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February 28, 2013 VOL. 5, NO. 8

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Reburial of K-9 officers results in recognition

By Michele Mihalovich

Sick elk Hoof rot is found in local elk population.

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Shelter shutters Youth shelter closes earlier than anticipated.

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Remember the fallen Local people run in honor of Eric Ward.

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In the 26 years of owning and operating Landwork Enterprises, North Bend Councilman Ryan Kolodejchuk admits that exhuming bodies was probably the weirdest request.

He said a friend of his, a deputy with the King County Sheriff’s Office, asked in 2011 if Kolodejchuk could help with a project, exhuming K-9 skeletons and cremains.

“To be honest, it did sound kind of creepy to me at first,” he said. “But I agreed to help out because I wanted to show my appreciation for everything that police do for citizens.”

In 1983, the sheriff’s office started burying deceased K-9 dogs at the Kenmore Precinct, according to Sheriff John Urquhart.

“We had a little graveyard there in a grass field, with headstones listing the dog’s name and their people partners, along with their years of service. Nothing fancy — just

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King County Sheriff John Urquhart (left) presented North Bend Councilman Ryan Kolodejchuk with a plaque Feb. 19 for his volunteer time spent relocating the department’s K-9 cemetery.

Most local elected officials plan to run again for their seats

By Michele Mihalovich

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A concrete dog statue keeps watch over the graves at the new King County Sheriff’s Office K-9 cemetery. something nice for the pups to not be forgotten,” North Bend Police Chief Mark Toner said.

But the department moved out of the Kenmore Precinct and relocated the staff to the Sammamish station, Toner said.

After learning that the

His first two terms went so well, Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson has decided to run for a third.

Larson announced at the Feb. 25 City Council meeting that serving as mayor has been an “honor and one of the greatest privileges of my life.”

He said after the meeting that there are several reasons he’d like to stay on as mayor: the Weyerhaeuser Mill Site is offering great potential for Snoqualmie; he wants to continue working with King County regarding the Interstate 90/Parkway interchange; he’s interested in tackling the second phase of the YMCA; the downtown revitalization is very exciting and he wants to see it through; and the fact that city attorney Pat Anderson is

leaving, and taking with him decades of history and institutional knowledge, would have a negative impact on the city if Larson wasn’t there to help fill in the blanks.

Four other incumbents — Bryan Holloway, Robert Jeans, Maria Henriksen and Kathi Prewitt — announced that they, too, would seek to retain their council seats.

Down the road a piece in North Bend, Councilwoman Jeanne Pettersen said she also would run for re-election this November.

Councilman Alan Gothelf said in an email, “I have made no decisions at this time. I am currently focused on spending time on current issues facing the city.”

Councilman Ross Loudenback did not respond to email or phone requests about whether he would seek

re-election.

King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert has already said she will run again for her seat in November.

Two seats with the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District board are up this year, and commissioner Kevin Hauglie said he is “absolutely” running again.

Dick Jones did not respond to an email request, but did say in January that he hadn’t decided whether to run again.

Citizens wishing to put their hats in the ring can file May 14-18. Learn more at www.kingcounty.gov/elections/candidatefiling.aspx.

If there are three or more candidates vying for a seat, there will be an Aug. 6 primary. Otherwise, the candidates will face off in the Nov. 5 general election.

Schools ask for police in the district

By Michele Mihalovich Finding funds to hire a school resource officer has always been a top priority for Snoqualmie Police Chief Steve McCulley, but so far the funds haven’t materialized.

But after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Snoqualmie Valley School District officials have also seen it as a priority, and they approached McCulley to see if the two agencies could figure something out.

From 1999 to 2005, two Snoqualmie Police officers used to walk the halls of Mount Si High School, thanks to a federal grant, McCulley said. When those funds dried up, coupled with what Superintendent Joel Aune called a steady stream of budget cuts at the See OFFICER, Page 3

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Hoof rot strikes elk

By Michele Mihalovich

Elk hoof rot, a disease seen predominantly among elk in Southwest Washington, has found its way to the Snoqualmie Valley herds.

Harold Erland, a wildlife biologist with the local Elk Management Group, said Feb. 20 that three elk have been found dead with the disease.

There are currently 430 elk in the Snoqualmie Valley, with 150 of those living in and around North Bend, he said.

One North Bend elk dropped dead right at a resident’s home on Maloney Grove Road last August, and another was found near the See HOOF, Page 3

Award From Page 1 Kenmore building was going to be sold by the county, the sheriff’s office didn’t want to leave the dogs there, which is where Kolodejchuk came in.

The graveyard included 28 100-pound headstones, six dog remains and four tin boxes with dog cremains.

Kolodejchuk, who at the time hadn’t been elected to his council seat, said he and an employee worked side by side with three chaplains and about a dozen deputies in August 2011, using rods and shovels to dig up the remains.

“And everyone there was working on their own time, which just goes to show you how dedicated these people are,” he said.

They ran into a bit of a glitch.

Kolodejchuk, 54, said one of the deputies who showed up to help with the project was hoping to dig up and move his former canine partner’s cremains, but they couldn’t find them.

One thing Kolodejchuk learned that day was how deep the bonds are between canines and their human partners.

Some of the dogs had given their lives for their deputy handlers, like Sarge, who charged after a burglar and ended up getting shot in a melee, but the suspect also accidentally shot himself, Kolodejchuk said.

Some of the dogs come from bloodlines of former canines, just like some deputies come from a long line of cops in the families.

When Kolodejchuk saw how upset the deputy was getting when his former partner’s bones weren’t

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being found, he told him, “Hey, I have all day. If I have to dig to China to find this dog, I’ll dig to China to find this dog.”

He spent another hour digging in the cemetery and finally noticed that one of the cremains tins had two badges on it, so Kolodejchuk and the deputy were fairly certain that the missing dog had been buried with another in the rusty tin.

After the long, tiring and “pretty unique” experience was completed, Kolodejchuk asked if he could also help with reburial, which was to take place at the Renton communications center the following year.

Toner said Kolodejchuk “showed up on the scene and was deeply involved in the project.

His skills at landscaping really showed at this point — designing and lining up the headstones, setting them level, arranging the irrigation and doing the finish work. Again, he thanked us for being allowed to be involved.”

