The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:
Thursday, Aug. 27, 1992
• Developers building the largest residential project in North Bend won the right last week to complete the first 50 of 230 homes slated for construction. The city council unanimously approved the final plat in the first of two construction phases for the Foster Woods development, located on 88.7 acres just south of Interstate 90’s junction with North Bend Boulevard.
• Last spring, Stacie McLeod phoned the Puget Sound Railway Historical Association, hoping to set up a special wedding reception for her and her groom-to-be aboard a train car. In the discussion that followed, McLeod discovered that the association was looking for a person to promote such special events. Within a month, McLeod was the group’s manager of visitor services and by late June, she’d married and become Stacie Hanson.
•North Bend’s Tony Berg, 11, recently placed fourth with a time of 13.4 in the 100-meter dash at a national track meet in Hershey, Pa.
• A North Bend land use review board remains three members short amid a cloud of accusations that Mayor Chris Lodahl’s appointments have been blocked by politics. Those accusations resurfaced at the city council’s Aug. 18 meeting, when council member Mike Hasting and Mayor Lodahl confronted each other over the issue and former council member and business owner Arlen Reno scolded the council — and Lodahl — for wasting taxpayers’ “time and money” arguing politics.
Thursday, Aug. 31, 1967
• Burglars ripped the rear door of the Mount Si Bowling Innes in Snoqualmie early Monday morning and escaped with upwards of $25 in cash. “The third time was the charm,” said Mrs. Walter Kohlruss, wife of the owner. “There were signs two Sundays in a row that they tried to break in. Then they skipped a week and finally just tore the door off the hinges.” She said two coin-operated amusement machines were robbed of all coins, several dollars in small change were taken from a cash drawer, and a cigarette machine was dismantled, but it was not known how many cigarettes were missing.
• The Valley Kiwanis Club will meet this Thursday night, at the Gateway Cafe in North Bend, and it shapes up as one meeting that no member should miss. Long one of the area’s most active groups in community endeavors, the Kiwanis now intend to review all programs in which the club has participated, to determine whether all or any of them should be discontinued.
• If and when the Seattle area ever gets a major-league baseball stadium, Clarkson &Co. real estate agents are putting in their bid now to place the stadium in the Duvall area. In a well-circulated invitation to stadium promoters, Ralph Clarkson points out that Duvall ofers the “biggest, cheapest” potential stadium site in the Seattle area and that “all roads lead to Duvall and the Cherry Valley Stadium.”
• Two Meadowbrook men were injured last Saturday when their auto went off the road west of Snoqualmie and rolled down an 180-foot embankment, the State Patrol reported. James H. Fish, 31, suffered a possible dislocated shoulder. George W. Brown, a passenger, suffered a five-inch cut on his back.
