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V ALLEY R ECORD SNOQUALMIE INDEX LETTERS 5 BUSINESS 6 SCHOOLS 7 PROFILE 10 MOVIE TIMES 16 CLASSIFIEDS 19, 21 ON THE SCANNER 20 Vol. 98, No. 18 PETS Big dogs get second chances with Valley- based rescuers Page 13 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF SNOQUALMIE n NORTH BEND n FALL CITY n PRESTON n CARNATION Follow us on Facebook and Twitter SPORTS Real teamwork puts Mount Si volleyball in full control Page 8 Kevin Hauglie Insurance Agency Kevin Hauglie - Agent | 425.222.5881 | www.farmers.com/khauglie 510790 Changing Mount Si Senior Center keeps life interesting BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter As a final treat for his dance class, Glen Blomgren decides to show his students how they’ll look when they’ve learned the “Tush Push.” He points the remote at the sound system, and as soon as the music comes up, his wife Julia, jumps in to the dance, and the two spin, stomp, and waggle their hips to the open-mouthed awe of their class. “Do you get that stuff better when you do it more often?” a stu- dent rushed up to Julia and asked after class. Definitely, Julia answers, which is why she and Glen hope to offer more than just one weekly dance class at the Mount Si Senior Center. Since the center’s primary focus is to offer activities for the commu- nity, not just senior citizens, they’ll probably get the chance. Center of attention Courtesy photo Donning white wings and not much else, Fall City resident Jill Holen poses for the Angel Care survivor calendar. Maple Valley tremor felt in Snoqualmie Phil Stafford was working in his home office on Snoqualmie Ridge when the room started to move. “It was just like a super-quick jolt,” said Stafford, who had been leaning back in his office chair, in a conference call with east coast col- leagues on speakerphone. 3.2 quake shakes Valley SEE QUAKE, 18 Growth could mean votes, savings for existing taxpayers BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter Fire District 38, serving areas east of North Bend, is expanding. Within a year, seven parcels of land totaling more than 20,000 acres will be added to the taxpayer-sup- ported fire district’s service area, some by annexation, part by formal- izing a state action that gave it forest lands eight years ago. The fire district board is inviting public testimony on the expansion Forest expansion for North Bend fire district SEE ANNEX, 18 Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo Smiling and gesturing during lunch with members, new Mount Si Senior Center Interim Director Janet Fosness shares in a conversation Monday, Sept. 19. She is guiding the center in a time of shrinking revenues and new directions. SEE SENIORS, 17 Courage calendar Fall City woman’s daring pose celebrates cancer survivors’ courage BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter Never lose sleep over a hairstyle, is calendar girl Jill Holen’s advice. “There’s no such thing as a bad hair day, because it just isn’t that important,” says Holen, a former profes- sional hairstylist. Neither, for that matter, is posing nearly nude in a fund-raising calendar. SEE COURAGE, 18

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Page 1: Snoqualmie Valley Record, September 28, 2011

VALLEY RECORDSNOQUALMIE

INDEXLETTERS 5 BUSINESS 6SCHOOLS 7 PROFILE 10 MOVIE TIMES 16CLASSIFIEDS 19, 21ON THE SCANNER 20

Vol. 98, No. 18

PET

S Big dogs get second chances with Valley-based rescuers Page 13

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n75 CENTS

YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF SNOQUALMIE nNORTH BEND n FALL CITY nPRESTON nCARNATION

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

SPO

RTS Real teamwork

puts Mount Si volleyball in full control Page 8

Kevin Hauglie Insurance AgencyKevin Hauglie - Agent | 425.222.5881 | www.farmers.com/khauglie

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Changing Mount Si Senior Center keeps life interesting

BY CAROL LADWIGStaff Reporter

As a final treat for his dance class, Glen Blomgren decides to show his students how they’ll look when they’ve learned the “Tush

Push.” He points the remote at the sound system, and as soon as the music comes up, his wife Julia, jumps in to the dance, and the two spin, stomp, and waggle their hips to the open-mouthed awe of their class.

“Do you get that stuff better when you do it more often?” a stu-dent rushed up to Julia and asked after class.

Definitely, Julia answers, which is why she and Glen hope to offer more than just one weekly dance class at the Mount Si Senior Center. Since the center’s primary focus is to offer activities for the commu-nity, not just senior citizens, they’ll probably get the chance.

Center of attention

Courtesy photo

Donning white wings and not much else, Fall City resident Jill Holen poses for the Angel Care survivor calendar.

Maple Valley tremor felt in Snoqualmie

Phil Stafford was working in his home office on Snoqualmie Ridge when the room started to move.

“It was just like a super-quick jolt,” said Stafford, who had been leaning back in his office chair, in a conference call with east coast col-leagues on speakerphone.

3.2 quake shakes Valley

SEE QUAKE, 18

Growth could mean votes, savings for existing taxpayers

BY CAROL LADWIGStaff Reporter

Fire District 38, serving areas east of North Bend, is expanding.

Within a year, seven parcels of land totaling more than 20,000 acres will be added to the taxpayer-sup-ported fire district’s service area, some by annexation, part by formal-izing a state action that gave it forest lands eight years ago.

The fire district board is inviting public testimony on the expansion

Forest expansion for North Bend fire district

SEE ANNEX, 18

Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Smiling and gesturing during lunch with members, new Mount Si Senior Center Interim Director Janet Fosness shares in a conversation Monday, Sept. 19. She is guiding the center in a time of shrinking revenues and new directions.

SEE SENIORS, 17

Courage calendarFall City woman’s daring pose celebrates

cancer survivors’ courageBY CAROL LADWIG

Staff Reporter

Never lose sleep over a hairstyle, is calendar girl Jill Holen’s advice.

“There’s no such thing as a bad hair day, because it just isn’t that important,” says Holen, a former profes-sional hairstylist. Neither, for that matter, is posing nearly nude in a fund-raising calendar.

SEE COURAGE, 18

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Polluted pair purloined newspaper’s prized pumpkin

Snoqualmie Police officers captured one of two young men involved in a pumpkin snatching during an early-morning romp in downtown Snoqualmie.

Officers were in the area around midnight Saturday, Sept.17, when they spotted two teenaged boys in the 8200 block of Railroad Avenue Southeast, walking toward Southeast Newton Street. One of them was holding a pumpkin. The boys immediately started running from the police, whopursued them.

The pumpkin-carrier then threw the fruit and cut through a back yard toward Park Avenue Southeast. He was never located or identified.

His companion, however, was wearing a reflective jacket,and was seen running toward Falls Avenue Southeast. The pursuing officer ordered him to stop, but he continued torun. The officer used the radio to alert another officer ofhis position, and although the boy cut through a back yardon River Street and discarded his jacket, the officers located him hiding in the bushes of a yard in the 8200 block of Railroad Avenue.

He smelled strongly of alcohol, and, when officers foundhis jacket a little way down the block, it had a half-emptybottle of whiskey in one of the pockets.

After confessing to drinking five beers, the juvenile was arrested and taken for detention in Issaquah.

Officers returned the pumpkin to the Valley Recordplanter box, where it had been growing all summer, attracting frequent neighborhood attention. The police and pumpkin enjoyed a quiet rest of the night.

Get ready for emergencies at workshop

A free workshop planned for next week will help fam-ilies to be better prepared for emergencies.

Presented by the Snoqualmie Fire Department, American Red Cross and the Wilderness Safety Academy, an Emergency Preparedness presentation is noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at Snoqualmie United Methodist Church. Admission is free. To learn more, call (425) 208-5044.

In Brief Colorful selectionHolding Preston-based artist Catherine Thompson’s glass mosaic “Luna Light,” Barbara Center of Fall City displays glass, ceramics and sculp-tures that are up for bid with dozens of other locally-created artworks at the Fall City Community Food Pantry’s First Annual Fundraiser, 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Fall City Roadhouse. To learn more, visit fallcityfoodpantry.org.

Legion giving Blue Stars to Valley families

The American Legion Auxiliary’s Post 79 in Snoqualmie is awarding Blue Star service banners to families this fall.

Families in Snoqualmie will receive banners at the Monday, Oct. 10, council meeting. Banners were given out earlier this month at the North Bend city council meeting.

A tradition dating to World War I, Blue Star banners are displayed by families who have a loved one serving in

the armed forces, includingNational Guard and reserves. Sons, daughters, brothers, sis-ters, wives, husbands, grand-children and extended familyall qualify.

The banner displayed in a front window shows a family’s pride and reminds others of the demands and sacrifices of service.

If you are interested in receiv-ing a Blue Star Service Banner,contact Pam Collingwood, American Legion Auxiliary President, at (425) 888-1206.

Learn about banned books at libraries

Libraries in Fall City, North Bend and Snoqualmie celebrate the freedom to read and the importance ofthe First Amendment dur-ing Banned Books Week,September 24 to October 1.

Patrons might be sur-prised by the titles that havebeen challenged, restrictedand removed from libraryshelves. Banned books include Twilight, TheAbsolutely True Diary ofa Part-Time Indian, The Hunger Games, Water for Elephants, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, TheCatcher in the Rye, Snow Falling on Cedars, the Bible, and the Koran.

You can pick up some information on intellec-tual freedom, and why it’s important to a democraticsociety.

To learn more, visit www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm.

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Six cars crash after hit-and-runA late-night hit-and-run on North Bend Way caused a series of

crashes that damaged seven vehicles and injured the occupants. Around 1:40 a.m., King County Sheriff’s Deputies were called

to several accidents about a quarter-mile downhill from the Snoqualmie Casino on North Bend Way. A ‘90s-era Ford Mustang had crashed into a guard rail there some time earlier in the evening, and the driver, believed to have been intoxicated while leaving the casino, abandoned the wreck. The debris spread across the 50-mph zone caused another six cars to crash, causing some injuries, but nothing major, according to the sheriff’s office.

Vehicles were everywhere, reported one deputy, investigat-ing the crash. Officers have not yet located the man believed to be responsible for the original hit and run accident, but they are investigating.

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Si View to hold community meeting on ballot measures

Boosters of Si View Metro Parks will host a community meeting on the future of local parks and the upcoming bal-lot measures aimed at preserving funding for the junior tax district.

The meeting, exploring the “Future of Si View,” is 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Si View Community Center, 400 S.E. Orchard Dr.

Si View’s operations levy will soon hit the county’s levy cap. Without the bulk of its levy, Si View is looking at a raft of cuts. Voter support, in the form of two levy mea-sures designed to make the district whole, would prevent this.