The councilman was pretty surprised at the Feb. 19 City Council meeting, when Urquhart showed up and asked Kolodejchuk to join him at the podium.

“Uh oh, what did I do?” Kolodejchuk asked.

“Hey, do you have a warrant, sheriff?” someone from the council asked.

Kolodejchuk said he thought the sheriff needed his help with a presentation, and he was “floored” when Urquhart handed him a plaque and said the sheriff’s office can’t thank

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The new King County Sheriff’s Office K-9 cemetery, which was relocated from Kenmore to Renton, is not open to the public. him enough for all the hard work he did.

Urquhart also added that it was “a long time coming, this is King County, after all, sometimes we move kind of slowly … Thank you so much for what you did for the sheriff’s office and for our canine partners.”

Kolodejchuk said he

went up to Toner after the meeting and said, “Say, you guys really didn’t have to do this. Chief Toner looked me right in the eyes and said, ‘Neither did you.’”

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Snoqualmie youth shelter closed early Hoof

By Michele Mihalovich The Friends of Youth shelter in Snoqualmie closed its doors after just 50 nights of operation, due largely to the Snoqualmie Valley Winter Shelter that opened Dec. 23 in North Bend.

Friends of Youth, based in Redmond, had secured a 90-day, conditional-use permit from the city of Snoqualmie to serve up to six homeless youths, ages 18-24, in its current counseling center, 7972 Maple Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie.

Friends of Youth President Terry Pottmeyer said the group received a $60,000 grant from King County to open the overnight shelter for a threemonth trial basis.

Friends of Youth has been aware of, and concerned about, unsheltered and homeless young adults in the Valley for many years, she said.

“Our concern has deepened in recent years, as the

Officer From Page 1 school district, the program had to end.

“It’s a resource we would have liked to have, but we simply haven’t had the funding,” said Aune, who has been with the district eight years.

“But, obviously, with the tragedy that occurred in recent months in Connecticut, it’s raised everyone’s awareness. Our

impact of “We learned a great deal the Snoqualmie the receswhile we were open for shelter sion has was open increased services.” that family instabil— Terry Pottmeyer many ity and Friends of Youth youths, despite stress. sleeping Friends in the woods, didn’t want of Youth has provided access to the Snoqualmie outreach services to these shelter because: young people via our q They didn’t want to mobile street outreach be seen at the counseling van and our outreach case office seeking shelter sermanagers, and have opervices, because of the perated a counseling office ceived stigma associated in Snoqualmie for several decades,” she said. “Our with the offices, where ability to provide young counseling and chemical people with safe shelter dependency treatment in the Valley has been an services are provided. ongoing concern for our q Snoqualmie is a organization.” small community and She said that when youths needing shelter the teen shelter opened don’t want to be seen as in December, it became homeless. apparent “that our guests q There is a very large would prefer to access unsheltered young adult shelter in North Bend,” population in East King and the Snoqualmie shelCounty (which is why ter officially closed its Friends of Youth sought doors Dec. 31. to provide shelter beds Pottmeyer said her staff in the community), but learned in the months most young adults gravifocus has always been on school safety, but this has magnified it and really made us revisit the possibility.”

McCulley, Aune and Mount Si Principal John Belcher are in very early discussions, and haven’t even gotten close to the planning process, Aune said.

For right now, they are kind of working out how the costs would be shared, and it’s pretty good timing since the school district’s budget planning for the 2013/2014 school year

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tate to North Bend, where the King County Library and other services are more accessible. q Some youths had relationships with other homeless adults who were not able to access the services (over age 24), so they preferred to stay with their friends.

Pottmeyer said the remainder of the grant funds went toward five extra beds at the Redmond shelter.

She said she didn’t think the shelter’s time in Snoqualmie was poorly spent. The youths who stayed at the shelter reported that they were from Redmond, Renton, North Bend, Sammamish and Snoqualmie. She said there were no issues with the youths to the surrounding neighborhood, a concern by many who protested the conditionaluse permit.

“We learned a great

starts heating up in April, Aune said.

McCulley said 50/50 and 60/40 sharing costs have been volleyed about, with the city of Snoqualmie picking up the 60 percent because the schools are not open all year long.

“From our perspective, we’re in session 180 days a year,” Aune said. “The chief is thinking a fulltime officer, but we don’t have full-time work for an officer. At this juncture, I think it’s safe to say that we’ll be sharing the costs

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The cost for a full-time officer, which includes salary, benefits, uniforms, equipment and car, runs about $120,000 a year, McCulley said.

He said his current officers always try to stop by the schools if they have some free time, but an officer fully dedicated, mostly to the high school and new freshman learning center, would help build healthy and trusting relationships with the students.

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Hunters and others who see or suspect an elk is suffering from hoof rot are encouraged to report it online at http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/health/hoof_rot.

Encompass parking lot, he said.

The third one was struck by a vehicle and was later found dead at Snoqualmie Middle School on Feb. 17 in Snoqualmie, but Erland said the elk showed signs of the hoof rot disease.

Erland said the disease literally causes an elk’s hoof, or hooves, to rot. He said the elk stumbles and limps around, but at a certain point, is unable to forage and starves to death.

Elk with the hoof disease were first observed in southwest Washington in the mid-1990s, and some elk in Oregon were also exhibiting the disease, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources website.

But this is the first time the disease has presented itself in the Snoqualmie Valley and it’s not known how it got here, Erland said.

“Because we don’t know how it got here, we’re not

sure how to contain it,” he said. “Cattle and sheep can be inoculated for the disease, but that really can’t be done with elk.”

Erland, who performed the necropsies on the three dead elk, said all three showed selenium and copper deficiencies, and he will ask the Department of Fish and Wildlife if he can put salt blocks fortified with selenium and copper out for the elk to see if it helps.

“Right now, the problem isn’t that bad for our elk, but I don’t want to wait for it to get bad,” Erland said. “For right now, we’ll be keeping our eyes out for limping elk, because that is a good indication of hoof rot.”

ing with all the schools in the district — from grade school to middle school to the freshman learning center and high school,” McCulley said. “So, we’d get to know these kids and we could see if they are starting to go in the wrong direction, and hopefully help them back onto the right path.”

