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Renewal Center marks milestone in assistance BY STUART MILLER smiller@snovalleystar.com

Photo courtesy Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society

A photo from 1891 shows Native American workers at Snoqualmie Hop Ranch near the base of Mount Si.

Hops with a history

Volunteers harvest wild crop growing at Meadowbrook

Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company started using the wild hops in special batches only four years ago.

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History in a glass Currently in his mid-80s, Dave Olson, a board member for the Meadowbrook Farm Preserve, could be found climbing ladders, carrying hop-filled baskets and getting deep into some blackberry thickets during the harvest. His son Alan and wife Betty were also there Monday, climbing, cutting and picking. Dave Olson plays bridge with Pat Anderson, part owner of the Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company, and helped Anderson get on board with the idea of using Meadowbrook hops in a beer batch. In 2012, volunteers brought the first load of Meadowbrook

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It won’t be “last call” for Meadowbrook Ale thanks to a group of volunteers who spent Labor Day picking Meadowbrook hops, the wild descendants of hops from what was once reputed to be the largest hop farm in the world. The aromatic green buds, remnants from the 19th-century Snoqualmie Hop Ranch, still grow around the 460-acre Meadowbrook Farm Preserve in North Bend, with vines winding around any structure or plant they can grip on to. Some hop vines climb the tall wooden posts outside the interpretive center. Other

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Alan Olson (left) and Kevin Haggerty pull hop vines from a blackberry thicket Sept. 5 at Meadowbrook Farm.

vines wind up tree trunks and weave their way through blackberry bushes around the preserve. Volunteers powered through thorn bushes Monday to reach hop-heavy vines in the thicket, using ladders to clear narrow paths. Vines growing up the timbers

next to the interpretive center were cut by volunteers on ladders. Loaded hop vines were worth the extra effort they took to reach, as the fruits of the labor will end up in a uniquely local batch of beer. While some homebrewers have known about and picked the hops for many years,

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The Valley Renewal Center, a day center in downtown Snoqualmie for homeless and at-risk people, is showing signs of success and progress. Two people recently found housing with help from the VRC after enduring two months of homelessness. An engaged couple, who go by the names Don and Suzie, are the first people that VRC Manager Charles McCarthy has seen get off the street and into permanent housing since the day center opened in July. Mike is a retired Navy veteran and Suzie is a government employee. They were forced out of their living situation when Suzie’s daughter moved away and they could no longer afford their home. King County’s expensive rental market surprised them, they said. The couple lived in their car for about two months while they figured out their situation. During their first month of homelessness, Suzie refused to seek help. “I was ashamed of our situation,” Suzie said. “I wanted to hide it.” Even with a steady income, affording the initial hurdle of first and last months’ rent and security deposit was insurmountable. Her paycheck was used up quickly in their situation. They had to buy SEE MILESTONE, PAGE 5

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hops to the brewery. The inexperienced pickers had made some mistakes so that the crop needed to be picked through again, Dave Olson said. The workers at the brewery were ready to scrap the hops rather than pick through them, but Anderson asserted, “We are making Meadowbrook Ale this year. Get to work,” Dave Olson recalled with a laugh. They’ve made the beer three out of four years since then. Alan Olson, who has used Meadowbrook hops in his past homebrews, predicted that this year’s batch from the Snoqualmie brewery would be a “dry hop” beer. Dry hopping involves adding a second load of hops into a batch after it is done boiling, during the cooled fermentation phase. Meadowbrook’s volunteers worked the oldfashioned way. They cut hop vines down and ran fingers along each vine

looking for green hops that were about threequarters of an inch or larger. They snapped off the keepers into baskets and boxes and piled up the harvested vines. Very few, if any, commercial hop-growing operations still hand-pick hops, said Ann George, executive director of the Hop Growers of America. That was not the case at Snoqualmie Hop Ranch while it was operating. Though it was once one of the most productive hop farms in the world, it would not live to see the mechanization of hop harvesting in the postprohibition era. Filling a void After hop crops in Europe were wiped out by pest infestations in the 1860s, Western Washington farmers stepped in to fill the worldwide demand. Hop farms sprang up all over the Puget Sound. The Snoqualmie Hop Ranch was the largest of the farms in Washington Territory, if not the world, accord-

