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By George, still rockin’ for nearly 50 years By Dylan Chaffin dchaffin@snovalleystar.com
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Lucy Weed, 6, waves as her name is announced while she and driver Danny Vukovich, 9, get ready to roll in the annual Challenge Race sponsored by the Rotary Club of Snoqualmie Valley, held Sept. 19 on Snoqualmie Parkway. More than two-dozen young people with disabilities enjoyed a day of racing with volunteer drivers in friendly heat races in a Life Enrichment Options event.
Share your thoughts on DNR trails policy The Washington State Department of Natural Resources invites residents to comment on a draft policy that will guide the future development of recreation trails on DNR-managed lands. The agency oversees about 5.6 million acres of state land, much of which offers opportunities for hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking and off-road-vehicle riding. These lands must also generate sustainable revenue for public school construction and maintain Washington’s rich natural heritage, according to the state constitution. See the draft policy and a narrated slideshow about the recreational trails policy process, and comment on the draft policy by Sept. 28, at www.dnr.wa.gov/ TrailsPolicy. Or comment on the draft policy by emailing trailspolicy@dnr.wa.gov. The DNR anticipates adopting the policy by Oct. 31.
Council, mayor candidates discuss top issues in joint forum Sept. 18 By Dylan Chaffin dchaffin@snovalleystar.com What’s in store for Snoqualmie and North Bend as the cities continue to face development and infrastructure repairs? That was the main question posed to City Council and mayoral candidates in a forum at the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon Sept. 18. Snoqualmie Four Snoqualmie City Council candidates participated in the forum. Joe Larson and current Councilman Charles Peterson are vying for Position 6.
Councilwoman Chelley Patterson, who was elected last year to fill a vacancy in the council, is running uncontested for Position 2. Newcomer Brad Toft, a banking and real estate finance professional, is also running uncontested for Position 4. (Because Patterson and Toft are running uncontested, they only participated in opening statements, lightning-round, yes-or-no questions and closing statements.) During normal questioning, Larson said current city administrators have been judicious with managing the budget and in anticipating future losses. He also noted that if projections hold for housing devel-
opments, options to increase sales and property taxes would provide two or three revenues to meet future expenses. Peterson agreed, saying repairs to infrastructure are needed, but that the city has set aside money in utility rates, rates which are still cheaper for residential and commercial users than the closest seven cities. When asked about developing a large retail grocery store proposed for Snoqualmie Ridge Business Park, both said the store would be beneficial to the city. “Studies show that 70 percent of moneys spent on See FORUM, Page 3
“Rock ‘n’ roll never sleeps, it just passes out,” so says George Thorogood, who has been playing rock ‘n’ roll for nearly 50 years. George All those Thorogood years, more than 8,000 live shows and more than 20 million albums sold worldwide later, the 65-year-old Thorogood is still going strong — and he’s bringing his guitar talents and energy to the Snoqualmie Casino on Oct. 1 with his band, the Destroyers. In a phone interview last week, Thorogood said he and the band, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014, don’t work out their shows ahead of time, adding that it depends mostly on the energy of the crowd. Many may recognize the band for its hits “Bad to the Bone,” “I Drink Alone,” “Who Do You Love?” and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.” The five-man band is currently embarking on its second tour this year. It finished its Badder Than Ever tour in April, with longtime band members Jeff Simon, drums; Bill Blough, bass guitar; Jim Suhler, rhythm guitar; and Buddy Leach, saxophone. Even with the continual See GEORGE, Page 2 Prsrt Std U.S. Postage PAID Kent, WA Permit No. 71 POSTAL CUSTOMER
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Pasado’s offers spay, neuter clinic Oct. 2 in North Bend The Pasado’s Safe Haven Mobile Spay & Neuter Clinic is coming to North Bend on Oct. 2 and will be parked at Ace Hardware, 330 Main Ave. S. The Spay Station offers free or low-cost spay/ neuter surgery and lowcost vaccines, flea prevention and microchips. The vaccines and other services are only available in combination with spay or neuter surgery. A copay of $10 to $20 may be required. Reservations are required. Bring your
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Holiday bazaar vendor applications are due Sept. 25 Local artisans with handcrafted goods are invited to apply for booth space at the 12th annual Si View Holiday Bazaar. Vendor applications are
due by Sept. 25. All applications will be juried and vendors notified in early October. The Si View Holiday Bazaar is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Si View Community Center, featuring a large selection of handcrafted items for holiday gift giving. Learn more online at www.siviewpark.org/holidaybazaar.phtml.