He also said a school resource officer would provide a safe and secure area, not only for the students, but parents, staff members and the community as a whole because an officer can help prevent or

cut down on crime that maybe starts at the schools and spills into the community.

Aune also sees an officer as a resource for helping all of the schools in the district develop safety plans and coordinate safety drills.

McCulley also added that with an officer walking the halls, “we’ll be there if something happens. And having a cop car in the parking lot would also be a big deterrent that could prevent or discourage an intruder from doing harm.”

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I-90 toll targets Eastside drivers

People need jobs, not cuts

When tolling on the Evergreen Floating Bridge was first considered, this newspaper believed it should extend to Interstate 90 bridge as well, both to generate funds for the bridge at a quicker pace, and to keep the cost down for any one group of commuters.

However, two years have passed and the notion of extending tolling on Interstate 90 feels more like the Eastside is being picked on.

If Seattle commuters and visitors are asked to help pay for a new bridge, shouldn’t it extend to all, including those coming and going along the Interstate 5 corridor and state Highway 99?

One reason cited for having tolling on only the Evergreen/520 bridge was that it was at maximum capacity and the toll would help drivers find another lesstraveled path. Slapping tolls on I-90 would undercut that rationale.

The 520 bridge is on target for its revenue projections, but even then the state is close to $1.5 billion short. This shortfall, which the new tolls are designed to cover, is no surprise and should have been addressed at the outset. Thus, it seems like the new tollways are just another opportunity for revenue.

Few can argue that the state does not need new revenues to address maintenance and expansion of our existing transportation systems. But call it what it is — a disguised tax, targeted to only a select few users.

A true user tax should apply to everyone behind a wheel headed to Seattle — not only the drivers from Snoqualmie, North Bend, Issaquah, Sammamish and Bellevue, but also those from Federal Way and Everett.

A more comprehensive program could allow additional revenues, and still let the tolls on each individual road be lower. It could result in a more fair structure and more balanced traffic flow.

Legislators need to put the brakes on further discussions about extending tolls on highways, unless they are prepared to extend those tolls in all directions.

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Once again, the Republicans in Congress, including Rep. Dave Reichert, of our 8th Congressional District, are threatening to blow up our fragile economy.

The House has not passed a single job creation bill since the republicans took control in 2010.

Instead, it has engaged in obstructionist politics to benefit and protect the rich. It should be embarrassed. The members’ job is to govern and to do what is best for “we the people.”

When the sequester is allowed to take effect on March 1, it will not address any immediate problem, but it will create huge problems and real pain for hundreds of thousands of hard-working Americans.

Mr. Reichert, it is past time to do your job and help govern our country rather than continually acting to do it, and those of us who are your constituents, harm. We cannot cut our way to prosperity. People need jobs, and corporations should pay something in taxes, don’t you think?

Mark Joselyn North Bend

Join effort to help the environment Every minute, there are a million single-use plastic bags used in the United States. This is a staggering and alarming statistic, especially considering that many of these bags end up in the landfill or, even worse, in the bellies of whales or turtles, or around sea birds’ necks. Just last year, a gray whale in Puget Sound was found dead with 20 plastic bags in its stomach!

This animal was very lethargic many days

before it washed ashore and may have been starving to death.

Not only does plastic kill millions of marine mammals, sea turtles and sea birds a year, some plastics also are loaded with chemicals that are now being linked to numerous health issues, including cancer.

As a marine mammal biologist and environmental educator, I have had the great fortune to visit some very remote places in our world.

We think of these places as untouched and pristine, but many are littered with huge amounts of plastic debris. We now have a great big swirling patch of garbage in our ocean that is possibly the size of Texas, but might be as big as the U.S. Unfortunately, when an animal is caught in plastic, biologists and observers may only see it once and without a great amount of effort and money, there is little we can do to save the animal.

Eliminating plastic bags is a healthy step in the right direction for our health and the planet’s. In North Bend, we are a group that is proposing to follow Issaquah, Port Townsend, Bellingham, Seattle and Edmonds in banning plastic bags. At least 20 nations and 88 local governments have passed legislation regarding plastic bags.

On March 24, please join us at the North Bend Theatre for a presentation of “BAG IT,” a documentary about plastic bags. Or join us for a weekly meeting Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., held at a different person’s home each week, to help us coordinate our efforts. Email sahawks@uw.edu or bonnienl@mcn.com to learn more or find out where the weekly meeting is being held.

Stefanie Hawks-Johnson North Bend

Home Country

Writing a story can be a novel idea The weather warmed up the other day. On the weekend, where it would do the most good. And Dud Campbell dressed warmly and went out for a walk. His eyes saw our town, the old, dead, brick drugstore on the corner with the clock that hadn’t worked since the invention of daylight savings time, and the spread white fields and frozen trees.

But his mind was in Europe, there at the base of the big hill where the duchess’s castle stood. Dud had figured out how to cut out most of the murders in his book “Murder in the Soggy Bottoms,” (which everyone else called “The Duchess and the Truck Driver”) but there was still so much to do.

Truth be known, there were many times when Dud thought how easy it would be to just give up on the novel and concentrate on living.

It wasn’t the writing that was so hard for him. In fact, he kinda liked it. It gave him an excuse to sit up late with the radio playing quietly so as not to awaken Anita, and play with people in a book the way he had played with small tin soldiers when he was a child. No, the hard part was to figure out what the story should do. It isn’t easy.

For instance, we know we want the duchess and the American truck driver to be happy together and Slim Randles kill off their Columnist enemies by the end of the book. This means finding out why we should kill the three people, and which three people we should kill. The guys at the Mule Barn told him several years ago to kill off no more than three unless it was a war novel.

And then, there was the love story. The duchess, you see, didn’t realize that the truck driver had been her lover 20 years ago and the trucker didn’t know he was the father of a daughter.

He just thought he had a son by

his late wife. Well, she wasn’t late when she had the son, of course. She had a … malady of some sort. We can ask Doc for a surefire malady that’ll do in a trucker’s first wife.

And then, as the duchess and the truck driver fall in love for the second time, not realizing they’d already done it once, the trucker’s boy comes over and falls in love with the duchess’ daughter. And there has to be a way of making the duchess and the truck driver realize they’d actually re-found each other, and head off a disastrous romance between semisiblings…

Or maybe we could just walk down to the Mule Barn and have coffee with the guys.

