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August 18, 2011 VOL. 3, NO. 41
Tourist dollars Port and state work to get tourists to the Valley. Page 2
Fee hike County Council approves $20 car tab fee. Page 3
Police blotter Page 5
Boeing Classic Everything you need to know about the tourney is in our special section. Page 11
Sports, Page 20
Union leader More than rocks at this quarry wants action from school district By Sebastian Moraga Art Galloway, president of the Snoqualmie Valley Education Association, the Valley’s teachers union, said the school district needs to “walk their talk” if it’s going to call the current negotiations a collaborative process. Galloway’s response was to a statement the district’s public information coordinator, Carolyn Malcolm, issued a day after the Aug. 9 meeting between the district and the union. The statement reads in its entirety: “The district has been working with the teachers' union in a collaborative process over the past few months and has several more meetings scheduled in August. “We respect our teachers and value the vital contributions they make to ensure Snoqualmie Valley students receive a quality education. “Despite ongoing reductions to education funding from the state, our district has worked very hard to keep cutbacks from impacting students and teachers in the classroom, sustaining staffing levels for the coming school year.” See UNION, Page 2
Low rider Strange bikes appear in the Valley. Page 18
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Check election results online The Aug. 16 election included King County Proposition No. 1, which would renew the Veterans and Human Services Levy. If passed, the levy will raise money for services for veterans, active military and families in need. Property owners would pay 5 cents per $1,000 of assessed value. Check the SnoValley WEB E X T—R A Star’s website Check results online at www.snovalleystar.com
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How many children and parents can you fit into one heavy lifter? At least 10, according to the North Bend MOMS Club. Club members toured the CalPortland Rock Quarry in Snoqualmie this spring, and learned about how rocks are turned into concrete. The MOMS Club is a support group for mothers who choose to stay home to raise their children. Each month, the club has one meeting and several scheduled activities.
Si View park district asks voters to shore up its funding with tax hike By Dan Catchpole Si View Metropolitan Parks District is asking voters to save its 2012 budget. The district’s board of directors has approved two measures for the November general election ballot to preserve Si View’s property levy. The district’ ability to collect taxes is being threatened by a state cap, which limits combined nonstate property levies to $5.90 per $1,000 of assessed value. As home values have declined, most taxing districts have maintained their budgets. That means they have to take a bigger share per $1,000, which has pushed nonstate property levy rates up against the cap in several taxing districts across the state. Based on projections from
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The Si View parks district could have to curtail programming at the Si View Community Center if its property tax revenues are slashed by a state-imposed limit on property levies. the King County Assessor’s Office, Si View could see its property tax revenue cut by as much as 84 percent, said Travis
Stombaugh, the district’s director. See PARK, Page 2
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Port of Seattle encourages cruise ship visitors to see the Snoqualmie Valley By Atia Musazay From the Space Needle to Pike Place Market, Seattle has plenty to offer its guests, but the Washington Tourism Alliance and the Port of Seattle are encouraging cruise ship tourists to explore beyond the predictable city limits. They are hoping tourists will venture into the suburban and rural areas outside of Seattle into, quite literally, the outdoors. “We are working on trying to develop adventure opportunities for tourists,” said Bob Cole, the economic development director for the city of Snoqualmie. “Can they go on a two-hour mountain bike ride through the forest? How about climbing Mount Si or hiking on the trails at Rattlesnake Lake?” This is part of a plan carried out by the newly established Washington Tourism Alliance, which is working along with the Port of Seattle and other tourism agencies to let people know about the tourist opportunities that exist outside of Seattle. “The cruise ship (industry) brings about $400 million to King County and the region, and that’s because the passengers are staying one to two nights in the area. But most of them are spending that time in downtown Seattle,” Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant said. He said he hopes the cruise ship tourists extend their stay and explore the surrounding areas, “whether that is wineries in Woodinville or going out to Snoqualmie Falls.” The state Legislature recently shut down the Washington State Tourism Office. In its place, various stakeholders including the port, some of the hotel associations and some of the restaurant associations have established the alliance to serve as a vehicle for communities to reach out to tourists, Bryant said. Cole said he is very interested in working with the port to
Park From Page 1 The assessor’s office did not reply to a request for comment. Most of the district’s funding comes from property tax revenue. Hitting the levy lid would cut Si View’s revenue from $1.18 million in 2011 to a projected $190,000 in 2012, Stombaugh
identify opportunities for tour buses to visit sites at Snoqualmie, 25 miles outside of Seattle. Some of those sites include the Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie Casino and Dirtfish Rally School. “We would love to not only help bring people to DirtFish Rally School but the whole Snoqualmie Valley area as well,” said Bruce Cleland, marketing manager of the rally school. “We would also love to partner with other business in the community to create multiple reasons to come here for a visit.” The school offers sessions on how to drive and race on dirt roads at different levels of expertise. Snoqualmie Casino is the closest gaming center to Seattle. Jon Jenkins, chief executive officer of the casino, said that it draws tens of thousands of visitors on a weekly basis from the Puget Sound area and around the world. “We would welcome these visitors with open arms, regardless of whether it directly benefits the casino,” he said. However, Cole expressed concern that even with the alliance, smaller communities still have to manage tourism on their own. That’s why Cole is part of an organization called Outside Seattle. Its website, www.outsideseattle.org, provides information about events and sites on the east side of King County and parts of Kittitas County for visitors. Cole said that a mobile website along with a touch screen at Snoqualmie Falls has also been established. But there is also a need to spread the word. That involves determining which media people are using to find out about tourist spots. “We’re doing an awful lot with our website. On individual events, we’re using the traditional Facebook and Twitter,” Cole said. Snoqualmie Falls attracts
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said. “There’s nothing left for us,” he said. The district collected 53 cents per $1,000 in 2011. Based on current projections, it could only collect 9 cents per $1,000 next year. The rest of Si View’s budget comes from user fees, which are expected to generate about $800,000 in 2011. In Washington, taxing districts are ranked by seven levels of priority for collecting proper-
ty levies. The state also collects a property levy, which is not included in the $5.90 cap. All property taxes are subject to a constitutional limit of 1 percent — or $10 per $1,000 of assessed value. As a park district created in 2007, Si View is last in line — and first for cuts — if the cap is reached. To avoid budget cuts, two ballot measures will be on the November ballot.
2 million visitors every year, according to Cole. With the push to bring even more visitors, Puget Sound Energy — which owns the property — is working on a long-term plan to enhance their stay. It is part of a hydroelectric project going on at the falls. “Part of the work includes substantial improvements to our park and recreation lands and facilities at the falls to give visitors an even better experience when visiting the site,” said Roger Thompson, of Puget Sound Energy. The project includes improving hiking trails and creating better riverfront access for kayakers and boaters. Outsideseattle.org lists a number of spots for visitors, including North Bend, which is known for its outlet mall, and recreational opportunities in the Cascade Mountains. Whidbey Island is another destination spot that features microbreweries and wineries. Port Angeles is also attracting tourists to hiking at Hurricane Ridge. Cole and Bryant agreed that there is going to have to be coordination to accommodate the rise of sightseers. “As tourists are getting off of the cruise ship buses, the small businesses in our communities have a hard time accommodating in a timely fashion 40 to 50 people that arrive at the location at the same time,” Cole said. “So there is definitely going to have to be some coordination.” “There is a role for the WTA, the port and for the communities. All three have to be involved,” Bryant said. There are about 40,000 to 50,000 people whose jobs depend upon the condition of tourism in the state, he said. “It’s is a very important part of King County’s economy,” he added.
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Snoqualmie Ridge gets one of two sustainability awards A Snoqualmie Ridge community’s landscaping campaign has drawn accolades from Quadrant Homes. The housing development company named Mount Si Cottages is one of two inaugural winners of its Sustainability Challenge. The other winning community, Acadia, is in Everett. Each of the homeowners associations for the two winning areas will receive $2,000 for community projects. The contest was launched in late 2010 to challenge communities to develop innovative, collaborative and sustainable projects. Mount Si Cottages was recognized for the efforts of its volunteer landscape committee, which planted nearly 100
Union From Page1 “As the negotiations continue to consider how best to address the state's most recent reductions to school employee salary allocations, we are hopeful to reach an agreement by the start of school on Aug. 30." Galloway said the district and the union made no progress in their Aug. 9 meeting. “Good news is, there was a better two-way discussion of the issues, a clarifying of the proposal,” he said. “Bad news is, there’s not very many bargaining sessions left.” As of Aug. 12, three sessions remained, he added, before the start of school. Galloway said the union’s bargaining team was disappointed and frustrated by the absence of some members of the district’s team. When pressed for names, Galloway declined to disclose them. “It kind of makes it hard when key people aren’t there,” he said, refusing to comment further. The next round of talks happened Aug. 15.
Proposition 1 protects 25 cents of the district’s levy, meaning the combined property levy total would exceed $5.90. Proposition 2 asks voters to approve a maintenance-andoperations levy for 21 cents per $1,000. Without the two measures, the district either has to significantly raise its user fees or cut its operations, Stombaugh said. “If neither passes, and we take the 84 percent reduction,
trees and shrubs around the condominium development on the Ridge’s southern end. More work lies ahead for the committee, which plans on building a community compost pile. “Advancing sustainable communities and conservation in a meaningful way to suburban families and individuals is the ‘missing link’ in our region’s environmental dialogue,” Quadrant President Ken Krivanec said in a news release. “By creating this annual sustainability challenge, our hope was to show suburban neighborhoods that ‘sustainability’ isn’t just an urban word — it can have meaning and value to their community as well.” The winning communities will appear in a video posted in September on the Friends of Quadrant Homes website.