Both measures are slated for the November general elec-tion. Proposition 1 would protect 25 cents of the existing levy from being automatically reduced. Proposition 2 is a one-year operations and maintenance (O&M) levy that would restore the remaining 19 cents on a temporary basis.

To learn more about the meeting, call (425) 831-1900 or email to [email protected].

A stone at a time

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

Building a fort block by block, Elaine MacKay chips a stone down to size Thursday, Sept. 15, at StoneFest. Preston-based Marenakos Rock Center’s popular annual masonry seminar was held Sept. 12 to 16.

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“Baby clothes are really good. I found some brands the other

day, ‘gently used,’ and they were really good.”

Luz MelgozaFall City

“Oh, definitely the tank tops when we finally had a summer

this year! We hadn’t had summer in five years, so I threw all of mine

out. Tank tops to enjoy our two days of summer, and drapes.”

Laura TaylorSnoqualmie

“I don’t usually shop at thrift stores, but my wife does. I did

find a glass tabletop once, and I would have bought it, but she

got to it first!”

Arie RiceNorth Bend

“I found a friend! We were both shopping and we started talking,

then we decided to go to cof-fee, and we’ve been friends ever

since.” Karen Rood

Redmond, but shopping in North Bend

What is your best thrift store fi nd?

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Community centers offer meals, finds and a safety net

for the vulnerable

Does your mental picture of a senior center conjure up easy chairs, crochet

crafts and old folks sitting around playing dominoes? If so, it’s time for a fresh perspective.

It turns out that the notion of the center as an old-timey social club for the elderly is a bit out of date. Trade the crafts for Wii bowling and the easy chairs for dance lessons.

Senior cen-ters were created several decades ago to minis-ter to seniors’ social needs. To stay healthy, we all need to stay mentally and physically active. For our minds and bodies, it’s a case of use it or lose it, and places like the Mount Si Senior Center in North Bend and the Sno Valley Senior Center in Carnation exist just for this reason.

But the centers also play a wider role, not only helping our older population stay nourished, active and independent, but younger peo-ple, too. Two programs, in particu-

lar, come to mind as things that you may not know about today’s senior center.

First, their lunch programs offers meals at surprisingly low cost, and no-one is turned away. For someone on a limited income, this may be a vital source of food.

Secondly, both of the Valley senior centers operate thriving thrift stores. Such second-hand shops are harder to find than they used to be. Our senior centers’ stores have grown to become major sources of revenue.

They also happen to be a great way for people to give their old goods new life, or pick up something needed on the cheap. You might even be able to discover a hidden ‘find.’

Besides these outreaches, centers also act as important social safety nets for seniors. Through buses, ben-efits consultants, health screenings and meals, these places help citizens remain part of their communities.

The Valley’s centers are now look-ing for ways to broaden their appeal and attract new participants. It’s a good time to acquaint yourself with what happens here. The people that you meet there are, far from forgot-ten, still contributing to their neigh-bors in many ways.

Do it for your own good. The more attention we pay now to our senior centers, the more likely they’ll still be there to help us in years to come, when we need them.

ed at 411 Main Ave. S., North Bend. Sno Valley Senior Center is located temporarily at Camp Don Bosco, 1401 327th Ave. N.E., Carnation. You can learn more online at mtsi-seniorcenter.org and www.snovalley-senior.org.

Time for a shot?I know it’s hard to believe, but the

fall is already upon us. As evidence,

I submit that at least one person in our office has already been tempo-rarily felled by flu.

So it was surprising, but per-haps not unforeseeable, to find that Snoqualmie Valley hospital is already selling flu shots.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, an annual flu vac-cine is the single best way to avoid catching influenza. And everyone I’ve ever met who gets one swears they save them the misery of a pro-longed bout of flu.

Getting a flu shot probably doesn’t get much easier than this: The hos-pital’s Drive Thru Flu Shot event, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the SVH helipad, 9575 Ethan Wade Way, Snoqualmie.

Shots will be available for people age 12 and up.

The cost is $30, but the value might be your own good health this season.

Two things you didn’t

know about your senior

center

William Shaw [email protected]

Seth Truscott [email protected]

Carol [email protected]

Wendy Fried [email protected]

David [email protected]

Patricia [email protected]

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or 1.888.838.3000The Snoqualmie Valley Record is the legal newspaper for the cities of Snoqualmie,

North Bend and Carnation.

Written permission from the publisher is required for reproduction of any part of this

publication. Letters, columns and guest columns do not necessarily reflect the views

of the Snoqualmie Record. PROUD SUPPORTER OF SNOQUALMIE VALLEY

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SETH TRUSCOTTValley Record Editor

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Bottleneck or transparency?

I just read your story regarding the Snoqualmie Rotary Club’s candidate forum on the 15th. I was in attendance and felt that the Rotary did an excellent job putting on a well-balanced forum and asked both can-didates some very difficult questions.

I was most taken back by Mr. Husa’s admission that the school board has one-

on-one meetings to discuss issues due to public meeting laws. Mr. Husa continued by saying that “you cannot be a bottleneck” when asked about when he has ever dis-agreed with the superinten-dent.

The current board just renewed the Superintendent’s contract until 2014. Our superinten-dent, Joel Aune, was paid $169,361 in salary plus additional benefits for 2010 -2011. The board members should be setting his perfor-mance goals and not having private meetings with him to come to a consensus.

Michelle KauffmanSnoqualmie

Cartoon doesn’t do right by real hunters

What message, pray tell, was cartoonist Jeff Johnson trying to convey with the right-hand image on his September 14 editorial page effort?

I’ve been a pretty avid hunter/outdoorsman over my almost 80 years … sometimes in cammie pants and coat, with a double-barreled (or single-barrel) shotgun or rifle but never with a handgun or hunting knife on my hip (a pocket knife gets the job done if

need be), or belted ammu-nition or bazooka/rocket launcher.

I’ve never worn a cap, let alone have I seen a cap, with a message as stupid as the one worn by Johnson’s image.

Over the years I’ve spent a ton of money on guns, ammunition, hunting gear and fishing tackle and a sig-nificant part of the taxes on those purchases went to support wildlife in this country.

Membership in Ducks Unlimited, Trout Unlimited and, yes, the National Rifle Association too, have done more for wildlife by acci-dent than idiotic small-town newspaper editorial cartoonists on purpose.

Just saying…George Crotts

North Bend

Who hunts with a bazooka?

I am writing this e-mail in reference to your September 14 edition. As I was reading the issue, I turned to page four and read the cartoon; the one asking, “Which natural predator poses the greatest danger to wildlife?”

Being an avid hunter for many years, I was very offended by this. I can assure you that neither I nor anyone else I know resembles the heathen in your cartoon.

What statement are you trying to make? There is nothing in your paper to explain your point of view. I double-checked in the fish and game regulation man-ual, and nowhere in there does it allow hunting with a bazooka.

Before such a damaging accusation is made, some research should be done. Then you would know how the wolf population deci-mates elk and deer herds all over the country. You would see that because of the funds contributed by hunters to the state’s Fish & Wildlife Department (through the purchase of hunting tags) and due to ethical hunting practices, the deer and elk populations of our area have grown significantly.

Jerry TomlinsonNorth Bend

Volunteers made first day special

The Snoqualmie Elementary School PTSA would like to send out a large “Thank You” to the volun-teers from The Church on the Ridge who helped clean and spruce up the school grounds. Due to the volun-teers’ hard work and efforts, students arrived the first day of school to a welcoming yard and playground.

Thank you.Dawn HarperSES Courtyard

Beautification Team Member

Book lovers came through for library, again

Thank you, Snoqualmie Valley library patrons, for donating used books throughout the year for our annual Friends of the Library books sale. We wish to thank those of you who helped set up the 2011 book sale, the North Bend librarians who assisted us throughout the event and to everyone who purchased books during our two-week sale.

The money raised remains

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Successes, improvements ahead as school year begins

School is now underway and we have enjoyed a suc-cessful beginning to the 2011-12 school year. Positive things are happening in our schools as evidenced by the impressive accomplishments of our talented students.

Last year, six of our schools received state-wide recog-nition for academic excellence, and the graduating class of 2011 earned over $7 million in scholarship funds. In addition to their academic accomplishments, our stu-dents continue to excel in extracurricular activities, the arts, and community service.

Students are taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them and are receiving a well-rounded edu-cational experience in our Snoqualmie Valley schools.

In recent years, we have devoted a great deal of time, energy, and thinking to school improvement through a focused, system-wide approach to planning in each of our schools. The growth and accomplishments of our students show that these efforts are making a difference as the Snoqualmie Valley schools are among the highest performing in the state of Washington.

While these successes are cause for celebration, we continue to look for ways to make our schools even better. During the past month, our principals and their building teams have been carefully analyzing state assessment results, as this data will be utilized to inform their school improvement efforts for the coming year. As in the past, each of our schools will be developing school improvement plans which establish priorities, focus, and direction in order to improve student learning.

The fundamental purpose of our schools is to ensure high levels of learning for every student. All that we do in terms of decision making and action will support and drive us toward this premise. I believe we are positioned to take advantage of the opportunities that will pres-ent themselves during the coming year in order to take our schools to even higher levels of effectiveness. Most importantly, the students will be the beneficiaries of that increased effectiveness.

Thank you for your continued support of the Snoqualmie Valley schools. We’re looking forward to a great school year!

Joel AuneSuperintendent, Snoqualmie Valley School District

www.svsd410.org.

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Letters to the EditorThe Snoqualmie Valley Record

PO Box 300, Snoqualmie, WA 98065or email to [email protected]

Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Snoqualmie Valley Record.

Letters should be received by noon on Fridays prior to publication.

1986: Carnation police captured an extremely dangerous fugitive from Oregon outside the Carnation IGA Saturday. Five officers surrounded the man in the parking lot and arrested him without incident. Carnation Police Chief Wayne Greear said police had been following the fugitive, Steve Sacre, and waited to confront him until there was little chance for him to take hostages.

Thursday, Sept. 28, 1961: Volunteers are hard at work on the Youth Activity Center in North Bend, and are encouraging the fathers of Campfire Girls and Scouts to put in a half-day of work, to get the roof on and the building closed up before winter weather starts. The center will be for the use of these clubs and other youth organizations.

Th is week in Valley history

PASTof theOUT

in the North Bend Library and helps fund library enhancements as well as adult, teen and children’s programs. All programs are open to the public, free of charge and held at the North Bend Library.

