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The bear solvers

Flood fighters won’t throw in towel

Officers: Human behavior needs to change to end unwanted encounters BY SETH TRUSCOTT

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One night last spring, two moms—one a human, the other a bear—came face to face. Becca Russell of Preston was a new mom, up late tending to her newborn, when she heard a noise in the night. “Oh, shoot, it’s the bears,” she thought. But it wasn’t one roving, garage-browsing bear, but three: A sow and two cubs. Russell’s annoyance that now more of the hungry creatures were making a haven of her home turned to fear, when she tried to shoo them away, hollering from the safety of her home. Outside her office window, the mama bear rose to her hind legs and huffed in defiance. Russell backed off, shut the curtains, but returned to see what happened next. “They just went back to eating my garbage until they were done, and moseyed on,” Russell said. Russell’s sense of being under siege was reinforced when a bear tore off the door of an outside shed at her home earlier this year. She’s regained control by building a stronger shed, and is keeping her trash in a strong steel container, but wonders at reports of bears wandering local streets. SEE BEAR SOLVERS, 3

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Lower Valley Alliance wants reconsideration of Army Corps decision BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

Bend enjoyed when “Twin Peaks” came out. Then again, maybe not. “The influx of people was just amazing,” said the 81-yearold North Bend resident. Soon after “Twin Peaks” went on the air Thursday nights, customers began pouring into the cafe, all wanting a slice of pie and “a damn fine cup of coffee”

On the heels of another court loss, the Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Alliance is still fundraising, still fighting. “We haven’t given up, and we will not give up, until every option is exhausted,” said Erick Haakenson, a Carnation farmer and member of the SVPA board of directors. T h e S V P A (www. svpa.us) is a group of Valley residents, farms, and dairies ERICK HAAKENSON that united SVPA board member in an effort to address the causes of increasing Lower Valley flooding. They are enmeshed in a legal battle with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers which they claim erroneously authorized its lowering of the dam at Snoqualmie Falls and the multi-million dollar update of Puget Sound Energy facilities there, under a general nationwide permit permit, or GNP, provision.

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With trash-raiding bears a common nuisance in Snoqualmie, city, state and Waste Management officials are working together to find solutions. Wildlife enforcement officer Chris Moszeter, left, works with bear dog Savute to keep bears in the woods. Jeff McMahon, District Manager for Waste Management, center, orders bear-proof garbage bins. Police officer Nigel Draveling, right, wants residents to help by promptly reporting encounters.

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Pat Cokewell looks over some of the Twin Peaks memorabilia she’s collected over the years, including a write-up in the National Enquirer. “I’ve really made it now!” she joked.

No one warned her about the pie. If they had, Pat Cokewell might have been better prepared for the rush of business her little Mar-T Cafe (now Twede’s) in North

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Fall City man involved in Peninsula accident A four-car collision Sunday afternoon in Kingston sent one driver to the hospital, and left three Washington drivers, including 45-year-old Chris Howlett of Fall City, to drive their damaged vehicles away. “From the description, it sounds like inattention and speed” were the causes of the accident, said Trooper Russ Winger, a Washington State Patrol spokesman. The accident occurred at 12:28 p.m., according to the WSP report, when a 2006 Chevy Malibu, driven by a 23-year-old Kingston woman, Mary Arnold, rear-ended a 1995 Dodge Ram, driven by Gerald Atwood, 55, also of Kingston. The two vehicles were westbound on S.R. 104 when Atwood slowed down to make a left turn into a driveway. Approaching the two vehicles, eastbound, were Howlett in a 2012 Ford F-350 towing a 28-foot camper trailer, and Matthew Gillian, 50, of Kenmore, in a 2009 Hyundai Sonata. The Malibu reportedly rear-ended the Ram, then swerved left into the driver’s side of the F-350. The car then flipped and landed on its roof, resting against the Sonata. Winger said a vehicle flipping in this sort of collision was not unexpected. “It takes very little to roll a car when it’s moving,” he explained, and the Malibu’s rebound from two consecutive collisions must have sent the car off balance enough to flip it. The driver of the Malibu was injured and transported to the hospital. The other drivers were all uninjured. Troopers also found a dog, believed to be inside the Malibu during the collision, who was killed in the accident.

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as ordered by Kyle MacLachlan in the show. Most of them had to put their names on a waiting list and come back later, when another batch of pies was ready. “On Saturdays and Sundays, I had two crews of people making pies — everything was made in-house,” Cokewell said, “and they’d run out! … I had to hire a cashier, because the waitresses couldn’t keep up, and I remember one Sunday when I just stood in one place and sliced pie all day.” Fans of the show weren’t the only ones going through the pie, either. Cokewell fed a lot of pie to the crew — chocolate peanut butter was co-creator David Lynch’s favorite — and eventually left them a key for snack runs after the cafe was closed. “I told them to just write it down (what they ate) on a piece of paper,” she said, laughing, “and one morning I came in, and there were 17 slices of pie on the list!” Cokewell has fond memories of the Twin Peaks craze of 1990 and 1991, and not just because of the boost it gave to her business and her community. While the show was filming here, and in other locations throughout the Valley for about six weeks in early 1989, she met many of the actors and crew, and became close friends with Frank Silva, who played Bob. When the Twin Peaks movie premiered in 1992, she enjoyed meeting the fans of the show just as much, and looked forward every year to the gathering inspired by the movie, the Twin Peaks Fest. Today, she still corresponds with at least a dozen people she’s met from the festival, and has boxes of memorabilia given to her and created by

One of Cokewell’s favorite photos of the Twin Peaks filming is this shot of cast and crew just after breakfast in her cafe one day. Dana Ashbrook, left, played Bobby, and right, co-creator David Lynch sits next to an unidentified actress. Peggy Lipton, who played Norma Jennings, stands behind the booth. the fans, like a can of creamed corn labeled “Garmonbozia.” “It’s like a family,” she says. That is exactly how Twin Peaks Fest organizer Jared Lyon, 33, describes the event, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. “It becomes sort of like a family reunion,” he said. At first, he explains, people “loved the show because of its quirkiness. I think that’s why people first come to the festival.” There, they met creative people with similar interests, in the beautiful natural setting of the Valley, and they had reason enough to come back, again and again. This year, Twin Peaks Fest is August 3 to 5, and, for the first time, it is sold out. More than 200 people are expected to take part in three days of indulgence in all things Twin Peaks, including a Blu-Ray screening of “Fire Walk with Me” at the North Bend Theatre, bus tours of the filming locations, and a celebrity dinner featuring former

cast members. Confirmed guests include Michael Horse (Deputy Hawk), Charlotte Stewart (Betty Briggs), Phoebe Augustine (Ronette Pulaski) and Al Strobel (the onearmed man), with others possible. Only 200 people, and only three days, Twin Peaks Fest could very well be the smallest international (some regular attendants come from England and Japan) festival in the world. That’s fine with Lyon and his co-organizer Amanda Hicks, both former festival attendants who volunteered to keep it going nine years ago when their predecessors stepped down. “We wanted to keep everything manageable, and make sure everyone has a good time,” said Lyon. In other words, the festival, like the show that inspired it, is short-lived, obscure, and the treasured secret of those who know about it. The secret seems to be out, though, since attendance has been steadily increasing for the past five years.

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