“There are a lot of important issues to resolve. The district continues to propose roll backs, not focusing on teaching and learning,” Galloway said in an email after that meeting. “These important activities include meaningful professional development and time for teachers to meet as teams to improve instruction.” A community forum about the district’s budget was scheduled for Aug. 16 at the Si View Community Center in North Bend. Andrea Hardy, a public finance analyst for the Washington Education Association, the statewide teachers’ union, was the scheduled keynote speaker. Forum aside, something’s got to happen before too long, Galloway said. “Having not received any proposals of substance through Aug. 5 does not sound like collaborative process to me,” he said. “After 18 years and six three-year cycles, I would not agree to call what has happened a collaborative process.” Sebastian Moraga: 392-6434, ext. 221, or smoraga@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.
we would all but close,” he said. The final decision would be up to Si View’s board of directors, but with the district’s overall budget cut nearly in half, its choices would be limited. “In the worst case scenario, we’re barely able to keep the doors open,” said Bud Raisio, a park district commissioner. Dan Catchpole: 392-6434, ext. 246, or editor@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.
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County Council approves $20 Washington Conservation car tab fee to save Metro service Corps seeks new workers By Dan Catchpole Two King County Council members from the Eastside broke ranks with their fellow Republicans to back a $20 car tab fee to shore up Metro Transit’s budget. Councilwomen Jean Hague and Kathy Lambert, who represents the Snoqualmie Valley, voted for the fee at the council’s Aug. 15 meeting. King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed the fee. Hague and Lambert had previously opposed bypassing voters. To enact the fee, which sunsets after two years, Constantine needed a supermajority of six votes on the nine-person council. Before the bipartisanship deal was announced, only the council’s five Democrats had planned to vote for the fee. Without the fee, Metro would have had to cut its service by 17 percent, according to county officials. The cuts would have affected the Eastside, including fewer trips on Route 209, which serves the Valley. In return for Hague’s and Lambert’s support, reforms to improve efficiency have been added to the proposal. The new plan also maintains the current level of Metro service on the Eastside. It would have been cut by 120,000 service hours under the original proposal. Other changes include replacing up to 20,000 service hours of low-demand routes in rural areas with more efficient service, such as Dial-a-Ride Transit service, community access transportation
services, Vanpools and van shares. Seattle’s Ride Free Area will also be phased out by October 2012, which will save an estimated $2.2 million a year. “This enhanced negotiation has given us an in-depth opportunity to look at how we can make transit and transportation stable for the next two years,” Lambert said in a statement. “Preserving our existing hours during these times of economic uncertainty is vital to business success and Kathy Lambert citizens going to their jobs in our community.” The proposed changes made it “a very different legislative package from what was initially proposed,” Hague said. Nonetheless, anti-tax advocate Tim Eyman criticized the two council members for going back on their earlier pledges to vote against a car tab fee. Metro has endured deep cuts in recent years due to declining gas and sales tax revenues. Without the car tab fees, it was expected to have to deal with a $60 million a year budget shortfall least through 2015. The $20 fee is expected to bring in about $25 million a year. Metro will use about $70 million in reserves to close the remaining budget gap in 2012 and 2013.
The state Department of Ecology dent loans or future tuition expenses. needs 245 people between 18 and 25 to The state created the Washington plant native shrubs and trees, restore Conservation Corps in 1983 to provide salmon-bearing streams, respond to jobs and work training for about 1,600 emergencies and more. young adults. In 1994, the program The agency is seeking applicants to the started received federal AmeriCorps Washington Conservation Corps, a profunding, allowing crews to carry out gram to put young adults, including mili- on-the-ground projects across the state. tary veterans, on the job at projects in 16 In recent years, Washington counties statewide. Conservation Corps For the 2011-12 sermembers have helped vice year, the fight invasive weeds Get involved Department of along Snoqualmie Ecology intends to Potential applicants can find River. hire 150 Washington the application and more infor“In a tight econoConservation Corps mation about the program on my, the WCC is makAmeriCorps members the agency’s website, ing a critical difference using a $2 million www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/ for our young adults, grant from the state wcc/index.html. our communities and Commission for environment,” National and Washington Community Service. Conservation Corps official Nick Mott AmeriCorps Education Awards said in a news release. “By providing received through the Corps Network, a practical job experience and critical pronational service partner, support the fessional training, more than half of our remaining positions. members continue on to full-time Potential applicants can complete employment or go on to further their the application process at the state education.” agency’s website. State lawmakers recently created the AmeriCorps members sign on for a Washington Conservation Corps Puget year of service from October to Sound Corps as a partnership between September 2012. Members work on the Department of Ecology and the environmental and community serstate Department of Natural Resources. vice projects, as well as disaster The legislation calls for the Puget response. Sound Corps to support the Puget Members earn $8.67 an hour and Sound Partnership’s agenda to restore, receive a $5,550 AmeriCorps education protect and preserve the Sound by award upon completing the service 2020. The official rollout of the Puget year. The award may be used for stuSound Corps is due to occur soon.
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Good education starts with school supplies
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When there’s a community need, the Snoqualmie Valley takes care of its own. And Valley residents always put education for their kids on a pedestal. School will soon be starting and parents have already begun the major shopping spree to outfit returning students. Not every parent has the means. In fact, the need for back-to-school supplies has never been as great. There are 30 percent more requests this year than last. How about it, have you thought to buy an extra box of crayons? The Mount Si Helping Hand Food Bank expects nearly 250 children of their clients will need backpacks filled with notebooks, paper, crayons and marker pens, red and blue pens, erasers and glue. And those are just among the minimum needs. Younger kids need scissors and rulers and a box of tissue to stock the classroom. Older students need everything including scientific calculators, memory sticks and composition notebooks. New socks and shoes are also being collected. This is the week when donations must peak so backpacks can be filled and provided in time for the first day of school. Donations of new athletic shoes can be brought to Snoqualmie Valley Alliance Church, 8020 Railroad Ave. Cash donations for school supplies can be made online at www.mtsifoodbank.org or drop off donations of actual supplies at the food bank, 122 E. Third St., North Bend. Call 888-0096 for more information. Let’s make sure every Valley student will return to school with excitement, ready to learn. What’s more exciting than a new box of crayons?
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Re: North Bend hydroplane racer is OK despite flipping boat at Seafair Thanks for this fine article. I couldn’t find any info on Kayleigh’s condition after her flip. The Perkins’ are a tremendous racing family, and Kayleigh and Brian deserve a better season than this. Go get ‘em! Steve Garey Detroit, Mich.
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Last week I noticed the placement of several median postings on the Ridge, encouraging residents to express their opposition to the DirtFish driving facility. From all I’ve read, the primary concern by the opposition seems to be the potential for excessive noise resulting from the use of street mufflers. Snoqualmie residents living on the Ridge, especially those living anywhere near the Parkway, would prefer that any efforts toward noise abatement be directed toward the control or elimination of the lumber trucks traveling the Parkway five days a week, commencing at 3:30 a.m. City ordinances appear to effectively manage contractors working in the neighborhood, but little effort is given to quiet the deafening sound of the lumber trucks that awaken all the residents unfortunate to live anywhere near the Parkway. I support DirtFish and oppose the 3:30 a.m. lumber trucks. Alan Fletcher Snoqualmie
Citizens can make a difference by contacting their elected representatives:
County King County Executive Dow Constantine, King County Chinook Building, 401 Fifth Ave., Suite 800, Seattle, WA 98104; 206-296-4040; or kcexec@kingcounty.gov King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, District 3. King County Courthouse, 516 Third Ave., Room 1200, Seattle, WA 98104; 206-296-1003; 800-3256165; kathy.lambert@kingcounty.gov
Snoqualmie Valley School Board President Caroline Loudenback, District 2, clouden8@comcast.net Vice President Dan Popp, District 5, danpopp@microsoft.com Craig Husa, District 3, craig@husas.com Marci Busby, District 4, mbusby2831@aol.com Scott Hodgins, District 1, gscott.hodgins@comcast.net
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Youth is sometimes wasted on the young By Slim Randles When the world dilemma think tank gathered this morning at the philosophy counter, the main topic of conversation was Marvin Pincus’ problem with the county. The county wanted him to stop counseling people on love and tying flies to go along with it. Well, they didn’t mind the fly tying so much, but the counseling was to stop unless he had a college degree and a business license. There was general outrage and frustration there in the truck stop. There were solutions to Marvin’s problem suggested, of course. They varied from 1. finding something else Marvin could do to enjoy his retirement (from Doc), to 5. declaring war on the county up to and including seceding (from Jasper Blankenship). Nos. 2, 3 and 4 weren’t really workable and referred generally to impossible anatomical feats to be performed by certain county employees. “Marvin’s hearing is next week,” Doc said. “I plan to show up and give them an earful. Ol’ Marv isn’t hurting a soul.” Dewey hadn’t said much, nursing his coffee and sweet roll. It’s
like that sometimes with deep thinkers. It takes time for an idea to ripen, to blossom. Finally, the king of the valley’s oneSlim Randles man fertilizer Columnist distribution system smiled. “Got an idea,” he said. “I’m willing to sacrifice some labor and profits here … for the cause.” “What’s the idea,” Dud asked. “What would you think if I donated an entire pickup load of product to the front door of the
county building?” When the laughing died down, Doc said, “I believe I’d bring a shovel and help out.” “I don’t know,” Jasper said. “I’m not sure they’d think it was out of place there. If I was younger …” “If you were younger … what?” “Well, I believe I’d go down and rearrange some county physiognomies.” He sighed. “But the truth is … I never was as young as I used to be.” Brought to you by Slim’s new book “A Cowboy’s Guide to Growing Up Right.” Learn more at www.nmsantos.com/Slim/Slim.html.