YMCAs host annual breakfast Sept. 29 The YMCAs on the Eastside are hosting an annual breakfast from 7-8:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, to discuss the
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Forum From Page 1 things like groceries or cars is spent outside the city,” Peterson said. “If we could recapture some of those funds, it would provide the sales tax to support the city’s needs. “We will certainly make sure that we are mindful of negative impacts, and look forward to it being a product for your needs,” he added. When asked about a rumor that the proposed businesses would also include a drive-thru, Larson addressed it simply, “the city does not approve of drive-thrus.” During the yes-or-no question round, none of the candidates supported the Black Canyon Hydro Project, constructing new roundabouts or building a gun shop. Larson was the only one to raise his hand when asked if the candidates would support an incity homeless shelter. “The city doesn’t have jurisdiction over homeless shelters,” he explained. “Any church can build one, so it behooves us to work in cooperation with these organizations.” Peterson and Larson are also in favor of affordable housing options, though they disagree on how to achieve plans. Larson said he would not build through the government, but would commercialize affordable housing instead, incentivizing smaller homes. North Bend The story is much the same for North Bend, though the City Council and mayoral races are more contentious. North Bend Mayor Ken Hearing was running uncontested for another term before professional photographer and longtime North Bend resident Mary Miller threw her hat into the ring recently as a write-in candidate. Trevor Kostanich is vying for Position 3 against incumbent Dee Wayne Williamson and Councilman David Cook is looking to keep his seat for another term at Position 5 in a race against Brenden Elwood. Finally, Judy Bilanko is running against Martin Volken for Position 7. Jonathan Rosen is running uncontested for Position 1.
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Elwood has served with the Si View Metropolitan Park District and the city’s Planning Commission. If elected, he said he plans to continue to work to preserve and enhance North Bend’s reputation as a natural place. But the largest problem he sees is the disconnect between city administrators and the public in transparency surrounding plans for development. “In my doorbelling, I’ve found three things: First, people don’t know what’s going on, but they don’t like it. Second, people kind of know what’s going on, and they really don’t like it. Or third, people just found out what’s going on, and they hate it,” Elwood said. “It’s time to reconnect,” he added, saying Cook’s 12 years in office has led to a need for change. That change will also come in the form of plans for the revitalization of the city’s downtown area. Volken, another proponent for preserving the natural beauty found in North Bend, said city officials have talked long enough about their plans, and he called for action. “Have you ever had an employee you’re afraid to fire, and then you slowly start to restructure your business around that employee?” he asked. “Well, if don’t do anything, after awhile it stops being the employee’s fault.” Bilanko agreed, but also said development shouldn’t be limited to the historic block — there should be a focus on many of the north side businesses as well. The city still needs to build about half of the houses required in an agreement with the state, Cook said. With such growth, the city will continue to see transportation issues. The city already has plans in place to fix those issues, after receiving funds from avenues such as transportation impact fees, Cook said. The city doesn’t have money until it receives those fees, he said, after
which $9 million to $10 million is gathered, and paired with grants and other city funds will be enough to fix some of the notoriously dangerous roads and intersections in North Bend, including Ballarat Avenue. Hearing and Miller support affordable housing, joined by Kostanich who said he would like to see the city work with successful organizations such as Habitat For Humanity
to create low-cost options while the city grows. Hearing previously supported developments for “cottages”— small, two- or three-bedroom homes that could comfortably house smaller families. This was before development plans fell through, once the developer stated he would need more land to build the same cottages on, Hearing said. Because of that, Hearing added he would support affordable housing only if
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the homes were marketdriven, something he said he feels is easily achievable. However, some of that designated land will never be developed, Cook said. “Twenty-five percent of that land was bought up during the recession,” he said. All of the candidates supported homeless shelters and additional roundabouts within the city during the yes-or-no question round.