If you missed the sale, or if you are always on the lookout for books at bargain prices, we have gently used books and 2010 magazine for sale year-round on the shelves just inside the front doors of the North Bend Library. We are pleased to announce that at this time of

rising prices, our prices have not increased—they range from 10 cents to a dollar!

We invite members or anyone interested in becom-ing a member of our Friends of the North Bend Library group to join us at our monthly meetings, which are held the second Monday of the month at 9:30 a.m. in the meeting room at the North Bend Library.

Nancy DohertyMember at Large,

Friends of the North Bend Library

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Moving moment at North Bend’s IGNITE

Students at IGNITE Dance & Yoga studio in North Bend wiggle and cheer as Instructor Katie Black and husband Kevin cut the ribbon in a Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce visit Wednesday, Sept. 21. IGNITE celebrated its expan-sion further into the building, add-ing an extra studio for dance classes. Learn more about the studio at www.ignitedanceandyoga.com

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Communities encouraged to donate to local food banks

The mayors of sever-al East King County cit-ies proclaimed September 24 through October 22 as “Eastside Month of Concern for the Hungry.”

The proclamations offi-cially launch the annual “Share What You Can” cam-paign to benefit those served

by local food banks and feed-ing programs. The emphasis is to fill food bank shelves with non-perishable food items as the school season begins. Donation centers include various commu-nity centers, city halls, and fire stations. In addition, on Saturdays throughout the month, volunteers will be collecting food at select gro-cery stores throughout East King County.

Last year more than 60,000 pounds of food and over $10,000 in cash donations were collected as part of this effort. These donations help local food banks meet the

increasing demand for food assistance at a time when many organizations are expe-riencing significant funding cuts. Hopelink reported that in 2010 the demand was up by 12 percent and has risen by 47 percent over the past three years.

In participating com-munities, neighborhood associations, community leaders, faith organizations, businesses, hospitals, and schools are encouraged to rally by hosting food drives and fundraising events and volunteering at hosted stores. Locally, there are a number of food banks serv-ing the Valley:

Food Bank, mtsifoodbank.org/.

fallcityfoodpantry.org.

Bank, Carnation, (425) 333-6560.

For more information on how you can help, visit www.eastsideforum.org/fooddrive or contact Brooke Buckingham at [email protected].

In Brief Planning Commission has opening The city of North Bend is seeking an applicant to fill

the vacant seat of planning commissioner, position 2, with a term expiring May 11, 2015.

The planning commission consists of seven mem-bers serving four-year terms. They are responsible for reviewing and recommending to the city council various actions related to the physical development of the city. Applicants for position 2 must live within the city limits of North Bend.

Application forms are available online at northbendwa.gov, or at city hall, 211 Main Ave. North. The deadline to apply is October 7. For information, contact the city clerk at 888-7627 or [email protected].

Senior Center benefit is Oct. 22The Sno Valley Senior Center’s eighth annual Valley of

the Moon benefit dinner and auction is set for Saturday, Oct. 22, starting at 5 p.m. at the Mount Si Golf Course,

The event benefits the center’s Adult Day Health pro-gram and other prorams.

auction items include an exotic vacation to Bali, a photo safari in Africa, a premier Apple Cup package including club-level seating and accommodations. There are also weekend getaway packages, original works by local art-ists and specialty gift baskets.

Tickets are $40 per person or $320 for a table of eight. Tickets can be purchased online at www.snovalleysenior.org. This is a reservations-only event.

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BY CAROL LADWIGStaff Reporter

Results from the 2010-11 school year assessments showed dramatic increases in science and math scores from 2009 in the Snoqualmie Valley School District. Reading and writing showed less improve-ment and some declines.

As District Curriculum Director Don McConkey pre-sented the overall results to the School Board of Directors Thursday, Sept. 8, he encour-aged them to remember, “One or two years does not make a trend, you really have to look at the long term.”

The results presented at the meeting were in comparison with the results of student assessments from 2009-2010. They showed increases of 7 to 16 percent in the number of stu-dents meeting the state science requirements on the Measure of Student Progress (MSP) and High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE). Fifth grad-ers improved by 10 percent, with 84.5 percent of the class meeting state requirements, and eighth graders improved 7.2 percent with 86.7 percent passing. Sophomores had the greatest improvement, but the lowest initial scores. With a 15.8 percent improvement in scores, 64 percent of sophomores met the 2011 state science require-ment.

Math scores were up in grade 4, where 76 percent of students met requirements, and grades 6 (77.1 percent), 7 (73 percent)

and 8 (77.2 percent). Grades3 and 5 showed decreases, to77.9 percent of students, and67.7 percent, respectively. Information on sophomoreresults was not comparable, since this was the first year thatstudents were required to take the mathematics end of course (EOC) exam.

Writing scores were alreadyhigh in grades 4, 7 and 10, and did not change significantly.Fourth graders had 78.6 per-cent meeting state require-ments, and seventh graders had89.9 percent. At the high school,writing scores dropped slightly, but 94.4 percent of sophomores met the state requirement.

Reading scores were the least improved, with higher scores reported only for grades 8 and10. In grade 3, a stable 85.7 per-cent of students passed, but ingrades 4 and 5, scores dropped,by 3.5 percent and 4 percentrespectively, resulting in 81.3 percent of fourth graders and 82.7 percent of fifth graders passing.

McConkey noted that part ofthis change could be explained by the change in third grade“from learning to read, to read-ing to learn.”

Eighty-four percent of sixthgraders and 75.4 percent ofseventh graders met the staterequirement at about thesame level as the 2009 scores, but grades 8 and 10 showedincreases of 4.5 percent to 84.9percent of students, and 7.1 percent, to 95.5 percent of stu-dents, respectively.

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REF awarded approxi-mately $41,000 in grants last year, plus an additional $20,000 to help meet other district needs. Since its inception, REF has awarded nearly $350,000 in grants.

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The Cedarcrest High School cross country team put in a strong

performance Saturday, Sept. 24, at their biggest meet of the season at Lake Sammamish State Park.

Tough competition and a sandy stretch made for a challenge,

but up-and-coming Red Wolves made some team gains at the

lake. Logan Orndorf and Mitchell Montgomery took second and third on the Cedarcrest top 10

list for this invite, while Amelia Anderson and Diana Carr are now

sixth and tenth on the girls list. Orndorf and Montgomery are

the second and third boys on the team to run under 17 minutes and

Anderson is only the seventh girl to break the 20-minute mark.

Among other highlights, Gage Catherman, Quinn Radbourne

and Olivia Waterman made gains on the course over last year. Kayla

Nelson ran three minutes faster than two weeks ago on a similar course, and Justin Mendoza and

Dallin Candland also made gains.

The Red Wolves run next Sunday at the 13-school Sunfair Invite in

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Mount Si junior Lauren Smith, center, with Krista Galloway, foreground, sets a ball during play Wednesday, Sept. 21, against Interlake. Below, Galloway, center, with Noelle Stockstad, right, celebrate following one of the senior’s kills.

Richard Carmichael, left, and Dom Canady perspire fol-lowing their top-10 showings at home in Mount Si’s invite Wednesday, Sept. 21. Canady sports red paint in his hair, part of a spur-of-the-moment spirit move.

Streaks of red

Mount Si cross country’s spirits race in home trekBY SETH TRUSCOTT

Editor

Arrows and streaks of red were everywhere you looked amid the Mount Si cross country contingent, who hosted Bellevue and Interlake at Snoqualmie Elementary School Wednesday, Sept. 21.

Bailey Scott gave Abbey Bottemiller’s hair a splash of red Halloween hairspray moments before the big race. The two sophomores led the Mount Si contingent with fourth and fifth, overall, with times of 20:57 and 21:06 consecutively on the course, just over three miles.

“I like having Bailey to pace me and push me,” Bottemiller said.

Interlake’s Niki Waghani took first for the girls with 19:42, while Bellevue’s Kyle Pratt led all boys with 17:45

Senior Richard Carmichael and junior Dom Canady led things for the Mount Si boys with fourth and eighth, respectively. Carmichael ran in 17:58, while Canady had 18:12.

Mount Si V-ball’s skilled teamwork makes short work of Interlake

BY SETH TRUSCOTTEditor

The Mount Si women’s volleyball team delivered wins in three games in short order Wednesday, Sept. 21, at home against Interlake.

The Wildcats hammed out two wins in quick succession, then hung onto a narrow lead in game three to take all the marbles, 25-10, 25-13 and 25-20.

It took a team effort, but the Mount Si vet-erans were in the forefront. Senior co-captain Sarah McDonald delivered nine kills from the net and four aces from the back, while senior Krista Galloway hammered five kills. Junior Lauren Smith led from the floor, with 14 assists and four kills of her own.

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Boys with the Cascade Football Club’s U-11 Boys Gold team won their second straight tournament, Sky River in Monroe, on Sunday, Aug. 28. The boys outscored their oppo-nents 20-3 over five games. The boys represent the entire Snoqualmie Valley, including Duvall, Carnation, Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend. Pictured are, from left, back row, head coach Mark Niemela, Drew Harris, Jack Hickox, Cameron Choat, Jonny Barrett, Reed Paradissis, Bailey Dukich, Henry Clark, assistant coach Chris Paradissis, front row, Jaden Chong, Will Niemela, Jack Mandelkorn, Aidan Carels, Osmar Ramirez, Elijah Seneker.

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Eastside Football Club’s BU-18 Red team won the 2011 Puma Pacific Coast Challenge Tournament, held Sunday, Aug. 28, in Bellingham. The boys beat Three Rivers United from the Tri-Cities, 3-1. The two teams have played many times over the last few years. Last year, in the 2010 PCC tournament, Three Rivers beat Eastside FC’s BU-17 Red in the semi-finals. In last autumn’s league play, EFC beat Three Rivers and tied them in their two league games. The two teams met again in the state tournament champion-ship game at Starfire on February 13, when EFC came back in the second half to take the championship trophy.

Youth teams claim tourney hardware

The fairly young Mount Si team came in behind Interlake and Bellevue in team scores. But team members praised the improvement and diligence of the many newcomers.

Following the Scott-Bottemiller duo, Mount Si junior Angelina Belceto took 11th. Ashley Jackson followed at 14th.

For the boys, senior Ben Houldridge followed at 11th with 18:32, while junior Tim Corrie claimed 18th at 19:28.