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Adults help children, children help adults at Festival at Mount Si By Sebastian Moraga Imagine a job where you answer the same question all day — “Can I go?” Now, imagine you feel like parking your car. And the person who keeps you from doing it not only cannot drive, but probably could not be seen from the front if seated on the driver’s seat. Such was the ambiance at the Festival at Mount Si Aug. 13, where Boy Scouts directed traffic and parking at Si View Park, and grown-ups handled crowd control at the inflatable toys. The festival was its usual busy self, with people eating, drinking, laughing and dancing the weekend away. People came from places like Camano Island, Spokane, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and made themselves at home on a grassy expanse of land in the middle of North Bend. As usual, children ruled the day, dragging parents, cousins, aunts and uncles through the lineup of toys, games, songs, pets and food stands. In the midst of it all stood Mustafa Ramadan, college freshman and employee of Kent’s Clowns Unlimited, which brought the inflatable toys to the festival. Ramadan wore big sunglasses, like the type Erik Estrada wore on “CHiPs,” even though the day barely qualified as warm. “It’s just my style,” he said with a smile. The cooler weather helped
Ramadan, since he said he WEB EXTRA gets more tired from the See more photos online at www.snovalleystar.com heat than from standing up or from saying, “Yes, go ahead,” a bunch of times. “You have to have patience,” he said, and keep safety first. Just as Ramadan answered a question, a coworker grabbed his arm and told him children had entered the toy from the back, sneaking a free ride. “You have to have patience,” Ramadan repeated. Most children, he said, wait their turn. Once inside, the slide tunnel toy became a testing ground, and children wanted to jump head first. It was Ramadan’s job to answer yea or nay when they asked if they could. It was the job of Boy Scouts Riley Piercy and Jacob Hinman to say yea or nay when grownups in their toys asked if they could park on the street. It was the job of Boy Scouts Zach Wunder and Forrest Heintz, from North Bend’s Troop 466, to lead cars into the north end of Si View Park, which was doubling as a parking lot. Most of the grown-ups are polite, Piercy said. Other drivers bristled at taking orders from someone who can’t buy beer. “Some are behaving well, some are a little bit on the snotty, uptight side,” Wunder said. A reminder to a driver not to park near a fire hydrant or a stop sign earned the boys a
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Jan Marie Johnson is all smiles during the festival. tense exchange with the irked motorist. “He said, ‘Are you guys an officer?’ We said no,” recalled Piercy, a Scout from Troop 700 out of North Bend. “He said, ‘What are you?’ We said, ‘Boy Scouts.’” Piercy and Hinman’s angry driver demanded proof that the boys were Boy Scouts and parked next to the hydrant anyway. “We could tell an officer to give him a ticket,” Hinman said with a laugh. “Nah. We’re Boy Scouts.”
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A dancer swirls her way down North Bend Way during the Grand Parade.
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By Sebastian Moraga
Mount Si High School student Maura Williams applies a Wildcat paw tattoo on Miranda Nelson at the Festival at Mount Si. Williams and the Mount Si High School cheerleaders operated the tattoo stand as a fundraiser for their squad.
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Julia Stanley and Preston Lee enjoy the view from Encompass’ float in the Grand Parade during the Festival at Mount Si.
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The Snoqualmie Valley Veterans Honor Guard marches in the parade.
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King County forgoes crackdown on medical marijuana growing By Warren Kagarise King County is adopting a more laissez-faire approach to medical-marijuana operations as North Bend and other cities tighten rules for patient-run collective gardens and other operations. North Bend City Council members imposed a yearlong moratorium on medical marijuana production and distribution facilities June 7. Issaquah, Sammamish, Federal Way, Kent and other cities have also clamped down on medical-marijuana operations. King County Executive Dow Constantine, however, does not intend to propose legislation to address the issue in rural and unincorporated areas. “At this time, the executive does not plan to propose any new regulations governing dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county,” said Frank Abe, a spokesman for the executive. The decision means medicalmarijuana operations in unincorporated areas, such as The Kind Alternative Medical Collective, a nonprofit collective in Preston, can continue operations unaffected. In the meantime, county officials plan to reach out to residents in unincorporated areas to address concerns. “The King County executive, prosecutor and sheriff will continue to work with unincorporated area communities and other local jurisdictions to protect public health and safety, and monitor issues that evolve
Firefighters flip flapjacks for association fundraiser Snoqualmie firefighters will be flipping flapjacks before Snoqualmie Railroad Days on Aug. 20 to raise money for the Snoqualmie Firefighters Association. The nonprofit association helps the Snoqualmie Fire Department buy special equipment. It also supports charitable organizations and historical preservation in the community. The breakfast will feature pancakes and ham cooked by firefighters. It runs from 7-11 a.m. at the Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway, in the station’s equipment bay. The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children (free for children younger than 5).
under the new state law,” Abe said. Initiative 692, passed in 1998, allows people suffering from certain medical conditions to possess a 60-day supply of marijuana. Marijuana, for medical purposes or otherwise, remains illegal under federal law. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg does not prosecute “legitimate patients who qualify under the law if they reasonably adhere to the dictates of the statute” — a policy the prosecutor’s office adopted in October 2008, not long after the state Department of Health clarified possession rules for medical marijuana users. County prosecutors continue to pursue marijuana cases related to the criminal drug trade. State lawmakers attempted to legalize and regulate marijuana dispensaries and farms, but Gov. Chris Gregoire vetoed measures to legalize such operations, and the truncated law took effect July 22. Under state law, up to 10 qualifying patients can join together and form a collective garden of up to 45 plants, so long as the marijuana is not visible from public spaces. In unincorporated areas, “King County government will continue, as it has since the enactment of Initiative 692, to protect public health and safety through existing laws and regulations,” Abe said. Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.
Children will get to check out the department’s engines and aid unit. There will also be a raffle for items donated by local businesses and a silent auction. In recent years, the auction has featured packages such as overnight stays at the Salish Lodge & Spa and golfing at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. Raffle tickets cost $2.
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Police Blotter North Bend police What is your name? At 1:50 p.m. Aug. 6, police responded to a reported larceny at Safeway in North Bend. Two plainclothes security employees responsible for identifying shoplifters had detained a 39-year-old homeless man who had tried to leave the store with a can of malt liquor and a package of steak. The man gave the police officer a fake name. The officer found a wallet with current identification while searching the man. He arrested him and took him to Issaquah Jail, where the man was booked for shoplifting and obstructing a police officer.
Residential burglary At 8:50 a.m. Aug. 5, police responded to a reported residential burglary in the 500 block of Meadow Drive Southeast. The house has been unoccupied since November 2010, but was still furnished and being kept in trust. A real estate manager reported to police that it had been broken into and ransacked.
Underage drinking At 3:59 a.m. Aug. 3, police responded to a reported incident of domestic violence in progress
at the intersection of West Second Street and Sydney Avenue North in North Bend. When two officers arrived, they saw a man run into a building. They caught up with the 19year-old man, who admitted he had been arguing with his girlfriend. The officers noticed his breath smelled of alcohol. He denied drinking, but the officers determined he was intoxicated based on his behavior. They arrested him. He later admitted to having four beers. He was booked into Issaquah Jail for illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor. The officers talked with his girlfriend, who said that he had not hit her and had not threatened her.
Hey, stop! At 2:13 p.m. July 31, police responded to a reported larceny at Safeway in North Bend. Two store employees were moving empty wood pallets behind the store when they saw two men pushing shopping carts loaded with cases of beer. One of the employees recognized one of the men from the store’s video system. Beer had previously been shoplifted several times from the store in a similar method. The employee shouted for the men to stop. Both men began to run with the carts down a dirt road leading to a wooded area. The employee discovered that the
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store has been short 59 cases of Natural Ice beer during the past 12 weeks. Officers found several empty cans of Natural Ice in the wooded area. One suspect was described as a white man with brown hair. He was wearing a light-blue jean jacket and had a baseball cap on.
When the man came out, he was twitching and squirming, according to the police report. The officer suspected he had taken methamphetamine. The officer issued a trespass letter and advised the man not to return to the property.
Playground vandalism
At 12:12 p.m. July 31, police responded to a reported auto theft in the 400 block of Merritt Avenue Northeast. The 61-year-old victim told police that sometime during the previous night, someone had stolen his 1999 Subaru Legacy Outback station wagon from his driveway. He told police the car was unlocked. The officer checked with neighbors but did not find any more information.