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very day, a woman, man or child is raped. And every day, people go free for such crimes. It’s hard enough for people to come forward after a sexual assault. We don’t know how many don’t out of fear of retaliation or because they decide they don’t want the stigma attached to such victims. But for those who do come forward, imagine how they feel when evidence of the crime is tossed into a system full of backlogs, where it can degrade, get lost or not get tested at all. Well, thanks to the efforts of some brave and caring people across the country, there is a new push to punish rapists by making sure that rape kits — consisting of various types of evidence collected after a sexual assault — are located and tested. Last week, the Metropolitan King County Council gave unanimous approval to provide $200,000 for sexual assault experts in the King County Sheriff’s Office to count how many untested rape kits remain in King County, prioritize them for testing and submit them to the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory for processing. “This funding … gives people faith in the system, that we will follow through on our commitment to find the perpetrators,” County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, who represents Issaquah and Sammamish, said in a news release. “It’s one more example that King County is serious about the prosecution of crime and it makes King County the first county in the state to go back and process our backlog of previously submitted rape kits.” Rape kits are intended for use immediately after a sexual assault, but once evidence has been collected, it can sit in storage for years. Across the country, thousands of rape kits go untested each year. This year, the Washington State Legislature passed House Bill 1068, requiring all new rape kits to be submitted for testing to the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory within 30 days of being collected by law enforcement. “The goal of this law is two-fold: justice for the victims whose lives were dramatically impacted by sexual violence, and help for law enforcement to catch serial rapists before they strike again,” Rep. Tina Orwall, sponsor of House Bill 1068, said in the news release. We applaud the state Legislature and the King County Council for taking a step in the right direction.
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Here’s a lesson in corporate-speak You have to hand it to Windy. When Alphonse “Windy” Wilson chooses to speak, it is a bombastic sampling of creativity. Windy has yet to find a word he can’t make better through his own unique methods. Well, what got him fired up the other day was a meeting of the ladies of the garden club down at the nursery. Windy’s been helping Dewey with his manure business on the one day a week he spends helping others. Today wasn’t a helper day, but he couldn’t pass up the audience. They hadn’t gotten through old business when Windy stood, smiled and spoke. “Dear ladies,” he said, “what an opera-tune moment this is, finding you all coagulated here in an effort to beatify the yards of our fair town. And what, you may ask, brings me to this conflagration? It’s the latest thing in gardening. Our chairman of the board refers to it as ‘cow pasture tea’ and it nutritionalizes plants right down to bedrock. As Dewey says, the only way to improve on cow manure is to liquidize it. Well, he hasn’t said it yet, but he will. “Now what exactly is cow pasture tea you’re undoubtedly asking yourselves at this
moment. It’s a varietal combination of composted cow manure, water and some acid we put in there to matriculate it properly into the life-giving succulence we require. Then we put it in a drum and pull the drum behind a tractorlike conveyance that looks an awful lot like an old riding lawn mower. We spray this on your lawn, and in ninja-seconds, this liquor of life perambulates deep into the rootiness of the grass and makes it want to grow.” He smiled at the group and noticed a lot of them were giggling in appreciation of his talk. He puffed up and continued. “And what does the Dewey Decker Manure Combine charge
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North Bend q Mayor Ken Hearing, mayor@northbendwa.gov q Councilman David Cook, 888-7774, dcook@northbendwa. gov q Councilman Dee Williamson, 888-7245, dwilliamson@northbendwa.gov q Councilman Jonathan Rosen, 206-683-9486, jrosen@ northbendwa.gov q Councilman Ryan Kolodejchuk , 206-947-4024, rkolodejchuk@northbendwa.gov q Councilman Alan Gothelf, 206-251-4556, agothelf@northbendwa.gov q Councilman Ross Loudenback, 888-3708, rloudenback@northbendwa.gov q Councilwoman Jeanne Pettersen, 888-0853, jpettersen@ northbendwa.gov Write to the mayor and City Council at City of North Bend, P.O. Box 896, North Bend, WA for this incompartible service? A mere $10 for an averagesized lawn. Think about that, ladies. Ten dollars. Slim Randles Twenty fiftycent pieces. Columnist Why you’d spend more than that on a wedding dress or a trip to the Bermudas!” A number of the ladies clapped at that, thinking that might satisfy him, and it did. He smiled and sat. He could get used to this corporate life. Maybe it wasn’t too late to climb the ladder to success. Hear Windy on your computer. He’s at Home Country on Music Star Worldwide Network. http://starworldwidenetworks.com/index.php/
