By Jeffrey Mize, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Dec. 29--2008 likely will be pivotal for the Boise Cascade project, the year the city of Vancouver must come up with road dollars to support its waterfront vision.

By HOWARD BUCK, Columbian staff writer A hesitant shopper, modeling a pair of purplish sunglasses, peered into a hand mirror. "Do they look too funky on me?" she asked.