Carmichael stayed up with the top five and held the lead for part of the race.

“I just need to kick hard-er at the end,” he said.

The new home course layout made for some chal-lenges. A gravel stretch slowed everyone down.

“You get a good workout going through that gravel, but it’s not fun when you’re trying to get a (personal record),” the senior said.

Canady, too, wasn’t satis-fied with his time.

“Next time, I’ll mark 400 meters with some tape,” so he can better pace himself.

Carmichael shouted out sophomore Sean Hecker for his spirit. The sopho-more finished at 22 min-utes.

“He did a really nice job today,” Carmichael said.

The girls’ sophomore duo also praised Corrie, Ryan Olson and Ben Houldridge.

“Everybody is trying so hard this year,” Scott said. “I love pushing them on. They’re so enthusiastic.”

The hairspray was Bottemiller’s spur-of-the-moment idea.

“We show our pride!” she said. “Spirit is good for the team.”

Mount Si ran Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Bellevue Invitational at Lake Sammamish State Park.

Scott had the best time at 18th with 20:14.72, while Carmichael led the boys at 33rd with a time of 17:09.98.

TREK FROM 8

Improvisation, growth time for Wildcat tennis

BY SETH TRUSCOTTEditor

Jake Miller was in a new place as a tennis player.

The senior, who started the year as part of a number-one-doubles duo with fresh-man Matthew Griffin, got called up to fill the number-three singles spot last week.

He duly complied and kept an even keel despite serious pressure from Sammamish’s Anthony Kao.

“The kid was pretty good,” admitted Miller, who fell gracefully to Kao in two sets of six games, with two wins to his credit. The takeaway: “You can still beat people,” Miller said.

Thanks to play ineligibili-ties in the standard Mount Si lineup, Miller wasn’t the only Mount Si tennis player to leave his comfort zone Tuesday, Sept. 20, during play at home against the Totems.

Mount Si’s doubles teams came through the best. Number-two doubles Van Magnan and Clint Christen took three and four games respectively to Sammamish players Aaron Tam and Jason Habib’s two sets of sixes.

Mount Si’s number-three doubles team of Rhett Haney and Jackson Foster had the best day Tuesday: They claimed a win in set one, 7-6, but fell to Sammamish’s Erik Wing and Kevin Monahan, 0-6, 3-6 in the following two sets.

In other results, Mount Si dominated Liberty on Sept. 8, then suffered a drub-bing by tennis-talent-heavy Mercer Island on Sept. 8.

Against Liberty, senior Azhar Khandekar near-ly held off Patriot Brock Mullers, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6.

“Mentally, it was an out-standing match,” coach Jim Gibowski said. “That’s tell-ing me a lot about his men-tal toughness.”

“I just keep telling myself, it’s not over until it’s over,”

Khandekar said. “Just keep pushing.”

on Thursday, Sept. 29, then heads to Interlake on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Game time is 3:45 p.m.

Seth Truscott/Staff photo

Sophomore Kevin McLaughlin serves to a Mercer Island during doubles play at home Sept. 13. In recent weeks, Mount Si tennis has improvised with its lineup and is building skills.

Mental toughness

“Everyone needs a shout-out,” McDonald said. “Tonight was about coming onto the court and playing out game, keeping a nice even keel with intensity.”

“We worked as a team today, and that’s what we needed,” added Smith.

Junior Genevieve Knoppi showed her game face in delivering from the back line, delivering two aces during her service stint in game three.

“I feel like I’ve gotten a lot better,” she said.

Head coach Bonnie Foote compliment-ed Knoppi’s play.

“I’m gonna give her more opportunities for sure,” she said.

The coach also had good words for Galloway’s defensive play.

Besides a few errors, the senior felt play was solid. She’s happy with her senior sea-son’s progression so far.

“It’s really fun to finally be on top and feel like people are looking up to you,” she said.

In other highlights, Lyndsay Carr had three kills, four aces and one full block. Lexi Read had an assist and two aces, and Kailey Capelouto had two kills, an ace, two digs and three full blocks. Noelle Stockstad had three assists and four digs.

The Wildcats came into Wednesday’s game off a Monday, Sept. 19, road win against Juanita, 25-16, 25-22, 25-14.

Mount Si varsity volleyball heads to Mercer Island tonight, then is at Liberty on Monday, Oct. 3.

Game time is 7 p.m.The girls are now 5-0 in league, 8-3

overall.

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Marking first anniversary, DirtFish Rally School emphasizes

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There’s dirty jobs, and then there’s what Bria Lund does.

Gray September clouds roll overhead as Lund details the last of the cars in a lineup of DirtFish Rally School’s fleet of sports sedans, making sure to scour the floors of caked soil.

“Usually my legs are covered in mud,” she says. “I get some stares.”

Instructors get the cars so dirty, “Sometimes, I feel like they do it on pur-pose,” Lund said. Still, she knows what she signed up for—the name, after all, is “DirtFish.”

It’s a messy task, but “I quite enjoy it,” Lund said. “I know it’s behind the scenes,

but it’s a well-needed job, so I’m happy to do it.”

The result of all this hard work is only temporary. Lund’s midday scrubdown, done during rally students’ lunch break, will be undone in a flurry of mud and gravel a few minutes from now. It’s an extra touch, part of DirtFish’s emphasis on the customer experience.

By finding spic-and-span Subarus that students can dirty all over again, “They know that we care for them,” Lund said.

Customer serviceThat attention to duty and detail is what

DirtFish President Ross Bentley calls “the wow factor.” DirtFish will mark its first year in business in October, a big and busy one.

In its first year in operation, DirtFish has seen more than 2,000 customers get behind the wheels of its Subaru sports

sedans. Vehicles have racked upwards of 6,000 miles in that year, without ever leaving Snoqualmie.

“The growth has been faster than any of us predicted,” Bentley said.

Rally car racing is a sport that has been big in Europe for years, but is just going main-stream in the United States. Differentiated from road or circuit racing, in which drivers race wheel to wheel at high speeds on closed tracks, rally takes place one car at a time, typically on gravel or dirt such as forestry roads. In circuit racing, the driver sees one turn hundreds of times. In rally, the driver sees a corner only once, then tears off to a new one.

Rally and the attendant sport of rallycross, or rally racing on a closed circuit, is growing in America thanks to the popularity of things like the X Games and video games.

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“If he gives out a bark, it turns almost instantly into a woo,” Michelle said of Clyde.

It’s easier to imagine these imposing dogs as the rescuers, not the ones needing rescue, but Michelle said that WAMAL takes in about 100 Mals each year, some surrendered by owners who can’t give them the exercise or space that they need, some abandoned.

Roxy fell into the second category. WAMAL found her on the street, with a litter of five week-old puppies.

“Somebody quit on her when she had a litter,” Michelle says, tight-lipped. That was about a year ago. Michelle had been volunteering with WAMAL as part of her community service work to finish her degree. She fostered some animals, and did transports, and had already fallen in love with the breed.

“Clyde was pretty much hook, line, and sinker for me,” she said, explaining that she’d adopted Clyde in May 2010, when all she was supposed to do was take care of him for a short time, then send him on to his new home. After she found out that an older male Mal at the new home had rejected Clyde—only 72 pounds when he was rescued—and he’d been sent back to the kennel, she started the process to adopt him.

“So Clyde is a foster failure,” Michelle jokes, “and someone called Roxy a transport failure. I was supposed to transport her from the

volunteer who brought her here to the kennel… She never made it past crawling in my lap and being brought home.”

Roxy still tries to crawl into her lap sometimes, even at 86 pounds. Usually it’s when she’s been corrected for disobeying her training, something she does periodically to test her place in the pack.

“We are their pack, and there is definitely a pecking order,” says Bruno’s person, Jim.

Maintaining the spot at the top of the pecking order is critical for Mal owners, because “These two are independent thinkers,” Michelle says. “They’re not like the retrievers and a bunch of the other breeds that are fully intent on pleasing their people. These guys will ignore you just as fast as anything else, and they might come when they feel like it.”

That personality trait is both a strength and weakness for the dogs. Mal owners love them for all their quirks, but people new to Mals may not be prepared for the hazards of living with a big willful dog, clever enough to create his own fun when no one’s around.

Most owners just laugh off the misadventures, but some of those misbehaving Mals end up with WAMAL.

“The expectations are not what they should be,” says Michelle. Connie puts it more directly. “People adopt these dogs as puppies,

and then they get huge like this, and I don’t think people realize what the food bill’s going to be, and the vet bill, or how much power they really have.”

Life with an Alaskan Malamute is not for everyone, but for the right people, life without one is unimaginable.

For more information about WAMAL, or to donate or adopt, visit www.wamal.com, or send e-mail to [email protected].

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Michelle Reaves, left, takes firm hold of Roxy, who’s been trying to prove that she’s the boss of Bruno, who leans on “dad” Jim Ross.

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Lions, Brewery to party for

OktoberfestMount Si Lions Club hosts an Oktoberfest party, 11 a.m. to

7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, at the Sno-Falls Brewing Company.

The day includes beer, brats, live music and a root beer gar-

den for children and families.

Tickets are available at Hauglie Insurance in Snoqualmie and

from Lions members through-out the Valley. To reserve a

ticket, call (425)766-1133.

North Bend-Mount Si Lions are the newest service club in the

Snoqualmie Valley, having for-mally chartered in May 2011.

Find, cook wild ‘shrooms at Watershed

Dr. Wren Hudgins, an amateur mycologist, or mushroom

expert, will host a short talk and walk in the woods, all

about edible fungi.

The event is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Cedar

River Watershed Education Center. It looks at identifica-

tion, location and cooking techniques of wild mushrooms,

chanterelles in particular.

Cost is $15. To learn more or register, call (206) 733-9421 or send e-mail to CRWprograms@

seattle.gov.

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Sisters Emily, 5, and Abigail Hamilton, 8, of North Bend, recently competed in the National American Miss Pageant and came home winners.

Emily won several awards including first place for photo-genic and best thank-you note and third runner-up in the talent competition. She also placed in the top 10 out of 47 contestants in the Princess division.

Abigail took second in the photogenic competition and third runner up in talent out of 67 contestants in the Junior Pre-Teen division.

The National American Miss pageants are dedicated to celebrating America’s greatness and encouraging its future leaders. Each year, the pageant awards one million dollars in cash, scholarships and prizes to recognize and assist the development of young women nationwide.