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A biblical quote from the book of James has been the driving force behind the Mt. Si Food Bank for more than 40 years. “What good is it if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Faith, by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead.”(2:14-17) The Mt. Si Food Bank provides nourishment for the bodies and souls of community members, said Susann Hussels, director of the nonprofit community organization. “We not only offer sustenance for the body but try to provide spiritual and emotional support if needed,” she said. “Everyone is welcome. Nobody is turned away.” Over the decades, the food bank has expanded its services to include social, emotional and employment services. The organization also sponsors back-to-school events to help students prepare for the academic year, as well a winter coat collection and a Christmas toy drive in cooperation with churches throughout the Valley. Hussels said contributions of fresh produce come from farms and gardens throughout the Snoqualmie Valley. The food bank — 1550 Boalch Ave. N.W. in North Bend — opens at 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays and
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Natalie Weidenbach leads Mount Si to dominant win
Caleb Mitchell (5), Mount Si High School senior defensive back, goes after a fumble by Skyline senior running back Rashaad Boddie (28), forced by Mount Si senior defensive backs Mark Farmer and Justin Brandon deep in the red zone during the second quarter.
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Skyline smashes Mount Si, 44-7 By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com Mount Si High School coach Charlie Kinnune knows his young Wildcats have to play fundamentally sound football for four quarters to be competitive in the Class 4A KingCo Conference. Doing the little things right was one of the biggest reasons for Mount Si’s 2-0 start to the season. Failing to do them right helped spell defeat in the team’s third game. Turnovers, penalties and missed assignments hurt the Wildcats when they matched up with the Skyline Spartans in a Sept. 18 outing at Eastlake High School in Sammamish. Skyline turned the errors into quick scores, needing only eight offensive plays to score four first-half touchdowns en route to a 44-7 victory. “When you play really good teams, you can’t fumble, you can’t make mistakes,” Kinnune said. “Their offense had real short drives and good teams like Skyline capitalize on it. Those are mistakes we haven’t made the first two weeks and we made them tonight.” The Wildcats’ defense was stout on the game’s opening series, forcing a punt. But running back Jack Weidenbach fumbled on Mount Si’s first possession and Skyline’s Austin Elliot recovered the ball at the Wildcats’ 27. That led to a 28-yard Jack Crane field goal for a 3-0 lead
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midway through the first quarter. The Wildcats struggled to keep up with Skyline’s Danny Sinatro, who was a game changer on special teams. He had a 61-yard punt return that set up Rashaad Boddie’s 5-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, Sinatro had a 21-yard punt return, and a personal-foul penalty on the Wildcats put the ball at the Mount Si 10. On third-and-goal, Blake Gregory danced away from a couple of would-be tacklers and found a wide-open Sinatro for the score. Mount Si failed on a fake punt attempt to give the Spartans (3-0 KingCo) another short field, and Boddie scored from 8 yards out. A backbreaking play followed as Logan Wanamaker got behind his defender and Gregory hit him in stride for an 82-yard TD, putting Skyline up 30-0 with 54 seconds left in the first half. Gregory, who was 14 of 20 for 208 yards and three touchdowns through the air, said the Wildcats’ defense posed a challenge that took time to figure out. “It was kind of tough to get the feel for their coverages and stuff like that, but we adjusted, we trusted the coaches and what they installed for us,” Gregory said. Mount Si’s offense struggled to mount any consistent threats. After Caleb Mitchell recovered a Boddie fumble in the second quarter, the ensu-
ing drive gained only four yards. Quarterback Harrison D’Anna and running backs Max Bonda and Cory Cotto led a 10-play, 46-yard drive before halftime, but three straight incompletions led to a turnover on downs. It didn’t help that the Wildcats were shorthanded as big-play receivers Parker Dumas and Jesiah Irish sat out with injuries. “We’re having a very, very difficult time right now finishing on offense,” Kinnune said. “We’re able to put together some decent drives, and then when it comes time to finish and score, we’re just struggling with that right now.” The Wildcats got on the scoreboard early in the fourth quarter as D’Anna and Colton Swain hooked up three times on an 11-play, 75-yard march. Swain caught a 4-yard pass over the middle for the touchdown. This week, the Wildcats look to maintain their grasp on one of four KingCo playoff spots when they host defending 4A state champion Bothell at 7 p.m. Sept. 25. The Cougars (1-2) aren’t the same team they were a year ago, but Kinnune knows they’ll pose plenty of challenges for his inexperienced squad. “It’s like being in the SEC or the Pac-12 — there are no weeks off,” the coach said. “Even the lower-end teams, whoever they are, are good. That’s why I wanted to be in this league.”
