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Serious skills mingle with fun in new women’s defense series BY CAROL LADWIG

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There’s no reason the activities planned for this evening’s self-defense class should be fun, but they are. People are talking quietly or laughing out loud, sprawled on the floor of the Snoqualmie Fire Station, or doing some gentle stretches. They’re relaxed and joking, but transition quickly to all seriousness for a final review of their training, and of the evening’s program with Officer John Lievero. Well, mostly serious. When Lievero repeats the final rule for the night, “no weapons, OK?” he gets a quick retort from one student, flexing her biceps as she says, “None except for these babies!” Just like that, the 17 women go back to joking, and the first few students gets geared up for practice.

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The Kind Alternative, one of 23 shops closed by DEA letter, re-opens in Black Diamond By Valley Record Staff

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Standing up to her ‘attacker,’ police officer Dave Bond, a RAD student tries the selfdefense techniques she’s learned in a class with Snoqualmie Police Department.

Lost alleys, found After decades of overgrowth, Snoqualmie survey is reclaiming paths BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor

Bordered by fences on both sides, the strip fronting River Street is a patchwork of tall grass, concrete blocks, stacked firewood and leaf litter. Roots of big maples furrow the ground. A child’s fort overlooks the scene. On the city’s official maps, this place is supposed to be an alley. But the connector between River and Newton Streets went back to nature years ago. Not for much longer. The city of Snoqualmie is in the midst of a complete survey of downtown alleys, with the aim of transforming how people move around this historic neighborhood. SEE ALLEY, 5

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Once an alley, this strip of land off Snoqualmie’s Silva Avenue may become a connector again. Dan Marcinko, the city’s Public Works and Parks Director, says a new alley survey by Perteet, Inc., will make for a complete picture of downtown, and a more accessible city.

The Kind Alternative Medical Marijuana Collective in Preston has been temporarily shuttered since early August, after receiving a warning letter from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. The letters, sent to the operators and landlords of 23 medical marijuana facilities in western Washington, stated the operations had to cease immediately because of their proximity to school zones or drug-free zones. A sign on the Kind Alternative’s windows stated that the facility was closing as a courtesy to neighboring businesses. Although the collective has closed its storefront, the operator said they have continued to make deliveries to patients. The adjoining Go’in Glass Lounge, which does not provide any marijuana, but sells pipes and other devices, and provides a patient-only area for consumption of marijuana, will remain open. Collective operators hope to return to their Preston facility in the near future, as Seattle and unincorporated King County zoning laws are updated. SEE MOVE, 5

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DEFENSE FROM 3 They all go silent again, when they hear the approaching creak of protective gear. That’s the sound of their would-be attacker, Officer Dave Bond, covered head-totoe in red padding. He’s coming to help them practice their defense techniques in realistic but safe scenarios, or more concisely, to take a beating from each one of them. The sound of his approach is when the fear—and the fun—really begin. “I just want you guys to know, I am really nervous,” the first woman to face Bond announced as she stood alone in the practice area. “It may not look like it but…” Lievero wasn’t surprised. He and Bond, both Normandy Park Police officers, are certified instructors of Rape Aggression Defense Systems, or RAD (www.rad-systems. com) and they’ve been offering these women-only classes for years. “This is a really difficult thing for a lot of women,” Lievero said. “It’s very uncomfortable to have someone put their hands on you.” For these final exercises of the class, each woman was put into several uncomfortable situations, and experi-

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A woman flees from ‘assailant’ Dave Bond, as John Lievero signals the end of the exercise. enced the terror and the thrill of kicking and screaming her way out of them. Added to that were a supportive audience of fellow students shouting out encouragements and techniques to try, and hoots and applause for every clean escape. No wonder each and every one of them revealed a wide grin when their helmets came off. Then again, Bond also seemed pretty happy, despite the punishment he was taking. Before he was half done with the group, Bond had been thrown on his back, stripped of his helmet once, kicked and punched countless times and his ears were probably still ringing with the verbal abuse his students had let fly, all part of the training.