Abbey Grimstad, as Mina, and Brenden Elwood, as the vampiric Count, appear in Valley Center Stage’s production of “Dracula,” opening this week.

Get in the mood for Halloween with horror classic “Dracula,” on stage this fall at the Valley Center Stage in North Bend.

The world famous tale, originated by Bram Stoker in 1897, pits the demonic count against Dr. Van Helsing—who struggles to convince everyone that vampires are real in order to save two vulnerable young women.

Stoker’s terrifying tale is adapted for the stage by John Spitzer and is directed by Tim Hart.

“Dracula” plays Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays beginning September 29 and runs through October 15. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and $12 for seniors and students.

The show is recommended for ages 11 and up, contains strobe light, fog effects and gun shots, and so is not for the faint of heart.

For ticket information, call (425) 831-5667 or visit www.valleycenterstage.org.

Vampires stalk this fall in Center Stage’s ‘Dracula’

North Bend sisters claim honors in pageant

Meet music teachers at

Boxley’sA reception for Snoqualmie

Valley Schools new music teachers is 6 p.m. Tuesday,

Oct. 4, at Boxley’s in North Bend, sponsored by

Snoqualmie Valley Friends of the Performing Arts. All are

welcome.

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The Blomgrens are just two of the many contributors to the full schedule that the center runs every week in North Bend. Besides the dance class and daily lunches, members and visitors can take advantage of classes on senior-specific topics like Medicare and Social Security, as well as general classes in investments, history, wellness and whatever subject people ask for. There are special monthly programs, quarterly nutrition classes, Friday after-noon outings, and an ongoing Wii bowling league, too.

“Each month we try to have a spe-cial program above whatever else we’re doing,” said Janet Fosness, who took over as interim director of the senior center earlier this month when Ruth Tolmasoff retired. Next month, for instance, the center will host a program with founding father John Adams, as played by a Seattle attorney, and November will include Veterans’ Day observations.

Fosness thinks some of the regular offerings are pretty special, too, like the Laughing Club.

“I love that class, it’s one of my favorites,” she said, explaining that “it’s just a form of exercise, except when you do it, you put a laugh into it.“

It’s a serious workout,too. “I’ve taken that class, and it tired me out!” Fosness said.

All of these classes, like most of the senior center’s offerings, are available to anyone in the community, no matter their age. The same is true for the center’s eight year-old transportation program, which offers 50-cent to $1 rides to anyone in the Valley, from Monroe to North Bend. In fact, only one of the center’s offerings, senior housing, is restricted to seniors only.

The 33-year-old center has owned a 40-unit low-income housing facility for seniors, Sno Ridge Apartments, since the early 1980s.

“We have tried in the past for an assisted living facility,” Fosness said, but Sno Ridge is strictly for people who can live indepen-dently.

So is the center itself, but Fosness says newcomers frequently mistake it for a nursing home.

“We’re an activity center, we have no beds, and no pillows,” Fosness says.

One of the center’s most important offer-ings to seniors is the opportunity to gather and socialize, through knitting and craft clubs, the various classes, and meals.

“We serve lunch at noon, but people start coming in at 9,” Fosness said.

Lunch can be chaotic, with six or eight to a table, but that is part of the appeal for some.

“Here, I feel like this is all my family,” says Juanita Irwin, a member of the Laughing Club that just met before lunch.

Lunch is also a learning experience, as diners share their news — Mary Ann is getting a new dog, and it was on the news last night that Seattle is the sixth-worst-dressed city in the world — and their rich histories. Juanita is from Puerto Rico, is a Navy brat, and has lived in North Bend for 34 years, and retired teacher Elizabeth used to volunteer as a forest fire lookout for years.

Elizabeth is also a traveler and has inspired Fosness to visit Antarctica. “Elizabeth told me there was a gift shop there!” Fosness explains, laughing.

A lot of the people who take part in one center program are volunteers for another. Center members will lead clubs, help at the thrift store, and help drive people to appointments, and they used to drive the SVT shuttles.

Non-members are often introduced to the center through volunteerism, too.

“I think some people won’t come in the door because they think senior centers are for old people, but they’ll come and volunteer,” said Fosness, who is more than happy to give people a reason to come to the center. “Really, we couldn’t run without our volunteers.”

Volunteers are a big part of the success of the transportation program, which has grown substantially in the past 10 years, from two or three shuttles driven by volun-teers, to eight SVT buses, which are almost at their system capacity.

Drivers are paid through alloca-tions from King County Metro and the

Snoqualmie Tribe, which make the entire program possible.

“Basically, our rides are 50 cents, and you can’t afford to run eight buses on 50 cents a ride,” Fosness said.

Volunteers have also made the cen-ter’s successful thrift store take off. The shop, crowded into a back room of the center, is run entirely by volunteers and stocked solely by donations, and it’s been “a nice little fundraiser,” for the center since it started in 2003. Last year, the shop brought in more than $80,000 for senior center programs.

It is a blessing, in Fosness’ words, serving not only the center but also the com-munity as a place where low-income people can find some necessities, or that unusual thrift-store find essential

to a school program.Members of the center pay a fee of $15

annually, which does help to support the center, but also gives people a feeling of belonging. “I think people like being mem-bers,” Fosness says, and as for the member-ship fee, “I break it down to $1.25 a month, and is it worth a dollar for them to come here?”

The center also receives funding from King County, the state of Washington, the cities of North Bend and Snoqualmie, and Senior Services Northwest, but Fosness hopes to find other funding sources.

Ultimately, she’d like to become more self-sufficient, so she can grow the center into what the community needs it to be, with a larger transportation program, and a greater outreach to seniors.

Only 250 people are paid members of the center, and another 400 are on the center’s mailing list, Fosness said, leaving huge numbers of seniors out of contact with the center.

“I would like to see more seniors, that we can reach out more.… It would be nice even to have the center open more days in the week, because seniors are lonely every day.”

To contact Mount Si Senior Center, visit 411 Main Ave., North Bend, or www.mtsi-seniorcenter.org or call (425) 888-3434.

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Glen Blomgrens signal the next move for the country line dance class he and wife Julia, left, teach on Tuesdays at the Mount Si Senior Center. Dance is one of the many programs the center offers to all members of the community.

“Here, I feel like this is all my family.”

Juanita Irwin,Mount Si Senior Center regular

Move your feet

Center introduces country dance classes

All the dancing stopped when Julia Blomgren announced “High-five for Carol!”

Her husband, Glen obligingly slid over to his blushing student – she’d just mastered a tricky combina-tion of steps – for a high hand slap, and then he slid right back into the dance steps.

And that is how the Blomgrens, the new dance teachers at the Mount Si Senior Center on Tuesday mornings, run a class. While Glen directs the large group, Julia can work with one or two students independently, until they all know the moves.

“We’ve always made up our minds to never go for-ward until everybody’s got it,” Julia explained.

It’s a principle that they’ve learned from 21 years of teaching together, and one that gives everyone a chance to celebrate their progress.

“They’re supposed to get rowdy when they do it right,” Glen said, and this morning’s class of nine, including some seasoned line dancers, a couple of belly dancers, and a brand-new couple, knew how to do that, with hollers, hugs, and more high-fives.

The class focuses on country line dancing, a lit-tle different from the class that Lupe Filson had been teaching, but with the same health and mental ben-efits of any type of dancing. Glen pointed to research that indicates dancing may prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s and said “If it doesn’t reverse aging, it certainly holds it at bay.”

Many of his students agree, including Gerry Guenther, 82, who also belly dances. “What better way to get exercise,” she asked.

The country aspect is still pretty new, though, which was clear as students changed out of their danc-ing shoes after class.

“We haven’t really talked about shoes,” Glen said. “We’re more into boots.”

Country line-dancing is taught at 11 a.m. Tuesdays at the senior center. Instructors hope to soon add an eve-ning couple’s class, and eventually hold monthly dances at the center.

New face in center’s top jobInterim director brings

family feel to senior centerBY CAROL LADWIG

Staff Reporter

When Janet Fosness changed jobs in 1990, she was looking for something more fulfilling. What she found was a second family, and a career she could love.

Now the interim direc-tor of the Mount Si Senior Center, Fosness was hired then by her friend, Ruth Tolmasoff, to help her run and grow the community center. At the time, she prob-ably didn’t realize she’d stay for 21 years, and counting.

“I was a camp cook at Camp Waskowitz, so basi-cally I traded fourth and fifth graders for 55- and 65-year-olds,” she laughed.

Joking or not, the move was a trade up for Fosness, who took on the interim director role Sept. 2 when Tolmasoff retired. She explained that she’s stayed with the center because “You get to know the seniors and it’s kind of like a real family ... It’s a different job every day, and it’s fun.”

Fosness has held the job of interim director since Tolmasoff retired Sept. 2, but she hopes the Board of Directors chooses to make the position permanent for her. It’s the job she wants, not necessarily the title, though.

When she worked with Tolmasoff, she said, “We never went too much on titles because what one didn’t do, the other one did.”

She’s seen lots of changes in the center over the years, including a flood and reno-vation, expanded programs, and the creation of the nutri-tion and transportation pro-grams. There’s a lot that she still wants to do, and the dif-ficult economy really seems to be just one more problem to solve.

Grants and contributions from the state, King County, Cities of Seattle, North Bend and Snoqualmie, and other sources have been gradu-ally shrinking, and Fosness expects that trend to con-tinue.“But I’m not dependent on that money, I’d like to raise more on our own,” she said.

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at its next meeting, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the North Bend Depot.

District 38 is not required to hold a public hearing on the expansion, since 76 percent of registered voters signed the petition to annex about five acres of privately-held land. The bulk of the property is forested land that had been under DNR fire protection, but was placed under District 38’s protec-tion in 1994 by the state legislature’s passage of WAC 332-24-730, which allocated forest lands to several fire districts.

The expansion will for-malize the relationship between the district and the owners of both types of property, with a combined assessed value of roughly $23 million.

“It’s not a huge number in terms of the assessed valu-ation of the district,” said board member Ron Pedee, but “it’s still property that we protect.”

Property owners “should be able to vote,” he added.

The legislation that moved the forest lands into District 38’s service area was unclear on a few points, however, including how long the property would remain with the district. Because of that, the owners of these properties have been left out of some public processes. Although the King County Assessor’s office taxes them as being part of District 38, the King County Elections department does not rec-

ognize this inclusion, and so excludes these property owners from election mail-ings to District 38.

Also, Pedee said, “Their fire insurance companies believed they weren’t in the district, therefore they were paying exorbitant rates.”

