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The Washington County Board of Supervisors heard from Washington County Soil and Water Conservation District Soil Commissioner Kate Giannini at their Tuesday meeting. She presented a letter of support for the 4-H Enterprisers Club in Riverside creek naming efforts, “So last year the 4-H Enterprisers Club had been working on a legacy project to name an unnamed tributary on the East side of Riverside that flows into the English River watershed. I approached the 4-H Club if they would like to take part in naming that creek, and so we studied the watershed characteristics, soils, landscape, and landowners. And then we also had Michael Zahs, our local historian, come into the community and provide a history of the community of Riverside. We were expecting about thirty or forty people to show up, and we had over one hundred people.” The Supervisors approved the letter of support for the club. The Enterprisers Club narrowed a list of thirty names down to three, including Bob Cat Creek, Enterprisers Creek, and Lincoln Gate Creek. The club voted in October for the name Lincoln Gate Creek. Giannini has started the application process to the US Board of Names and already received a letter of support from the Riverside City Council.