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November 10, 2011 VOL. 3, NO. 41

Where’s your ballot County system tracks ballot through election.

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First of her kind Local woman first to win new award.

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New boss Mount Si Senior Center has a new director.

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Police blotter Page 9

Keepin’ it real

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FBI arrests Snoqualmie man for bank robbery

By Dan Catchpole FBI agents have arrested a former Snoqualmie resident in connection with an Oct. 28 robbery of a KeyBank branch in Issaquah.

Christopher Isaac Titian has been charged with first-degree robbery in King County Superior Court.

The FBI caught up with Titian thanks to the help of Snoqualmie Police Officer Nigel Draveling, who identified the 19-year-old man from surveillance images captured at the bank.

Police with the Safe Streets Task Force, which includes the FBI, obtained a warrant and arrested Titian on Nov. 2 at a Motel 6 in Everett. He is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail.

At about 2:10 p.m. Oct. 28, Titian allegedly walked into a KeyBank branch along Northwest Gilman Boulevard in Issaquah. According to police, the suspect handed a

demand note to a teller, saying, “Just read it and do what it says. Don’t push the alarm.”

The bank employee gave the robber $4,000 in $100 bills. He fled the bank on foot with the money.

Police officers searched the area near the bank, 405 N.W. Gilman Blvd., but did not locate the man.

Titian already has two convictions for second-degree burglary and attempted trafficking in the second degree, according to charging documents.

The convictions stem from his involvement in the Jan. 6 burglary of Mount Si High School. Police arrested Titian later that month after identifying him from surveillance camera footage.

Snoqualmie police also arrested him in 2007 for thirddegree theft.

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

Valley hospital wins cleanliness award use of soap and sanitizer, and how the measurement comThe Washington State pares to the number of patients Hospital Association has awardin the hospital. ed Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Winners also had to have one of its “Best Hands on Care” high rates of flu immunization award. among coworkers and high The award praises hospitals marks on other indicators of that have earned a perfect record infection prevention. of hand hygiene for three conAccording to an association secutive press release, months. proper hand “...it’s an indication of In a letter washing or cleanliness and the actual to the hospihand sanitizing amount of time we put into can reduce the tal, association president paying attention to cleanlispread of infecScott Bond tion by 25 perness and patient care.” called the cent. award a real The award — Fritz Ribary achievement Snoqualmie Valley Hospital was first given for the in 2005. hospital.

Fewer than The award, Bond wrote, “rec10 percent of Washington hosognize(s) that this is a commitpitals qualified for the award in ment to safe care which extends 2011. to each patient that walks in The association handed the your door.” award on a points-based system.

Criteria for the award include Hospitals with a high level of rates of hand hygiene, evidence-based measurement of See CLEAN, Page 2

By Sebastian Moraga

Check the Star’s website for election results

Volunteers work to save parks district

The Nov. 8 general election doesn’t have any marquee races: no presidential or gubernatorial races, no Congressional or even Legislative races for Snoqualmie Valley voters.

But ballots for Valley voters are full of races that could dramatically influence cities, the school district, the parks district and the hospital district.

Get the latest results and analysis at www.snovalleystar.com.

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Save Our Si View campaign volunteers braved rain and wind Oct. 22 to work to pass Si View Metropolitan Parks District’s two ballot propositions to protect it from budget cuts. The district could see its budget cut in half next year due to falling property values and a state cap of $5.90 for combined property levies. More than 150 residents have volunteered for the Save Our Si View campaign, which supports the propositions.

Mount Si Helping Hands Food Bank needs help collecting 340 turkeys by Nov. 16.

Donations can be dropped off from 9 a.m. to noon on Mondays and Tuesdays, and from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Arrange a special drop off time by calling the food bank’s director, Heidi Dukich, at 7856789.

Learn more at www.mtsifoodbank.org.

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Ballots’ journey juggles security, transparency wrapped with ballots that go to all different kinds of counties,” King County Elections places King County Elections spokesa huge mail order each year. woman Kim van Ekstrom said.

Officials must secure enough About 20 days before Election ballots for more than 1 million Day, as TV campaign advertisevoters spread across a county ments reach cruel-and-unusuallarger than Rhode Island. Then, punishment status, the U.S. the elections office is responsible Postal Service starts to mail balfor ensuring a secure — and has- lot packets to voters. sle-free — process to distribute, Each packet contains a signaauthenticate and tally ballots on ture envelope, security envelope a strict deadline. and ballot. The arrangement is The commeant to plicated ensure voters’ On the Web process starts anonymity as on a printing King County Elections elections press in mailed ballots to voters Oct. staffers open, Everett and 19. Track ballots online at authenticate ends in a tabthe King County Elections and tabulate ulation website, ballots. machine in www.kingcounty.gov/elections.

Ballots do Renton. The Follow the “Track your balnot emerge voter is situatlot packet” link. from behind a ed in the midsecurity cordle, black ink don until pen at the ready. postal employees send the overThe job to print almost 1.1 sized envelopes through the million ballots is delegated to a mail. commercial printer. The elecSecurity measures shield ballots tions office oversees the process Nov. 8 is the deadline to slip as Everett-based K&H Election a completed ballot in the mailServices prints and inserts balbox or a drop box. The simple lots into envelopes. act launches a complex and The printer creates ballots for much-scrutinized journey to the King County and jurisdictions elections office in Renton. across the United States. Then, The security setup is part ballots stacked on pallets await “Mission: Impossible” and part shipment to voters. common sense.

“At any given time, you can King County Elections staffers see boxes that are shrinkBy Warren Kagarise

travel in pairs to retrieve ballot tody for watching over and packets from ballot drop boxes. tracking all of the ballots that Trucks must pass through a come back to us,” van Ekstrom secure gate and a concertinasaid. wire-topped chain-link fence to Staffers then sort ballot packdeliver completed ballots to the ets into batches — 200 to 400 elections office. ballots apiece — by legislative Inside, electronic key cards district. The office also records a and biometric controls to digital image of each voter’s sigauthenticate fingerprints limit nature for verification. access to ballots and processing Employees do not open a balareas. Crews transport returned lot until the signature is checked packets in a separate elevator against a voter’s registration. from the loading zone to the Specialists check for similarities processing — such as letarea. The ter height and If you go building lacks spacing — See elections staffers wireless between the process ballots from the Internet registration viewing loop at King County access to limit and the ballot.

Elections, 919 S.W. Grady possible inforIf the signaWay, Renton. The loop is mation leaks. tures match, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The office the packet Call 206-296-8683. maintains a proceeds to strict policy to the next step. require If a signature employees and guests to don problem arises, a staffer contacts color-coded lanyards to deterthe voter. mine security clearance.

Transparency is encouraged “So, from a distance, at a Opening a ballot packet is a glance, if we don’t recognize somebody, we know what type multistep process. Once the security envelope is removed of employee they are and basifrom the signature envelope, a cally where they should be in staffer opens the security envethe building,” van Ekstrom said. lope and pulls out the completThe security system includes ed ballot. more than 20 cameras aimed at The team then inspects the crucial areas 24/7 and a sophisticated alarm system on doors and ballot for stray marks, correcsensitive areas.

See BALLOT, Page 3 “We have a total chain of cus-

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Clean From Page 1 hand hygiene received nine points.

Hospitals with a high level of workforce flu immunization received five points.

Hospitals received bonus points for infection prevention measures at the national top 10 percent.

Nine hospitals in Washington received the award, said Fritz Ribary, communication and marketing manager for Snoqualmie Valley Hospital.

This is the first time the hospital received the award.

The association’s website stated that hospitals in Puyallup, Tacoma, Othello, Bellingham, Prosser, Colville, Sunnyside and Seattle were awarded this year.