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Local people run to honor fallen Marine area run, she encountered someone wearing blue with Ward’s Three years after his death, photo on the back of his shirt.

Lance Cpl. Eric Ward remains as That person was Bill alive as ever.

Schwabenland, of Bothell, who The Mount Si High School had decided to run all of his graduate and Marine who died 2012 races in Eric’s honor. in Afghanistan in February 2010 “I said to him, ‘I’m going to is being honored yet again by run the Marine Corps 10K and the community I would love “The kid continues to that saw him to run it in his grow up. honor,’” Kuhn touch people’s hearts.”

Community said. “That’s members are when he told — Monica McNeal participating me about Eric Ward’s mother Monica.” in his honor in Run To Monica Remember runs McNeal is Eric and races, including a race in Ward’s mom.

Snoqualmie this spring.

Kuhn and McNeal contacted Wear Blue, Run To Remember through Facebook but did not is a nonprofit whose supporters meet until later, after Kuhn run to honor the service and had run the Marine Corps 10k sacrifice of the American miliin Washington, D.C., and vistary. ited Ward’s grave at Arlington Lorrie Kuhn, from National Cemetery.

Snoqualmie, started running Now, Kuhn said the Run while wearing blue two years Snoqualmie’s Valley Half ago at the Rock and Roll Half Marathon on May 4 would be Marathon in Seattle alongside a perfect race to run in Ward’s her sister, who is a military honor, given his roots in the wife. community.

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Relay for Life kickoff is coming to the Valley This event has it all: You lose weight, you have fun, you help your community, you wear cool clothes, you name it.

Relay For Life, the cancer awareness fundraiser, will return this summer, and the first step

toward it happens at 5 p.m. Feb. 28.

The Snoqualmie Valley Relay for Life Kick-Off for 2013 comes to life at the North Bend Theatre, 125 Bendigo Blvd. N. Community members will have a chance to learn about the fight against cancer, eat pizza, sign up with a team for

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Valley residents Kristi Wood, Lorrie Kuhn and Darcie Muller visit Arlington National Cemetery, where Marine and Mount Si High School grad Eric Ward is buried. on board to wear blue for Eric, and I would love to see it be a yearly thing,” Kuhn said.

McNeal called the way people

have volunteered to run in her son’s honor unbelievable, before reflecting and mentioning that that’s the way Ward was, every-

one’s friend.

“On Thursday, it was three

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The ticket admission includes soda and popcorn.

The kickoff serves to educate people about not just the disease, but also about the fundraiser itself.

“People think it’s a walkathon,” Relay For Life’s Wendy Nesland has said. “A walkathon is where you ask someone to sponsor you per mile. Here, we have everyone on the track for every hour, representing the 365

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Chris Clark is a legend who comes to play at Boxley’s

Famed musician Chris Clark, playing with a young musician from the Future Jazz Heads program at Boxley’s in North Bend.

With ovations for the songs.” members of Future Jazz Sometimes the advice Heads rumbling in the is less technical, and more background, Clark remem- entrenched with life decibered some of the advice sions, like when the folks he has given the children doing the singing can’t sing. from the Snoqualmie “You can only hope Valley who meet to jam in that the check is good,” he downtown North Bend. said with a laugh.

“Learn one song a Or, when it’s time to let week,” he said. “By the music take a backseat. time three years have “I will probably never passed, you know 156 know whether I would

have gone any further in L.A.,” he recalled. “But, it seems it was the time to get the kids out of there.”

The year was 1977, when Clark said goodbye to his old haunts and left with the family for Orcas Island, where he stayed until earlier this decade, splitting his time between music and a catering business, and between the island and Seattle.

When a visitor notes how understanding Clark’s wife must be, he laughs.

“You don’t know the half of it,” he said.

Earlier in the decade, it was his wife who, in Clark’s words, “wanted off the rock.

“That’s a solitary existence up there,” he said.

The Clarks now live in Snoqualmie with a son and his family.

Lucky for us, said Danny Kolke, owner of Boxley’s.

“Chris is at Boxley’s almost every Wednesday night,” Kolke wrote in an email. “Either playing bass with the kids or mentoring them. Sometimes with advice about counting off a tune, trading solos or leading the band. And sometimes it’s a story from his vast experiences playing with many of the great legends of jazz. I can’t say enough good things about

Kim Gauthier, of North Bend and Issaquah. The groom’s parents are Marilyn and Dennis Peet, of Wenatchee.

The bridal attendants were brother Henry TR Kennedy, grandmother Lola Anderson, and numerous cousins, aunts, and uncles.

The groom’s attendants were chaplain and biological mother Jamie Sue Block, daughter Hannah

Koch, of Wenatchee, sisters and brother-in-law Shawn Peet and Kelli and Michael Keen, of Wenatchee, and numerous cousins, aunts and uncles.

The couple honeymooned in Nashville.

The bride, a Mount Si High School graduate, is employed as a specialeducation teacher.

The groom, a Wenatchee High School graduate, is a musician.

By Sebastian Moraga Hands up, eyes closed, a thin smile peeking from behind his lips, Chris Clark still lives the dream.

The dream was born in Southern California, and it took him to unexpected heights as a musician, as he played his bass alongside Jerry Lewis, Les Brown, Vic Damone, Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Hope.

The names don’t have as much glitz now, but neither did the ones listed above when they were in middle school. Just you wait.

Clark plays at Boxley’s in North Bend, teaching middle schoolers and high schoolers about the high and low notes of music and of life as a full-time musician, a status that seems to have become more unattainable with the passage of time.

“If they are able to enjoy their instrument and make use of it through their college years,” he said, “it seems to be the M.O. of most of the kids. Maybe make a few bucks on the side.

Some of them might major in music, some might minor in music, but that’s just the story of the world we live in nowadays.”

By Sebastian Moraga

Katie Kennedy weds Katie Nichole Kennedy, of North Bend, and Darik Tjoren Peet, of Wenatchee, were married Oct. 21, 2012, at the Salish Lodge in Snoqualmie with Chaplain Jamie Sue Block officiating.

The reception, also at the Salish Lodge, followed.

