Out of the Past: Children’s Services director steps down; recently married city clerk resigns to be ‘just a housewife’

The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:

Thursday, Oct. 8, 1992

• Work on Snoqualmie’s largest development project, Snoqualmie Ridge, is stalled while the partners planning it find a way to settle the dissolution of their partnership. The delay won’t affect agreements between the landowners and the city, but it will prolong the city’s wait for needed construction tax revenues. The six-year partnership between Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Co and P&A International (formerly Potomac Investment Associates) ended last January.

• After nine years of service with Children’s Services of Sno-Valley, with four years as executive director, Krista Eberle will step down from her position. According to Eberle, when she first arrived, the agency served many adults and a few children; later the adult program was switched to another agency. Although the rewards have been great, Eberle said she decided to step down because the director’s position has been moving away from interaction with children and more toward managerial responsibilities.

Thursday, Oct. 5, 1967

• Burley Lawrence, high rigger and hooktender at Weyerhaeuser’s Snoqualmie Falls operation, retired Sept. 30. He had been at Weyerhaeuser for 32 years but his years as a logger total 45. And in all that time, he never missed a day’s work because of a lost-time accident — probably a record for what was once a most hazardous occupation and still offers wide opportunities to the unwary for accidents.

• Mrs. Ruth Semro Holman this week announced her resignation as Town Clerk of North Bend, effective Jan. 1, 1968. She has held the position for three years and four months. Recently married, Mrs. Semro said, “I intend to take up new duties as just a housewife.”