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Concern grows over affordable housing BY STUART MILLER smiller@snovalleystar.com Every day, an exodus of thousands of commuters leave Snoqualmie and North Bend headed for work outside of town. At the same time, about 4,000 people migrate into town for work. The traf-

fic problems resulting from this import and export of workers are well known, yet the root cause of the trouble has gone largely unaddressed for years. Umpqua Bank hosted a forum on affordable housing Sept. 28 in North Bend to address a situation that has got

residents, workers, businesses and city leaders increasingly concerned. Many people contend that the lack of affordable housing in the Snoqualmie Valley, especially in North Bend and Snoqualmie, has had adverse impacts on traffic and infrastructure,

economic prosperity and the social fabric of the community. “It’s a crisis situation,” Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson said of the affordable housing situation in Snoqualmie. “At the moment, there is little to none.”

Commuting a community Affordable housing is generally defined as paying 30 percent of a household’s monthly income toward rent or housing. For someone making $15 an hour working full time, SEE HOUSING, PAGE 2

Snoqualmie Brewery unveils new ale with historic hops BY STUART MILLER smiller@snovalleystar.com Fresh Hop Ale, a beer brewed using historic wild hops from Meadowbrook Farm in North Bend, is officially on tap at Snoqualmie Brewery. The Kölsch-style beer went through a long brewing process before hitting pint glasses Sept 29. It’s flavored with not only hops and malt, but also the dedication of volunteers who hand-picked about 10 pounds of wild hops around the Snoqualmie Valley to flavor the historic beer. Finding the flavor About a half-dozen volunteers cut down hop vines from tall wooden poles, or pulled the entanglements from thorn bushes, at Meadowbrook Farm on Labor Day. The group picked the aromatic nuggets from the vines and threw them into a cardboard box. By the end of the day they’d harvested about five pounds of hops – half of what Snoqualmie Brewery requested for flavoring its batch of Fresh Hop Ale. It was a disappointing amount when compared to other years’ harvests at Meadowbrook Farm, a 460acre natural preserve that used to be the site of the world’s largest hop ranch. The volunteers figured they would have to settle for a half-batch of the celebrated beer this year. Dave Eiffert, one of

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Dave Eiffert, part owner of Snoqualmie Brewery, pours a glass of beer at Snoqualmie Brewery taproom.

the founding partners of Snoqualmie Brewery, came to the rescue with hops he had growing on old fruit trees in his backyard. Those hops, plus some picked around an equestrian ranch in the valley, combined to fulfill the necessary 10 pounds for a full batch of Fresh Hop Ale. Though the wild hops were put to use within 24 hours of being picked, the brewing process had started well before the Labor Day harvest.

Brew process Fresh Hop Ale started as some barley grains in a sack at Snoqualmie Brewery. Those grains were milled into “grist” up on the second floor of the brewery and funneled into the grist hopper, which stores 800900 pounds of ground grain for a typical batch of beer. Hot water was shot through the grain as it entered the mash tun that holds the mash, a porridge-like substance that forms from the soaked barley grains.

Starches in the grain converted to sugars as the mash became a sweet “wort.” When ready, the wort was boiled for an hour while the brewers added in bittering and flavoring hops. After boiling, they added aromatic hops. Once down to a temperature of 70 degrees, the wort was injected with oxygen. “The yeast really wants some oxygen” at that point, Eiffert said. Transferred to fermentation

vessels, the batch fermented for 5 days before being pumped into conditioning vessels and held at 33 degrees. Once the brewers were satisfied with the clarity of the beer, it was pumped into “bright tanks” for carbonation, then into “grundy tanks” for dry hopping. The grundy tanks are where the Fresh Hop Ale acquired its unique flavor. Through the process of dry hopping – that is, steeping the brew with hops between fermentation and bottling – the wild hops from Meadowbrook Farm, Eiffert’s yard, and the equestrian ranch soaked their flavors into the brew. “It’s like a tea bag, but the size of a garbage bag,” Eiffert said of the mesh sacks filled with the handpicked wild hops. These giant tea bags soaked with the brew for three weeks, Eiffert said, expelling a unique flavor into the Kölsch. ‘A green freshness, a calm hoppiness’ “Kölsch can take in a lot of flavor from the hops,” Logan Grant, a cellarman at the brewSEE BREWERY, PAGE 3