The bride’s parents are Henry Kennedy and

Katie Kennedy and Darik Peet Connie and stepfather

Chris.

“He means so much to us and the kids.”

Proof of it is on the stage.

Four teenagers and Clark, play together like old pros, when in reality there’s only one of those. And he’s in the background, hidden behind the trumpet players and a guitar neck.

He’s just where he wants to be. Playing it like it should be, telling it like it is.

“If one or two of these kids go into music, I would be surprised,” he said.

“We live in a different world. Most of these kids get private lessons and stuff, but when it comes right down to it, they are going to want to make some money.”

Run From Page 6 years since Eric was killed, and his Facebook page is now just short of 3,000 people,” she said. “The kid continues to touch people’s hearts. As a parent, you’re always proud of your children, but to have people come tell you things your son did that you had no idea what Eric did for them, kids who needed help, it was unbelievable. He was always there for them.”

For McNeal, the life after Eric’s death has become a crusade of educating people about the sacrifices made by military families.

A book about it may be in the works, but even without it, the work continues.

“Eric’s memory is definitely alive,” she said.

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Events q Open Mic Night/ Fundraiser for Nels Melgaard, 6-10 p.m.

March 1, Sallal Grange, 12912 432nd Ave. S.E. North Bend. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a suggested minimum of $5 to $10. Call 888-0825. q The Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District’s Lunch & Learn from noon to 1 p.m. March 7 focuses on drug abuse awareness with North Bend Police Chief Mark Toner. He will also discuss the new marijuana law. The event, open to the public, is at the Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway. Register at www.SVHD4.org. Click on “Lunch & Learn.” q Snoqualmie-based Project Grace Guild’s fifth annual fundraising dinner and auction for Seattle Children’s, March 8, Issaquah’s Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W., email andreastiles@live.com q All-you-can-eat Crab Feed, 5-8 p.m. March 8, Opstad Elementary School, 1345 Stilson Ave. S.E., North Bend, $25 per ticket in advance, $30 at the door, $15 for children 15 or younger. Proceeds go to school’s PTA. Email opstadpta@yahoo.com

to purchase tickets beforehand. q Community Sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9, Sallal Grange, 445-2840 q Valley Animal Partners’ Bunco Party to benefit pets and their owners, 1-4 p.m. March 23, Si View Community Center, 400 Orchard Drive S.E.,tickets are $20. Email info@valleyanimalpartners or call 466-4621.

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

See them before they get big

Entertainment q The Black Dog presents Neil Simon’s “California Suite” at 8 p.m. through March 2.

Dinner is available every night from 6-7:45 p.m.

Tickets are $15, $12 for children and seniors.

8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie. Get tickets via www.brownpapertickets.com or call 831DOGS (3647). q Paul Green, 7 p.m.

March 4, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way q The Hipsters, 9 p.m.

March 9, Finaghty’s Irish Pub, 7726 Center Blvd.

S.E., Suite 110, Snoqualmie.

Call 888-8833 or go to www.finaghtys.com. q Valley Center Stage presents Ivan Menchell’s “The Cemetery Club,” a comedy about life, love

Contributed

Issaquah’s Kaleidoscope School of Music will host a festival of free teen music, with five bands from Issaquah, at 4:30 p.m. March 17 at the North Bend Theatre. Learn more at www.issaquahlessons.com. and friendship, directed

by Jim Snyder, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, March 7-23.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $12.50 for seniors. Get them at www.valleycenterstage.org.

Every child should be treated the way we’d like our own children treated.

It’s our goal to implement the highest standard of care at every patient encounter whether it’s a child’s first visit, a teenager who’s headed off to college, or a special-needs adult we’ve been treating for decades.

Classes q Super Sitters class, a one-day workshop on childcare and safety skills, returns to Encompass.

Cost is $40. Sign up now; space is limited. Class is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

March 9, at 1407 Boalch Ave. N.W., North Bend.

Call 888-2777. q Session B of swimming lessons at Si View Community Center has

begun. Saturday lessons run from March 2 to April 6. Weekend lessons are $42 and the parent-tot program is $36. Learn more at www.siviewpark. org. The center is at 400 S.E. Orchard Drive, North Bend. Call 831-1900. q Zumba classes for people with special needs, 10:15-11 a.m. Saturdays through Apr. 27, $7 dropin fee or punch-pass fee of $30 for five visits. This class is designed to help people of all ages with mobility, physical endurance and cognitive learning. First parent class is free. Students ages 8 and younger must participate with a parent or caregiver. Si View Pool, 400 S.E. Orchard Drive, North Bend, 888-1447 q Watercolor Workshop at the Si View Social Room at the Si View Community Center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

March 2, for ages 16 and older. Fee is $40. Class is taught by Jeff Waters, editor of the Northwest Watercolor Society.

North Bend Library Unless otherwise noted, events are at 115 E. Fourth St. North Bend, 888-0554. q Gaming Unplugged, 3 p.m. March 1, afternoon to play board games. Bring yours if you’ve got a favorite. q Special Needs Story Time, 10 a.m. March 2, stories, songs and activities designed for children with special needs and their families, for developmen-

tal ages 3-6, although all children are welcome q Talk Time, 6:30 p.m. March 4; come and improve your speaking and listening skills in this English conversation group.

Learn more about American culture and meet people from around the world. q Toddler Story Time, 10 a.m. March 5, for children ages 2-3, with adults and younger children and siblings welcome. Share the world of books with your child and come for stories, songs and surprises.

Snoqualmie Library Unless otherwise noted, events are at 7824 Center Blvd. S.E., Snoqualmie, 888-1223. q Preschool Story Times, 1:30 p.m. March 4, 10:45 a.m. March 6, for ages 3-6 with adult.

Share the world of books with your child and come for songs, stories and surprises. q Young Toddler Story Times, 10 a.m. March 6, ages 6 months to 24 months with adult, younger children and siblings welcome. Enjoy bouncy rhymes, familiar songs and stories with your little one. q Purl One, Listen Too, 1 p.m. March 7, learn new stitches, meet new friends, listen to new books and talk about knitting.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

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Sound of music turns children’s ear at Snoqualmie Elementary School

By Sebastian Moraga

By Sebastian Moraga

Bill Bliven, left, teaches first-grader Madison Wickersham a chord during an after-school guitar class at Snoqualmie Elementary School, while Amber Thompson, in the background and a partially-hidden Reghyn Barbre practice on their own.