“It means two things: It’s always nice to be recognized by your peers by winning a pretty stringent criteria,” Ribary said. “Two, it’s an indication of cleanliness and the actual amount of time we put into paying attention to cleanliness and patient care.”

Sebastian Moraga: 392-6434, ext. 221, or smoraga@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.

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King County Elections relies on U.S. Census data to determine languages to use for ballots

By Warren Kagarise King County is often celebrated as a melting pot and, reflecting a demographic shift recorded in the most recent census, ballots should soon start to include another language spoken in the community.

Under a provision in the U.S. Voting Rights Act, King County is required to create and offer election materials in Vietnamese.

The county is home to about 28,000 Vietnamese speakers — enough to trigger the federal threshold for election materials in Vietnamese. Data collected in the 2010 Census determined King County needed to add the language.

The elections office already produces instructional election information and ballot packets

in English and Chinese.

The elections office could spend $50,000 to $70,000 per year to add elections materials in Vietnamese, although King County Elections spokeswoman Kim van Ekstrom said the figure is a rough estimate.

The federal government does not provide funding for the elections office to add Vietnamese election materials.

The threshold requires jurisdictions to add a language for election materials if more than 5 percent or more than 10,000 voting-age citizens speak the language.

“We anticipated that the recent census would bring at least one additional language requirement,” Elections Director Sherril Huff said in a statement.

“We have successfully complied with our past language require-

ments and we have already begun discussing how to address this additional translation requirement.”

The elections office hires translators to interpret ballots from English to Chinese.

Officials could do the same to create Vietnamese election materials, or contract out the process.

Huff announced the additional language requirement Oct. 12 — too late to create Vietnamese materials for the Nov. 8 election.

However, if a voter requested a ballot in Vietnamese for the upcoming election, the office is bound by law to comply.

“Once you are told that the language requirement is in place, it’s now in place, but we don’t have to go back and reprint ballots because that job was already done,” van Ekstrom

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said. “The language requirement is now in place and so for future elections, all ballots will be printed in both languages assuming that they’ve been requested.”

County elections staffers plan to start identifying Vietnamese-language voters soon for assistance in future elections.

Statewide, the law requires Adams, Franklin and Yakima counties to print ballots and election materials in Spanish.

Nationwide, 248 jurisdictions must provide language assistance for groups unable to speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in elections.

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. Comment at www.snovalleystar.com.

Health agency urges whooping cough prevention State health officials said whooping cough, or pertussis, is a serious concern as infants contract the disease at a much higher rate than other people.

The rate of whooping cough in babies is almost 10 times greater than the combined rate of all people of all ages statewide. The state Department of Health said 58 infants younger than 1 received whooping cough diagnoses in 2011.

The total includes 22 infants hospitalized for whooping cough and two babies that died from the disease.

“Whooping cough is a serious illness, especially for babies who are too young to be vaccinated,” Dr. Maxine Hayes, state health officer and pediatrician, said in a statement. “Older kids and adults can help protect babies by getting the pertussis vaccine. By being vaccinated, close contacts of infants create a protective ‘cocoon’ for newborns and infants who can’t yet be vaccinated or have not completed their initial vaccine series.”

Pertussis is highly contagious and spreads easily from person to person through coughing and

What to know Learn more about whooping cough and preventing it from Public Health – Seattle & King County at www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/communicable/diseases/ pertussis and the state Department of Health’s Immunization and CHILD Profile at www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/Immunize. Or call 360-236-3595. The state agency maintains a weekly pertussis update to track cases statewide. sneezing. The disease causes coughing spells so severe that it is difficult for infants to eat, drink or even breathe. Pertussis can lead to pneumonia, seizures and even death.

Older children and adults

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tions or to see if the voter used a forbidden ink color. (Only a black ink pen is acceptable.)

If a ballot is damaged and cannot pass through tabulation equipment, the elections office follows a guide in a stateapproved voter intent manual to duplicate the ballot. If a voter’s intent is unclear on the damaged ballot, staffers send the document to the county Canvassing Board for further discussion.

Then, as completed and OK’d packets reach the elections office, staffers scan ballots.

Officials tabulate the scanned images and release the results at about 8 p.m. on Election Day. More results follow after Election Day as the office tabulates additional ballots.

Before each election, officials invite political party observers and reporters to a logic and accuracy test — a process to determine if scanning and tabulation equipment functions properly.

Come election season, King County Elections is open for public access. Guests can peer inside the processing area from a loop around the outside. Only a partial Plexiglas panel separates guests from the process, so people can see and listen to elections staffers at work.

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Editorial

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Letters

Each one of us can serve our country Veterans Day is always a day for quiet reflection and gratitude for the men and women who have served the United States during its nearly 250 years.

This year, Veterans Day will be especially meaningful for Snoqualmie Valley residents. The Snoqualmie Valley Veterans Memorial will be dedicated at 11 a.m. Nov. 11, 2011.

The monument honors the Valley’s veterans and pays a special tribute to those young men and women who went to war and did not return. There are more than 70 names on the memorial stone.

Around the stone sit 10 large rocks, one from the Valley’s cities and larger communities. For years to come, the rocks will keep a silent vigil around the memory of the fallen.

The monument has been many years in the making. It is the product of long hours and support from all across the Valley. It is being dedicated because Valley residents have not forgotten their fallen neighbors.

The men and women on the memorial stone gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country, but service need not be limited to joining the military.

Everyone can serve their country and their community.

The first step is to get involved, make a commitment and follow through.

That is what Rodney Boalch did during World War II. The North Bend native joined the U.S. Navy and was training to be a naval aviator when he died in a training accident.

If people like Boalch can give their lives in service for their country, the rest of us can give an afternoon once a month.

Service shouldn’t be a hair shirt, either. No doubt, Boalch loved the thrill of flying before his fatal accident.

So find a way to give back that sparks a passion inside you.

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This hunting trip should have come with a warning about not smoking

By Slim Randles My first wife came from a ranching family way back up in the hills of central California and had a cousin, Ted, who was a hounddog man. This made him akin to Evel Knievel with a pack of pooches.

I talked my way into hunting with him, of course.

All went well until we were on the way home, when a badger ran across the road and dove into a large culvert pipe.

“Oh wow!” Ted yelled. “Let’s get him!”

He released most of the hounds and they plugged the culvert pipe with bawling insults. In the dead center of the pipe was a snarling badger.

“Gotta smoke him outta there,” Ted said, scratching his head as if in thought.

I’d read about smoking things out. Davy Crockett, bears, that sort of thing, so I was eager to learn. Ted lit a cigar and handed it to me.

“Now crawl in there and smoke that sucker out,” he said.

“You sure?”

“How many badgers you hunted?”

So I crawled into the pipe with the cigar in my mouth,

puffing away and coughing, and the badger actually backed up a few steps.

Then Ted released his old dog from the car. He screamed into the other end Slim Randles Columnist of the pipe and grabbed that badger in the butt. All I could see were teeth and fur coming my way.

Using the cigar as an afterburner on my rocket-assisted retreat, I shot backwards out of

the pipe and some 20 yards into the brush.

The next day I ran into two old ranchers who looked at me kinda funny and then asked if I was the guy who tried to smoke out a badger with a cigar. The laughter hurt.

My wife told me that, since I was now a bonafide member of the family, I could go hunting with Ted all the time.

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Gina Estep recognized by Leadership Eastside Since becoming the North Bend Community and Economic Development director, Gina Estep has put in countless hours trying to invigorate the city’s economy.

Her office on Fourth Street is crammed with proposals, reports, maps and other materials. Sometimes she is joined by her black Lab, Bear.

Estep’s hard work was recognized Oct. 20 when she received the Community Choice award from Leadership Eastside at the group’s annual banquet.