The action that District 38 will take along with the annexation will make its relationship with those property owners official, and recognizable by both King County Elections and insurance companies. However, Pedee estimates the entire process will not be complete until about the spring of 2012.

Holen, whose own hair is shiny, blonde and beautiful, has fought hard for this perspective over the past 10 years, ever since she was diagnosed with breast can-cer, and thought she was going to die.

“It was an extremely scary thing, because I’d never known anyone to go through cancer treatment before,” the Fall City woman said. “The only com-ments I’d ever gotten from anybody were ‘oh, my aunt had it just like you, and she died,’ so not very helpful.”

Her family, friends and the cancer program at Overlake Hospital got her through. About a year later, cancer-free, she found what she’d been hoping for when she was a new patient, the non-profit Angel Care.

“It’s a positive place to be and to help people,” she explained.

Angel Care, founded by breast can-cer survivor Jan Harris, connects other survivors, women and men, with newly diagnosed cancer patients for mentoring and support. A volunteer mentor, Holen is now the angel she’d wished for 10 years ago when she got her diagnosis.

“I was in such terror the whole time,” she said of her treatment. So, when she heard about Angel Care, she knew it was for her. “I just wanted to help other women not be so scared for the journey, because it truly is a journey, and unless you’ve been there, you just don’t know.”

Her own journey included two

lumpectomies, daily radiation, chemo-therapy, going “balder than a billiard ball,” and a few years later, a hysterectomy to remove uterine cancer that may have been caused by the tamoxifen she took for five years for her breast cancer. She continued working throughout her treat-ment, at Chief Kanim Middle School (she is now at North Bend Elementary) where her special education students learned about cancer right along with her.

“The kids just rallied around me. A lot of the kids would come and ask questions… and one little girl would touch my ‘hair,’” she said. “They knew the medicine made my hair fall out, but that it would come back, and I would be well.”

She knew it, too, but she also knew she had to keep on fighting the cancer, however she could.

“My last day of radiation was May 7 (2002) and in August I did the 3-Day walk,” a fund-raiser for cancer research. “I just kept thinking it was another mountain to climb. It was another step in getting well….Your mental status has everything to do with your progression and your well-being.”

Showing that courage has made Holen a role model at Angel Care, but her other modeling role for the organization, the calendar, made her dig even deeper into reserves of courage.

“God knows I never thought I’d pose in a nude calendar,” she said. But that was three calendars ago.

Angel Care’s 2012 fundraising calen-

dar features Holen and 11 other survi-vors of breast cancer, wearing nothing more than angel wings, but charmingly camouflaged with feather boas, hats, and other props—Holen is behind a bench, for example.

Far from being embarrassed by the calendar, which goes on sale this week, Holen says “It makes me proud that I’ve fought my fight.”

This year’s calendar is particularly spe-cial to Holen because she finally got her month of choice—May, for her birthday, and for the milestone it represents.

“I finished out my five years on the Tamoxifen, and then I just finished my fifth year of Arimidex, so I’m medicine free now,” she said. “It’s kind of a big step, kind of a scary step, too.”

Her family, husband Al, daughter Kristin and son Tim, and friends have been with her every step of her journey so far, she said, adding that she feels really blessed for that alone.

Cancer has changed Holen’s life in other ways, too. “Being a hairdresser, hair’s been important to me all my life,” she said, but after she lost her own hair, she heard a colleague complain of staying up all night fussing with her hair after a bad haircut, and “I said ‘I can’t connect with that,’ and put my hat on, and walked away.”

“I have learned a lot about myself, in what’s important, and what’s little,” she said. “Your priorities come right to the surface. I don’t take days for granted.”

visit www.angelcarefoundation.org.

“Then I felt like someone kind of grabbed the back of

my chair, it was so sudden,” he said.

The 3.2 magnitude earth-quake occurred at 1:22 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in Maple

Valley, but people 11 miles away in the Valley reported feeling the vibrations.

The event was centered off Route 169 near Spring Lake,

about one mile southeast of Maple Heights.

At first, Stafford wasn’t sure what he had experienced had been an earthquake, until he

noticed that some items had shifted on a shelf, and the cords on his window blinds were swinging.

Having grown up on the west coast, Stafford has been through several earthquakes, including the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually in 2001, and the August 23 magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia. Last week’s shake felt nothing like those two, he said.

His neighbors, walk-ing outside, hadn’t felt the quake at all.

For more information, visit earthquake.usgs.gov.

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Annex areasThe specific properties added to FD 38’s service area by WAC 332-24-730 include forest lands in the following sections:

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Haunted trail coming to RidgeA volunteer-run haunted trail, Night on a Dark Trail is

7 to 9 p.m. October 27 to 29, and starts at the east parking lot of the Trailside building, 35131 S.E. Douglas St., three buildings down from the Snoqualmie Police Station.

The event includes a haunted trail for children 10 and younger; a hay maze, jack-o-lantern festival, pumpkin carv-ing and dance performances. Proceeds to benefit the Mount Si Helping Hand Food Bank.

Visit http://nightonadarktrail.weebly.com for informa-tion.

Halloween costume swap planned at North Bend’s Totz

Every kid’s favorite holiday just got more parent- and planet-friendly, thanks to the second annual National Costume Swap Day.

The website business Macaroni Kid of Snoqualmie Valley and Issaquah is partnering with local businesses Small Threads, Adventure Kids, and Totz Drop-n-Play to host Costume Swap Day.

Between now and October 7, parents can drop off swap-worthy costumes at Totz Drop-N-Play, 249 Main Ave. S., Suite E, in North Bend. In exchange, they’ll be given a ticket for the swap day, 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at Totz.

Totz is offering a free stay-and-play the day of the event with a Halloween craft and $10 off a future visit.

Swap participants can also expect a few goodies from Green Halloween, Macaroni Kid, and other local business-es. To learn more visit snoqualmievalley.macaronikid.com.

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STRUCK: At 2:07 p.m., Sno-qualmie emergency medical technicians (EMTs) respond-ed to a 34-year-old woman who was struck in the chest by a neighbor. She was eval-uated and left at home.CAR ACCIDENT: At 4:40 p.m., Snoqualmie EMTs responded to a two-car motor vehicle accident. Drivers and pas-sengers were evaluated and transported to the hospital.

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IN LABOR: At 3:19 a.m., Sno-qualmie EMTs responded to a 20-year-old woman in la-bor. She was transported to the hospital.ASTHMA: At 12:17 p.m., Sno-qualmie EMTs responded to Mount Si High School for a 14-year-old boy having an

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FALL: At 5:17 p.m., Snoqualmie EMTs responded to a 6-year-old boy who fell from play equipment. He was evaluated

and taken to the hospital.NO FIRE: At 8:04 p.m., Sno-qualmie fi refi ghters were dis-patched to a possible vehicle fi re on Snoqualmie Parkway. Upon arrival, they found the car on the roadside, but no fi re.

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MEDICAL PROBLEMS: At 2:51 p.m., Snoqualmie EMTs were dispatched to Snoqualmie El-ementary School for a woman

with a medical problem. She was evaluated and transport-ed to the hospital.IN CUSTODY: At 7:44 p.m., Sno-qualmie EMTs were dispatched to the Snoqualmie Casino to evaluate a woman in custody with the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce. She was evaluated and transported to the hospital by private ambulance.SPORTS INJURY: At 7:49 p.m., Snoqualmie EMTs and Eastside Fire & Rescue were dispatched to Mount Si High School for an injured football player. He was evaluated and transported to the hospital as a precaution.FALL INJURY: At 8:29 p.m., Snoqualmie EMTs were dis-

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PUBLIC NOTICE #527345KING COUNTY DEPT. OF

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SERVICES (DDES)900 Oakesdale Ave SW, Renton, WA 98057-5212

NOTICE OF PERMIT APPLICATION REQUEST: Clearing/grading permitFile: L11AG002Applicant: Roy Ballestrasse Location: 31918 SE 44th St Fall City Proposal: Install 7’ wide pipe arch crossing Type F Aquatic areaSEPA Contact: Fereshteh Dehkordi 206-296-7173COMMENT PROCEDURES: DDES will issue an environmen- tal determination on this applica- tion following a 21-day comment period that ends on October 24, 2011. Written comments and additional information can be obtained by contacting the SEPA Project Manager at the phone number listed above.

Published in the Snoqualmie Valley Record on September 28, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #526942LEGAL NOTICE

JB STORAGENORTH BEND WA 98045

NOTICE OFPUBLIC AUCTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to auction the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property under the Washington Self-Service Storage Facilities Act. The undersigned will sell at pub- lic Auction by silent bidding on the 11 of OCT. 2011 from 10 am to 12 am on the premises where said property has been stored and which are Located at JB STOR- AGE, 46925 SE MIDDLE FORK RD, NORTH BEND WA. 98045, County of King, State of Washington.1) Elizabeth Johnson unit # 15North Bend WA 980452) Josh Johnson unit # 10

4104 B103 Ave SE, Lake Stevens WA 98258 3) K&M Subway Inc. unit # 1011035 E Harvest Rd, Queen Creek AZ, 85240 4) Jim Lyons unit #8-14015109 B Ceader Falls RD SE #B North Bend WA 980455) April McCarty unit # 44PO Box 250 North Bend WA 980456) John Shilling unit #43 PO Box 962 Fall City WA 980247) Holly & John Searle 8831-371 PL SE unit # 23-25Snoqualmie WA 980658) Cliff Solomon unit # 119PO Box 2492 North Bend WA 980459) Victor Stone unit # 2 lot #4031502 NE 40th St Carnaton WA 9801410) Darby Summers unit # 748721 - 384 Ave SESnoqualmie WA 9806511) TRB Logging & TruckingTodd R Burdulis units # 71-120PO Box 2088 North Bend WA12) Dale Wolford unit #43435 Auburn Way,Auburn WA 98072-724913) Amie Zachry unit #131PO Box 223Snoqualmie WA 98065The purchase must be paid for atthe time of the purchase in cashonly. All purchased items sold as-is where are and must be re- moved at time of sale. Sale sub- ject to cancellation in event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Dated this 25th of Sept 2011. Published in the Snoqualmie Valley Record on September 21, 2011, September 28, 2011 and October 5, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #528546NOTICE OF SEPA

DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS)

AND PUBLIC HEARINGProject: Amendments to North Bend Municipal Code 20.06 Regarding Standing to Initiate Appeals to Land Use Decisions.DNS Issuance Date: September 28, 2011