On a water break, he wouldn’t even consider giving someone else the suit for a few rounds. “Honestly, we fight for who gets to do this,” he panted. The “we” he’s talking about is the small group of RADcertified instructors who host classes throughout the Puget Sound Area. Member police departments of the Coalition of Small Police Agencies, like Snoqualmie, have access to specialized training like theirs, said Snoqualmie Officer Nigel Draveling, who coordinated this first Snoqualmie class. “That’s where the Coalition is really cool,” said Draveling, adding that the Snoqualmie department had been receiving requests for self-defense classes for some

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time. “They can come in and assist us, since we don’t have our own instructors.” They love to do it, too. Bond’s only disappointment for the evening was that, although his program now owns two suits, they couldn’t use both of them that night because the third RAD instructor they work with in the Valley was unavailable. In another month, though, they should be able to use both suits, because Draveling will be taking the RAD certification course in October, and the Snoqualmie Police Department just authorized another RAD class for later this fall. Draveling is excited, both about the training he’ll be getting, and the community’s response to this training session. “We’ve been wanting to do citizen classes for three years, as a police department,” he said. When the timing and opportunity were right to offer one, Draveling knew it would be a self-defense class, but he didn’t know

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which one until he’d done the research. He chose RAD, he said, because “this is the one that fits best with what we wanted to do.” The response was overwhelming. “We had 18 spots, and it booked up in three days,” Draveling, “I’m not kidding, I’m still getting e-mails from people!” He doesn’t attribute the interest in self-defense to any trends in the community, but to general awareness. “I think people just want to be prepared,” he said. The four-day class covers more than just the physical maneuvers. In fact most of the first two sessions discuss ways to improve safety at home, at work, and online. “After that first night, I went home and cancelled my Facebook, my LinkedIn account, everything,” one student said. “I talked to my kids, too.” Each of the three men was gratified to see how well this first RAD class in Snoqualmie had learned from them. That the women had learned from each other was apparent, too. When that first student confessed that she was nervous about the practice, some women laughed, some said “me, too!” and a few more echoed the sentiments of one student, who said “Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!” For information about the next RAD class and other self-defense offerings such as pepper-spray or firearms training, send an e-mail to Officer Nigel Draveling, ndraveling@ci.snoqualmie. wa.us.

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A new policy for improving Snoqualmie Valley School District was adopted in a 4 to 1 vote by the school board Thursday, Sept. 27. The “Curriculum Pathways and Benchmarks” policy, number 2423, calls for the school district to implement “curriculum pathways” for grades 6 to 12, and to create a scorecard to determine how the district is progressing. The goal is “to allow all students access to courses necessary to build the transcripts recommended for competitive application to post-high school education, including top four-year universities.” All of the details regarding the implementation of pathways and the creation of the scorecard will be determined by the district administration and staff. Originally presented at a Sept. 13 board meeting, the policy proposal by board members Geoff Doy and Carolyn Simpson, drew both high praise and strong criticism. It did again at last week’s meeting, attended by roughly 60 parents and teachers. Board member Scott Hodgins supported the original policy, and noted that Doy and Simpson had simply done as they were asked by the board, when they were assigned to think about strategic planning. He also supported the rewrite. President Dan Popp overcame his initial opposition that the first draft was too prescriptive, and supported the new version, too. Marci Busby maintained her opposition to the policy, on the grounds that Doy and Simpson had talked to teachers and administrators from other school districts, but not their own. “I think our experts should have been able to weigh in on this,” she said. Busby cast the only opposing vote to the new policy. The split opinion on the policy was shared by audience members, many of whom took the opportunity to comment on the policy before the vote. Some felt the policy was too elitist, focusing too heavily on four-year colleges, while others felt improvement was always a worthwhile goal. Others had general statements they wanted to make. Teachers described the work they’ve already been doing in increasing curriculum offerings, and didn’t want that work to be discarded. Trese Rand of Fall City, asked the board to “give some time and some weight SEE PATHWAY, 6

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Service stretch

Music hero Author Clay Eals explores American folk voice with book, Nursery concert

Snoqualmie ops levy would help fire dept. adapt to the times BY SETH TRUSCOTT

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The black-and-white photo shows a row of men hefting fire axes and saws, smiling confidently as they open a new station. The 2005 image chronicles the Snoqualmie Fire Department of a different era—a time of fast growth in the city, when fire and police divisions were being built and staffed to handle a big new population. Fast-forward seven years, and most of the men in the picture still work in Snoqualmie. But their jobs have changed. Their department is busier, but hasn’t grown in nearly a decade. Increasing needs are beginning to tell. A hiring freeze could thaw soon, though, as part of an operations levy that goes before city voters this fall.