She is the award’s inaugural recipient.

Her efforts have included her organization of the city’s all-volunteer branding team, the Downtown Block Party, the North Bend Film Challenge, the Banff Film Festival and the Warrior Dash.

The branding team’s work produced a new logo for the city — “Easy to find, hard to leave” — and saved the city several thousands of dollars by drawing on local volunteer talent rather than hiring a market-

State starts tracking prescription pain medication purchases State health officials have started collecting information regarding purchases of prescrip-

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Gina Estep, far left, poses with other award winners at the Leadership Eastside annual banquet. ing company.

“I wish it could be a team award,” Estep said.

Estep was one of 47 nominees from the Eastside.

Four finalists were presented

at the banquet to Leadership Eastside members, who voted on the winner.

tion pain medication to crack down on a statewide overdose problem.

Officials rolled out the Washington State Prescription Monitoring Program in October to reduce abuse and

promote safe prescription drug use.

The program collects information on commonly abused medications.

Information from pharmacies and health care providers is col-

lected and stored in a central database.

Starting in January, health care providers can view their patients’ prescription history dating back to the start of data collection.

The program also allows patients and law enforcement officials to view the prescription records.

Officials said physicians and pharmacists could use the data to intervene earlier to identify dangerous drug interactions, address misuse, recognize undermanaged pain or see the need for substance-abuse treatment.

The number of people dying from prescription pain medication overdoses is growing in Washington.

The rate of overdose deaths involving prescription pain medications doubled from 2000 to 2010.

Since 2006, deaths from unintentional drug overdoses have surpassed the number of deaths from automobile crashes.

Every child should be treated the way we’d like our own children treated. to be awarded in each category: • Life in the Valley (people) • Animals/pets • NW nature (scenics)

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Deadline: February 5, 2012 Winners will be announced in the SnoValley Star on Feb. 16

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High-octane leader is coming to senior center helm

By Sebastian Moraga How does the Mount Si Senior Center’s new executive director get downtown? She’ll probably call him.

One idea B.J. Libby has for the center is a celebrity golf tournament, with people like Seattle SuperSonics legend “Downtown” Freddy Brown raising cash.

“I have no problem asking people for money,” said Libby, who was chosen Oct. 25 to replace Ruth Tolmasoff, “and telling them why we need it.”

Libby spent the past two years in Bellevue as the marketing director and volunteer event coordinator for Elderly and Adult Day Services.

At EADS, she created a golf tournament she said she hoped will lure celebrities like Brown, Jack Sikma, Gary Payton, Fred Couples and Lori Matsukawa in 2012.

“I’m putting this tournament together for Sept. 20,” she said, adding the center’s tourney would happen the next day.

Before she unfurls the red carpet for luminaries, Libby said she will meet with all board members, staffers, volunteers

Your best photos could win cash prizes Nearly everyone has a ready camera these days, and now you can do more than post your favorites to Facebook. Your best photos could win $100!

The SnoValley Star is introducing a Snoqualmie Valley Photo Contest. Awards of $100 will be presented for the best in each of the three categories: Life in the Valley (people), animals/pets and Northwest

and supporters of the center.

Libby’s first day is Nov. 7.

“The plan is coffee and muffins with the executive director,” she said. “So we can talk about what’s working, what’s not working, what we can improve upon, how I can help them and what they can do to help me.”

Contributed One B.J. Libby, the new executive director at the Mount Si staffer is Senior Center said she wants to include more of the Janet community in the center’s activities.

Fosness, interim director after Tolmasoff resigned Fosness. “I know her skills are and one of three finalists for valued, because she has been Libby’s job. there a long time.”

“I want to know what her The center’s program director, passions are,” Libby said of Fosness said she’s “most defi-

nitely” staying on.

“My feelings aren’t hurt,” she said. “I am OK with this.”

Fosness said she started in 1990 and on the first weekend, a rainstorm flooded the streets of North Bend.

“I didn’t have plans to leave then,” Fosness said with a laugh.

A resident of Snoqualmie who traveled the world as director of membership and marketing for the Girl Scouts of America, Libby beat at least 37 candidates.

Elmer Sams, a member of the center’s board of directors, celebrated the choice.

“We are happy to get someone local who had the qualifications we wanted,” Sams said.

At first, the board sought someone who had led a senior center before, Sams said. Then the criteria expanded to include administrators in general, with experience in finance, grant applications and general operations.

“She has some very good leadership skills, lots of fundraising experience and just a very good approach,” Sams said.

“She’s very easy to talk to.”

Libby said the senior center will offer services beyond a

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nature (scenics).

Staff members of the Star will select the best photos and will consider composition, lighting and originality. Photos may not be composites or changed dramatically from the original picture.

Digital files can be sent to photocontest@snovalleystar.com by the Feb. 3 deadline. Include the name, address and phone number of the photographer, plus the story behind the photo.

All entries become the property of SnoValley Star and its parent

Parks Commission pitched in Oct. 8 to clean up E.J. Roberts Park as part of the city’s Adopta-Park Program.

Parks Commission members provided 12 hours of service, weeding flower beds and clearing blackberries from the tennis courts.

The commission members also worked on the park during

the summer, painting benches, picnic tables, garbage cans and play equipment.

Individuals and groups can help keep North Bend’s parks clean through the city’s Adopt-aPark Program.

Information on the program is available on the city’s website — www.northbendwa.gov — under ‘Forms/Applications.’

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She said she wants to help both seniors and their caregivers.

“There are many people in the Valley who take care of a loved one with dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS,” she said, referring to multiple sclerosis, “and it’s the caregiver I’m worried about. Stats show caregivers succumb before the one they are caring for.”

Other ideas include hosting a midwinter luncheon; getting high school students, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts involved in center activities; and letting seniors give back to their community.

Right away, she said, she needs volunteers for a fundraising committee.

Skills needed include posting flyers around the Valley and asking people for sponsorships or gift baskets.

“I get excited about what’s going on, the potential to make it bigger,” she said, “and the possibility to embrace more people.”

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Black dog goes blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Cheers for Encompass at annual gala

By Dan Catchpole

Mike Antone plays at The Black Dog in Snoqualmie at the restaurant’s Blues and BBQ night Oct. 21. Antone performed with Camelia Jade. The local folk duo stepped out of their usual repertoire to tackle some blues standards.

Search for unclaimed cash in Department of Revenue database The state Department of Revenue returned unclaimed property to a record 108,441 claimants during the 2011 fiscal year, due in part to a sharp increase in businesses reporting unclaimed property to the state.

The number of individuals claiming property during the same period increased by more than 10,000 from the previous fiscal year. Individuals claimed $46.5 million in the fiscal year ending June 30.

Revenue Director Suzan DelBene said the number of

businesses reporting unclaimed property increased substantially over the past decade, from fewer than 5,000 to more than 26,000.

The director attributed publicity and continuing educational efforts to the increase in reporting.

Unclaimed property includes unclaimed paychecks, utility deposits, bank accounts, uncashed refunds, life insurance proceeds, stocks and bonds, and contents from safe deposit boxes.

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Costco increases membership fees Issaquah-based Costco increased membership fees 10 percent as the largest warehouseclub chain in the United States offsets rising costs.

The increase, effective Nov. 1, ups annual individual, or Gold Star, and business memberships from $50 to $55. Costco also plans to increase Executive Membership fees from $100 to $110 next month.

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The company increased the maximum reward from $500 to $750 as part of the fee hike.

The company last raised individual and business membership fees in 2006. Company executives announced the latest hike Oct. 5.