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that would allot $780 per month for housing. The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Snoqualmie is $2,150, according to statistics provided by Imagine Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing development company that was represented at the forum. With a population of more than 13,000, only 503 people both live and work in Snoqualmie, according to recent statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics from 2014 showed that 2,472 people commuted 10 or more miles one-way to work in Snoqualmie. North Bend, with less than 7,000 residents, had 1,416 commuters from 10 or more miles out. A significant amount of commuters travel 50 or more miles one-way. “I don’t think it’s a mystery to why (the Interstate 90/State Route 18 interchange) turned bad so fast,” Larson

said. A lack of affordable housing is “forcing people to drive in and fill up our infrastructure.” Rob Wotton, assistant vice president of Umpqua Bank, joined the Snoqualmie Economic Development Commission two and half years ago. When he started, affordable housing was low on a list of 10 priorities for the commission. He’s been working to make it a top priority. “The more that I talked with other business owners, they were experiencing the same thing,” Wotton said. “We don’t have a lot of local people to draw from for work, and a lot of them are driving on (SR)18. Those issues went side by side.” In addition to commutes, the local economy is also suffering from a lack of affordable housing. Economics of unaffordability Wotton said he got concerned when he noticed that despite tremendous growth in town the last

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Sibyl Glasby, director of housing development at Imagine Housing, speaks at an affordable housing forum at Umpqua Bank in North Bend Sept. 28. Imagine Housing is a non-profit organization that develops affordable housing.

20 years, the North Bend branch of Umpqua Bank lacked new deposits. Banks across the state had averaged a 50 percent increase in deposits during that time period, he said. “There are some weird quirks that are going on,” Wotton said. “Yeah, we’ve got all this growth and new families moving in, but the dollars aren’t sticking, jobs are increasing but not locally, and streets are getting crowd-

ed with traffic.” For every dollar a Snoqualmie resident spends on retail needs, 73 cents is spent outside Snoqualmie, Larson said. Of that “retail leakage,” 20 percent goes to North Bend, and 80 percent goes to Issaquah. By comparison, Issaquah has a 240 percent “capture rate,” meaning not only does a resident’s entire dollar stay in Issaquah, but $1.40 comes in from outside

SNOVALLEY STAR town, Larson said. Workers that commute into town to make money often do not spend it there. A commuter that drives 25 miles into work spends an average of $450 per month on transportation related costs, according to Wotton’s figures. If all 3,888 commuters were to spend that amount of money in town rather than on getting to work, it could pump over $1.7 million a month into the economy. “That’s $450 that is lost in fumes,” Wotton said. Dave Eiffert, part owner of Snoqualmie Brewery, spoke at the forum Sept. 28. “We’re saying to these workers, ‘Make my food, raise my children, teach my children.’ Then we hand them a paycheck and say ‘Get out,’” Eiffert said at the forum. Eiffert said Snoqualmie Brewery pays competitive wages, but it’s still tough for some employees to find housing. At the forum, he shared the story of a manager at Snoqualmie

Brewery taproom named Stacy. Stacy grew up in Snoqualmie and Issaquah and is a single mother of three kids. She currently is renting a house that her mother owns for an affordable price. “Being a single mom with three children would make it just about impossible to find an affordable place if I had to,” Stacy said. She and her ex-husband bought a house in the area over a year ago, so she knows the market. “Now that I am single I couldn’t afford to live around here and also raise my family. I’d probably have to relocate to Kent or Des Moines.” Not in my backyard One of biggest impediments to building affordable housing is lack of awareness of who is in that situation, Larson said. Sometimes drug addicts or prostitutes come to mind when people think of affordable housing, he said, and the SEE HOUSING, PAGE 3

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“not in my backyard” mindset can prevail. “I think people (in the valley) have big hearts and want affordable housing, but often they don’t want them next to where they live,” North Bend City Councilmember Trevor Kostanich said. A 160-unit affordable housing development in the Eagle Pointe neighborhood of Snoqualmie Ridge was indefinitely delayed in 2014 when a developer sold its interest to another party late in the deal, Larson said. Imagine Housing couldn’t secure financing in time to buy the parcel. Many residents in the Eagle Pointe neighborhood objected to the large affordable housing

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ery, said. Grant works in the bottling process and is learning how to brew as an assistant brewer.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2016 development. “It got stalled because people didn’t understand it,” Wotton said. “People thought more traffic, more problems, perhaps more crime. Nothing was said about all the benefits coming back.” Residents were void of information and some people conjured images of undesirable people moving in, Wotton said.