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The Snoqualmie City Council greenlighted a 24-cent operations levy on Monday, July 23, to maintain service levels for the fire department, police, parks and public works. SEE OPS LEVY, 7

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Rushing to connect fire hose to hydrant, Snoqualmie firefighter Darby Summers trains at the city station in July. The fire station’s team is being challenged by increased calls, but could see its first growth in staff since 2003 as part of a new property-tax-based operations levy that goes to voters this fall.

Football dropped at Snoqualmie Valley middle schools Students more interested in soccer, change inevitable, school athletic director says BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

Football won’t be returning to Snoqualmie Valley School District middle schools when the students do. The sport was been cut from all three middle schools’ extra-curricular offerings this year, in a controversial decision made by the schools’ coaches. Instead,

the schools will offer boys JV), turnout varied at the Soccer plans soccer this fall. other competing schools “Everyone involved is Boys interested in playing in the Triangle League. disappointed, but we knew soccer this fall should plan Tolt Middle School in parwe’d eventually have to on attending their first ticular struggled to meet make this decision,” Chief practice session immediately the 10-player minimum Kanim Middle School ath- after school on Aug. 29. last season, causing them letic director and football to forfeit two of six games. coach Mickey Fowler said. The Triangle League Participation numbers are what includes Snoqualmie, Riverview and the prompted the decision, Fowler said. Mercer Island School District, but Mercer Although Chief Kanim typically fielded Island does not offer football, and Tolt about 50 interested seventh- and eighth- dropped the sport last spring. graders each year (“that made two niceSEE MS SPORTS, 7 sized teams” Fowler said, a varsity and

In one rare moment, Clay Eals is all but speechless. An author and journalist, best known to the Valley as communication director for Encompass, Eals is the guy who makes his living with his words. He is also clearly (if briefly) overwhelmed, when he talks about all the things that a long-dead, almost-famous folk singer has CLAY EALS given him in the last 20 years. They were huge opportunities like the music to court his future wife, and a legitimate reason to travel the continent, STEVE GOODMAN meeting, interviewing, and once or twice going crab-fishing with some of the most beloved musicians in America. They were also simple truths, about the incredible generosity of people, how cruelly short life is, and the necessity of following your dreams. His thoughts and stories about the singer, Steve Goodman, flow so swiftly, they pile up in his mind faster than he can get them out. Finally, he distills them down to one concept, gratitude. He leans over and pats the newly printed third edition of “Steve Goodman: Facing the Music, a Biography by Clay Eals,” then grins and whispers conspiratorially, “I got to do my some-day project!” SEE ICON, 2

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ICON FROM 1 The book, an eight-year endeavor when it was first published in 2007, is a 778-page encyclopedia on the performer who people know primarily for his song “City of New Orleans,” made famous by Arlo Guthrie. For Eals, though, seeing Goodman perform ruined him for all other musicians. “He was the best I’d ever seen,” Eals recalled. “He would make you laugh so hard…. and two minutes later, you’d be crying.” A classmate of Goodman’s told Eals “He seemed to be more entertained than entertaining, and that, of course, is tremendously entertaining.” As much as fans appreciated Goodman’s showmanship and wry humor, so did his fellow musicians respect his musical talents. Musician Tom Colwell, who will perform with Eals in a tribute to Goodman at 7 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5 at The Nursery at Mount Si, remembered the one time he performed with Goodman, fondly. “I had seen him perform at the Brown Palace, and was just blown away by the guy,” Colwell said. “His energy was like nothing you’ve ever seen.” One night, while Colwell was performing at a bar called Somebody Else’s Troubles, Goodman walked in. He knew Goodman didn’t like want attention when he was in the audience, but decided to invite him up on stage, after he’d listened for a while. Colwell introduced him as Joe Steel, a name that just came to him. Since Colwell was wearing his 12-string guitar, Goodman picked up his much-loved Fender six-string, and backed him up on several songs, including “City of New Orleans.” “I’ve never heard music come out of that guitar like that before or since,” he said. Although he was a phenomenon among musicians, and in the heart of the folk movement at the time, Goodman never achieved the fame that found Guthrie, or Goodman’s friend John Prine,

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or his protege, Jimmy Buffett. “I know Steve Goodman’s an American iconic songwriter that has legions of followers all around,” said Nels Melgaard, owner of The Nursery at Mount Si. That was pretty much the total of Melgaard’s knowledge of Goodman when he took the opportunity, four years ago, to buy the evening on Steve Goodman, along with Eals’ book donated as an auction item for an Encompass fundraiser. “He was a brilliant songwriter that died young,” Melgaard added. At 20, Goodman was diagnosed with leukemia.