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ing to Paige Raibmon, an author and professor at the University of British Columbia. The Snoqualmie Hop Ranch, located in the fertile prairie above the falls between Mount Si and Rattlesnake Ridge, started in 1882 on land purchased from a homesteader who’d been there since the 1850s. An investment group called the Snoqualmie Hop Growers Association planted 350 acres of European hops in an attempt to cash in on the lucrative crop. The result would bring many hops and many different people to Snoqualmie Hop Ranch. Dave Battey, a local historian and volunteer at Meadowbrook Farm, said the hop ranch would typically hire 2,000 people each year to pick hops. Around 1,200 of the pickers were Native

Americans from as far Modern harvest of the brewmasters there away as Alaska. Less productive was said they might be able to The window to harvest Meadowbrook Farm’s make a limited batch of the hops was only about harvest this year, about 6-7 kegs with the three to four weeks in compared to others. Meadowbrook hops this late August and early Volunteers were only year. September, but pickers able to pick about 5 Still, for the volunteer would stay for around pounds of hops, despite harvesters and drinktwo months at the seeing many unreachers that get a kick out Snoqualmie Hop Ranch, able hops growing up of drinking the historiBattey said, often setting in trees in the thicket. cally flavored brew, that up camp on the island It is about half of what will be enough to keep where the Three Forks Snoqualmie Brewery them coming back to Off-Leash Dog Park is wanted for their batch of Meadowbrook for next LAURA F.ePROOF.SR.CMYK.PDF0901 LAM today. Meadowbrook Ale. One year’s harvest. 37.17480.THU.0908.3X4.LAM

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OPINION

Valley View

Renewal Center is part of the homeless solution BY STUART MILLER

“Homeless” is a catch-all adjective that can describe an infinite number of personal situations people find themselves in. Even though there are so many different life experiences represented by the word, people often group them together in their mind. Some homeless people are mentally ill folks who cannot function regularly without help or medica- Stuart Miller tion. Other homeless people are fleeing bad situations that they may or may not have caused. There are people who are simply down on their luck and had no other options or safety net to fall back on. Many are addicted to drugs or alcohol. There is a complexity to “solving” homelessness and the causes of it that I, and I assume many other people, will never fully understand. While I don’t think we’ll ever eradicate homelessness as a society, I am very glad there are people making huge efforts to help as much as possible. The Valley Renewal Center, in its first two months, has become a vital resource for many people experiencing homelessness or poverty. The day manager there, Charlie, understands that he cannot necessarily help all of the center’s patrons improve their life situations with government or charitable programs. Some will try, others won’t. Even for those who will never leave a life of homelessness, who are beyond help in that way, the center is a place they can call “home” three days per week. It’s comfortable, has food, helps with hygiene, and most importantly, provides companionship. Charlie said one of the most important things he does is converse with people about their days, building relationships. In my daily life I sometimes forget, or ignore, the reality that all homeless people have a different story. Some days I feel generous and give people money or food, and other days I revert to “get a job” kind of thinking. Seeing the compassion that the workers and volunteers at the Valley Renewal Center have reminds me not to be callous and ignorant. Seeing the concrete successes they’ve recently produced gives me hope that things can get better for people. In that way, I think that the Valley Renewal Center helps both homeless and housed people. It helps people improve their lives, and reminds others to have compassion for other people — something we often forget to have in our daily lives. Email Stuart Miller at smiller@snovalleystar.com. Valley View is a weekly column by SnoValley Star reporter Stuart Miller. It does not necessarily represent the editorial views of the newspaper.