The oldest of the bunch is in the fifth grade, but you would never know it by their choice of music.

Songs like “Call Me Maybe,” “We’re Never Getting Back Together,” “Me Without You” and that anthem of the grade school playground, “Smoke on The Water,” appear on the screen inside portable 29 of Snoqualmie Elementary School.

That’s where the students are learning guitar, one grooved finger and one chord at a time.

The songs listed are on the students’ wish list of tunes they want to learn over the course of the next few weeks. For now, though, they follow the chords of another tune, Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away.”

The instructor, Bill Bliven, a former music teacher for the district, offers encouragement at a rate slightly slower than his own heartbeat. The result — it does not take much to capture these students’ attention, to get them to quiet down or to get them to follow instructions.

Most of the students are new to playing the guitar. Judging by their efforts and their words, the instrument has got them hooked but good.

“The guitar goes really well with your voice,” said fifth-

grader Grace Richter, one of the group’s oldest students. “It can be very fun to play, once you learn how.”

First-grader Amber Thompson, one of the group’s youngest members, agreed.

“When you are playing ‘Jingle Bells’ on Christmas, you can do it to your parents,” she said, before adding the same refrain as Grace, “once you know how.”

Next to Grace sits Luke Richter, who earns snickers from his classmates when Grace refers to him as her “little brother.”

Luke smiles like someone who is used to the kidding.

When he heard the suggestion that perhaps he and Grace do something together a la Donny and Marie, Luke said nothing but shook his head.

“He doesn’t want to have anything that has to do with me,” Grace said with a smile, and then tousled Luke’s hair.

The snickers intensify.

As budding musicians that they are, the group also delves into other areas.

Second-grader Jack Meisberger is the only one in class this day with an electric guitar. Rather than be awed by his instrument, he sounds like he was born holding one.

“It doesn’t get affected by temperature, and I can plug it into my amp and make it go

louder,” he said.

Bliven smiled as he corroborated his pupil’s words.

“He’s right. Electric guitar strings are less likely to go out of tune,” Bliven said.

First-grader Madison Wickersham is one of the group’s songwriters. As most good wordsmiths, she’s stingy with her praise.

“I had written a song before, but the first one I wrote was bad,” she said. “Then, I wrote a perfect song.”

OK, so maybe she’s only kind of stingy. Bliven said Wickersham will play the song for the class one day. Reghyn Barbre is another first-grader and another songwriter.

Shyly, she confesses that she got to play guitar because her grandparents play, and that she has written a song, but does not know its title.

“That’s a good song,” Bliven jokes, and Barbre loses some of her blush, laughing heartily.

Laughs come easily to this group, but there’s also some pain. Deep, deep pain. Lucky for them, they share the pain with each other and with anyone else who ever tried to learn the guitar.

“Hardest part is getting used to holding the chords down,” fifth-grader Jackson Kruyt said.

“It kind of hurts my fingers.”

Students find a jewel of a way to pass their midwinter break

By Sebastian Moraga The bracelets were green and blue, the colors of the Seahawks and the Sounders, but most importantly, the colors of their secret club.

The five boys watched as Anne Jackson, of Snoqualmie’s SimplyAnne Party Boutique, coached them on the bracelets.

“Now, when people ask you how you got them, you can say, “Sorry, dude, it’s a secret.”

And it would be, if it weren’t for the fact that they would probably tell everybody about their afternoon making jewelry, part of a camp SimplyAnne offered to keep children entertained while school was out.

The bracelets, bright-colored and showy, also served a purpose, Jackson said. They were survival bracelets.

“They are made with two pieces of parachute cord,” she said. “They can sustain 550 pounds each.”

Fueled by Capri Sun and

Goldfish crackers, the boys refused to leave their tables until they had at least three bracelets and one keychain each, all made with parachute cord.

“Do you guys want a break?”

Jackson asked. The subsequent “Nah!” was unanimous.

The purpose of the cords varied from their own survival to the survival of capitalism.

“I’ve had kids come and say, ‘Can I make some so I can sell them to my friends?’” Jackson said. “They sell them for $10, $15, $25 sometimes.”

The bracelets are piggy bank-friendly and dishwasherfriendly, just not washing machine-friendly, Jackson said.

And though these were five boys, 10 years old all, the morning remained friendly, too.

With little competition, much cooperation — the pieces of cord have to be burnt together, and Jackson took care of that — and a touch of harmless trash talk, the boys took to the task with gusto.

“It’s just fun to hang out with all my friends and make bracelets,” said Logan Fritz, one of the five buddies.

Younger siblings, Kobe Bryant, and that fictitious and yet very real childhood staple known as “opposite day,” served as topics of conversation and discussion. Opinions remained staid and reserved, for the most part.

“Kobe?” asked one of the boys who asked to remain

By Sebastian Moraga unidentified, just Behold, the members of the Para-Cord Club, from left, Zach Soliday, Garrett in case the Lakers’ Kunhausen, Kolby Dennis, Preston Stewart and Logan Fritz. The five buddies particistar reads this paper, pated in a jewelry-making camp in Snoqualmie, where they made survival bracelets “He’s crusty, moldy out of parachute cord. and repulsive.”

The only time things stopped are preteen boys, after all. friends.” being fun, for just one second, “Maybe,” she said, “You can Once again, the boys replied was when Jackson forgot with learn how to make hearts, and unanimously. whom she was dealing. These you can give one to your girl“Huh?” they all said.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Team’s top two wrestlers look back at tough ending to season

By Sebastian Moraga The season looked like a continued climb, with veteran experience paving the way for young upstarts and the rest of the KingCo Conference serving as fodder for a seemingly unstoppable run.

Then why does the season feel like it could have gone even better? Only two wrestlers made it to state, and only two years removed from an individual state champion, the team returned home with good mem-

ories, but also wondering what might have been.

“I did pretty good. It just didn’t go my way in the end,” said Mitch Rorem, who arrived in Tacoma as regional runner-up at 195 pounds. He was eliminated in the second round of the consolation bracket by Kelso’s Keoni Garcia, who had barely beaten him in overtime at the regional finals in Kelso a week earlier.