Continuing the conversation The affordable housing forum Sept. 28 was the third forum hosted by Umpqua bank within the last year to address the situation, with the goal of connecting people together from different parts of the process. Representatives from Impact Capital, a community development financial institution, participated in the forum, along with

representatives from Imagine Housing, the affordable housing development nonprofit. Umpqua Bank can help finance loans for building affordable housing. Mayor Ken Hearing of North Bend, Larson, and other community leaders such as Amy Biggs, director of Snoqualmie Valley Transportation, participated in the forum. “The end result is we’ve got to have a lot of affordable housing units come online for Snoqualmie and North Bend,” Wotton said. Kostanich said he attended the forum because he believes in the topic. “It’s a very real issue,” Kostanich said. If current housing trends continue, “we’re not going to have the people that are the heart and soul of this town.” In North Bend, affordable units need to be

built in the downtown core, Kostanich said, so that people can work, live and spend money downtown. It could stimulate the economy and take single-occupant vehicles off the road. However, Kostanich said, scale is an important consideration in North Bend. “A 100-plus unit is too big for our town,” Kostanich said. “I think we can add while going to height limits of 35 feet and preserving views.” Still, the not-in-mybackyard argument is a significant hurdle in North Bend and Snoqualmie. “I think that the bigger issue is just getting a lot more people involved and getting people to comprise a little on what happens next door to them,” Kostanich said. “It’s going to take a little sacrifice.”

fresh hops and processed hops is like “the smell of a leaf when you hold it to your nose, versus when you crush the leaf in your hand and smell it,” Grant said. That distinction is apparent in Fresh Hop Ale.

After three weeks of soaking the hops in the brew, the 210-gallon batch was hosed back into the bright tanks and pumped into 16 kegs, Eiffert said. A keg was connected to the tap at Snoqualmie

Brewery’s taproom, and the rest is history. Sixteen kegs are typically consumed in about three weeks, Eiffert said, so get your pint before the 2016 Fresh Hop Ale becomes history.

steep-hilled parcel, and never came to fruition. In June, Puget Western Inc. traded two undevelopable parcels of land – that were supposed to have affordable housing – for 4.5 acres of developable city property. Snoqualmie Ridge is nearing build out. “They still owe us 120160 affordable housing units,” Larson said.

Fraying our social fabric Wotton told the crowd at the forum that he is concerned about the social fabric of a community where everyone commutes. He remembered growing up in Shelton, where families in the community lived in a mix of homes, apartments and trailers, he said. The variety of housing was normal. “When we take that element out…and are

segregating incomes” it is worrisome, Wotton said at the forum. “As a parent of a 10 and 15-year-old, I wonder, what does it do to them when they’re surrounded by so much materialism? We have generosity in our hearts in the valley, but we’re leaving some behind.” Fifteen percent of residences on Snoqualmie Ridge were slated to be affordable housing in the building agreement. Larson said in June that developers often push affordable housing obligations to the later stages of building. Affordable developments often get relegated to less-desirable parcels of land. The stalled affordable housing development in the Eagle Pointe neighborhood had to overcome considerable design obstacles on the

While most hops come to the brewery as groundup hops formed into pellets, the wild hops picked around the valley were left whole as they soaked with the brew. Processed hop pellets

give off a “forward hoppiness,” and bring out a lot of flavor and bitterness, Grant said. The whole, fresh hops give Fresh Hop Ale “a green freshness, a calm hoppiness,” Grant said. The difference between