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Thank you to businesses and readers for my job BY GREG FARRAR

erhaps the best way to describe today’s column would be to say I’m throwing into a blender a riff on Jimmy Fallon’s thank you notes, my approaching 30th wedding anniversary, and the businesses who have advertised in The Issaquah Press, Sammamish Review and our other publications over the years — and setting the blender on emulsify. One of the things that I’ve always considered a prerequisite in my newspaper career has been to support as best I could the companies that with their advertising dollars pay the salaries for my coworkers and myself. Thank you Plateau Jewelers in Sammamish for designing a ring for me to present to my wife last month. It’s a circle with 30 small stones, made up of her favorite amethysts with diamonds. Thank you, Kelly and Sue Jensen! They opened for business the same time I began working at The Press and I’ve taken a staff photo every year for their ads. Thank you too for your advertising, Phil and Christine Nault and daughter Amy at Nault Jewelers, from whom I bought another ring for my wife several years ago (she loves rings if you are following along). The list goes on and on and it will in just a moment, but the point is this. When you see an ad in our papers or on our websites for something you

want, when you go to that business, buy that product and tell them it was their ad in the Press or the Review Greg Farrar that drew you in, you are supporting the journalism we do for you. Thank you friends, for looking through our pages first to find the things you need. And when I patronize one of our advertisers it’s not only in my self-interest, it’s because I want all of us in Issaquah and Sammamish to benefit from being informed about what is going on and become motivated to get involved in improving our community’s quality of life. So thank you for the tires I’ve bought to get through those long commutes, Les Schwab Tires in North Bend. Thank you for all the great food at Mandarin Garden, Andy Wang, and congratulations on your son Edric’s graduation in the top five percent at West Point. Thank you, Stephan and Walter Cassidy at Issaquah Vision and their staff including longtime employee Olga Orievsky, for keeping my eyes sharp to shoot photos with! Thank you for the home siding and wood gable vents, Hugh Clark and Issaquah Cedar & Lumber Co. Thank you for the dishwasher, King and Bunny’s in Newcastle. Thank you for the lawn mower, Issaquah Honda

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prepared food because they had no place to cook meals, and they had to keep the car running properly. Suzie had to frequently do laundry and pay for showers to maintain appearances at work. Little was left to put toward savings. After a month in their car, Suzie allowed Don to seek help from the VRC. McCarthy describes himself as a “navigator” in his role helping connect people with services. “Charlie got me started,” Don said. “The center was the spark that got me going.” Calling 211 for the Washington Information Network was the first step. McCarthy helped Don navigate through the many different organizations in the network to find assistance in getting housing. “We tried every organization,” Don said. “I was using this place as a calling center.” Eventually Don found help from King County’s Coordinated Entry for

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 All (CEA) program. CEA said they’d pay the initial chunk of money including deposit and first and last months’ rent needed to get an apartment. That started a process that involved multiple county interviews with Don and Suzie individually and together, assessing their means, needs and plan for the future. “You’ve got to have a plan,” Suzie said. “They won’t just hand you a check.” When Don finally got the call from an office in Bellevue to come pick up their assistance check, Jennifer Kirk, director of the VRC, was waiting inside for him. “I saw her and just hugged her,” Don said. “Then I hugged her again. It made me feel so good that there are people out there who are willing to help.” Don and Suzie said they are through the moving process and finally feeling at home in their Snoqualmie apartment. “Now I feel like I want to give,” Don said. He’s been coming to the day center frequently to build trust with the

other patrons and help McCarthy encourage them to better their situation. He said his experience helps him connect with others in the shelter. “I can put personality and real-life experience into it,” Don said. This is the first year the VRC has been open. It has served 39 different people in its first two months, according to McCarthy’s stats, and gets between one and 13 different people per day during the hours from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday. The center is always accepting donations and particularly needs socks and longjohns right now. Volunteer help is also needed, as McCarthy is assisted by only two regular volunteers. One of McCarthy’s main goals is to help keep people like Don and Suzie from falling into homelessness, he said. Once people become homeless for an extended period of time, it gets harder and harder to get out of the situation. “There is help, but it’s not hanging off trees,” Don said. “You’ve got to go get it.”

