Out of the Past: Cities make first move to combine Chambers of Commerce; North Bend defeats plea for equal pay for equal work

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

June 16, 2017 7:30 am

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

Thursday, June 18, 1992

• North Bend’s Little League team, the Blue Jays, recently won a trip to McDonald’s in a stretch limo. The 5- and 6-year-olds beat out 41 other teams and sold the most candy in a drive to raise funds.

• The recent move by Snoqualmie Falls Chamber of Commerce to join with the North Bend Chamber has been long in coming. “Actually, it’s been talked about since 1923…. It seems like a logical move,” said Vicki Curnutt board member. Cherie Leiker president of the Snoqualmie Chamber, said “We’ve taken the first step to combine resources, energy, money, people and time to make it a more vital and stronger chamber.” Leiker plans to resign and move to Texas.

• Seven-year-old Alison Moorehead is this year’s featured artist for Fall City Days. Her drawing was picked out of more than 200 in the poster contest’s third year and will be screened onto hats, T-shirts and mugs. Moorehead will be riding in a horse-drawn carriage at the parade.

Thursday, June 22, 1967

• North Bend’s Town Council Tuesday night authorized the issuance of $380,000 in water revenue bonds, reached at least a temporary truce with auto dealer Hugo Loveland over the case of the missing curbs, and firmly defeated an appeal from Town Clerk Mrs. Ruth Semro for equal pay for equal work.

• Championship playoffs in the Snoqualmie Valley Slow-Pitch League will be held next Sunday, June 25 at Si View Park. Champions in the Northern Division, Fall City’s Riverside Tavern, will play the Mustangs, sponsored by Fred Lewis Ford, on Field No. 2. The Snoqualmie Valley Jaycees, champions of the Southern Division, take on Modern Manufacturing of Issaquah on Field No. 1.

• The King County Fair and the Enumclaw Rodeo will be merged, according to Mrs. W.J. Ammerman, Duvall’s representative on the advisory committee to the King County Fair Board. Merger was made possible through a construction grant to the fair by the King County Commissioners.