At 11:41 a.m. Aug. 2, police responded to reported vandalism at North Bend Elementary School, 400 E. Third St. Sometime during the previous day, a couch with human feces on it had been left on top of the monkey bars at the school’s playground. A nearby resident told a police officer that he had seen four neighborhood boys walk to the playground with the couch the previous day. He said he hadn’t called police at the time because he didn’t want them to retaliate against him.
Is the bathroom occupied? At 5:30 a.m. July 31, police responded to a reported trespassing at 76 Gas station, 520 E. North Bend Way. The gas station attendant told a police officer that a 21-year-old man had been in the bathroom for 20 minutes and was taking drugs. The officer knocked on the door, and could hear the North Bend man sniffing something.
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On track, but hung up At 1:54 a.m. July 31, police arrested Hector Lopez-Olea, of Yakima, for a suspected DUI. A police officer was driving in the 100 block of Bendigo Boulevard South, when he saw a silver 2004 Porsche 911 stuck on a nearby railroad track. The 22-year-old Lopez-Olea was trying to back the car off the tracks. Meanwhile, a passenger was urinating next to a power box. While talking to Lopez-Olea, the officer noticed his eyes were watery and bloodshot, and he could smell a very strong odor of alcohol on his breath.
He admitted to having two beers. Lopez-Olea consented to a field sobriety test. Before the test began, the officer again asked him how much alcohol he had drank that night. “I am not going to lie, six beers,” Lopez-Olea said, according to the police report. He failed the field test and refused to take a breath analyzer test. The officer arrested him. At the Snoqualmie Police Department, he agreed to a breath test. His results were 0.184 percent and 0.180 percent. The legal limit is 0.08 percent. His car was towed and impounded.
Suspected fake bill At 6:20 p.m. July 29, police responded to a report of counterfeit money at the Pac Sun Store in the North Bend Premium Outlets mall, 461 South Fork Ave. S. According to store employees, a man tried to pay for a hat with a $50 bill. The bill failed a check with a counterfeit pen. It had no reflective face or denomination strip. An employee gave the bill back to the man, who left the store. The man was about 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighed about 180 pounds, and had black hair and brown eyes. He appeared to be Hispanic and was clean-shaven. He had a tattoo of a cross behind his left ear. He left the area in a Chevrolet Tahoe. See BLOTTER, Page 10
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County executive appoints first law enforcement oversight chief King County Executive Dow Constantine appointed a manager of internal investigations and performance audits for the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners as the inaugural county law enforcement oversight chief. Charles Gaither is the designated leader for the Office of Law Enforcement Oversight, a county agency established to monitor the King County
Sheriff’s Office’s complaint and investigation process. Constantine announced the appointment July 11, after a nationwide search. “The people of King County will benefit from the experience, professionalism and leadership that Charles Gaither brings to the table,” he said in a statement. “With his track record, we expect him to bring transparency and accountability
to civilian oversight of county policing.” The appointment heads to the County Council for confirmation. “I am humbled by the opportunity to serve as the director of OLEO and look forward to working closely with Sheriff Rahr, members of the sheriff’s office, and community See CHIEF, Page 16
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Stolen insulin At 2:19 p.m. July 29, police responded to a report of mail theft in the 13500 block of 433rd Place Southeast. The caller told police that a package of insulin had been stolen from his mailbox. The 62-year-old man said that another man told him he had found an opened package of insulin on his lawn. When it was returned, the insulin could not be used because it had not been refrigerated, the man told police.
Snoqualmie police No information was available this week.
Snoqualmie fire ❑ At 12:40 a.m. Aug. 5, EMTs responded to Pickering Court for a medical problem. A patient was evaluated and left at the scene. ❑ At 11:30 a.m. Aug. 5, EMTs and Bellevue paramedics were dispatched to downtown Snoqualmie for a medical call. A patient was treated and then transported to a hospital by paramedics. ❑ At 10:03 a.m. Aug. 6, EMTs responded to Railroad Avenue Southeast for two people involved in an assault after a robbery. Both patients were evaluated and left at the scene. ❑ At 11:31 a.m. Aug. 6, firefighters responded to Better Way Southeast for an automatic fire alarm. Firefighters determined that the alarm had been set off by cooking, and reset it. ❑ At 1:24 p.m. Aug. 6, EMTs
responded to TPC Snoqualmie Ridge for a construction accident. A patient was transported to a hospital by Snoqualmie’s aid car with a possible head injury. ❑ At 10:12 p.m. Aug. 7, EMTs responded to Snoqualmie Casino for a person suffering from an allergic reaction. A patient was transported to a hospital. ❑ At 2:26 a.m. Aug. 8, EMTs and Bellevue paramedics were dispatched for a man suffering from chest pain. He was evaluated and transported to a hospital. ❑ At 3:37 p.m. Aug. 9, firefighters were dispatched to the Pet Factor for an automatic fire alarm. After an investigation, it was determined that it was a false alarm and the system was reset. ❑ At 11:55 p.m. Aug. 9, EMTs responded to Snoqualmie Casino for a medical call. A patient was treated and then transported to a hospital by EMTs. ❑ At 1:43p.m. Aug. 10, EMTs with King County Medic 3 were called to Snoqualmie Casino for a patient reporting dizziness and nausea. A patient was evaluated on scene and left in the care of family. ❑ At 12:50 a.m. Aug. 11, EMTs cared for a 64-year-old man who walked into the fire station saying he had chest pain. He was evaluated and transported by Bellevue paramedics to a hospital.
North Bend fire ❑ At 3:07 p.m. Aug. 11, firefighters responded to a trail rescue near Interstate 90’s Exit 38. 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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Top competitors will go head-to-head at annual Boeing Classic By Dan Catchpole Activity is picking up at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge as the golf club gets ready for the Boeing Classic, which will feature some of the Bernhard Langer game’s great players. The biggest names from last year — Bernhard Langer and Fred Couples — have been dogged by injuries this Fred Couples year, leaving the Classic wide open. Langer said he is ready to defend his Boeing Classic championship from last year despite an injured thumb. Seattle-native Couples, Tom Lehman, Russ Cochran and
Champions Tour rookie Kenny Perry will round out the 50-andolder crowd. No player has broken away from the pack this year. Langer tore a ligament in his thumb in October, but still managed to win the ACE Group Classic in February. However, the pain in his hand worsened, and he had to undergo surgery in March. He returned in July, and finished tied for ninth at the U.S. Senior Open Championship. “The thumb isn’t perfect, but it held up for three straight weeks and it didn’t get worse like it did before,” Langer said on a conference call with media. Couples’ bad back has bothered him this summer, hampering his play. Lehman leads the money list, but he has stumbled in recent months. Lehman doesn’t have the strongest drive from the tee, a trait that could hurt him at spacious TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. Cochran has played well recently. Injuries and other concerns aside, it will be another great competition.
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The Boeing Classic is often decided during the tournament’s final holes. In 2007, it ended after a seven-man playoff. In 2009, Loren Roberts birdied on the 18th hole (above) to take the title. A quick look at past winners of the Boeing Classic shows players with a variety of different games. The winner in 2009,
Golf has its own lingo Golf, like pretty much every sport, has a language all its own. Here are some of the most common and some not-so-common terms: Ace: Scoring a one on a hole — another term for a hole-inone Birdie: Finishing a hole one under par Bogey: Finishing a hole one over par Caddie: The person who carries the golfer’s clubs Chip shot: A shot from close to the green where the golfer pops the ball up into the air and tries to land it close to the hole Divot: A piece of ground dislodged by a golf club during a
swing — golf etiquette calls for the player to replace his divots. Dogleg: A sharp bend on the fairway Double bogey: Finishing a hole two over par Double eagle: The very rare feat of scoring three under par on a hole Drive: The first stroke on a hole, played from the tee Eagle: A score of two under par Fairway: The area between the tee and green where the grass is manicured Fore: If you hear this, duck. “Fore” is called by a player whose shot has strayed toward
Loren Roberts, is one of the game’s best putters. David Eger, who won in 2005, is strongest on the fairway.
It is hard to say which golfer has an edge, as the course doesn’t favor any particular style of play.
Boeing Classic has events for everyone The Boeing Classic includes a week of golf events. Many offer amateur golfers a chance to play a round with sports stars. Money from events goes to benefit charities, including medical research at Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle.
Seahawks Rumble on the Ridge, Aug. 22 Amateur golfers can play a round with celebrities from the sports world. This year’s celebrities range from Seattle Seahawks play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro to profootball Hall of Famer Steve Largent to Sounders FC Head Coach Sigi Schmid.