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Police Blotter Snoqualmie Police Drunken driving arrest At 12:05 a.m. Oct. 30, police saw a black 2002 Acura traveling eastbound in the 38400 block of North Bend Way. It looked like the Acura was tailgating the vehicle in front of it.

The vehicle swerved from lane to lane until police stopped it near the intersection of Eighth Street Northwest.

The driver, 44-year-old Michael Vetsch, of North Bend, smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot eyes. A passenger in the Acura told police that the car was his and that Vetsch was the designated driver.

Vetsch told police the passenger with the cigar kept reaching over and playing with the radio and that’s why the car kept swerving.

After failing the first of two sobriety tests, Vetsch told police, “You got me,” and refused to continue with the tests.

He was arrested for driving under the influence and taken

to the Snoqualmie Police Department.

Dead deer At 9:52 a.m. Nov. 2, a police officer found a dead deer on Mount Si High School property.

The officer called the city’s department of public works to get the deer removed.

No license, no drive At 9:52 p.m. Nov. 3, police saw a white Chevrolet pickup traveling west on Meadowbrook Way near the corner of Ethan Wade Way. A check of the license plate showed the car was sold in August. Police stopped the vehicle and told the driver the title had not been transferred in more than 45 days.

The driver confirmed he was the owner, but said he had no license because it was suspended. He was arrested and later released. He will be cited for driving with a suspended license in the third degree.

North Bend police No reports were available this week.

Snoqualmie fire ❑ At 10:31 a.m. Oct. 29, EMTs responded to Snoqualmie Casino for a medical call. A patient was evaluated and left in the care of casino security staff. ❑ At 5:44 p.m. Oct. 29, EMTs were dispatched to downtown Snoqualmie for a medical call.

A patient was evaluated and then left in the care of Snoqualmie Police. ❑ At 7:12 p.m. Oct. 29, EMTs responded to Snoqualmie Casino for a medical call. A patient was treated and then transported to a hospital by EMTs. ❑ At 9:26 p.m. Oct. 29, EMTs and Bellevue paramedics were dispatched to Snoqualmie Casino for a medical call. A patient was treated and then left in the care of casino security staff. ❑ At 1:52 a.m. Oct. 30, EMTs responded to Snoqualmie Casino for a medical call. A patient was evaluated and then left in the care of a King County Sheriff’s Office deputy. ❑ At 8:02 p.m. Oct. 31, firefighters responded to a reported smell of natural gas in a home. The smell had been caused by the homeown-

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The crew was unable to locate its cause. ❑ At 11:36 a.m. Nov. 1, EMTs responded to Mount Si High School for a 15-year-old student experiencing flu-like symptoms. He was transported to a hospital. ❑ At 10:07 a.m. Nov. 2, firefighters responded with Snoqualmie Police to a gasoline spill in a residence. The fuel was contained, and the homeowners cleaned up the spill. ❑ At 11:35 a.m. Nov. 2, EMTs responded to a 2-year-old boy who had accidentally ingested too much Sudafed. He was evaluated and transported to a hospital.

North Bend fire No reports were available this week.

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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Remembering the fallen David Renton Edward Clements Koester Born: Aug. 6, 1893 Died: Dec. 15, 1918 Branch: U.S. Army Born in Illinois, Edward Clements Koester was working in a sawmill in Edgewick in presentday North Bend when he was drafted into the U.S. Army on June 26, 1918. He was assigned to the Spruce Production Division, which supplied lumber for wartime production. He was assigned to a unit in the upper Snoqualmie Valley, which kept him close to his wife, Emma McHenry.

After the Armistice was signed on Nov. 11, 1918, Koester was sent to Fort Vancouver to be mustered out of the Army. The previous month, he had contracted influenza, which killed more U.S. servicemen than died in combat.

While waiting to be discharged, Koester also developed pneumonia. He died in Vancouver on Dec. 15, 1918.

In July 1919, Emma gave birth to their son, Charles Edward Paige Koester, who served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II.

Born: 1894 Died: Feb. 5, 1918 Branch: U.S. Army Born in North Bend, David Renton grew up amid the Snoqualmie Valley’s logging Snoqualmie Valley Historical community. By the Museum time he was 15, Renton was pulling a bucksaw on a cottonwood pulp job.

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The Snoqualmie Valley Veterans Monument will be dedicated at 11:11 a.m. Nov. 11. At the monument’s center is a stone with more than 70 names of Snoqualmie Valley residents who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during wartime.

Here is a look at some of the sacrifices they made.

War I, Renton and three other Valley residents enlisted in the U.S. Army and were assigned to the 20th Engineers Regiment.

While training near Washington, D.C., Renton developed the measles. He was recovering in a hospital when his unit shipped out for France.

Renton shipped out aboard the SS Tuscania to rejoin his unit the next month.

While steaming between Ireland and Scotland on Feb. 5, 1918, the Tuscania was hit by a torpedo from a German u-boat UB-77. Several lifeboats, including the one Renton was in, were driven against cliffs on a nearby island. In all, 210 of the ship’s 2,397 U.S. servicemen on board died.

Renton is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Born: April 14, 1921 Died: April 12, 1944 Branch: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S. Army) Department of Defense Elizabeth Erickson was born in Seattle and grew up in Preston. She attended the University of Washington.

During World War II, she joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, which flew noncombat missions for the United States Army Air Force. It was an elite group, which accepted fewer than 2,000 women from more than 25,000 applicants.

Erickson went to basic training at Avenger Field near Sweetwater, Texas. On April 12, 1944, she was practicing landing when her plane, an AT-6, collided with another trainee’s plane. Erickson could not bail out and died in the crash.

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Born: July 10, 1947 Died: Aug. 17, 1967 Branch: U.S. Army

Born: July 12, 1922 Died: July 1945 Branch: U.S. Navy Rodney Boalch was born at Snoqualmie Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum Falls Hospital, and graduated in 1940 from North Bend High School. His family had been among the Snoqualmie Valley’s early American settlers.

During World War II, Boalch trained to be a U.S. Navy pilot. He was among the best flyers in training. In July 1945, he died in a night training accident in Texas.

James Arthur Barber Born: 1922 Missing: Jan. 12, 1945 Branch: U.S. Navy WORLD WAR I Arthur William Lyford Battista Pasini David Renton Edward Clements Koester

Peter Erickson Alfred Parenti Bert Smith William Swen

Carl Larson Albert Emery Lester Pickering Virgil Detrick

Vincent Robel Loyal Bright Clarence Church Robert White Norman Christiansen Eugene Smith James O’Neil Donald Olson Charles Scheuchzer Thomas Soister Robert Hatcher Claude Brown Stephenson James Allan Machan Thomas Malloy Lawrence Crotts James Tuinstra

Leo Harry McGrath Lawrence Carmichael James Arthur Barber Theron White Dean Aschin F. O. Goebel Carol Cameron James Kennedy Jack Odlin Joe Sheppard Martin James W. M. O’Dell Richard Carol Hall Lloyd Eugene Hume William Simon Ellsworth Dimmitt

Gordon Bothell Albert E. Barfuse

Charles Englehart Donald B. Cameron

Larry Michael Heen Jeffrey Harvey James David Nansel

James Sanders Joe Sweetman Robert Allen Montgomery

WORLD WAR II

Elizabeth Erickson

Rodney Boalch

Richard Dunn George Webb-Venniksen William Hronek Jr. Bernard Briggs William Borden Lloyd Scheel Jack Dubey Frank Martindale Jr. Harvey Kierstins Rodney Boalch Roy Hackney Victor Hartley Elizabeth Erickson Herman James Jensen Allen Stromer P. M. Bayes

KOREA William Scott John Carlson

VIETNAM Donald Gene Davenport Ronald James Johnson Timothy Demos

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Ronald Johnson was a North Bend resident. After high school, Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Army. Following training, he was sent to Vietnam.