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‘Night Must Fall’ is a must see psycho thriller BY DAVID HAYES dhayes@snovalleystar.com When Danette Maline was looking for her next audition, Valley Center Stage’s production of “Night Must Fall” piqued her interest. “Oh, they’re doing ‘Night Must Fall?’ It’s a very hard, very difficult play with a classic movie starring Robert Montgomery and Dame May Whitty and Rosalind Russell, it’s just yummy. That’s what intrigued me,” Maline said. The 1937 movie version of Maline’s character Mrs. Bramson was an elderly lady. But the original play was written for a middle-aged woman. So Maline, from Edmonds, auditioned for the role. “It was an hour here and an hour back. When I got home, the phone rings. Hmm, Scottsdale Ariz. Who’s that?” Maline said, not realizing it was the director’s cell number. “They say, ‘Is Mrs. Bramson there?’ I said, ‘You did not just cast me as Mrs. Bramson?’ ‘Yes we did.’ And I said Whoo!” Maline said she’s been excited working with such an amazing cast and crew, especially co-directors and husband-andwife team Brenden and Wynter Elwood. The two have been involved in a lot of community theater over the years, the last six or so with the Valley Center Stage. “So here it’s good because when I used to act, she used to stage manage, so we got to do a lot of productions,” Brenden said. “Now that our kids are older, it’s like, ‘Hey, we can kind of have a second honeymoon, we can go on a date night. So what did we want to do? Let’s get back into theater together.’” They last directed “Alice in Wonderland” over the summer. When they were compiling a huge list of what to do next for the Valley Center Stage, Elwood

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The cast of Valley Center Stage’s ‘Night Must Fall’ try to figure out the motivations of the mysterious Danny in Mrs. Bramson’s livingroom.

said he and his wife kept coming back to “Night Must Fall.” “It is the October fall show, so we wanted to do something seasonally Halloween, seasonally scary. I wanted to get you to come to our show, so it should be something of interest,” he said. “The fact it was a success in films, it was remade a couple different times over the years, played out on Broadway, we thought, ‘let’s dust it off.’” He added that “Night Must Fall,” written by Emlyn Williams, is a really good character study with so many different dynamics to the characters. “Every actor has a wealth of stuff they can put into it,” Elwood said. He added the cast is a mix of seasoned actors and newcomers to the community theater stage. Veteran actress Cara Hazzard commutes from West Seattle to play Olivia, Mrs. Bramson’s niece, who is penniless and dependent on her aunt. “She’s not sure what she

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wants out of life, just not this,” Hazzard said. She added she’s really enjoying her first experience acting for Valley Center Stage. “It’s a wonderfully intimate theater, especially for a play like this,” Hazzard said. “The audience can really feel like they’re in the story. They’re sitting right there in Mrs. Bramson’s living room. They’re going to feel the tension, the dark moody atmosphere of the play.” Traditionally set in England in the 1930s, Brenden said when they were reading the script, his wife started playfully reading it in a Southern accent, and it just clicked to set it in Georgia. “It was perfect because in the two dialects there’s so much reading between the lines. People in those two cultures don’t really say exactly what it is they want to, so it’s all about reading between the lines,” he said. The story may unfold in Mrs. Bramson’s living room, but the tale revolves around the mysterious Danny, played by

Isaiah James. It’s also his first time with Valley Center Stage. He was attracted to Danny’s complexity. “One of my favorite tasks as an actor is to take on very threedimensional characters, in terms of comprehending what their emotions are, their complexities, their obstacles,” James said. “Danny’s not normal, although he appears normal. He’s quite multifaceted and can be very unpredictable.” When a local girl goes missing, naturally Danny becomes the leading suspect. “Isaiah’s Danny is a wonderful psychopath,” Hazzard said, trying not to give too much away. To help get into the minds of the characters better, Brenden took a different approach at the outset with the actors. Rather than blocking out scenes and actions then working out motivations, Brenden had them dive right into their characters’ psyches. “Let’s spend some time early on asking, ‘Who is this charac-

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ter? Where are they really from? What are their nightmares? Their dreams? Their fantasies? What are their successes? Failures?” Brenden said. “Let’s really explore it from a human dynamic standpoint, so that when we’re on stage, we’ve put in so much back story who we are, that all that stuff is bubbling in your head when you’re trying to do whatever that character is trying to do in that moment.” In a psychological thriller with so any nuances, the audience better picks up on these subtleties with this approach, Brenden said. “I’m hoping they’ll like it so much, some of audience members see it again and again,” James added. “It’s a brilliant play. So many subtle nuances. That’s what makes a great psychological thriller. It’s so good to the point you can compare to Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’ or Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island.’ Those are great to see so many times pick to up on so many subtle nuances. Same thing applies to this play.” Maline added it’s the kind of production that will leave the audience wondering if they’ve really got it figured out or not. “It’s the kind of play that makes you think,” she said. “Because you don’t know. But when you think you do, do you really?”