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❑ Dates: Aug. 22-28 ❑ Players: 78 ❑ Format: 54 holes of stroke play with no cut ❑ Purse: $2 million ❑ Site: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge ❑ Par: 72 ❑ Length: 7,264 yards ❑ Television: Aug. 26-28 on The Golf Channel (broadcast live and replayed twice daily)
1 PGA Champions Tour event in the Northwest — the Boeing Classic 7 tournaments held since the inaugural year in 2005 30 events being held at the tournament in addition to the weekend competition 48 tournament sponsors supporting the event 264 golf carts used during the week 760 amateurs will have the opportunity to play TPC Snoqualmie Ridge during the week’s events 1,018 volunteers will assist with every aspect of tournament operations 1,248 nights booked in local hotels for tournament participants 1,250 rounds of golf played during the week 1,400 American flags decorating the course on Military Appreciation Day, Aug. 28 9,600 man hours worked to create all of the structures on the course 35,000 square feet of flooring being installed at various hospitality areas on the course 75,000 spectators expected to attend the Boeing Classic $3.2 million dollars raised to date for local Seattle charities
Past winners: 2010: Bernhard Langer 2009: Loren Roberts 2008: Tom Kite 2007: Dennis Watson 2006: Tom Kite 2005: David Eger
An accomplished field ❑ Masters Tournament: 8 (Ben Crenshaw, Fred Couples, Mark O’Meara, Larry Mize, Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller, Craig Stadler)
❑ U.S. Open: 4 (Irwin, Scott Simpson, Zoeller, Watson) ❑ Open Championship: 4 (Mark Calcavecchia, O’Meara, Watson, Price) ❑ PGA Championship: 4 (Price, Jeff Sluman, Hal Sutton, Bob Tway)
Scheduled players See a full list of players expected to play in the 2010 Boeing Classic at www.boeingclassic.com. Tommy Armour III Mark Calcavecchia Fred Couples Ben Crenshaw David Eger Jay Haas Hale Irwin Tom Kite Bernhard Langer Mark O’Meara Kenny Perry Nick Price Loren Roberts Denis Watson Fuzzy Zoeller
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Fred Couples shoots for the green during the 2010 U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee Golf Course in Sammamish.
Course facts
2010 top finishers Place
Name
Under par
Total
1
Bernhard Langer
-18
198
2
Nick Price
-15
201
3
Fred Couples
-9
207
T4
Mike Reid
-8
208
T4
Hal Sutton
-8
208
Designer: Jack Nicklaus
Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, ryegrass and annual bluegrass
Types of grass
Bunkers
Greens: Poa Annua Tees: Annual bluegrass and bentgrass Fairways: Annual bluegrass and ryegrass Roughs: Pacific Northwest mix of
Number of bunkers: 107 Bunker sand: White Idaho silicate Source: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge
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All times are subject to change. Monday, Aug. 22 6:30 a.m. — Gates open 8:30 a.m. — Seahawks Rumble at the Ridge 2 p.m. — Champions Tour Professionals Practice Rounds Tuesday, Aug. 23 9 a.m. — Gates open 9 a.m. — Champions Tour Professionals Practice Rounds Noon — Youth clinic Wednesday, Aug. 24 6:15 a.m. — Gates open Korean Air Pro-Am Day One 7:45 a.m. — Morning shotgun start 1:30 p.m. — Afternoon shotgun start Thursday, Aug. 25 6:15 a.m. — Gates open Korean Air Pro-Am Day Two 7:45 a.m. — Morning shotgun start 1:30 p.m. — Afternoon shotgun start
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Korean Air Pro-Am, Aug. 24-25 Amateur golfers can team up with golf stars in a two-day Pro-Am with Champions Tour pros, including Fred Couples, Bernhard Langer, Nick Price and others. But it isn’t cheap. A single spot for one day costs $2,000.
All children 14 and younger get in for free as long as they are accompanied by an adult. Activities for children, including a youth putting contest, will be offered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Military Appreciation Day, Aug. 28 The Boeing Classic is showing its gratitude to active and retired members of the U.S. Armed Forces by offering free admission, free parking and a special event tent at the 18th green for them and their dependents. Bring a valid military identification.
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on the green Rough: The area off the fairway with high grass and other obstructions — it is difficult to hit the ball out of the rough very well. Sand trap: A pit filled in with sand — hitting the ball out of a sand trap is difficult. Scratch golfer: A golfer who hits par or better Slice: When, after hitting the ball, it flies to the left and then curves around to the right — for a left-handed golfer, this is reversed. Stroke: A swing that is meant to hit the ball, even if it doesn’t Water hazard: A body of water such as a lake or stream — if the ball goes into it, the player is assessed a penalty stroke and permitted to place a new ball near the edge of it.
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Statewide electronics recycling effort clicks along By Warren Kagarise
What to know
Evergreen State consumers recycle old electronics by the bushel — more than 100 million pounds of outmoded computers, monitors and televisions since January 2009. The haul is equal in weight to 181 fully loaded Boeing 787s. Statewide, more than 250 E-Cycle Washington collection sites and services exist. Consumers drop off old electronics for recycling at no cost. Under a 2006 state law, manufacturers selling computers, monitors and TVs in Washington must fund and operate a program for recycling electronics. Before the program launched, most old electronics ended up in landfills. The arrangement resulted in toxic runoff and a potential mountain of wasted resources. “In this electronic age more and more of our waste contains toxics, like lead and mercury, as well as valuable resources that
The Department of Ecology estimates recycling 100 million pounds of electronics through E-Cycle Washington saved 31,448 tons of greenhouse gas emissions and more than 1.5 million British thermal units. The energy savings equals: ❑ 14,472 households’ annual energy consumption ❑ 276,630 barrels of oil ❑ 12,489 gallons of gasoline
Snoqualmie project is among recipients of state DOE money The Washington Department of Ecology spread $111 million in grants and loans among cities, tribes, organizations and counties, including the city of
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Find a complete list of locations in King County and statewide at the E-Cycle Washington website, www.ecyclewashington.org. don’t belong in our landfills,” state Department of Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant said in a statement. E-Cycle Washington started collecting electronics in January 2009; the Department of Ecology oversees the program. “Electronics manufacturers responded to that challenge by providing responsible end-of-life recycling of electronic products
for the citizens of Washington state at no charge to the consumer,” John Friedrick, executive director of the manufacturers’ organization, the Washington Materials Management and Financing Authority, said in a statement. Discarded TVs comprise the majority of the statewide haul — 62 percent, on average — of the 3.3 million pounds of electron-
Snoqualmie. The department received 90 project proposals, totaling $210 million, and selected 56. The Snoqualmie-related projects include a retrofitting of Northern Street, which is currently without storm water service. The project had requested $411,500 from the state.
King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks received $500,000 to improve water quality in three Snoqualmie River sub-basins. Stewardship Partners received $249,000 to conduct projects that will improve fish habitat and water quality.
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From Page 10 leaders and stakeholders alike,” Gaither said in a statement. “I also wish to thank those who labored tirelessly to establish this office and will work diligently to assure accountability and transparency of county policing.” Gaither, a former Seattle resident and Seattle University School of Law alumnus, served as a special investigator for the Los Angeles Police Commission. In the role, he reviewed investigations involving officer-involved shootings, in-custody deaths and lawenforcement-related injuries. The selection committee included representatives from Constantine’s office and the council, as well as the Puget Sound Police Managers’ Association and the King County Police Officers Guild. “We were fortunate to have so many quality candidates seek the position of King County’s first director of law enforcement oversight, and I am very pleased with the executive’s choice of Charles Gaither,” committee member and police guild President Steve Eggert said in a statement. “I believe his breadth of experience, in both law enforcement and law enforcement oversight, make him uniquely qualified for this position.”
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PSE calls on residents to Report dead birds: track West Nile report strange activity near power substations Puget Sound Energy is calling on citizens to report suspicious activity near neighborhood power substations and report such activity to 911. The request came after a woman suspected of stealing copper wire from a substation in Enumclaw sustained severe burns to her arms and face Aug. 1. Authorities said the woman and another person cut through 8-foot-high barbed-wire-topped cyclone fence and entered a PSE substation. Inside, the substation has voltages as high as 115,000 volts. PSE servicemen discovered the woman, and called for medical aid, as they responded to a power outage caused by the attempted theft. “Thieves who enter substations to remove copper wiring and vandalize equipment risk serious injury or death from these high-voltage facilities,” Dave Foster, manager of corporate security for PSE, said in a statement. “In addition to putting themselves and the public in danger, the vandals can cause power outages and tens of thousands of dollars in repair costs, which ultimately impacts customer bills.” Foster said the Bellevue-based utility is experiencing a significant increase in copper thefts, as a result of higher copper prices and current economic conditions. Since August 2010, more than 50 copper thefts have occurred at PSE substations and on utility poles. PSE operates 430 substations in nine counties. The utility
What to know Puget Sound Energy suggests taking the following steps to prevent copper theft and remain safe around electric facilities: ❑ Report suspicious activity around a substation, poles or other electrical equipment, and call 911. ❑ Report information about copper thefts to the police. ❑ Never enter or touch equipment inside a substation. ❑ Stay away from power lines and anything touching a power line. serves more than 1 million electric customers and almost 750,000 natural gas customers throughout Western Washington. “We want everyone to be alert and to call 911 if they see any suspicious activity around substations and other utility equipment,” King County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said in a statement. PSE, utilities and law enforcement agencies in the Puget Sound region joined to collaborate on ways to stop the copper thefts. The company also added more patrols, motion-activated lighting, identification coding on copper wire and a video alarm system to substations. “Our greatest opportunity for curbing copper theft is in working closely with law enforcement agencies, our local communities and the scrap metal dealers,” Foster said.