Johnson arrived in South Vietnam on May 10, 1967. A little more than three months later, Johnson died in an aircraft crash.

Corry Paul Tyler Wyatt A Goldsmith

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Eric Ward Born: Aug. 17, 1990 Died: Feb. 21, 2010 Branch: U.S. Marine Corps Ward family

Eric Ward, a Mount Si High School graduate, was a fourthgeneration Marine when he died during combat in Afghanistan.

Ward died during a “hostile incident” in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Originally from California, James Barber settled in Fall City with his sister and her family in 1940 after their parents died.

In October 1942, Barber joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

Following an engagement on Jan. 12, 1945, Barber was reported missing and presumed dead.

Robert Montgomery Born: June 21, 1947 Died: April 2, 1967 Branch: U.S. Army Fall Citynative Robert Montgomery Snoqualmie Valley was drafted Historical Museum into the U.S. Army after graduating from Mount Si High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track.

Before leaving for Vietnam, he married Sharon Haug.

Montgomery arrived in Vietnam on Sept. 30, 1966. He served in the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, an air cavalry unit.

He died in combat on April 2, 1967 near Binh Dinh, South Vietnam.

Memorial dedication ❑ What: Snoqualmie Valley Veterans’ Memorial dedication ❑ When: 11:11 a.m. Nov. 11 ❑ Where: American Legion Hall, 38625 S.E. River St., Snoqualmie

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Care-receivers voice their strengths

By Sebastian Moraga Let me help you help me.

That was the message five survivors of serious illnesses shared with caregivers from around the Eastside at the Snoqualmie Fire Station Nov. 3.

The “Lunch and Learn” series hosted by the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Foundation had focused on the struggles of caregivers, but that day it turned the tables and let care-receivers speak.

“I don’t want my condition to define who I am,” said Wendy Williams, of North Bend, who suffers from fibromyalgia.

Caregivers have to understand that a care-receiver has the right to say no to offers of help, said Williams, one of four panelists.

“I don’t want others to try to fix me,” she said. “I know about my condition.”

Panelist Jim Conner agreed, saying each person has his or her own way of feeling better.

“The answer is be sensitive to the individual,” he said, later adding, “We can be quite different. We are not all the same, and we are not all the same each day.”

Conner broke both elbows in a fall. Conner could not feed himself and needed help going to the bathroom.

“This is when you find out if

By Sebastian Moraga

Jerry Anderson shared his story of survival from cancer with Valley care-givers at the Nov 3 ‘Lunch and Learn.’ anybody loves you,” he said.

Sue Mocker, who hosted the talk, endured a hysterectomy, an appendectomy and a diagnosis of celiac disease all within 18 months.

She struggled with things people consider second nature.

“I couldn’t laugh, cough, sneeze, cry, giggle, turn over on my side, move a certain way, scoot over in a chair, ride in a car, drive, any of it,” she said.

Panelist Jerry Anderson has been diagnosed with colon cancer twice, 18 years apart.

“Early detection is the name of the game,” he said.

Williams had to trade in her outdoor lifestyle for one of constant pain after her diagnosis.

“I try not to feel guilty

because I can’t do with my husband the things we loved to do and that he still loves to do,” she said. “Luckily, he still has friends who hike and backpack with him.”

Panelist Lacey Potoshnik, a stepmother of three, gave birth to premature quadruplets.

“I had people come visit me in the hospital that I’d never met before,” she said. “There were some people, family members and friends who didn’t come, and that was very hurtful.”

Care-receivers above all, want to be thought of as people who are capable of doing things, if on a limited basis, Williams said.

“If I really need help, I’ll say I need help,” Williams said.

“What I really want to do is whatever I can do, it makes me feel more worthwhile and better about myself.”

The panel allowed caregivers to tell their story and reveal their feelings, Mocker said afterward.

“What are their feelings about that lack of independence when they go through something difficult, that loneliness when someone does not show up?” she asked. “If you’ve never been a care-receiver, it’s very difficult to understand that perspective.”

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Day of Caring supporters help Encompass

Ronnie Hamilton, aka Ronnie Dylan, will travel to a hip-hop competition in California to compete against other rappers in early December.

Snoqualmie rapper vows to stay true

By Sebastian Moraga

By Clay Eals

Dave Holmes, of Redmond, trims a hedge at the Encompass Main Campus in North Bend as part of United Way’s annual Day of Caring. Holmes was one of nearly 50 Microsoft employees who tackled an array of cleaning and maintenance tasks for the children’s and family services organization. Across Washington, more than 11,000 volunteers took part in the Day of Caring, according to United Way of King County.

You look at him and think, another white guy who has yet to glance in a mirror.

Then you listen to him talk about his rap music, and think, he might just be for real.

Then you listen some more and realize that the pseudonym aside, the last thing he wants to be is an imitation.

Ronnie Hamilton, a.k.a.

Ronnie Dylan, wants to be himself, first or last, banker or rapper, broke or rich.

“Sometimes, I daydream about being in Vegas living the life,” the 17-year-old Snoqualmie resident said.

“Other times, I see myself in an apartment in Seattle, not making the most money, but being happy. This makes me happy.”

Rap, he said, is his passion and he has let it consume his reason.

This self-described philosopher, writer and rapper is a 17year-old Eastside Catholic High

School student whose 2-year-old rap career continues a love affair with writing.

“I’ve been writing since I was 12,” he said.

Dylan, who named himself after Bob Dylan, awaits what looks like his biggest break yet, a competition near Oakland, Calif., in early December.

He would love to win, but even if he loses, he relishes the chance to spread his message outside the Northwest.

A budding iconoclast, he said he was once headed toward a career in banking, like his parents, but he never stopped itching to write, philosophize and perform.

“I used to see myself inside the box,” he said. “But once I saw the outside, I could never go back.”

His parents, he said, worry about his future.

“They worry that it’s just going to go nowhere,” he said.

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Eye screenings a first for some preschoolers Rapper

By Sebastian Moraga If a doctor does a doctor’s work without a doctor’s white coat, is it still scary?

Not for about 80 preschoolers at Encompass in North Bend, who underwent eye screenings from a man without the trademark medical garment.

All part of a plan, said North Bend optometrist Brian Duvall, the coatless doctor.

“You try to have a little more fun with the kids,” he said. “So you avoid the white coats, you try to make them feel comfortable. You may well be their first encounter with an eye doctor, so you want it to be positive.”

Duvall donated his time two Mondays in a row in mid-October to check the eyesight of 3-, 4-, and 5year-olds at the preschool and daycare on North Bend’s Boalch Avenue.

The eye screenings are required for children at Encompass under the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, sort of a statefunded Head Start.

Julie Forslin, early learning manager at Encompass, said 36 of the 80 children fell under ECEAP guidelines.

The others received the screenings just by being part of Encompass.

“If you’re in our program, you get the same screenings and everything,” she said.

This is the first time this year Duvall has done the exams and the fourth time in the past five years,

hensive than an eye exam, Duvall said, but still look for several conditions.

“We test their binocular vision, how well they use both eyes together, make sure they don’t have things like amblyopia or ‘lazy eye’” Duvall said. “We Contributed track their eye Brian Duvall makes a face while checking the eyes of a premovements schooler at Encompass in North Bend. Having children as and check patients is tougher, said Duvall, an optometrist, but it can also their depth be more fun than dealing with adults. perception.”

All while Forslin said. towering over pint-sized patients “It was great,” Forslin said. “He with short attention spans who are was really good with the kids.” too young to know the alphabet.

The children liked him right back, “So you can’t use standard eye she added, asking adults when it charts,” Duvall said. “They may have would be their turn to get checked. A fears about dealing with doctors or few patients needed help from a adults in general. And they are shorter, translator. so everything is done sitting down.”