It was 1969, and at that time, Eals said, the diagnosis was “a death sentence.” Instead of submitting to the disease, though, Goodman pursued experimental treatments at Memorial Sloane-Kettering Hospital in New York, and continued making music. If he hadn’t, “we wouldn’t have ‘City of New Orleans,’ we wouldn’t have ‘A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request,’ we wouldn’t have all these other great songs...” Eals said. Goodman’s courage in facing his disease is what inspired Eals to write what he calls his life’s work. “Clay’s energy around this thing is really unflagging… just remarkable,” said Colwell. “I think it’s because he’s developed a great respect for Steve’s commitment to be alive.” Eals explains, “The book is, yes, about a musician, but it’s about how death is sitting on all of our shoulders… he didn’t have the luxury, shall we say, of forgetting about it, because he wasn’t supposed to live out another year.” Goodman enjoyed a long remission from his disease, and lived 15 more years. He died in 1984. Eals had seen him live only twice, but was moved by Goodman’s last album, particularly, the last song, “You Better Get It While You Can.” Within a few years, he had started preliminary research. By 1999, he’d reduced his full-time job to half-time, to focus on interviewing more than 2,000 friends, classmates, and fans of Goodman. Four years later, he quit altogether. He worked on the book and spent time with his mother, who was placed in a nursing home across from his West Seattle home. In an other four years, the book was done, and Eals accumulated 75 rejection letters before finding a publisher, ECW in Toronto. The first printing sold out in eight months. His struggle to write the book has parallels to Goodman’s career, but without the tragic ending. “Facing our mortality is a huge thing for all of us… and that’s the lesson of this book: We are not meant to be hermits in this life. We are meant to connect with and engage with and inspire people,” he said. “He was that, personified.”

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‘Horses and Hounds’ parade planned in Carnation The Carnation Chamber of Commerce is planning a parade honoring and welcoming the Evergreen Classic horse show. The first Evergreen Classic Horses and Hounds Parade is 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9. The parade begins on West Entwistle Street, continues to East Entwistle, turns onto Stossell and ends on East Bird Street, where there will be food, vendors and entertainment. At 7 p.m., a Mutt Strutt contest is planned, with voting for bestdressed dog, best trick and most obedient. Mutt Strutt winners will be announced at 8:15 p.m. Only horses and hounds will be in the parade. Entry fee for the Mutt Strutt and parade is $5. The Evergreen Classic takes place August 8 to 12. Sponsors include the city of Carnation, Carnation Dog Park, Love Restaurant, Best Buddy Dog Wash and Honey Do Farms. For more information and registration forms, go to www.carnationchamber.com.

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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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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.

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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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It had to be a faith community that opened the Valley’s first winter shelter for the homeless. Only a church could organize quickly enough, generate donations and recruit volunteers to open its doors while it still mattered.

Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson ended speculation last Monday on whether he will seek a third term. “It’s been an honor for the past seven years to serve with such a fine group of people, the staff and this council,” Larson MATT LARSON said at the Snoqualmie close of the Mayor Februar y 25 council meeting. “If the citizens of Snoqualmie allow me, I’d like to throw my hat in for another four years.” Larson was unopposed in 2009. In 2005, he beat James Harrelson, 55 percent to 43 percent, at the polls. His announcement prompted the rest of the council to declare their intentions, and like Larson, all those due to re-run this fall choose to do so.

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Cast and crew members from “Lucky Them” exit the Mount Si Pub for another take of a scene that begins in the car outside. The film crew spent most of a day filming at North Bend’s Mount Si Pub, in a story tracking Toni Collette’s character throughout the area.