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King County public health officials need community members to crow about dead birds in order to track the West Nile virus. Public health officials are asking residents to report dead birds. Crows, in particular, die quickly from West Nile virus, and clusters of dead crows could indicate the presence of the virus. Officials did not detect West Nile virus in King County last year, but the virus has been active locally in the past. Most people do not feel the effects of the infection, but in others West Nile disease can cause severe symptoms, including diseases of the brain and spinal cord. West Nile disease caused 57 deaths in the United States last year, out of 1,021 reported cases in 41 states. Throughout the summer and early fall, the county plans to collect dead birds deemed suitable for laboratory testing. The birds must be a crow, raven, jay or magpie; dead for less than 24 hours; and have no visible trauma or decay in order to be tested. The mosquito most responsible for West Nile virus in King County is the northern house mosquito, culex pipiens. The species prefers to lay eggs in standing water. Even small amounts of water, such as in plant saucers or a clogged gutter, can produce many mosquitoes.
What to know
In order to track West Nile virus, Public Health – Seattle & King County is asking residents to report dead birds by phone at 206-205-4394 or online at www.skcconnect.com. Local health officials recommend residents reduce the number of mosquitoes by: ❑ Tipping out containers collecting water, including barrels, buckets, wheelbarrows, bottles, wading pools, birdbaths, animal troughs and plant saucers. ❑ Dumping water off of tarps and plastic sheeting, and disposing of used tires. ❑ Cleaning garden ponds, circulating water in fountains and placing mosquito screens over rain barrels. ❑ Cleaning leaf-clogged gutters and repairing leaky outdoor faucets. ❑ Repairing ripped windows and door screens — and making sure they fit tight, so adult mosquitoes cannot enter the home. ❑ Helping elderly neighbors mosquito-proof residences.
People can avoid mosquito bites by wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants and socks. Health officials recommend people consider using insect repellent, too.
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Bikefest celebrates the two-wheelers By Sebastian Moraga The accident happened in March, but Carol Hawkins waited until Aug. 13 to have a proper wake for her friend. In the middle of a blueberry farm in North Bend, home of this year’s Bikefest, Hawkins sat with a guestbook and a picture of her late buddy. Only if you looked at the picture, you realized that this wasn’t just any wake. The photo was a picture of nobody. Hawkins was having a wake for her bicycle. “I get very attached to my bikes,” she said. A motor vehicle going 40 miles per hour rear-ended Hawkins’ bike March 15, leaving her unconscious, with a large bruise on her leg, a scar on her forehead and needing a new bike three weeks after getting one. Hawkins, who got back on a bike in May, picked Bikefest as the place for the wake because she had a second purpose in mind, not just remembering a bicycle. She wants to engineer change. “My supervisor at work told me I should take my bike accident, since I survived, and really turn it into a positive impact,”
she said. “What I’m trying to do is for people to come together and think about people they’ve lost, people who have been in accidents and areas of concern.” Bikefest is a “celebration of bicycle culture,” organizer Jesse Perrell said. That included a 100mile ride from Seattle’s Magnusson Park to Bikefest, bike raffles, bike gear for sale and bike art, like the 3-D painting of a blue cyclist sprawled on asphalt. “It looks like a bike accident,” Hawkins said of the painting next to her booth. “So I thought it would be cool to have it here.” The painting’s frame was made of bike tires. Advocating bike safety at Bikefest seems akin to the preacher facing the choir, Hawkins said, but the message has to start rolling somewhere. Everyone, including the police officer who questioned her after the accident, needs a reminder to share the road. “The cop actually asked me what I had been doing there,” Hawkins recalled. “I told him I was trying to access the bike trail. And the cop, from that area, looked at me and said ‘There’s a bike trail down here?’” Bicycles are an afterthought
Bicycle-maker goes for the odd By Sebastian Moraga For a Harley guy, Scott McGee has a thing for vehicles that move really slow. He works for HarleyDavidson in his hometown of Tacoma, but his passion is building some of the oddest, shiniest, but also slowest bicycles around. He brought two to this year’s Bikefest in North Bend and his two-wheeled, seven-sprocket contraption attracted the most attention. “This is awesome!” said Atticus McNulty, a gradeschooler from Seattle who could not resist the temptation to sit on McGee’s green machine named Long Odds. “The seat’s a little high for you guys,” McGee told McNulty and his friends, as See ODD, Page 19 in the Puget Sound area transit system, Perrell said. See BIKEFEST, Page 19
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Carol Hawkins showed up at Bikefest with a purpose: create awareness for bicycle safety. With that in mind, she held a wake for her last bicycle.
Mount Si High School community remembers Annie Nelson By Sebastian Moraga She loved life, she explored life, she exuded life. “She really lit up our lives,” John Nelson said of his daughter. So on Aug. 10, John, his wife Jo Anne, teacher Chris Jackson, and dozens of friends and relatives gathered at Mount Si High School to remember and celebrate Dianna “Annie” Nelson’s 19-year love affair with being alive, which was cut short by cancer July 29. True to her lively spirit, Annie had requested that the gathering celebrate her life instead of mourn her death. Towering bunches of balloons shared space with some of Annie’s drawings, awards, photos and a long table with food. “She said she didn’t want it to be any sad, ‘dramatic B.S.,’ in her words,” John said. Still, a yard away from where her father stood was Annie’s mother consoling a friend. When the slideshow of Annie’s life began there were as many smiles as there were tears. John and Jo Anne welcomed
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every hug with a calm that perhaps belied their broken hearts. John said he drew strength from how strong his
daughter had been. “I think she was more prepared than she wanted to let on to everybody else,” he said. “But she fought hard all the way to the end.” Days before her death, Annie had taken to the road once again, with her father to Oregon, with an uncle and aunt to Silverwood Theme Park and with friend Taryn Hockenbury’s family to Blue Lake in central Washington. “She enjoyed life up until the very last breath, almost,” Sharon Hockenbury said of her daugh-
ter’s best pal. “That was just Annie’s character and demeanor: to love and be loving.” She spent those days swimming, camping but also thinking, a trait Annie mastered better than most, Sharon said. “Annie had a way of asking really provocative questions,” she said. “She asked me, ‘How do you stay in love with someone for 30 years?’ because I’ve been married for 30 years. ‘How does that happen?’ Questions like that.” Caryn called Annie “wise beyond her years.” The family wants to keep Annie’s memory alive beyond this year, John said, starting a collection in her memory to the Kumon Learning Center, where Annie tutored, and the Mount Si High School music band. “She always felt that the music program at school was underfunded,” John said, adding that she wanted to be remembered as someone who loved many things, including the arts. “Someone who was loving, giving and very creative,” he said. “She had many styles of art form.”
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Drawings, ribbons and diplomas stand as witnesses to the great talents of Annie Nelson, a Mount Si High School grad who died of cancer in July. A painter, a writer, a sketch artist and a poet, Annie amazed many with her wit and wisdom, including her American literature teacher at Mount Si. “She was one of the most brilliant students I’ve ever had,” Jackson said. “Terrific writer and thinker. Insightful, thoughtful, very talented.”
The question of what might have been remains unanswerable, because the potential of Annie Nelson was as broad as her interests and as deep as her love of life. “There was no ceiling to what she could have accomplished,” Jackson said. “Makes the loss a little harder to take.”
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Jeane Gwendolyn Busby, of North Bend, passed away Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, at Overlake Hospital. She was 76. Jeane was born July 7, 1935, to William Langley and Lillie Morrison in Sherman, Texas. She had one brother, Jamie, and one Jeane Gwendolyn half broth- Busby er, Ralph, both deceased. Jeane moved to Dallas to live with her father and later attended The University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. Jeane loved to garden and spent most of her free time working in her flowerbeds. She also loved to read and cook, and was known to deliver batches of her favorite chili recipe to friends, family and co-workers. Her friends and family remember her as a giving and generous person who is deeply missed. Survivors include her two daughters, Staci Busby St. Onge, of Issaquah, and Laurie Studer, of Renton; six grandchildren; and a host of extended family members and friends. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at Flintoft’s Funeral Home, Issaquah. A viewing will precede the service, from 9-11 a.m. Friends and family are invited to share a memory in the family’s online guest book at www.flintofts.com.