“It’s a great community-building On the other hand, these patients thing for him to donate his time,” do smile a lot more, said Duvall, who Forslin said of Duvall. “Catching performed the screenings with optithings early gives more of a chance cian Brooke Boevers. to be fixed with glasses, rather than “Everybody did great,” he said. later when it can be more serious.”

“Nobody cried. Actually, only one The screenings are less comprelittle girl cried.”

From Page 12 “They have faith in me but they want me to batten down and start living inside the box more.”

To Dylan, few things sound worse than unfulfilled dreams.

“I see so many people who have an amazing gift and somehow they never fulfill their dream,” he said. “I want to be an example of someone who has taken the necessary steps to live out his dream.”

The poetry of rap appeals to Dylan, who began his career rapping as Ronnie Hamilton, but said he changed to Dylan after he lined up his philosophy of life with that of his namesake and found common ground.

“What matters to him is almost the same as what matters to me,” he said. “Also, from a marketing standpoint, Hamilton didn’t really work.”

Dylan released a five-song record, “Saga,” in June of this year in a limited 100-copy run. He said he gets the most support from people who have never heard of him before, those who ask why he pursues a rap career while enrolled in a private school.

“Those who don’t know me,” he said, describing his supporters, “and say ‘Good for you,’ when I tell them what I do.”

He draws strength from people like Macklemore, the Seattle rapper famous for his musical tribute to Dave Niehaus. Macklemore’s success “pushed me that much farther to fight the odds,” Dylan said.

At Oakland’s Firehouse Art Museum, Dylan will have 90 seconds in each of the contest’s five rounds. Results aside, he said he is willing to be patient, and let his career grow slowly if that’s what it takes.

“I’m making my own history,” he said. “If you make your own legacy, there’s no way you can die unhappy.”

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ValleyFest kicks off with big hopes for the future

By Sebastian Moraga On a day when Mount Si High School fans had Peninsula High School in their minds, a member of its PTSA, Carey McNabb, did too.

By Sebastian Moraga

Jalenica Troutman-Watson shops while riding a unicycle.

Not because of football, though.

For years, McNabb, who brought the holiday bazaar ValleyFest to life in 2010, lived in Gig Harbor.

Gig Harbor’s Peninsula High has been the home of a similar bazaar, TideFest, for the past 30 years. That’s where McNabb got the idea.

So on Nov. 5, when the second ValleyFest happened, McNabb saw 42 vendors from across the state turn Mount Si High School’s hallways into a mini TideFest.

“I wanted it to get the same momentum the TideFest has,” McNabb said.

The festival in Gig Harbor is still the rabbit ValleyFest chases, she said.

“It’s the ultimate bar,” she said. “Each year, we just have to keep building toward that.”

Next year, she said, she hoped to initiate the process earlier, to get more local vendors into the fold.

Some of those local vendors promised changes in 2012, too.

By Sebastian Moraga

Christy Trotto takes a piece of pumpkin coconut bread from Mount Si High School sophomore Ray Gallagher at the 2011 ValleyFest.

Fall City’s Eric Solene, who sold products made with alpaca wool, said he would try to bring the actual animals next year.

“If only for a couple of hours,” he said.

This year, another wooly creature, Santa, made an appearance.

The main focus of the event, though, were the vendors, which included people from as See FESTIVAL, Page 15

Mount Si Key Club, local Kiwanis partner to clean up daycare

By Sebastian Moraga This sort of plucking, even chickens don’t mind.

Members of the Mount Si High School Key Club and the Snoqualmie Valley Kiwanis showed up at the home of Nona Klement in Snoqualmie to pluck away leaves, branches and assorted trash from her yard.

All the while, children in Klement’s daycare watched, along with her chickens.

“It was during nap time, too,” she said.

Nap interrupted, the children instead watched from the window at the adults and teenagers working. The chickens stared from their pen.

Joe Dockery, advisor for the school’s chapter of Key Club, called the experience “really cool.

“A lot of projects we do, we raise money and then we ship it off to somewhere in the world to build a well or buy a cow,” he said. “This time, we got to see it.”

To complete the project, the two groups took two hours.

About 16 people participated.

“When there’s so many people,” Key Club member Sam O’Malie said, “it goes fast.”

Allied Waste Management showed up that same day and

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O’Malie said it was fun to help someone. Club president Lynell Solene agreed.

“It felt good to be outside and to know someone’s yard is going to be clean,” she said.

The cleanup was one of two Key Club holds every school

year, one in the fall and one in the spring.

Most yards cleaned belong to senior citizens like Klement, Dockery said.

“She was really excited when we were there,” Dockery said of Klement. “It’s difficult once you get older, to get out and cut branches.”

Klement had gone to a senior center looking for help with cleaning up. The senior center sent her to the North Bend Community Church, because its members were looking for a project.

Harold Erland is a member of the church and a Kiwanis member.

He heard about Klement’s predicament at the same time the Key Club was looking for someone’s yard to clean.

“We asked Dave Humphrey, our Kiwanis advisor to help us find someone needing their yard cleaned,” Dockery wrote in an email. “He brought it up at the Kiwanis meeting and that’s when Mr. Erland jumped in to help us.”

All of a sudden, Klement said, her yard had more than chickens and toddlers.

“I look up, and the yard is full of girls raking,” she said.

Some chores, like climbing ladders, or using electrical tools to cut big branches, were offlimits for the teenagers. Still, Klement said, it was a big help.

“Some of them said they are coming back next year,” she said.

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Sixth-graders catapult to success at Twin Falls Middle School

By Sebastian Moraga Twin Falls Middle School is no castle.

There is no moat, no guards, no gators. But for the past few weeks, some sixth-graders have been ready in case one gets built.

The sixth-graders in Kyle Wallace’s class built and tested catapults as part of their science class, an experiment that tested their brains as well as their biceps.

“We’re learning the scientific process,” Makenzie Davis said, meaning the scientific method, “So the teacher wanted to give us a project that we could do a scientific investigation for.”

Davis teamed up with Emma Anderson and Allie Banducci to build the catapult. The trio’s parents helped some, too.

“We cut some of the wood, we screwed in these bolts,” Anderson said. “But Allie’s dad is a contractor.”

The project was easier than the girls thought. Building the catapult took a day, Banducci said.

“When we really planned it out, it was like, ‘Wow, it’s only a piece of wood here, and a piece of wood there,’” Banducci said, “And once we screwed

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Allie Banducci, Makenzie Davis and Emma Anderson (from left), fire up their catapult. them together, we made a catapult.”

The project was more challenging for classmate John Donovan, who built one by himself and whose first tries at a catapult failed.

“I tried a lot of different bars or axles and they kept breaking or the wood would keep breaking,” he said.

Building his catapult took five days, Donovan said, with

no help except a little bit from Dad. It was worth it, he said. Not only did he finish it solo, and learn a bit about science, but there were other side benefits, too.

“It taught me that if you work real hard, you get good stuff,” he said. “I’ve never been in the newspaper, so I’ll try harder in my next science project and see if I can do it again.”

and that’s OK, said the co-chair of the PTSA’s ValleyFest committee, Beth Burrows.

“They’ve been doing it for 30 From Page 14 years,” she said. “We are far as Cashmere and Renton, as babies.”

Still the baby, which raked in well as local merchants and fundraisers. $2,500 in 2010, “There’s so many great Parents of exceeded her 12th-graders creator’s expecartists in the area.” tations. raised money for Grad Night, “We are still — Carey McNabb the evening of Parent kind of small, but there’s so festivities that happens after many great graduation. artists in the area, this is a great forum for “This year, we have had a higher number of people asking ‘em,” McNabb said. for scholarships,” said Felicia Stone, a class of 2012 parent.

