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    Office Coordinator needed
    The Snoqualmie Valley Record is looking for a full-time office coordinator. Please see the job description. Pay is DOE, it is an entry level position with medical, dental, vision, sick leave and vacation.
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    Meadowbrook event tackles invasive weed
    A battle is on to protect some of King County's best riverside habitat from knotweed, a tough, invasive plant.
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    Camp sites get clean sweep
    King County Sheriff’s Deputies Scott Allen, left, and Brent Naylor cross a small creek on a makeshift bridge near a Middle Fork campsite. This site deserved a ‘job well done’ notice for its clean appearance, the team said. It provided a stark contrast to other sites where campers left litter and illegally cut down trees for firewood.
    Law enforcement officers from the King County Sheriff's Office, Washington Department of Natural Resources, U.S.
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    Families go on high-tech treasure hunt
    Sharon and Nick Matarangas help their daughter, Aley, with her GPS unit during the geoteaming competition, held Saturday, June 28 at Rattlesnake Lake during the annual Greenway Days celebration.
    The fourth annual Greenway Days offered something for everyone, including guided hikes, bike rides and history tours among other events within the 1.4 million acres of the Mountains to Sound Greenway.
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    Meadows, Crabb engaged to wed
    Leah Louise Meadows and Steven Richard Crabb are excited to announce their engagement.
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    Garden benefit to help Center Stage
    Helping Valley Center Stage is the cause of the night at a benefit evening planned for 6 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at The Nursery at Mount Si.
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    Earning Eagle's wings
    Newly named Eagle Scouts with Troop 466, from left, front row, Jimmy Dunn, Jeff Stockman, back row, Nick Gaudio, Shawn Paskey and Jason McClelland display mementos earned at their court of honor, held Saturday, June 28 at Tolt MacDonald Park. The new Eagles each received a frisbee in recognition of one of their favorite activities together.
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    Horses, of course, for Valley 4-H club
    Members of the Sidekicks 4-H group, meeting in the Valley, include, front row, left to right, Dominique Thompson, Joshua Trotto, Kayla Powlesland, Lauren McCallum, Ali Barry, back row, Anna Emerson, McKenna Paskey, Meghan McCallum and Kelly Barry, and on horseback, Savannah Thompson, Nyana Blume, Brianna Trotto and Shannon Barnhart.
    Valley youths who love horses can meet with like-minded peers and learn more about their favorite animal through a 4-H club that gets together in North Bend.
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    Back to Bethlehem
    Summer hardly means boredom for Vacation Bible School campers at Snoqualmie United Methodist Church.
    Vacation Bible School runs 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., July 21 through 25.

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    Storytelling skills
    Dylan Johnson, 10, of North Bend, recent won a library “Story Slam” competition for his story about an elderly couple’s magical kitchen.
    Ten-year-old Dylan Johnson of North Bend has serious story-spinning skills.
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    Honor society members named at Chief Kanim
    Chief Kanim Middle School students have been named to the school's honor society for spring semester. Students with an asterisk next to their name achieved a 4.0 grade point average. Honor society students include:
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    Teen health center at Two Rivers?
    Debbie Peterman spoke with 16 local business leaders at the Snoqualmie Ridge TCP over breakfast about the possible establishment of a teen health center.
    The Snoqualmie Valley Community Network (SVCN) had hoped to establish a health center at the new Twin Falls Middle School.
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    Women's group raises funds for food bank
    The Snoqualmie Valley Women's Social host team includes, from left, Rhonda Treglown, Kathy Golic, Patricia Bennett, Susan Livingston, and Jeanne Acker (host Lara Currie was not pictured). The group raised over $1,000 at benefit held Friday, June 6, to help the Mount Si Helping Hand Food Bank. To find out more about the group, call Kathy Golic at (425) 831-5195.
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    Elk study group forming
    A new volunteer study group, called the North Bend/Snoqualmie Elk Roundtable, has recently been formed by concerned individuals and representatives from various governmental, business, and non-profit entities to study and assess the impact of the rapidly growing elk herd in the upper Snoqualmie Valley.
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    Tolt church to hold pancake breakfast
    Before the Carnation Fourth of July parade, hungry visitors can enjoy the annual pancake breakfast put on by Tolt Congregational United Church of Christ.
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    Downtown merchants to hold sidewalk sale
    All that's needed for a successful Snoqualmie sidewalk sale, planned for Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6, is a little cooperation from the weather.
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    Citizen of the Week
    Rudy Edwards of North Bend, who recently received an activism award from the NAACP, serves on the Snoqualmie Valley School District and recently retired from the U.S. Forest Service.
    Rudy Edwards, who recently won a community activist award from the Vancouver chapter of the NAACP, uses the following question to guide his substantial community service: "How can I get this child the best opportunities and link them to something worthwhile?"
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    Heat hits Valley
    Jacob McClelland, 17, of Preston, leaps into the frigid and swift waters of the Snoqualmie River at the Tolt MacDonald bridge on Saturday, June 28. Temperatures in the Valley soared over the past weekend.
    The Valley didn't quite see record-breaking heat over the weekend, but locals shopped as if it had, stocking up on water, beer and other summer essentials.
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    Celebrate safely with fireworks
    With retail fireworks stands now open in Valley communities, local cities and firefighters ask residents to celebrate safely.
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    Farmer's market opens at Si View
    At the North Bend Farmers Market's first session of the season, 4-year-old Brennan Carbonell of Snoqualmie pulls a wagon loaded with new plants. Shoppers also had their choice of fresh produce, flowers, textiles and prepared foods. The market runs Thursdays from 4 to 8 p.m. through Sept. 11 at Si View Park, located at 400 S.E. Orchard Dr. in North Bend.
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    Birthday party time for Snoqualmie Depot
    The Northwest Railway Museum will celebrate the 118th birthday of the Snoqualmie Depot on Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6.
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    Ribbons show Relay for Life support
    Kimberly Millan, owner of Mix It Up!, hangs a pink ribbon on the front window of her business to show support for local cancer victims. Millan hopes to open the frozen yogurt shop in time for the July Fourth weekend.
    Snoqualmie businessman Jeff Warren had participated in Relay for Life in the past, but when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, her struggle "brought it back to the forefront of my caring," he said.
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    School district tightens budget
    The Snoqualmie Valley School District will tap into reserve funds and make some tough cuts to reconcile its 2008-09 budget, but administrators are even more concerned about the following year's plan.
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    Missing inner tuber presumed drowned
    A 36-year-old Kirkland man, who was inner tubing without a life jacket Monday, June 30, on the Snoqualmie River, is missing and presumed drowned.
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    Casino roundabout could mean delays
    Drivers using North Bend Way could begin seeing traffic impacts this week, with construction beginning on the new roundabout at the Snoqualmie Casino entrance.
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    HIGHLIGHTS
    TOP STORIES
      Office Coordinator needed
    LOCAL SPORTS
      Junior golfers face off in Valley
      Busy summer for Wildcat baseball players
      Girls' hoops squad represented at tourney
      Fall City college rowers cruising for wins
    POLICE/FIRE
      On the scanner
    EDITORIAL & OPINION
      Opposed to teen health center
      Cutting back wrong services
      New park district
      Impressed with Valley hospital
    BUSINESS
      Smoothie shop opens in North Bend
      Family plans to sell North Bend landmark

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