From the first kick, the Mount Si High School girls soccer team attacked the Bothell Cougars, and they didn’t stop until the match was over. The Wildcats ran away with a 6-1 victory Sept. 17 at Mount Si Stadium. “It all came together tonight,” head coach Darren Brown said. “It’s the best we’ve played all year so far. It’s still early but I really like what I saw tonight. It was good to see. It was great for the girls’ confidence. They were playing under control.” The Wildcats scored 11 minutes into the first half. Junior captain Natalie Weidenbach raced down the left side of the field and fired a cross that just slipped past Bothell’s goalkeeper. “She was great,” Brown said of Weidenbach. Weidenbach has played the center back position all her life, her coach said. But early in this season, the Wildcats are experimenting with her as a forward. Against Bothell, the experiment paid off in a big way. Weidenbach attacked the net with several shots over the next few minutes before one of her shots, again from a
left-side cross, drew the ‘keeper away from the net. The shot just missed, but senior forward Curstyn Williamson was there to easily kick the ball in. With Mount Si up 2-0, Weidenbach tried a couple more shot attempts before the first half ran out. Then, eight minutes into the second half, she fed a pretty lead pass to senior forward Jane Livingston, who fired a shot that caromed off the right goalpost and into the net. “I feel really great,” Weidenbach said. “I’m glad that we finally just were able to click and connect some passes and I was glad to get two assists and a goal off it.” By the end of the night, Mount Si outshot the Cougars 14-5, and had five different scorers. “We needed this,” Brown said of the team’s offensive performance. “We put up three goals before this game. We’ve allowed three, which is good on the defensive end. What I like to see is distribution across the board with our attack.” With about 15 minutes left in the game, Williamson caught the Bothell defense off guard and tapped in an easy score for her second goal of the night. Moments
later, a scramble of bodies right in front of the Bothell net resulted in another Wildcats goal from senior defender and captain Camryn Buck. With less than two minutes remaining, senior forward Mackenzie Hutchinson scored the Wildcats’ final goal. In the immediate aftermath, Bothell raced down the field and was able to finally penetrate Mount Si’s defense to score their only goal. Brown said the performance will be one the team can build on going forward as they get deeper into the Class 4A KingCo Conference season. “We’ll refer back to this game,” Brown said. “This will be one that we’ll talk about as the season goes on. This is something that we can work on going forward that will really help us.” It appears the strategy is working. Two days after its victory over Bothell, Mount Si faced the Juanita Rebels and once again came away with a dominant 6-1 victory. The Wildcats were 3-1-2 and faced the Redmond Mustangs Sept. 22, but the results weren’t available at press time. Their next game is at Skyline at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29.
By Derek Kasel
Natalie Weidenbach (12), Mount Si High School junior forward, eluding Bothell sophomore defender Emily Gibson, watches her shot go past the outstretched arm of lunging Bothell senior keeper Miah Godek for the first goal in the Wildcats’ 6-1 victory Sept. 17.
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