Notice of Hearing & DNS Publication Date: September 28, 2011Public Hearing Date: October 18, 2011 Applicant: City of North BendLocation: NA - municipal code amendment.Description of Proposal: The proposed amendments to North Bend Municipal Code 20.06 clarify that the standing provisions for initiating a judicial appeal of a land use decision are governed by the Land Use Petition Act, RCW 36.70C. The amendment language is available on the City’s website under Notices.Public Hearing:On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, at the Mt. Si Senior Center (411 Main Avenue S.), the City Coun- cil will hold a public hearing to receive public comment on the amendments described above. Written comments may be accepted until 4:30pm, Thursday, October 13, or in person at the hearing. Email or deliver comments to the contact below. Threshold Determination: The City of North Bend (lead agency for this proposal) has de- termined that this proposal does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environ- ment that cannot be mitigated through compliance with the conditions of the North Bend Municipal Code and other appli- cable regulations. An environ- mental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a com- pleted environmental checklist on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public on request at the offices of the North Bend Community and Economic Development Depart- ment at 126 E. Fourth St., North Bend, Washington. This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date of publica- tion of the notice of DNS, allow-

ing time for public comment. The issuance of this DNS should not be interpreted as acceptance or approval of this proposal as presented. The City of North Bend reserves the right to deny or approve said proposal subject to conditions if it is determined to be in the best interest of the City and/or necessary for the general health, safety, and welfare of the public.SEPA Responsible Official:Mike McCarty, Senior Planner For More Information:Contact Mike McCarty at the Community and Economic De- velopment Department at (425) 888-7649 or via email to [email protected]. Email or mail written comments for either the DNS or the Public Hearing to the North Bend Com- munity and Economic Develop- ment Department, PO Box 896, North Bend, WA 98045. Published in Snoqualmie Valley Record on September 28, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #528570NOTICE OF SEPA

DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS)

AND PUBLIC HEARINGProject Name: Establishing a Limited Commercial Overlay District in a portion of the High-Density Residential Zone.DNS Issuance Date: September 28, 2011Notice of Hearing & DNS Publication Date: September 28, 2011Public Hearing Date: October 13, 2011 Applicant: Scott and Jill Massengill PO Box 1056 North Bend, WA 98045 Location: HDR Zone in the vicinity of Park Street.Description of Proposal: The applicant has submitted an application to amend the North Bend Zoning Map and North Bend Municipal Code Chapter 18.10 to create a Limited Com- mercial Overlay District (LCOD) in the High-Density Residential

(HDR) zone. Amendments in- clude: · Amendments to North Bend Municipal Code 18.10.025 and 18.10.030 to establish the LCOD in a portion of the High-Density Residential Zone in the vicinity of Park Street. · Amendments to the North Bend Zoning Map to designate the boundaries of the LCOD. · Amendments to the Land Use Performance Standards in 18.10.050 to address commercial uses in the Limited Commercial Overlay District. The LCOD would allow limited commercial uses subject to the performance standards created for commercial uses in the over- lay district. The performance standards are being developed to ensure that commercial uses allowed within the LCOD are compatible with the predomi- nantly residential character of the HDR zone. The draft amend- ments are available on the City’s website under public notices. Of note, this SEPA Determination applies only to the municipal code and zoning map amend- ment, and not to any specific development project.Public Hearing:On Thursday, October 13, 2011, at the City Hall Conference Room (211 Main Avenue N.), the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to receive public comment on the amend- ments described above. Written comments may be accepted until 4:30pm, Thursday, October 13, or in person at the hearing. Email or deliver comments to the contact below. Threshold Determination: The City of North Bend (lead agency for this proposal) has de- termined that this proposal does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environ- ment that cannot be mitigated through compliance with the conditions of the North Bend Municipal Code and other appli- cable regulations. An environ- mental impact statement (EIS) is

not required under RCW43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a com-pleted environmental checkliston file with the lead agency. This information is available to thepublic on request at the offices ofthe North Bend Community andEconomic Development Depart-ment at 126 E. Fourth St., NorthBend, Washington. This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agencywill not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date of publica- tion of the notice of DNS, allow-ing time for public comment.The issuance of this DNS shouldnot be interpreted as acceptanceor approval of this proposal as presented. The City of NorthBend reserves the right to denyor approve said proposal subject to conditions if it is determinedto be in the best interest of theCity and/or necessary for thegeneral health, safety, and wel-fare of the public.SEPA Responsible Official:Mike McCarty, Senior Planner For More Information:Contact Mike McCarty at theCommunity and EconomicDevelopment Department at(425) 888-7649 or via email [email protected] or mail written commentsfor either the DNS or the PublicHearing to the North Bend Com-munity and Economic Develop-ment Department, PO Box 896, North Bend, WA 98045. Published in Snqualmie Valley Record on September 28, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #528758COMMENT INVITED ON

PROPOSED ACTIONGranite Creek Road

Decommissioning and Road to Trail Project USDA – Forest

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Forest has initiated National En- vironmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental analysis for the Granite Creek Road 5610 De- commissioning and Road to Trail Project. This project is located within the Granite Creek area of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River watershed in Section 24, T23N, R9E. The Project propos- es to decommission and remove approximately 3.9 miles of road from the Forest transportation system and decommission and convert approximately 1.0 mile to trail. All of these roads have been closed to public access for at least 15 years. They are grown in and undrivable. Project public scoping and comment letter and maps are available on-line at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest website: www.fs.usda. gov/goto/mbs/projects, under the “Granite Creek Road 5610 De- commissioning and Road to Trail Project.” The Forest Service is combining the scoping period and the notice and comment period into one 30-day public comment period on the Proposed Action, as provided by 36 CFR 215.5 regulations. Preliminary analysis indicates this project would have no significant ad- verse effects on the physical, bio- logical, or human environment within or adjacent to the Project Area. Comments will be accept- ed for 30 days beginning the first day after publication of this legal notice in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. If the scoping and com-

ment time period expires on a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday, comments are due by the end of the next Federal work- ing day. Only those who submit timely comments will be accept- ed as appellants. The publication date in the newspaper of record is the exclusive means for calcu- lating the comment period. Com- ments on this project may be submitted orally, by telephone, electronically, through the mail, by fax, or hand-delivered. Send electronic comments to: com- ments-pacificnorthwest-mtbaker- [email protected]. us. They need to be in message, text, .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format. Written comments should be sent to: Doug Schrenk, Attention: Granite Creek Road 5610 De- commissioning and Road to Trail Project, Snoqualmie Ranger District, 902 SE North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 98045. Office hours for submitting oral, telephone, or hand delivered comments are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, ex- cluding holidays. Comments may also be faxed to (425) 783-0212. Hand-delivered comments can be taken to the Snoqualmie Ranger District office in North Bend, Washington. For comments by telephone, contact Doug Schrenk at (425) 888-8750. For more information about this project, please contact Doug Schrenk at (425) 888-8750 or dschrenk@ fs.fed.us.Published in Snoqualmie Valley Record on September 28, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #528768LEGAL NOTICE

CITY OF NORTH BENDKing County, Washington

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the North Bend Planning Commis- sion has scheduled a public hear- ing to receive comment regard- ing an update to the Floodplain Management Plan. The public hearing will take place during the Commission Meeting on Thursday October 13, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at City Hall, 211 Main Ave. N., North Bend, WA. A copy of the draft Floodplain Management Plan amendments are available for viewing on the City website at http://northbend- wa.gov or by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 211 Main Avenue N. (P.O. Box 896), North Bend, WA 98045. Com- ments may be presented orally at the public hearing or submitted in writing to the Planning Department up until 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2011. For additional information please contact Ron Garrow, Pub- lic Works Director at (425) 888-7650 or Gina Estep, Community and Economic De- velopment Director at (425) 888-7640.Posted: September 22, 2011Published in the Snoqualmie Valley Record: September 28, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #528771NOTICE OF MITIGATED

DETERMINATION OF NON- SIGNIFICANCE (MDNS)

Issuance Date: September 14, 2011Publication Date:

September 28, 2011Applicant: City of SnoqualmieLocation: City of SnoqualmieDescription of Proposal: The proposed project is for the replacement of existing and installation of new 12-inch, 8- inch, 6-inch and 4-inch ductile iron watermain, valves and fit- tings within approximately 2,400 LF of Railroad Place, Newton and Delta Streets. The project is located entirely within the public right of way. Any existing roads and sidewalks disturbed in construction will be restored. To minimize impact and reduce disruption to train and highway traffic by avoiding open trench- ing, the pipe crossing at the rail- road tracks and highway 202 will be installed via directional drill- ing. The directional drilling with occur at a depth of nine feet un- der the train tracks and highway.Threshold Determination:After review of the environmental checklist, the City of Snoqualmie (lead agency for this proposal) has determined pursuant to RCW 43.21C.240 that the requirements for environmental analysis and mitigation measures in develop- ment regulations provide ade- quate mitigation for the project’s specific adverse environmental impacts and that the above refer- enced proposal does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment that cannot be mitigated through compliance with the conditions of the Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance (MDNS). An environmental impact state- ment is not required under RCW

42.21.030(2)(c). This decision was made after re- view of a complete environmen- tal checklist and other informa- tion on file with the City. This information is available to the public on request. This MDNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 15 days from the date of publica- tion, allowing time for public comment. Comments on the Threshold Determination: For a complete copy of the MDNS staff report with conditions or if you would like to comment on this Thresh- old Determination, your written comments should be sent to PO Box 987, Snoqualmie WA, 98065, Attn: Gwyn Berry, Plan- ning Technician, by October 12, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. The City will not take final action on this proposal until the end of the comment period. The issuance of this Mitigated Determination of Nonsignifi- cance should not be interpreted as acceptance or approval of this proposal as presented. The City of Snoqualmie reserves the right to deny or approve said proposal subject to conditions if it is deter- mined to be in the best interest of the City and/or necessary for the general health, safety, and welfare of the public to do so. Published in the Snoqualmie Valley Record on September 28, 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE #529628Legal Notice

City Of SnoqualmieKing County,

Washington 98065 Notice Is Hereby Given Thatthe Snoqualmie City Council, onthe 26th day of September 2011 passed the following Ordinances:

Ordinance No. 1083 Ordinance of the City of Sno- qualmie granting King CountyRural Library District DBAKing County Library System aFranchise to use, and occupyPublic Rights of Way for Constructing, Maintaining, Re-pairing, Operating and Replacing Fiber Optic Network within the City of Snoqualmie, Establish- ing the Terms and Conditions thereof, and Approving an Interlocal Agreement Between the City of Snoqualmie and King County Rural Library District DBA King County Library System Relating to use of Portion of City Fiber Facilities.