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Saturday, Sept. 10 Fitness classes: Zumba 8:05 a.m., Karate 9 a.m., Ripped Fit 10:45 a.m., Si View Community Center, 400 SE Orchard Dr., North Bend, 8311900 First Aid CPR/AED Class, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 SE Snoqualmie Parkway, contact Liz Luizzo to register at lluizzo@ci.snoqualmie.wa.us Tree Care 101 & Birch replacement options class, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Snoqualmie Library 7824 Center Blvd., Snoqualmie Ridge, RSVP to pbennett@. ci.snoqualmie.wa.us or 7662452 Snoqualmie Valley Eagles presents DoggieStock Music Festival, featuring food, music and vendors, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tollgate Farm Park, bit.ly/2cy3ZCR Cascade Dance Academy’s Grand Opening, featuring free classes, crafts, photo ops and more, 3-5 p.m., 7722 Center Blvd. SE, Snoqualmie, 396-0538 Parents’ Night Out, $20 per child of four hours of childcare for ages 2 and older, 4-8 p.m., Encompass Main Campus, 1407 Boalch Ave. NW, goencompassnw.org or 888-2777 Bernie Jacobs Quartet, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Piccola Cellars, 112 West Second St., North Bend, jazzclubsnw.org/northbend Left Coast Gypsies, 8 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoqualmie, 831-3647

Sunday, Sept. 11 Mt Si Senior Center trips: Wild Horse Wind Farm, 10 a.m., RSVP at 888-3434, meet at 411 Main Ave. S., North Bend Psychic Readings with Christina Stembler, noon

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Semi-fire At 1:23 p.m. Aug. 24, Snoqualmie firefighters were dispatched to a truck fire westbound on Highway 18, east of Tiger Summit. The crew arrived on scene and found a semi trailer with a brake fire on both sides of the rear dual axles. Fire was spreading up the right side of the trailer. They extinguished the fire then worked to ensure the fire didn’t spread to the trailer’s contents.

Bark fire At 3:23 p.m. Aug. 26, Snoqualmie firefighters were dispatched to a bark fire on the side of Snoqualmie Parkway near BPA road in the median.

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Wildcats score on the ground and through the air in a dominant triumph over the Rebels

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Mount Si wide receiver Alex Rendon (3) takes a pass from quarterback Cale Millen into the end zone to give the Wildcats a 13-3 lead over Juanita. Mount Si defeated the Rebels, 42-22.

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Mount Si’s Carson Corra (11) is congratulated by teammates after his second-quarter interception of a Juanita pass at the Wildcat 2-yard line.

The Mount Si Wildcats believe they have more than one option at quarterback and their Week 1 win showed they might be right. Jesiah Irish and Cale Millen each had big nights for Mount Si, which scored the first three touchdowns of the game and went on to beat the Juanita Rebels, 42-22, in a nonleague football game Friday night in Kirkland. Irish, an athletic junior, opened the scoring on the Wildcats’ first possession by diving into the end zone on a sneak. He also showed he’s capable of playing wide receiver by hauling in a 53-yard touchdown pass from Millen in the second period. A Carson Corra interception snuffed out an early Juanita threat and Millen, a sophomore lefthander, went up top to Irish for 59 yards. Millen then found

Alex Rendon for a score, helping Mount Si take a 21-10 halftime lead. Austin Ross’ 1-yard run and Zeke Barden’s two-point conversion put the Wildcats up 29-10 in the third quarter. Senior running back Jack Weidenbach put the game to bed, scoring on runs of 20 and 34 yards. The Rebels scored a pair of late touchdowns but Mount Si defensive back Logan VanCampen ended their final drive with an interception. The Wildcats finish up nonleague play at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, when they host the Monroe Bearcats. Monroe won convincingly in its opener, 55-9 over Meadowdale. Monroe should provide a tough challenge for Mount Si as it picked up 475 yards of offense in Week 1. Quarterback Zach Zimmerman was 12 of 15 for 282 yards and four first-half scores, JJ Jerome ran for 135 yards and had two TDs, and Isaiah Cole picked up 223 all-purpose yards with four scores.