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Actors keep dropping into North Bend, Carnation for independent films BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

“Is this a movie movie, or is this a monster movie?” That was a logical question in Carnation, which last year was the setting for the Syfy Channel’s made-for-TV movie

“Bigfoot,” and Becca Hall, who teaches a children’s writing class in Carnation, was probably asking for a lot of residents. “Lucky Them,” the movie in question, is an independent film directed by Seattle writer/director/producer Megan Griffiths (“Off Hours,” “Eden”), and starring Toni Collette (“Little Miss Sunshine,” “United States of Tara”) and Thomas Haden Church (“Sideways,” “Wings”). SEE MOVIES, 2

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Valley Winter Shelter supervisor Linda Beckvold laughs at the teasing she gets when she brings out the night’s chores list. One of the requirements for staying at the shelter is that guests help take care of the facility.

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Jerusalem artichoke in hand, Duvall gardener Jamie Roberts considers a box of the tubers, which includes another type of seed that resembles a large grub.

The virtues of a simple seed Gardeners exchange wisdom in Fall City They came for practical reasons, and for political ones, and they came by the dozens. Fall City’s old Masonic Hall was crowded with gardeners Saturday, Feb. 23, during Transition Snoqualmie Valley’s third annual seed exchange, picking up seeds and advice from other local gardeners. Jaymie Blatt of North Bend, a two-time participant this year, came prepared with her own seed bags and a permanent marker for labeling. Carey Thornton, a Tilth employee and Seattle resident, was there as a gardener first, but couldn’t stop herself from extolling the virtues of a three-foot, curving Tromboncino squash. SEE SEEDS, 10

Unconfirmed Facebook posts last week also suggested an appearance by Johnny Depp of “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Alice in Wonderland” fame. No monsters, no low-budget effects. A movie movie. “This is just really exciting,” said Carnation businesswoman Lee Grumman, who helped the film crew arrange for Carnation filming sites. “It was pretty cool, actually,” agreed Rob Sherard, owner of the Mount Si Pub in North Bend. His log-cabin bar was the setting for several scenes of the movie, and he was there for filming, Feb. 6. “They started at 5-something in the morning!” he groaned, but he enjoyed the experience of watching the movie get made, with the added bonus of great food from the catering truck, and the opportunity of, some day, seeing his own bar in the movies. Mostly his bar, anyway. “If anybody’s been in here, they’ll definitely know this is the place,” Sherard said, but the film crew spent about two days before filming redecorating the bar to fit the script’s “logger bar” description. Animal heads, a bear skin and stuffed raccoons were added, plus lots and lots of signed dollar bills. “There are dollar bills all over our walls and ceilings, and they loved ‘em,” said Sherard. “They made a whole bunch more. Of course they weren’t real.” Only one thing about the bar couldn’t be changed, Sherard said, the name. “That was pretty big with me,”

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Sherard said, “as long as I get to keep my name.” As planned, most of the Valley locations you’ll eventually see in the movie—residential Carnation, roads in Snoqualmie, and the Mount Si Pub—will get to keep their names. “This will be the Mount Si Pub,” said location manager Dave Drummond during filming outside the North Bend bar on a rare sunny day. “Everywhere in this movie is essentially playing itself.” The movie follows Collette, a rock journalist on assignment, and Church, an eccentric former fling of hers, as they attempt to track down her old boyfriend, a rock star who vanished into the Pacific Northwest and obscurity 10 years ago. It was originally set in New York, where the writers, Huck Botko and Emily Wachtel, and the production company Mymy Productions, are based, but several factors made the transition to Washington an easy decision to make, said Adam Gibbs, a producer with “Lucky Them.” It started when writer Wachtel asked her friend Colin Trevorrow (“Safety Not Guaranteed”) to direct the film. He was working on another project, but suggested Griffiths, also a Seattleite. Along with Griffiths came much of her crew from her past two films, including Drummond, an expert on Washington locations, and the location manager for last summer’s “You Can’t Win” shot in Snoqualmie and North Bend. “The story seemed to make sense up here, and the city (Seattle) is so film-friendly,” said Gibbs, so the script was rewritten for a Seattle setting. Washington Filmworks, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting film productions statewide, helped make the state an attractive shooting location by subsidizing up to 30 percent of the movie’s locally-incurred costs. The Snoqualmie Valley, at about 30 miles from Seattle, is also perfectly spaced for production rules limiting work to within a 30-mile radius of a production hub. “It’s called the zone,” explained Drummond, and it means that the film can take advantage of “these beautiful rural settings,” and the spectacular view of Mount Si — “that’s a value for sure,” Drummond says — without incurring additional travel expenses for cast and crew. The distinctive red Mount Si Pub was just inside the zone and, of the handful of Valley businesses Drummond scouted for the bar scenes, had the right look, Drummond said. Sherard had owned the bar for only two months when Drummond contacted him about using the building for the film, last December. He said he didn’t mind closing the bar