Ordinance No. 1084 An Ordinance of the City of Snoqualmie, Washington, Pro- hibiting Parking within Ten (10) Feet of Mailboxes and Amending Section 10.08.040 of the Snoqualmie Municipal Code. Copies of these Ordinances in complete text are available at the City Hall located at 38624 SE River Street between 9 AM and 5 PM, Monday through Friday, on the city website www.ci.snoqual- mie.wa.us, or by calling the City Clerk at 425-888-1555 x 1118. Matthew R. Larson, MayorATTEST: Jodi Warren, MMC City ClerkPublish/Post : 9/28/11Effective Date: 10/4/11Published in Snoqualmie Valley Record on September 28, 2011.

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“Rally and rallycross are becoming the new road racing,” Bentley said. Young people who grew up playing games like “Colin McRae’s DIRT” can now do it in real life. “We’ve created a real-life video game for grown-ups.”

The idea of a rally car school isn’t unique. Two such schools already operate in Florida and New Hampshire.

DirtFish, though, is pioneering a new way to teach people to rally.

“We’re in the business of helping people feel alive,” Bentley said. “They come here and learn things that stretch them, that some-times are a little outside their comfort zone.”

“There is an absolute rush to it,” said customer Frank Conway. Manager of a high-risk driver-training program, Conway came all the way from Fredericksburg, Va., for an education in safe driving. He got that, but he also had a blast.

DirtFish’s business model has three parts. The first is aimed at the private individual who wants to learn how to drive a rally car. The second part is camps aimed at team-building activities for cor-porations. This past year, DirtFish held such camps for companies like T-Mobile, Google and Microsoft.

“It’s all about working together to solve a problem,” Bentley said. “They learn to communicate, trust each other and work as a team.”

The third portion of DirtFish’s model is military training for soldiers who want to learn how to drive in extreme situations.

Looking ahead, the business plans to gradually grow its con-sumer courses while massively expanding in the corporate team-building events and military-police training.

Adaptive ActionThis summer, DirtFish partnered with Adaptive Action Sports

to give wounded military personnel and other drivers with physical challenges a taste of the extreme.

Adaptive Action helps participant enrich their lives and show others that they can live beyond their limitations. Before DirtFish opened up the possibilities of motorsports, the group mostly used skateboard and snowboard facilities.

A two-day camp in July helped soldiers dealing with post-

traumatic stress disorder to rebuild their trust.Instructors sometimes need to adapt their own methods. Working with a driver who was deaf, “We had to come up with

hand signals in front of his face,” instructor Don Wooten said.DirtFish instructor Nate Tennis worked alongside Supercross

rider Chris Ridgway, who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.“He drove incredibly well,” said Tennis. They had to improvise a

bit, but Ridgway’s prosthetic leg handled DirtFish’s two-leg power-sliding lessons—one foot pumps the gas while the other pumps the brake—with surprising skill.

“Sitting in the right seat and watching that happen just blew me away,” Tennis said.

Fueled team Much of the first year’s successes at the school can be ascribed

to the youthful vibe and commitment of the staff, and to the rally school’s Valley location.

From Jamie Billadeau, the office receptionist who can step in to help customers with last-minute auto emergencies, to Luke Wyrsch, the local guy whose day as a student turned into a job in the DirtFish auto shop, there are many examples of passion in this small staff.

“It’s an absolutely amazing place to work, hang out, everything,” said Billadeau, a motorsports nut herself.

DirtFish instructors and staff bring a mix of rally and race experience and people skills. DirtFish has also benefited from its Snoqualmie location, a half-hour drive from Seattle and with exist-ing hospitality and amenities.

“This place is incredible,” Wooten said. “I feel so lucky we have this property to play with, I mean, work out of.”

“Incredible” is also how Wooten describes his experience as one of DirtFish’s wingmen, guiding newcomers to the sport of rally.

“The coolest part of being in the right seat is feeling them ‘get it,’” he said. “When the car does what they ask it to do… they feel it and they’re able to reproduce it, it’s amazing. ‘Yeah, you’ve got it!’”

To Bentley, the most satisfying part of his job is seeing all the smiles, of his customers and staff.

“It’s an incredible workplace culture,” he said. The jobs are fun, but “not a single person is satisfied with where we’re at.”

Snoqualmie. Learn more about the school at www.dirtfish.com.

DIRTFISH FROM 10

Above, one of DirtFish’s Subaru WRX-STI rally cars tears it up on a gravel track. Below, DirtFish President Ross Bentley, left, and General Manager Greg Lund, stand next to a map of the course in the school building, a former lumber mill office.

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1997 Ford Thunderbird LX (26502A) ............ ..$4,9711990 Lincoln Town Car (26663N) .................. ..$4,9951996 Subaru Legacy AWD (R10794A) ........... ..$6,8712005 Hyundai Elantra sedan (26294B) ......... ..$6,8712005 Dodge Neon SXT (26437A) .................. ..$7,2712004 Mercury Sable LS sedan (26647A) ....... ..$7,8712003 Oldsmobile Bravada 4x4 (26247P) ...... ..$7,9712004 Toyota Corolla S sedan (26153D) ........ ..$7,9711967 Chevrolet El Camino cab (26749A) ...... ..$7,9952003 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4WD (R10863B) ... ..$8,9712005 Chevrolet Uplander 4 dr (26613) .......... ..$9,4712004 Chevrolet Colorado 2 dr cab (26634) .. ..$9,5712005 Chevrolet Impala sedan (R11081A) ..... ..$9,8712004 Dodge Neon SXT sedan (R11356A) ..... ..$9,8712006 Ford Freestyle SE SUV (26724A) .......... ..$9,8712003 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 4x4 (3984A)...$9,9712005 Pontiac Grand Prix sedan (26510) ....... ..$9,9712009 Chevrolet Aveo 4 dr sedan (3976N) ....$10,5712005 Dodge Caravan SE Wagon (V8556N) ......$10,5712005 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS (26627B) ............$11,8712007 Hyundai Sonata 4 dr sedan (V8044B) ....$11,9712002 Honda Civic LX sedan (R11382A) ............$11,9712006 Buick LaCrosse CXL 4 dr (26595) ............. $12,5712006 Chevrolet Impala LT sedan (26661) ......... $12,6712009 Kia Spectra EX sedan (26543) ................. $12,9712006 Chevrolet HHR LT 4 dr hatch (26438N) ... $13,8712008 Chevrolet Uplander LS (26518) ...............$13,8712006 Ford E-350 Super Duty Ext (26643N) ......$14,3712003 Chevrolet Avalanche 1500 (26500B) .... $14,7712009 Kia Optima LX sedan (26542) .................$14,7712009 Ford Focus SE sedan (26497) ..................$14,8712004 Cadillac CTS 4 dr sedan (26752) .............$14,8712009 Smart Fortwo 2 dr cpe (26484) ...............$14,8712005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd 4WD (4033A) .$14,9712005 Nissan Pathfi nder 4WD (26356A) ......... $14,9712010 Kia Soul 4dr wagon (26641) ................. $16,371

2003 Chevrolet Tahoe 4WD 4 dr (V8553B) .... $15,8712007 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4x4 (3998A) ......... .$15,9712008 Suzuki XL7 4 dr utility (R10940A) ......... $16,8712008 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (26275B) ...... $16,9712006 Pontiac Solstice Roadster (V8294A) ..... $16,9712009 Chevrolet Malibu LT (26540) .................. $17,3712008 Kia Amanti Sedan 4 dr (26742) .............$17,9712007 Subaru Outback 4 dr wagon (26253A) .$17,9712004 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 (4017N) ....... $17,9712008 Jeep Liberty Ltd 4 dr utility (26398) ..... $17,9712009 Subaru Legacy AWD sedan (26366) .....$18,8712008 Hyundai Santa Fe 4 dr (26431A) ..........$18,8712009 Chevrolet HHR SS hatch (4017A)..........$18,9712004 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning (26586A) .....$19,7712011 Hyundai Sonata 4dr (26442) ................$19,9712005 Lexus RX330 AWD 4 dr utility (26707) .$21,6712007 Mazda CX-7 4 dr SUV (26694) ................$21,8712008 Cadillac DTS 4 dr sedan (26336A) ..........$21,9712005 Ford F-250 4x4 Crew Cab (3722A) .........$21,9712007 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner (26528A) ......$22,9712006 GMC Yukon 1500 AWD Denali (V8333C) $23,3712004 Hummer H2 Sport Utility (R10423B) ......$24,9712007 Ford F-250 4x4 Supercab (R10498A) .....$25,5752008 Lexus IS250 AWD 4 dr sedan (26695) ....$25,8712010 Toyota Prius 4 dr hatch (26698) .............$25,8712006 Porsche Boxster Cabriolet (V8429N) ......$25,9712009 Cadillac CTS RWD (26496) ......................$26,9712008 Toyota Tundra 4x4 (3989B) .....................$27,6712007 Chevrolet Tahoe 1500 (4009A) ..............$28,9712005 Chevrolet Corvette conv (3964A) ..........$28,9752007 Chevrolet Avalanche SUV (26614B) .......$29,8712009 Chevrolet Tahoe 1500 4x4 (26143) ........$29,9712010 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 LS (26692) ....$32,3752010 Subaru Legacy Premium 4 dr (26482) ....$32,8712009 Chevrolet Corvette 2 dr cpe (26574) .....$37,1712009 Cadillac CTS V 4 dr sedan (4047A) ..........$53,871

*Prices include manufacturer rebate until 10/12/11.

Expires 10/12/11

Expires 4/13/11

Brake SpecialFront or Rear

$229 99+ TAX

Replace Front Brake Pads or Rear Brake ShoesMachine Rotors or DrumsCheck Connections and Lines for LeaksAdjust Parking BrakeAdd Brake Fluid as Needed

Packing of wheel bearings caliper/wheel cylinder service additional charge. Includes GM cars and 1/2 ton pickups. Some models may be slightly higher. Non-GM vehicles may incur extra charge. Coupon must be presented when ve-hicle is dropped off for service. Not good with any other offer. Expires 10/12/2011.

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