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Dane Conrad Walter was born June 18, 2011, to Ashley and Ashlie Walter, of Snoqualmie, at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue. Dane weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long. He has a 2-yearDane Conrad Walter old brother, Warren Theodore. Dane has four grandparents and one great-grandparent. His grandparents Terry and Victoria Jensen live in North Bend. His other grandparents, Michael and Barbara Walter, live in Bloomington, Minn. His great-grandmother, Doris Reitmeier, lives in St. Cloud, Minn. She is Ashley’s grandmother. Ashlie Walter is from the area. She graduated from Mount Si High School in 2002. She met Ashley at Cornell University, where they both attended school. Ashley graduated from Stanford University’s law school in 2007. He now works for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Bikefest From Page 18 “First thought was, ‘How are we going to get these vehicles around?’” he said. “Second thought was, ‘Oh, bicycles are vehicles, too?’” The wake’s guestbook had a list for people’s names and a list for people to mention a troublesome spot for cyclists. Hawkins said she would go to
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“I consider this like a waterfront, look-at-meI’m-cool kind of bike.” — Scott McGee Bike builder they tried to sit on Long Odds. The bike was on a stand so it could not move, McGee said, but even if it did, McNulty would not go very far. Long Odds is not a speedster. “I consider this like a waterfront, look-at-me-I’mcool kind of bike,” McGee said. He speaks from experience. Two years ago, the Tacoma Art Commission selected local artists to build bicycles for Bike To Work Month. McGee built Long Odds in a month and rode it around Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza while people took pictures. The bike later appeared in the Tacoma Art Museum. McGee later built the equivalent of a crash-test-
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Scott McGee, left, helps Riley Nelson ride his seven-sprocket bicycle, “Long Odds.” McGee, a technician at Harley-Davidson in Tacoma, has built two custom bicycles and is working on a third. dummy bike, a small metallic ride with no brakes, which he used to play with friends, racing down a steep hill. Having survived that, now he’s on to building bike No. 3. Judging by his designs, the bike is an homage to some of
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Trio of pre-teens turns triathlons into family time By Sebastian Moraga Odds are, if your sibling chased you while drenched in water, you would run away too. Imagine what it must be like to be one of the three Fentress siblings, who have been chasing each other for years now. The Fentresses — Alex, Andrew and Arielle — are triathletes, although the oldest of the three, Andrew, is 12. Triathlon requires athletes to swim, bike and run, in that order, and the trio can’t get enough of it. “I like splashing in the water and running and biking,” Arielle said. The Fentress children first heard of triathlons from their mother Aimee. With time, they became enamored with the sport. Andrew trains five times a week in the pool, swimming two hours each day. Arielle runs three times a week, and tops each run with a 90-minute swim. Alex used to play lacrosse and flag football. “I usually just run now,” he said. A former D-III swimmer at Willamette College, Aimee takes her children along when she exercises.
“We ended up biking eight miles before we came here today,” she said. “Just kind of for fun.” They first attended triathlons to watch Mom, but that got old fast. “I didn’t want to wake up early just to sit there for three hours,” Andrew said. So he started competing. Arielle started competing because Andrew had. Ten-yearold Alex started competing “because I like getting in shape a lot,” he said. Their triathlons are mini-versions of the real deal. Andrew competes in a 100-yard swim, a two-mile bike ride and a halfmile run. Alex competes in a 50yard swim, 1-mile bike ride and a 0.2 mile run. “It’s not a big deal for them,” Aimee said. At 12, Andrew is looking forward to running and swimming with the big boys. Starting next year, he will compete in adult triathlons, Aimee said. That means a half-mile swim, 12-mile ride and a 5K run. “I don’t think it’s going to be too hard,” Andrew said. Alex and 9-year-old Arielle do not look forward to the Big 1-3. “I don’t want to do it,” Alex
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Alex and Andrew Fentress just smile while sister Arielle flexes her muscles. The trio of siblings have become triathlon enthusiasts, participating in several competitions, including one during Seattle’s Seafair. said. Arielle agreed. In the meantime, they get in on all the triathlon action they can now.
Once they turn 13, Aimee said, if they decide to leave triathlons forever, that’s fine by her.
“As long as they stay doing something athletic,” she said, “they can do whatever they like.”
Ridge soccer team wins its first-ever trophy By Sebastian Moraga For Mark Niemela, it was his third year coaching the boys. For some of the boys, it was
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The Cascade FC U-11 soccer team lifts a trophy for the first time. The boys from the Valley earned their first soccer championship with a 5-1 victory against TyneCastle of Everett.
their third year playing together. And for goalie Aidan Carels, of the Cascade FC U-11 Boys squad, it was his third time in a final match. “I know what it’s like to be on the losing team,” Carels said. “We had been in the finals two times and lost two times.” The second loss was in a shootout. To a goalie like Carels, that stings. This time, it was different, and the boys in the green Cascade jerseys got to lift a trophy over their heads. The boys defeated Redmond’s Crossfire, Seattle United, Bothell’s North Shore and Everett’s TyneCastle. “It wasn’t that hard,” Carels said. “I probably touched the ball like five times.” The final match against TyneCastle was the hardest, he added. Midfielder Will Niemela agreed. “We probably should have been on a higher level,” he said. “One of the games we
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Ladies and gentlemen, behold the champs. Cascade FC’s U-11 boys soccer team poses for posterity as champions for the first time ever. won 10-1.” Now that the team has a trophy, the next step is to see how many more it can get. The boys are young enough to mess up now and then. Mark Niemela said they don’t test his patience too badly: After all, he has three children himself, including midfielder Will. A soccer player for decades, Mark shares what he learned on
the pitch, keeping in mind, his pint-sized audience. “Even when they don’t do what you want,” he said, “you remind yourself: ‘Well, they’re 10.’” Midfielder Jonathan Barrett and Will use every finger only once to count their age, but they are seasoned pros, having played together for three years. Both played for three years before
that. They know their stars, too, with Barrett idolizing Argentinian Lionel Messi and Will following Britain’s Wayne Rooney. The team’s boys are still young enough that they might decide on another sport. Mark said that despite soccer’s popuSee TROPHY, Page 21
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Mount Si lineman will play football for Oregon State University team, which advanced to the state playoffs last season for the fifth time in the past six Mount Si High School’s Josh years. Mitchell has verbally committed Mitchell was named to to play Division I football for KingCo’s 3A All-League First Oregon State University. Team Offense as an outside tackOSU coach Mike Riley offered le last season. He also took the Mitchell a fullstate heavyride to play for weight “That gives me another year wrestling chamthe Beavers. Mitchell, an to develop.” pionship title. incoming He plans to — Josh Mitchell defend that title senior, can’t OSU recruit this year, but actually sign a letter of intent won’t wrestle in to attend OSU college. until February The 6-foot-3, of his senior year. 265-pound Mitchell had been Mitchell said he was rated by Rivals.com as the No. impressed by the commitment 16 prospect in Washington. of Riley and his coaching staff to He said he had also received their players. offers from Washington State “The coaches care so much University, Eastern about their players,” he said. Washington University, During his high school Wyoming University and career, Mitchell has been a key Montana University. piece of the Wildcats’ football He expects to redshirt his By Dan Catchpole
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Josh Mitchell, left, and OSU Coach Mike Riley celebrate Mitchell’s verbal commitment to play at OSU. freshman year. “That gives me another year to develop,” Mitchell said. After talking with Riley, he
Trophy From Page 20 larity in the Northwest, lovers of the game still face opposition. “They get a little pushback,” he said. “‘Come play a real sport, soccer’s for kids.’” If Carels’ teammates think the way he does, Mark has little to worry about. “Soccer is super fun,” Carels said. “I like baseball, but you hit the ball, you run, you field. In soccer, you move all the time.” Besides, soccer offers something baseball can’t: the chance of someday trading that green Cascade jersey for a gray one, like that of Washington-born goalie Kasey Keller. “I want to make it in the professionals,” he said. “Play for the Sounders.” Sebastian Moraga: 392-6434, ext. 221, or smoraga@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.
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PSE seeks 2012 gas, electric rate increases Puget Sound Energy filed a proposal last month to increase electric and natural gas rates in 2012. The utility is asking state regulators for rate increases to offset the costs of work to increase electric and gas delivery system reliability, as well as efforts to provide a cleaner energy supply. The proposal calls for electric rates to increase 8.1 percent and natural gas rates to climb 3 percent for all customer groups. The average homeowner could expect to pay $8.37 more per month for electric service, based on 1,000 kilowatt-hours, and $2.84 more per month for natural gas, based on 68 therms per month. The state Utilities and Transportation Commission is reviewing the proposal. If approved, the rates could take effect in May 2012. The rate request is based on energy system improvements
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injuries by 2030. More than 40 percent of fatal crashes in the state in the past year involved a driver going faster than the posted speed limit, according to Target Zero. The average ticket is $156 in Washington, but it can easily climb up to more than $400, according to the state’s Traffic Safety Commission.
Local police wrap up focus on speeders
Firefighters donate $6,000 to Muscular Dystrophy Association
More than a dozen local police forces in King County recently wrapped up a nearly monthlong emphasis on catching speeders. The campaign resulted in 1,245 speeding tickets and nearly 100 other citations or arrests. North Bend and Snoqualmie participated in the campaign, which was paid for with a grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. The effort is part of the state’s Target Zero campaign to end traffic deaths and serious
Snoqualmie firefighters raised more than $6,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in their annual Fill the Boot campaign. Firefighters took to the city’s streets Aug. 7, asking passers-by to donate money for the nonprofit organization, which supports research of the disease. Firefighters across the country have been helping raise money for the association since 1954. They have raised more than $453 million.
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Public meetings ❑ North Bend Economic Development Commission, 8 a.m. Aug. 18, 126 E. Fourth St. ❑ North Bend public hearing: ULID No. 6 final assessment roll, 4 p.m. Aug. 18, 411 Main Ave. N. ❑ Snoqualmie Valley School Board and budget public hearing, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18, 8001 Silva Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ Snoqualmie City Council, 7 p.m. Aug. 22, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ Snoqualmie Community and Economic Affairs Committee, 5 p.m. Aug. 23, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ North Bend City Council special workstudy, 7 p.m. 23, North Bend City Hall, 211 Main Ave. N. ❑ Snoqualmie Economic Development Commission, noon Aug. 24, 37600 S.E. ❑ North Bend Parks Commission, 6 p.m. Aug. 24, 126 E. Fourth St. ❑ Snoqualmie Public Safety Committee, 5 p.m. Aug. 25, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway ❑ North Bend Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Aug. 25, 211 Main Ave. N.