“When I got to that match, I knew it was going to come down to the very end like it did

File

Tim Corrie wrestles at regionals in Kelso. Corrie finished third and qualified for state. A knee injury limited his effectiveness at the Tacoma Dome and he did not place, but he still loved the experience of wrestling in the big woodshed of the City of Destiny.

File

Mount Si High School wrestler Mitch Rorem finished the season with a runner-up finish at regional, followed by a tougher go of it at state.

at regionals,” Rorem said. “He ended up getting the points and I didn’t.”

He later added, “It’s disappointing, but there’s nothing I can do about it now.”

At 182 pounds, Tim Corrie

arrived at state in third place at regionals.

He was eliminated at state in the second round of the consolation bracket.

“I did decent at state, even with the intense competition,”

Baseball coach ready for new season

By Michele Mihalovich Zach Habben, Mount Si High School’s new head coach for the varsity baseball team, said he and his players have some big shoes to fill this season — but he’s looking forward to the challenge.

Former head coach Elliot Cribby, who left to coach at Abilene Christian University in Texas, led the Wildcats to their first state championship in 2011. Last year, Mount Si ranked first in the KingCo 3A/2A Conference with a 20-4 overall record.

Last year’s Wildcats also received a lot of media attention for its “Trio of Arms,” three pitching standouts who have all since graduated.

“Coach Cribby had a great program started and we want to continue that,” Habben said. “But, we also want to make sure everyone is getting better and not relying on the past. This is a new year and everything is different.”

Habben, 27, served as the pitching coach with the varsity Wildcats last year, but he’s had

plenty of experience as a coach and an athlete.

The 2004 Skyline High School graduate played as a Zach Habben quarterback on the high school’s football team, a forward on the basketball team and as pitcher, first baseman and designated hitter all four years of his high school career.

Habben then played two years of football and baseball for Buena Vista University in Iowa, then headed to Central Washington University in Ellensburg to play baseball, and was named all conference academic in 2008.

He has served as a pitch-

ing and/or assistant coach for Interlake High School, Dodger Baseball, Kirkland Warriors 13U and helped with winter workouts at Skyline.

He was also on the Sammamish Baseball Academy staff, and works as a paralegal with a Seattle law firm.

Habben returns this year with nearly all the same coaching staff as the 2012 season.

Craig Parthemer and Ron Wold will serve as assistant varsity coaches, Jeremy Faoro is the junior varsity coach, Dylan Young is the freshman coach and Brian Mitchell will help out each team as needed.

Tryouts were this week. Habben said all positions were up for grabs.

“A lot of the younger guys are going to have to step up,” he said.

“As they get older, they have bigger roles to fill on the team.”

Michele Mihalovich: 392-6434, ext. 246, or editor@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www. snovalleystar.com.

he wrote in an email. “I did some damage to my knee during my second match, which carried over into the next match.”

In the last match, Hanford’s See WRESTLE, Page 12

Mount Si basketball coach resigns

By Michele Mihalovich

Steve Helm, coach for the Mount Si High School boys basketball team, announced his resignation after the end of the season in a letter to the boosters club.

“I regretfully have to step down as head coach due to changes in my full time employment with The Boeing Co.” and a promotion, he wrote. “When I was given the opportunity to lead the basketball program at Mount Si (three years ago), I was self employed in the mortgage business and the hours enabled me to do both jobs at a high level.

“I am unable to fulfill the head coaching duties beyond this season and need to resign so that the program has plenty of time to hire a new head coach who can give the full attention to this program,” he wrote.

Helm wrote that he’d met with the school’s athletic director, Greg Hart, and “he has assured me that he will do his best to get this job opening posted for the new head coach within a day or two of returning from next week’s break, if not sooner.”

Helm wrote that Hart “has made it clear that it will be his top priority and hopes to have the position filled by early spring. I have agreed to help him in any way with the quick transition of the new head coach.”

Helm wrote that it has been a tremendous experience and a chance of a lifetime to guide the Wildcat boys’ basketball program.

SnoValley Star

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

State OK’s North Bend’s shoreline master program update

The Washington Department of Ecology has approved the city of North Bend’s updated shoreline master program.

North Bend’s shoreline program will result in significant improvements in the protection, use, development and restoration along the city’s eight miles of shorelines, according to a press release from the department.

“The city of North Bend sits between the South and Middle forks of the Snoqualmie River. Its shorelines are an essential part of what makes North Bend a great place to live and are an important part of our quality of life,” Mayor Ken Hearing said in the release. “The update of our master program reflects three years of hard work by our staff, planning commission and City Council, resulting in a finished product that we can be proud of.”

The revised master program combines local plans for future shoreline development and preservation with new shoreline development ordinances and related permitting requirements.

North Bend’s shoreline master program: q Incorporates the city’s critical areas regulations, which include fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas and frequently flooded areas. q Recognizes the preservation of existing intact riparian and wetland vegetation within natural and urban conservancy shoreline environment designations.

q Establishes buffers on the Snoqualmie River South and Middle Forks that recognize existing development, variable floodway widths and intact ecological functions. q Encourages soft-bank erosion control methods and limits construction of new shoreline armoring. q Includes a restoration plan showing where and how voluntary improvements in water and upland areas can enhance the local shoreline environment. q Helps support the broader initiative to protect and restore Puget Sound.

About 200 cities and counties statewide are — or soon will be — updating or developing their master programs, under the state’s 1972 voter-approved Shoreline Management Act. North Bend’s process brought diverse local interests to the table to work collaboratively. The shoreline master program process began with a thorough inventory of existing land-use patterns and environmental conditions and was completed with consultant support. The groups included shoreline property owners, scientists, and state and local resource agency staff.

State law requires the department to review each city and county shoreline program. Final approval by the department’s director makes the local program part of the state shoreline master pro-

gram. The department will help defend North Bend’s shoreline program against legal challenges.

All of Washington’s cities and counties with regulated shorelines must update their programs

by December 2014. They are following regulations adopted by the department in 2003. The regulations resulted from a negotiated settlement among 58 parties, including business interests, ports, environmental groups, shoreline user groups, cities and counties, the department and the courts.

