Out of the past: Nevin retires from Weyerhaeuser with 48 years of service; Barrel of paint thinner recovered from bottom of Snoqualmie Falls;

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

July 7, 2017 7:30 am
Out of the past: Nevin retires from Weyerhaeuser with 48 years of service; Barrel of paint thinner recovered from bottom of Snoqualmie Falls;

Thursday, July 9, 1992

• This week, the country council approved a laundry list of policies created by the Growth Management Planning Council, which is made up of elected officials from Seattle and the suburbs. The city of Snoqualmie has made its concerns known through a position paper challenging the county’s right to draw up planning policies and, it asserts, reverse the “bottom-up” approach to planning envisioned by the GMA. “We don’t think there need to be another agency to manage growth in the county,” said Pat Anderson, Snoqualmie city attorney.

• Officials with the Department of Ecology removed a sealed 55-gallon plastic barrel containing lacquer thinner and paint waste from the bottom of Snoqualmie Falls on Monday, June 29. Because the barrel was sealed, there was no indication of leakage an DOE officials don’t know how long the barrel had been submerged. Snoqualmie Tribal Council Chairman Ron Lauzon and Snoqualmie Learning Center Director William Bungaard discovered the barrel during a hike June 25.

Thursday, July 13, 1967

• Last Friday was Mark Nein’s last day at work at the Weyerhaeuser Co. plant. His first day was 48 years ago, and he retired with the longest services yet of a Weyerhaeuser employee in the area. five other veteran workers at Weyerhaeuser also retired June 30. He got his first job at 17 in the planing mill and spent most of the remaining years as an electrician.

• Frank and Margaret Hackney, who have done business in their shop on Snoqualmie’s main street for 29 years, have sold the building and property. The purchaser is Wayne Gaub, owner of the Snoqualmie Food Center, Hackney said. The Hackneys, who will remain Snoqualmie residents, first came to the Valley on a vacation from Minnesota in 1938. They never went back to the Midwest.