Events ❑ Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater presents “Brigadoon,” various times until Aug. 28, 36800 David Powell Road, Fall City. Show times: 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets: $18 ($16 senior/students, $8 for children ages 6-12). Buy tickets and dinner reservations online at www.foresttheater.org. ❑ North Bend Farmers Market and Summer Concert Series, 4-8 p.m. Aug. 18, Si View Park, 400 S.E. Orchard Drive. See a performance by The Road Dogz at 5:30 p.m. ❑ Family Fun Nights at the Park, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 18, Snoqualmie Community Park, 35016 S.E. Ridge St., Snoqualmie. Games and events for all ages 3-12. Bring a picnic. ❑ John Hansen with Kelley Johnson, 7 p.m. Aug. 18, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Ethan Freckleton, and Scotty P and Ozone, 7:15 p.m. Aug. 18, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ Snoqualmie Railroad Days, Aug. 19-21, downtown Snoqualmie. Full of activities for all ages. ❑ Milo Petersen Trio, 7 p.m. Aug. 19, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Fred Hopkins and Dick Crowley, 7 p.m. Aug. 19, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ Bernie Jacobs Quartet, 7 p.m. Aug. 20, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend
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Children run through downtown Snoqualmie during last year’s Kids’ 1K run at Snoqualmie Railroad Days. The city’s downtown will be packed full of activity this weekend. Events include Snoqualmie Railroad Days (Aug. 19-21), Railroad Days races (Aug. 20), Plein Air Paint Out (Aug. 20), firefighter pancake breakfast (Aug. 20) and the Legends Classic Car Show (Aug. 21). Learn more at www.snovalleystar.com; search for “Railroad Days.”
❑ MAD, 8 p.m. Aug. 20, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ Danny Kolke Trio, 7 p.m. Aug. 21, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Merry Monday Story Times, 11 a.m. Aug. 22, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North Bend. For newborns to 3-year-olds accompanied with an adult. ❑ Family Story Time, 1 p.m. Aug. 22, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E., Snoqualmie. For ages 2 and older with adult. ❑ Warriors of Light fundraiser, 6 p.m. Aug. 22, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, entertainment by the Cascade Jazz Trio, Aleili and the Veils of the Nile, violinist Danielle McCutcheon. The Warriors of Light Project provides military personnel and veterans with free trauma-sensitive yoga classes. ❑ Alive and Kicking: A Valley musical theater review, 7 p.m. Aug. 22 and 25, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie. Suggested $5 $10 donation. ❑ Boeing Classic, Aug. 22-28, TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, 36005 S.E. Ridge St., Snoqualmie. See special section in this paper for details. ❑ Toddler Story Times, 9:30 a.m. Aug. 23, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North Bend. For ages 2-3 with an adult.
❑ Preschool Story Times, 10:30 a.m. Aug. 23, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North Bend. For ages 3-6 with an adult. ❑ Open mic, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 23, Twede’s Café, 137 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Future Jazz Heads, 7 p.m. Aug. 23, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Young Toddler Story Times, 9:30 a.m. Aug. 24, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E. Ages 6-24 months old accompanied by an adult. ❑ Preschool Story Times, 10:30 a.m. Aug. 24, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E. Ages 3-6 accompanied by an adult. ❑ Pajamarama Story Times, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 24, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St. All young children are welcome with an adult. ❑ Kids’ Play in the Parks Program, 1-3 p.m. Aug. 24, alternating location, Snoqualmie. Children can play games, work on art projects and enjoy other activities. Parents must pre-register children with Snoqualmie’s Parks and Recreation Department. Locations alternate each week between Centennial Fields Park, 39903 S.E. Park St., and Azalea Park, 6604 Azalea Way, Snoqualmie. For children ages 5-10. Pre-register by calling Cassie Craig, Parks and Recreation Department, at 8315784.
❑ Randy Halberstadt, 7 p.m. Aug. 24, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Open mic, 7 p.m. Aug. 24, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ North Bend Farmers Market and Summer Concert Series, 4-8 p.m. Aug. 25, Si View Park, 400 S.E. Orchard Drive. See a performance by Down the Road at 5:30 p.m. ❑ Family Fun Nights at the Park, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 25, Snoqualmie Community Park, 35016 S.E. Ridge St., Snoqualmie. Games and events for all ages 3-12. Bring a picnic. ❑ Timber and Her Two Sleazy Friends, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie. ❑ Home Buyer Workshop, 10-11:30 a.m. Aug. 27, 102 W. North Bend Way, North Bend. Three professionals from the real estate industry will talk about the home-buying process. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP to James Dennis, 5337854. ❑ Danae Dean, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ Spanish/English Story Time, 10:30 a.m. Sept. 3, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E., Snoqualmie. All young children are welcome if accompanied by an adult. ❑ North Bend First Tuesday Book Club: “The Glassblower of Murano,” by Marina Fiorato, 7 p.m. Sept. 6, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North Bend
Volunteer opportunities ❑ Elk Management Group invites the community to participate in elk collaring, telemetry and habitat improvement projects in the Upper Snoqualmie Valley. Project orientation meetings are at 6 p.m. the third Monday of the month at the North Bend City Hall, 211 Main Ave. N. Email research@snoqualmievalleyelk.org. ❑ Snoqualmie Valley Hospital is accepting applications for ages 16 or older to volunteer in various departments of the hospital. Email volunteer coordinator Carol Waters at carolw@snoqualmiehospital.org to arrange an interview. ❑ Spanish Academy invites volunteers fluent in Spanish to
participate in summer camps on its three-acre farm-style school. Must love children and nature. Call 888-4999. ❑ Senior Services Transportation Program needs volunteers to drive seniors around North Bend and Snoqualmie. Choose the times and areas in which you’d like to drive. Car required. Mileage reimbursement and supplemental liability insurance are offered. Call 206-748-7588 or 800-2825815 toll free, or email melissat@seniorservices.org. Apply online at www.seniorservices.org. Click on “Giving Back” and then on “Volunteer Opportunities.” ❑ Mount Si Senior Center needs volunteers for sorting and sales in the thrift store, reception and class instruction. The center is at 411 Main Ave. S., North Bend. Call 888-3434. ❑ Hopelink in Snoqualmie Valley seeks volunteers for a variety of tasks. Volunteers must be at least 16. Go to www.hopelink.org/takeaction/volunteer.com or call 869-6000. ❑ Adopt-A-Park is a program for Snoqualmie residents to improve public parks and trails. An application and one-year commitment are required. Call 831-5784. ❑ Study Zone tutors are needed for all grade levels to give students the homework help they need. Two-hour weekly commitment or substitutes wanted. Study Zone is a free service of the King County Library System. Call 369-3312.
Classes ❑ S.A.I.L. (Stay Active and Independent for Life) exercise class meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Mount Si Senior Center, 411 Main Ave. S., North Bend. Led by certified exercise instructor Carla Orellana. Call 888-3434.
Clubs ❑ Sallal Grange, 12912 432nd Ave. S.E., North Bend, meets the first Friday for a potluck and open mic with local musicians. The potluck starts at 6 p.m. with the music from 7 p.m. to midnight. Open to all people/ages. Go to www.sallalgrange.org. ❑ Snoqualmie Valley Chess Club, 7 p.m. Thursdays, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St. Learn to play chess or get a game going. All ages and skill levels are welcome. ❑ The North Bend Chess Club meets every Thursday from 7-9 p.m. at the North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St. All ages and skill levels are invited. Submit an item for the community calendar by emailing editor@snovalleystar.com or go to www.snovalleystar.com.
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State unveils map to track priority fish and wildlife species The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has launched a mapping system featuring information about priority animal species. The mapping tool, PHS on the Web, allows users to zoom in on specific properties or scan broader areas to determine the presence of fish and wildlife species identified as priorities for conservation and management. Find the tool at http://wdfw.wa.gov/mapping/phs. The same mapping feature also identifies critical fish and wildlife habitat types, ranging from coastal wetlands to shrubsteppe. The information is
often required by local, state and federal agencies in reviewing land-use permits, grant proposals and landowner incentive programs. For a fee, the agency fills hundreds of individual information requests each year from property developers, environmental organizations, local governments and others seeking to determine the status of fish and wildlife species in specific areas. Now, much of the information is available online for free. The agency’s Priority Habitats and Species program — responsible for monitoring about 200 fish and wildlife species — developed the website. The program affords special protection for certain species based on population status, sensitivity to
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Quadrant Homes employees volunteer at Three Forks Natural Area More than 80 Quadrant Homes employees came to the Three Forks Natural Area on Aug. 5 for the company’s annual summer picnic, which included doing volunteer work at the park. The Three Forks Natural Area is at the confluence of the North Fork and the main Snoqualmie River. It is home to a wide range of wildlife and includes five miles of riverfront.
“We are proud to join forces with organizations such as the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and provide our employees regular opportunities to participate in these important restoration projects,” Quadrant Homes president Ken Krivanec said in a news release.
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