Learn more at www. ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/ shorelines/smp/mycomments/ NorthBend.html or http:// northbendwa.gov/index. aspx?NID=226.

Game club offering scholarships

The Mount Si Fish & Game Club is accepting applications from Snoqualmie Valley students for its 2013 scholarship, which was established in 2009.

Winners are awarded a $100 to $1,000 onetime scholarship to help with school expenses.

Applicants must be a current or graduate student of Snoqualmie Valley or Riverview school districts and a U.S. citizen.

Recipients will need to show proof of enrollment in an accredited four-year college or university before funds will be released.

The scholarship applica-

Mount Si High School Gymnastics Team Gymnastics The Mount Si High School Gymnastics Team are our athletes of the month for February. The team achieved an historic third place at the state meet in the Tacoma Dome Feb. 15, the best finish in the program’s history.

tion, essay and additional requirements are posted on the Mount Si Fish and Game Club website http:// mountsifishandgameclub. com. Applications must be postmarked by March 31.

The Mount Si Fish & Game Club was established in 1949. Members aim to teach the importance of conservation and respect of the wilderness.

The club’s goal is to spread the love of the outdoors to all people in the community, and it has been conducting the annual spring Kid’s Trout Derby for more than 60 years.

The club meets at 7:30 p.m. the first Thursday of every month October through May at the Snoqualmie Police Department.

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Landowners can receive help with salmon recovery Hundreds of private owners of forestland who want to do their part for salmon recovery may be eligible for more help than they imagined was available, according to a press release from the state’s Department of Natural Resources.

A new video shows small forest landowners how they and their communities can benefit from a culvert removal program that will help defray costs of improving salmon habitat.

The recently revitalized Family Forest Fish Passage Program helps private forest landowners replace

culverts and other streamcrossing structures that keep trout, salmon and other fish from reaching upstream habitat.

Thanks to a new round of funding from the Legislature, the program will complete about 100 projects during the next two years.

Replacement projects create construction jobs in rural communities, help revive salmon and trout populations, and are a great asset to a landowner’s property.

The video aims to increase the pool of applicants seeking funding so the most significant of the remaining stream barriers can be corrected.

Watch the video at www.dnr.wa.gov/fffpp.

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Police blotter

Street and 424th Avenue Southeast.

North Bend

Narcotics

Can’t afford car payments An employee of the 76 gas station reported at 12:16 a.m. Feb. 8 that a woman driving a Lexus stole $25 worth of groceries and drove off.

Runaway found Police were watching the North Bend Library for narcotics activity and noticed several males at 6:18 p.m. Feb. 8 outside of the building after the library had closed.

An officer did a check and noted that one of the juveniles had been reported as a runaway. His parents were called.

Nice park job Police at 5 a.m. Feb. 9 had an unattended vehicle towed that was partially blocking the roadway at the 14400 block of 468th Avenue Southeast.

Fit to a tee The manager at Jockey reported at 5:47 p.m. Feb. 9 that a woman stole three T-shirts and then ran out of the store.

Theft A man reported at 7:25 p.m. Feb. 10 that someone busted out his passenger window and stole a backpack with a $300 camera inside. His vehicle had been parked at the corner of Southeast 120th

Someone reported at 9:50 a.m. Feb. 11 that they watched a drug transaction happen outside the North Bend Library.

Pot party Police received a report at 7:26 p.m. Feb. 11 of three to four juveniles smoking marijuana outside Safeway.

Taser display Police received a report at 6:23 p.m. Feb. 11 of 10 juveniles walking down Main Avenue North, with one of them flashing a Taser and yelling.

employee phoned police at 9:27 p.m. Feb. 14 to report that a customer, who appeared to be drunk and was slurring his words, got into his car and drove away. Police could not locate him.

Pocket full of needles

A Shell gas station employee phoned police at 3:48 p.m. Feb. 14, reporting that a man was in the bathroom using narcotics. Police found the man, who had trouble talking, and patted him down.

Officers found two pocket knives, a blue glass pipe with white residue and a zippered bag with needles. He was banned from entering the gas station again.

You better run!

A man reported to police that at 11:40 a.m.

Feb. 12, while he was walking along North Bend Way, a man on a bicycle rode behind him swinging a bicycle chain at him in a threatening manner.

The man ran into the Pour House and the man on the bike yelled, “You better run.”

Snoqualmie

Strange deposit

Two fire engines responded to an unauthorized burning call at 4:10

A Sno Falls Credit Union employee reported at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 12 that some cocaine was left on the check writing desk after a customer left. The drug test on the white powder came back negative.

Snoqualmie Police Department’s records clerk was on vacation and did not compile the log.

North Bend fire calls

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p.m. Feb. 19 in the 43000 block of Southeast 172nd Street.

Three fire engines responded to a chimney fire at 6:59 p.m. Feb. 20 in the 43000 block of Southeast Cedar Falls Way. The fire was contained to the chimney.

Snoqualmie fire calls Firefighters were called to a fire alarm Feb. 18 at the Town Pump. No fire was found. The system was set off by dust from a shop vacuum.

Firefighters responded Feb. 20 to the Salish Lodge for a fire alarm. A haze and smell of smoke were noticed on the second floor. Crews found room No. 201 was filled with smoke from the wood fireplace being lit while the flue was closed. Crews vented the room and the hallway. No injuries were reported.

In addition to the above calls, firefighters responded to 12 medical aid calls bringing the annual call number to 145.

The Star publishes names of those arrested for DUI and those charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.

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deal while we were open for services in the Snoqualmie community. We formed stronger partnerships with the Snoqualmie Police, and other providers and caring organizations. We deepened our understanding of the unsheltered young adult population in the Valley,” she said.

“We are absolutely interested in discussing with the community how we could open a young adult shelter in the right location to serve the Valley.”

Will Bishop defeated Corrie, 9-7, punching the Wildcat’s ticket home.

Corrie said the change in regions from Region 1 to Region 3 this year put some tougher schools like Kelso and Prairie on the Wildcats’ path to Tacoma.

“They really made us prove ourselves,” Corrie wrote in an email.

Still, Corrie added, it was great just being there.

It was his first time wrestling at state.

“Wrestling in one of the biggest arenas in Washington state,” he said of the Tacoma Dome, “increased my self-worth.”