Sebastian Moraga: 392-6434, ext. 221, or smoraga@snovalleystar.com. Comment at The 2011 version of www.snovalleystar.com.

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Mount Si stuns No. 7 Peninsula, goes to state

By Sebastian Moraga The Mount Si High School Wildcats earned a state playoff berth with a 17-14 road win over the Peninsula Seahawks on Nov. 5 in Gig Harbor.

Peninsula entered the game as the Associated Press’ seventhranked 3A team in the state.

Mount Si was unranked.

“We played great defensively, 14 points against an offense that’s putting up so many points per game,” quarterback Ryan Atkinson said. “That’s just great for our defense.”

In a night where fans anticipated a close game, the Seahawks made it closer than the Wildcats would have liked, coming back in the third quarter from a 10-0 deficit to take a 1410 lead.

“We could have easily folded and we didn’t,” head coach Charlie Kinnune said. “I’m really proud of our defense and I’m really proud of our offense.”

Mount Si’s defense came up big in the fourth quarter with a couple of clutch stops and the deflated hosts could not keep up with the better-conditioned Wildcats.

“We practiced hard this whole week, very physical,” the Wildcats’ Josh Mitchell said.

“Our defensive coordinator made amazing calls, scouted ‘em like crazy, and everyone did their job.”

Griffin McLain had an outstanding night with two touchdowns for the Wildcats, one with seconds left in the first half and the other late in the third quarter, putting Mount Si ahead again after the two Seahawk touchdowns.

In the last stanza, it was a matter of hanging on tight, as Peninsula tried time and again to break through the sturdy Mount Si defense.

With seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, Peninsula went for it on fourth-and-1 from the Mount Si 32-yard line, only to be denied. Then, the Seahawks tried again on fourth down, this time with 58 seconds left.

As they had done all night, the Seahawks went to their workhorse, Danny Welstad, to keep the drive alive. Too bad for him, the Wildcats did the same — went to theirs — and state heavyweight champion wrestler

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Mount Si High School football players swarm Peninsula High School’s Kory Vanderstaay during the game between the Wildcats and the Seahawks in Gig Harbor. Mount Si earned a ticket to state with a 17-14 win over the seventh-ranked 3A team in Washington.

Mitchell stopped Welstad and the Peninsula hopes of a state berth.

“We’ll take anybody on in the fourth quarter,” Kinnune said. “They were dying. They didn’t want it, we did, because we were in great shape. I’m convinced our conditioning won

that as well as our defense.”

Mount Si had 248 yards on offense, Peninsula had 237, Kinnune said.

Now the Wildcats will face Seattle powerhouse O’Dea, which beat Mount Vernon on Nov. 5.

Kickoff at Seattle’s Memorial

Stadium is 7 p.m. on Veterans’ Day. Winner plays the winner of the game between Olympia’s Capital High School and Renton’s Hazen High School.

“We just played with heart tonight,” back Connor Deutsch said. “We showed heart and came out the victors.”

Mount Si volleyball stumbles in SeaKing District tournament

By Dan Catchpole Mount Si High School’s volleyball team is headed for the state tournament again. After a strong regular season, the Wildcats’ trip back to state took a stumble in the SeaKing District 2 Tournament.

The Wildcats lost their first game in a surprise upset to the Bainbridge Spartans on Nov. 3 at Sammamish High School.

Mount Si went down in three sets that each ended 25-21. It was a frustrating loss for the Wildcats, who had only one loss during their regular season and

had won the KingCo Conference title the week before.

“I want to see you guys go down swinging,” Coach Bonnie Foote told her players after the game.

Perennially one of the state’s top programs in recent years, the team members typically play well-disciplined and focused volleyball. It was a different story against Bainbridge.

Against the Spartans, the Wildcats couldn’t find their rhythm, and kept getting in their own way with bad serves See VOLLEYBALL, Page 18

3A Volleyball State Tournament

By Greg Farrar

Sarah McDonald, Mount Si High School senior outside hitter, hits the ball against Bainbridge sophomore outside hitter Julie Feikes Nov. 3 during the second set of their Sea-King District 3A volleyball tournament match.

Where: Saint Martin’s University (Lacey); Friday consolation matches at Timberline High School (Lacey) When: Friday and Saturday. Semifinals at 1:30 p.m., championship match at 8:15 p.m.

2010 champ: Seattle Prep Friday’s first round: ❑ 8 a.m. — Enumclaw (22-9) vs. No. 5 Eastside Catholic (24-5), Kennewick (17-12) vs. No. 6 Camas (23-8), No. 10 Capital (19-10) vs. No. 4 Mount Spokane (21-6) ❑ 9:45 a.m. — No. 9 Mount Si (25-6) vs. No. 3 Meadowdale (25-2), Bainbridge (18-13) vs. No. 7 Prairie (24-4), Timberline (19-9) vs. No. 2 Seattle Prep (21-7) ❑ 11:45 a.m. — Glacier Peak (21-9) vs. No. 8 Auburn Mountainview (25-6), Mercer Island (14-7) vs. No. 1 West Valley (31-0)

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Fly-tying lessons help heal some veterans F ISH J OURNAL

By Dallas Cross

This past summer, I attended a retirement party for a longtime colleague at the Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Connie Ward and I had Dallas Cross worked together in the Research and Development Program before I retired. I went to celebrate her successful career as a microbiologist and medical center biological safety officer.

Knowing she wanted to learn how to fly-fish, I gave her a retirement gift of a fly-casting and fishing lesson on the Snoqualmie River, at a time of her choice. Connie asked if she could bring along a friend and I agreed. We would find a time when her friend, Vicki Hoagland, could get away from her job as a research scientist at the University of Washington.

I am a veteran and receive my primary care at the Seattle VA Medical Center. In front of the facility I was stopped by a man who said, “I see you are a flyfisherman.”

Puzzled until I remembered that the hitch cover on my SUV extolled fly-fishing, I answered, “Yes, and you also?” It turned out that the gentleman was on his way to teach in a fly-tying class sponsored by the Washington Fly Fishing Club and hosted by the medical center. He invited me to visit the class after my appointment and I gladly accepted.

The class was in a pleasant activity room set up with tables holding fly-tying vices and containers of hooks, thread, feathers and fur. With club volunteers at hand, veteran patients were busy in various stages of tying both complicated and basic fly patterns on the hooks.

I learned that several of the volunteers were from Seattle area fly-fishing shops and expert tyers in their own right. In the announcement schedule were

outings where the veterans could participate in fishing and casting.

There was an opportunity for me to assist a Gulf War veteran.

He told me fly-tying was helping him focus on a productive task, and that he was looking forward to casting his fly for trout. He explained he had post traumatic stress disorder and the VA program at Seattle was helping him recover.

He thanked me for assisting him tie the fly and praised the Healing Waters program for helping him and his fellow veterans at the hospital.

Club volunteers told me that the Seattle Healing Waters project is part of a national program to help patients in many Veterans Administration facilities.

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc. is a nonprofit organization sponsoring therapeutic fly-tying and fishing activities.

Members have risen to the challenge of helping wounded veterans, even to the extent of inventing a one-handed flytying device for amputees.

I was informed Seattle VA rehabilitation staff gathered in amazement to observe the flytying by PTSD patients when the program first started. They remarked that patient concentration times were much longer than those seen during conventional therapy.

I have dropped in to the class a couple of times since, once contributing a large piece of prime elk hair hide that was immediately cut up and put into the materi-

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Connie Ward (foreground) and Vicki Hoagland fish on the Snoqualmie River. al boxes for the veterans.