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Calendar of events Saturday, Oct. 8 Green Snoqualmie Forest Restoration, 9 a.m. to noon, Cottonwood Forest on Snoqualmie Ridge, sign up at info@greensnoqualmie.org or 238-0065 Residential recycling event at Centennial Fields, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 39903 SE Park St., to learn more contact Don Harris at dharris@ ci.snoqualmie.wa.us or 8314919 Walk to Big Cedar, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Medowbrook Farm, 1711 Boalch Ave. North Bend, free Master Gardeners, garden advice for adults, 10:30 a.m. to noon, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554 Arbor Day Event at Tollgate Farm Park, featuring tree planting, 1 p.m., 1300 W. North Bend Way, 888-7649 Change Your Water, Change Your Life workshop, 2-3 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoquamlie, 8313647, free Everybody’s Talking About It: Key Ingredients All Chefs Use, for adults, 2-3:30 p.m., Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. SE, 888-1223 Parents’ Night Out, for children ages 2 and older, $20 per child for four hours of care, 4-8 p.m., Encompass Main Campus, 1407 Boalch Ave. NW, North Bend, register at goencompassnw.org Nate Parker Quartet “Rides Again,” 7:30-9:30 p.m., Piccola Cellars, 112 West Second St., North Bend,

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Sunday, Oct. 9 Brunch with Choro Loco, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; psychic readings with Christina Stembler, noon to 4 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoquamlie, 831-3647 Study Zone, homework and tutoring help for grades K-12, 3-5 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554 Special Guests: Bruce Foreman, Chuck Deardorf and Gary Hobbs, 6 p.m., Piccola Cellars, 112 West Second St., North Bend, jazzclubsnw.org/northbend

Monday, Oct. 10 Indoor Playground, for ages newborn to 5, 9:3011:30 a.m., $1 donation per visit, Si View Gymnasium, 400 SE Orchard Drive, North Bend, snovalleyindoorplayground.org Merry Monday Story Times, for ages newborn to 24 months, 11-11:45 a.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554 Study Zone, homework and tutoring help for grades K-12, 5-7 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554 Snoqualmie Arts Commission meeting, 5:30-7 p.m., City Hall, 38624 SE River St. Snoqualmie City Council meeting, 7-9 p.m., City Hall 38624 SE River St.

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You never know what will come out at you during the annual Night on a Dark Trail, the annual outdoor walkable spooky theatrical Halloween Trail which kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday night at 34500 SE 99th St. To learn more, go to nightonadarktrail.org. Friends of the North Bend Library meeting, 7-8 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554

Tuesday, Oct. 11 North Bend Community & Economic Development Committee meeting, 3:30-5 p.m., Community & Economic Development Department, 126 East Fourth St. Robot Garage Workshop, for ages 8-12, 4-5:30 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., register at bit.ly/2dzG2La

Wednesday, Oct. 12 Indoor Playground, for ages newborn to 5, 9:3011:30 a.m., $1 donation per visit, Si View Gymnasium, 400 SE Orchard Drive, North Bend, snovalleyindoorplayground.org

Story Times: toddlers, ages newborn to 3, 10-10:30 a.m.; preschool ages 3-6, 11-11:45 a.m., Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. SE, 888-1223 Study Zone, homework and tutoring help for grades K-12, 2:30-4:30 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554 North Bend Transportation & Public Works Committee meeting, 4-5 p.m., Public Works Facility, 1155 E. North Bend Way Future Jazz Heads, 6 p.m., Piccola Cellars, 112 West Second St., North Bend, jazzclubsnw.org/northbend Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoquamlie, 831-3647

