worked out beautifully."
"That was our hope all along," she said.
Shannon said she is now working with the city "to make sure that we get the money paid out."
She said after she submits the information and receipts, the city will reimburse the business owners who covered the cost of a scissor lift so Siler could paint the mural on their building.
Siler, who also is a arts commission member, helped with a presentation on the mural Tuesday.
"We basically presented the idea that the painting really favors Pullman ..." he said. "That we really had Pullman in the best interest throughout the whole project."
He said members of the both groups were able to discuss the issue in a very civilized manner.
"It was a good meeting ..." he said. "We were really happy with the outcome."
Washington State University’s last home football game of the 2009 season (Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009) versus Oregon State was played in cool and breezy weather. No snow. But, the next morning (Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009), these photos showing the inside and outside of WSU’s Martin Stadium show different weather.