Connie called and said that she and Vicki could go for her casting lesson on a Friday in September. I packed fly rods for all three of us and put together an après-fishing treat of some cheeses, buffalo pepperoni from Fischer’s Meat Market and a small bottle of Muscat wine. We met in the early morning in Fall City and carpooled to the fishing site about a quarter-mile below Snoqualmie Falls. On the way, Connie advised me that Vicki was a seasoned fly-fisher and expert fly-tyer.

Wow, was she right! Vicki could cast a better fly-line than me and it was a pleasure watching her tight loops straighten out and settle a beautifully tied fly gently on the water. Somewhat

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distracted, I started the lessons of fly-casting 101 with Connie and soon was watching her throw respectable casts at an everincreasing distance. I sat back and watched her catch a small rainbow (or was it a young steelhead?) for her first fish. Mission accomplished.

We all caught small trout and retired to a hill with a beautiful view of the falls for our celebratory picnic. Between bites and sips, Vicki informed me that she was responsible for starting the therapeutic fly-tying program, Healing Waters, at the Seattle VA Medical Center where she was working.

It began when Vicki heard of a Healing Waters program at the Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma and wondered whether that might be extended to

patients at the Seattle medical center. With determination, Vicki overcame bureaucratic snags and clinical reluctance.

She successfully solicited sponsorship and volunteers from the club and, as the first Seattle Project Healing Waters volunteer, got the program under way.

I not only thank my veteran brothers and sisters who have spent time in service to our country, but also salute those who, like Vicki and the volunteers from the Washington Fly Fishing Club, help heal and comfort those who have contributed much more than their time to our country.

Reach Dallas Cross at FishJournal@aol.com.

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Next came Holy Names, which the Wildcats put away, 3-0.

Smith turned in another strong game with 38 assists, 16 digs and four aces. Hayford had 14 digs.

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“We just didn’t play volleyball well tonight,” Foote said in a post-game interview.

Meanwhile, the Spartans came into the match after knocking off Bishop Blanchet High School in the tournament first round earlier that day. They played with precision and determination.

“They showed us something we haven’t seen before, and kept giving it to us,” Mount Si’s Sarah McDonald said.

During several rallies, the Mount Si squad seemed to have Bainbridge scrambling, but the Spartans refused to let go, and kept coming up with the ball.

The Wildcats tried to overpower the Spartans with their strong outside hitters McDonald and Lyndsay Carr. But Bainbridge was ready for them.

“We knew it was going to go outside, so we just loaded up on our blockers,” Bainbridge Coach Julie Miller said.

Mount Si struggled to split the Spartans’ blockers and catch them out of position.

“We didn’t get it done tonight,” McDonald said. She had 15 kills and 13 digs during the game.

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Public meetings ❑ North Bend ULID No. 6 Hearing: Final assessment roll, 3 p.m. Nov. 10, 411 Main Ave. S. ❑ Snoqualmie Public Safety budget meeting, 5 p.m. Nov. 10, Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway ❑ North Bend Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Nov. 10, 211 Main Ave. N. ❑ Snoqualmie Arts Commission, 10 a.m. Nov. 14, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ Public Hospital District No. 4 Board of Commissioners budget hearing, 6 p.m. Nov. 14, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, 9575 Ethan Wade Way S.E., Snoqualmie. ❑ Snoqualmie Transportation Benefit District, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 14, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ Snoqualmie Public Hearing: Annexation agreement with King County, 7 p.m.

Nov. 14, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ Snoqualmie City Council, 7 p.m. Nov. 14, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ North Bend Community and Economic Development Committee, 1:45 p.m. Nov. 15, 126 E. Fourth St. ❑ Snoqualmie Community and Economic Affairs Committee, 5 p.m. Nov. 15, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ North Bend City Council, 7 p.m. Nov. 15, 411 Main Ave. N. ❑ North Bend Transportation and Public Works Committee, 3:45 p.m.

Nov. 16, 1155 E. North Bend Way ❑ Snoqualmie Shoreline Hearings Board, 5 p.m. Nov. 16, 38624 S.E. River St. ❑ North Bend Parks Commission, 6 p.m. Nov. 16, 126 E. Fourth St. ❑ Si View Metro Park District Board of Commissioners, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16, 400 S.E. Orchard Drive, North Bend ❑ North Bend Economic Development Commission, 8 a.m., Nov. 17, 126 E. Fourth St. ❑ Snoqualmie Public Safety Committee, 5 p.m. Nov. 17, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway ❑ Snoqualmie Valley School Board, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17, 8001 Silva Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie

Events ❑ Pajama Story Times, 7 p.m. Nov. 10, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E., Snoqualmie. All young children welcome with adult. ❑ Open mic, 8 p.m. Nov. 10, Snoqualmie Taproom, 8032 Falls Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie. ❑ Diana Page with John Hansen, 7 p.m. Nov. 10, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ No School Day Camp, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 11, Si View Community Center, 400 S.E.

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Come out for a 5K race and children’s 1K fun run. Register at www.runsnoqualmie.com. ❑ Once Upon a Saturday Special Needs Story Times, 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12, North Bend Library, 115 E. 4th St., North Bend. Stories, songs and activities designed for children with special needs and their families. This program targets developmental ages 3-6.

❑ Meadowbrook 101, 10 a.m. Nov. 12, Meadowbrook Farm, 1711 Boalch Ave., North Bend. This presentation covers the colorful history boundaries and possible future options for this unique 460 acres of open space in Snoqualmie Valley.

Kelly Eisenhour Quartet, 7 p.m.

Nov. 12, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ John White and Friends, 8 p.m. Nov. 12, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ The Defeys, 9 p.m. Nov. 12, Snoqualmie Taproom, 8032 Falls Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie. ❑ North Bend Mountain Film Festival presents “Solitaire,” 4:30 p.m. Nov. 13, North Bend Theatre, 125 Bendigo Boulevard, North Bend ❑ ‘The Guys’ by Anne Nelson, 5 p.m. Nov. 13, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie ❑ Danny Kolke Trio, 6 p.m.

Nov. 13, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Carolyn Graye Singer’s Soiree, 7 p.m. Nov. 14, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Toddler Story Times, 9:30 a.m. Nov. 15, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North Bend. Ages 2 to 3 with adult. ❑ Preschool Story Times, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 15, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North

Bend. Ages 3 to 6 with adult. ❑ Open mic, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15, Twede’s Café, 137 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Liberty HS Jazz Band, 7 p.m. Nov. 15, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Young Toddler Story Times, 9:30 a.m. Nov. 16, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E., Snoqualmie.

Ages 6-24 months with adult. ❑ Preschool Story Times, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16, Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. S.E., Snoqualmie. Ages 3-6 with adult. ❑ Alexey Nikolaev Trio, 7 p.m. Nov. 16, Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend ❑ Open mic, 7 p.m. Nov. 16, The Black Dog, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie

Volunteer opportunities ❑ Snoqualmie Sister Cities Association invites community members to join a newly formed group to support Snoqualmie’s new sister city, Chaclacayo, Peru.

The association already has developed a close relationship with sister city Gangjin, South Korea, which more than 30 residents have visited in the past four years.

Email maryrcorcoran@gmail.com or call 503-1813. ❑ The Mount Si Food Bank is looking for volunteers to help unload food at noon Mondays, sort food at 9 a.m. Tuesdays or

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pass out food on Wednesdays.

Call the food bank at 888-0096. ❑ 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. ❑ 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 206-7487588 or 800-282-5815 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 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 ❑ “Avoiding a personal tsunami,” 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7, Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway, Snoqualmie. Cost: $10. Call 8885576 to register.

Submit an item for the community calendar by emailing editor@snovalleystar.com or go to www.snovalleystar.com.

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