Thursday, Oct. 13 Story Times, toddlers,

ages newborn to 3, 10-10:45 a.m.; preschool ages 3 and older, 11-11:45 a.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554 Family Open Gym, ages 12 and under with an adult, $3 for adults/$2 for kids, noon to 1 p.m., Si View Community Center, 400 SE Orchard Dr., 831-1900 Study Zone, homework and tutoring help for grades K-12, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. SE, 8881223 Snoqualmie Public Safety Committee meeting, 5-6 p.m. Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 SE Snoqualmie Parkway North Bend City Council meeting, 7-9 p.m., 411 Main St. S. Family Story Time, all young children welcome, 7-8 p.m., Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. SE, 888-1223 Christopher Woitach Trio and Peter & Will Anderson, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Piccola Cellars, 112 West Second St., North Bend, jazzclubsnw.org/northbend Monty Lynch, 7:30 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoquamlie, 831-3647

Friday, Oct. 14 Indoor Playground, for ages newborn to 5, 9:3011:30 a.m., $1 donation per visit, Si View Gymnasium, 400 SE Orchard Drive, North Bend, snovalleyindoorplayground.org Parents Night Out, for grades K-5, $25 per child, 6-10 p.m., register by Wednesday at bit.ly/2cYrhjJ, Si View Community Center, 400 SE Orchard Dr., 831-1900 Night on a Dark Trail,

the annual Snoqualmie Valley outdoor walkable spooky theatrical Halloween trail, $13 per person, 7-10 p.m., 34500 SE 99th St., nightonadarktrail.org Friday Night Music Showcase, all ages, 7-10 p.m., Sallal Grange, 12912 432nd Ave. SE, North Bend, free, for lineup go to sallalgrange.org Valley Center State presents the psychological thriller “Night Must Fall: A Play in Three Acts,” 7:30 p.m., tickets $14 for seniors and students/ $17.50 for adults, available online at bit.ly/2cODCE7, learn more at valleycenterstage.org Levi Burkle, 8 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. SE, Snoquamlie, 831-3647

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Police & fire blotter Snoqualmie police reports

Theft At 6:17 p.m. Sept. 24, someone stole a computer and other merchandise from Cell City at 461 South Fork Ave. SE.

Obnoxious pizza delivery At 4:25 p.m. Sept. 25, a resident reported being very upset at delivery drivers from Dominos at 7328 Better Way Loop SE. for blasting loud music.

Overheard a phone fight

Lights out for illegal sleeping At 7:59 a.m. Sept. 27, an employee of Smokey Joes Tavern at 38600 SE King St. reported discovering, again, someone had broken into a power box and turned off the lights of a covered area in front of Smokey Joes. It’s assumed someone is doing this to sleep in the area.

Burglar caught At 3:09 p.m. Sept. 29, an officer responded to a report of someone smashing a window to enter an unoccupied home at the southwest corner of Second and Main across from City Hall. The officer heard a suspect trying to get out the back door. The suspect was arrested and taken to King County jail.

to an automatic fire alarm on Center Boulevard Southeast. The crew arrived to find Retail No. 4 evacuated with alarms and strobes activated. Upon investigation, they found inside a restaurant a smoking grill caused by cleaning but no fire was present. The alarm silenced and reset.

Painters cause false alarm

At 5:55 p.m. Sept. 27, firefighters responded to an automatic fire alarm at Timber Ridge Elementary School. The crew was met by painters who stated they had covered a smoke detector head and had just painted over it. The room was opened up to ventilate it and the covering was removed from the head. The alarm was silenced and reset.

At 1:45 p.m. Sept. 25, a resident on Rock Creek Ridge Boulevard Southwest reported hearing a male and female next door in a verbal fight. The responding officer made Snoqualmie fire reports contact with the resiIn addition to the above dents and discovered a calls, Snoqualmie EMTs Grill cleaning female who had been responded to 15 medical sets off alarm on the phone with her aid incidents bringing the At 3:24 p.m. Sept. 23, baby’s daddy who’s in total number of calls to responded0929 LAM prison. date to 850. SCOTT firefighters Z.ePROOF.SR.CMYK.RVS 41.17693.THU.1006.3X3.LAM

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