Star sighting Johnny Depp joins roster of celebrity actors to stop in small town of Carnation Keep your binoculars when you visit Carnation these days. The little city on the Snoqualmie and Tolt Rivers, population 1,905, seems to be ground zero for spectacular sightings. Last week, the Internet was abuzz with news of movie star Johnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series) being spotted in Carnation and later at the Salish Lodge on Snoqualmie Falls. Before that, there were stars Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church, filming scenes for the just-finished-filming “Lucky Them,” (see Movie, p. 1) and before that, Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire) and company were seen filming the hobo story “You Can’t Win” soon to be released. And who can forget January, 2012, when Bigfoot was in Carnation? Officially, only the first three sightings actually happened—Bigfoot was created later in the Syfy studios with special effects, so it only looked like he was there. Several movies have used Carnation, and other parts of the Valley, for filming locations. “Lucky Them,” for example, has scenes in Carnation, Snoqualmie and North Bend. Johnny Depp’s appearance, however, is a lot like a Bigfoot sighting. Several people have confirmed seeing Depp in Carnation, although most of the Internet posts with photos of him there have been removed over the past week. There has been speculation that he’s associated with the movie “Lucky Them,” but production staff cannot confirm that. Little about Depp’s visit can be verified. He was in Carnation on Monday, Feb. 25, the same day that two off-duty Mercer Island Police Officers came to the city to help with traffic control for the movie being filmed there. The officers were there through a joint partnership, the Coalition of Small Police Agencies, which includes Carnation and Snoqualmie. The officers were not there because of Johnny Depp, said Mercer Island Police Sergeant Brian Noel, who said the officers on traffic duty asked him to speak for them. In fact, the officers were unaware that Depp was in Carnation for most of the day. They did see him near the end of their almost eight-hour shift closing intersections along Tolt Avenue, which is also S.R. 203. The rumor mill also revealed that Depp stayed at the Salish Lodge, and several websites, including www.seattlemet.com, provided details about who he dined with and what he ordered. It’s not clear where this information came from, however. Salish Lodge General Manager Rod Lapasin said Salish staff do not discuss who does or doesn’t stay at the hotel, for privacy considerations. down for a half day, considering it an investment in the future. However, he was glad the company paid him for the space, enough to compensate his bartender for her lost hours for the day. He also enjoyed watching the movie being made, although he didn’t try to talk with the stars. “I just said ‘hi.’ I didn’t want to be the star-struck weirdo,” he said. “They had stalkers… there were people parked across the street, trying to get autographs.” He was impressed with the professionalism of the crew, he

“They had stalkers...There were people across the street, trying to get autographs.”

Rob Sherard, Mount Si Pub owner said, but a couple of things about the day were baffling to him. One was “rolling.” “Every time they said ‘rolling,’ you had to shut up and not move,” he said, “even in the parking lot.” He also was surprised at what it took for anything to happen in the movie, including the final scene, being filmed as pool

league players started showing up for their 7 p.m. matches. In the scene, an actress closes down the empty bar and walks out the door. “It was only once, but she had to do it five or six times,” he said. Getting out of the bar turned out to be tricky, too. “You know we have multiple doorknobs on our door inside,” Sherard said, “and we got ‘em a couple of times with that.” Church especially seemed to struggle with finding the knob that actually opened the door, he said. “They could have marked the doorknob for the poor guy,” Sherard said. Filming wrapped up on the movie Thursday, Feb. 28, with a final day of shooting in Tacoma. The movie travelled throughout the Seattle area, including Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Fremont. When it’s through production, producers hope the movie will travel further, to the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, where a major studio could pick it up. Because it’s an independent film, Gibbs said, there’s no guarantee it will be distributed widely, but many on the crew are optimistic. Drummond says, “I believe you’re going to see it in theaters.”