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the top seven. The older Wildcats have reasons to give maximum effort because of what they see during daily runs. “The JV kid who’s just dying to make varsity and has been trying since freshman year, those kids inspire me the most,” Baker said. “They have the most heart.”

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Mount Si’s cross country teams look to be among the top Class 4A squads again this season with several returning state qualifiers and alternates including (front, from left) Chloe Cosgrove, Joe Waskom, Emily Webb, Jackson Stokes and Hannah Waskom; (back, from left) Willie Betz, Ellie Bruce, Spencer Sprague, Lexi Winter, Kian Carson and Alex Helfrich. Not pictured: Lindsey Sydnor.

They haven’t always been best buddies during their running careers at Mount Si High School, but Joe Waskom is quick to credit his older sister, Hannah, for one thing. “I probably wouldn’t have done cross country if it wasn’t for her, so that really helps, having someone do it before I did,” said Joe, whose 2015 freshman season ended with a personal-record time and a team-leading, 11th-place finish for the Mount Si boys at the Class 4A state championships. Hannah Waskom, a three-time state qualifier and last year’s 4A girls runner-up, is the unquestioned leader of the Wildcat girls squad as their other star senior, Lindsey Sydnor, tries to recover from an injury sustained before the spring track and field season. The siblings say they don’t have a heated rivalry, natural or manufactured. “I’d say he’s more competitive than me. I don’t really care as much,” says Hannah as Joe nods his head in confirmation. “At first, it was kind

of weird last year, just because I wasn’t used to being around him so much,” Hannah added. “It was the first year we’d been in school together for a long time … We kind of fought a little bit but I’d say now we have a really good relationship. I really enjoy having him around now.” The Waskoms will likely be at the forefront of Mount Si’s efforts to return to the state meet. That task got tougher this fall because the KingCo Conference shrank from nine schools to eight and, consequently, team berths to state were reduced from three to two. However, there’s a lot of continuity for the Wildcat boys and girls as 10 state qualifiers and one alternate return to this year’s squad. The girls won the third-place trophy and the boys were 11th a year ago. Joe Waskom will get some help near the top of the boys’ lineup as senior Grant Baker is healthy again. Baker missed all of his junior season after contracting mononucleosis and sustaining an upper-leg injury. “I’m looking to make a good comeback,” said Baker, who turned in Mount Si’s top time of the

2014 season as a sophomore. “(My teammates) have been super good just about getting me back in and everything.” Baker and junior Willie Betz should compete for the No. 2 spot. Returning state qualifiers Alex Helfrich and Jackson Stokes, along with state alternate Kian Carson, may be asked to drop their 5-kilometer times into the 16- to 17-minute range. Joe Waskom said he has run some preseason 5K times in the 15:25 range – well below his PR at the end of 2015 – and has high hopes that he can shave another 20-25 seconds. And he likes where his team is headed. “We still have to work really, really hard, but I think we’re going to have a really, really good chance of making it to state,” he said. “And if we do make to state, we have a really good chance of being in top four.” Sydnor’s absence could be a hindrance for the Mount Si girls, who won the league and bi-district titles last year. Hannah Waskom indicated she’ll miss some races but could return in time for the postseason. “She isn’t around as

much, which is kind of hard, because we’re super good friends and I’ve missed having her around,” Hannah said. “But I know having her cross train and just recover is more important at this point for our team.” Four other state runners are still around in senior Ellie Bruce and juniors Chloe Cosgrove, Julene McDonald and Lexi Winter. “I think Chloe Cosgrove

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