Car care: Some things change, some things stay the same at Fall City’s Model Garage
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Steve Ramsey, Dennis Musga and Dylan Phifer, part of the team at Fall City’s Model Garage, continue the shop’s 90-year tradition of automative service, in a new era.
Keeping the Valley’s cars on the road has been the way of things at Fall City’s Model Garage since 1923.
Dennis Musga has owned and operated Fall City’s Model Garage, backed up by his manager and a crew of six mechanics, since 1985.
The auto repair business is Musga’s career. Out of high school, he attended trade school at Renton Tech, training to be a mechanic. Musga served an apprenticeship at Ford and worked at the Ford dealership at Eastgate for 20 years. Then, he partnered with his Valley-resident brother-in-law to buy the Model Garage when the owners were retiring. Plenty of customers followed from the dealership, Musga said.
Win, Lose or Die: Theater benefit dinner returns to Boxley’s tonight
Valley Center Stage and Boxley’s invites you to an evening of dastardly deeds and comic crime as they present “Win, Lose or Die,” tonight, Friday, May 24, starting at 6 p.m., at Boxley’s. The fundraiser includes a raffle, dinner, and interactive murder mystery featuring Valley Center Stage performers with Danny Kolke.
Nocturnal furniture thief; slumped over the wheel; cops not impressed with name dropper; Snoqualmie Valley police calls
On May 13, an officer patrolling Snoqualmie Parkway responded to a report of a reckless driver northbound on the parkway. The officer located the reported car and followed it, noting some erratic driving, before pulling it over at Southeast Millpond Road and Railroad Avenue Southeast. The driver smelled of alcohol and tried to make small talk with the officer while looking for his documents, saying he knew several officers on the force and was a former city councilman. He noted the officer was not impressed, and submitted to several sobriety tests. He was arrested for driving under the influence.
Memorial Day services, business fundraising drive planned in Valley
Snoqualmie Valley veteran’s groups will observe Memorial Day on Monday, May 27. Ceremonies, going from Preston through Fall City and North Bend to the Valley memorial park in downtown Snoqualmie.
A meal of hot dogs and baked beans will be served afterwards at the American Legion Post, River Street, Snoqualmie.
The local American Legion Post is holding a Memorial Day Drive, and is asking local businesses to help by donating part of their proceeds on the Memorial Day weekend.
Past Time: A watered-down Snoqualmie Days; Kids run for homeless; Strike is authorized
Thursday, May 19, 1988
• Local people will miss the parade, music, parachute jumpers and ping pong ball drop. But there will be plenty of arts and crafts in Snoqualmie this summer. Why the flimsier festival? The bottom-line reason is that the carnival is not coming to town. For the second year in a row.
Wheels up: Hoop dreams taking Snoqualmie Valley grad Kyle Whitney further than he ever imagined
When Bellevue College student Kyle Whitney and his basketball team take the court this week in a tournament featuring top teams from around the country in Louisville, Ky., he will realize a lifelong dream.
An athlete for most of his life, including his prep days at Mount Si High School, Whitney always saw himself on the biggest stages competitive athletics had to offer.
But he never could have imagined how he would get there, or what it would look like when he did.
Opinion | This Memorial Day, gather to witness locals’ pride, duty and sacrifice
You can find their names on the massive block of marble at the Snoqualmie Valley Veteran’s Memorial in downtown Snoqualmie.
These are the men and women who gave their lives in service to the nation. Each generation, they came from the mill towns and neighborhoods of the Valley to answer the nation’s call. Their numbers, from World War II in particular, show the abundant, perhaps inordinately so, level of patriotism and service from what others might call small communities. Small, perhaps, but big in service.
Military families get a deal with Memorial Day trains at museum
The Northwest Railway Museum pays tribute to America’s servicemen and women and their families this Memorial Day with a special weekday train run on Monday, May 27.
To commemorate the holiday, the museum will offer $5 roundtrip train fare Saturday, Sunday and Monday, to members of the military and their family members, with current military ID.
Microsoft Office skills, giveaways at next Valley Chamber lunch and learn
Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce's May Lunch and Learn is 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 31, at the Snoqualmie Fire Station, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway.
At the event, Craig Walker, a longstanding Microsoft partner and owner of Plateau Computers, teaches participants to use Microsoft Office to collaborate, stay organized, and be more productive.There will also be $300 in software giveaways.
Forward to Pasco: Mount Si baseball once again statebound after clinching doubleheader | Slideshow
It all came down to a single hit.
With the score tied, two-all, two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the second, Nick Adams was in the hot seat, hoping to stave off an overtime battle with a dangerous North Thurston team.
Adams nailed it, hitting a fielder’s choice grounder to second, and runner Evan Johnson made it safely to second, allowing Joey Cotto to cruise home for his second run.
See you at the movies: Young filmmakers' visions on view at North Bend film fest Thursday
Local talent and creativity is celebrated annually with the Wildcat Film Festival, the big-screen premiere of student films at the North Bend Theatre. Every year, film students, many of them fresh from wins in the Northwest Film Festival (and this year is no exception, see sidebar), present some of their best works during the evening fundraiser for the Wildcat Production Club at Mount Si High School.
This year, local caring and concern will also be a part of the celebration. Roughly 30 short films entered in the “Your Choice, Your Voice” video contest sponsored by the Snoqualmie Valley Community Network will also be screened during the evening, and the winners of the $500 top prize will be announced.