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The man who police say shot his family, torched his home and fled to an underground lair on Rattlesnake Ridge, is dead. When SWAT teams blasted their way inside North Bend resident Peter A. Keller’s log-built bunker on Saturday morning, April 28, they found the suspect’s body, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. At a press conference near the

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Rattlesnake Ridge trailhead, King County Sheriff Steve Strachan praised the detective work and citizen response that led up to a siege of Keller’s bunker. Unable to fathom Keller’s motives, the sheriff hoped the standoff would have ended with-

out another death. “To try to apply some sort of rational reason is futile,” Strachan said. SEE BUNKER SIEGE, 2

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Above, SWAT teams blasted their way into murder suspect Peter A. Keller’s underground bunker last weekend, after tips and detective work led to the Rattlesnake Ridge lair. Right, infrared cameras on a sheriff’s helicopter show police surrounding the hideout Friday. Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Marvin Kempf, right, with Snoqualmie Tribal Elder Anita Christiansen, center, and advisor Stephen Gomes, hold up replicas of a 13,000-yearold set of Sla-hal pieces, which will be discussed at a 60-tribe gathering at Seattle Pacific University. The gathering will be the first of so many tribes in more than a century. Later this year, Snoqualmie Casino will develop a cultural display on the game.

Sacred games Tribal leaders speak out on continental connection BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

Whatever other titles he may hold, Marvin Kempf, a hereditary chief of the Snoqualmie Tribe, and the son of Snoqualmie Princess Roslyn Harvey Kempf, is a born storyteller. Creation, the monster of the mountain, and battling giants, are all easilyrecalled legends from his culture, and ones he loves to share. “I was thinking about another story,” he announced over lunch last Friday. It’s a story he learned from his elders, when he asked why his own people didn’t have beautiful creation tales like the Jewish tradition. “They laughed and said ‘oh, that’s a young tribe,’” he said. SEE SLA-HAL, 5

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Then they told him their own story. “The supreme being, the creator, was so beautiful, he never spoke… but when words came out, they were like song. He lifted his head into nothingness, and sang us into creation,” Kempf said. His favorite story right now, though, is about a people whose history and culture extends back 13,000 years, farther than Judaism, farther than Chinese culture. The people are his own, linked from coast to coast and from the top to the bottom of North America. The best part of the story? It’s completely true, with physical evidence to prove it. A 13,000 year-old pair of sticks carved from mammoth bone, and a large sharp stone knife, or Clovis point, found near Wenatchee several years ago, are the proof, and the link to tribes all over the country, he says. The pieces are not sled runners, as archeologists originally supposed, but components of the “stick game,” called Sla-hal in the Snoqualmie tribe, but with different names in every part of the country where tribes still play it today. The game spread, as the tribe did, through intermarriage, across the United States. People still play it

Carnation resident Lorene F. Bardy, 53, is being sought as a missing and possibly endangered person by the King County Sheriff’s Office. Bardy has reportedly not been seen since the early morning hours of Thursday, April 26, at her home in the 29200 block of Northeast 52nd Street. She has life-threatening health issues and is in need of medications that are still at her home. Bardy is described as five feet, seven inches tall, 125 pounds, with brown-blonde hair and blue eyes. She has pierced ears and wears corrective lenses. If you have seen Bardy, call the King County Sheriff’s Office at (206) 296-3311 or 911.

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today, following the same set of rules that, as far as anyone knows, have always been used, for 13,000 years. “The anthropologists say you can’t get better continuity than that!” Kempf said. Sla-hal is a combination of song and strategy. More than a game, it was also a source of power and protection, and it was a tool. “It’s called the game of peace,” Kempf said, noting that warring tribes sometimes played the game, thousands on each side joining in power songs, instead of engaging in battle. “The elders said way back when, we used to war with giants, and we would settle disputes with them playing this game,” he added. Sla-hal is also the name of the gathering May 5 that Kemp has organized for some 60 tribes and about 400 people at Seattle Pacific University on Saturday, May 5. This firstof-its-kind event, Kempf says, will be “a family conversation” about not just the game, but the cultural heritage of the people, and the effect this discovery may have. “The families that wrought America are always being told who they are and where they’re from and their identity… by anthropologists, by museums, and they don’t even know what the artifacts are,” Kempf said.

grandfather, Chief Sanawa, and the treaty of Point Elliott, signed in 1855. “This day the Sanawa line is opening up for all the family to speak. And it’s about the importance of all our rel-

atives and family throughout the northwest.” Saturday’s gathering is not open to the public. More information can be found at www.spu.edu/depts/spfc/ happenings/slahal-gathering.

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