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

Thursday, Nov. 21, 1991

A recount is expected in the Snoqualmie City Council race between incumbent Terry Sorenson and Tom fix. At press time, Sorenson led with 157 votes to Fix’s 156. About 1,000 King County absentee ballots remained to be counted earlier this week. It was unknown if any of those ballots came from Snoqualmie residents.

The city of North Bend is taking a cautious approach to fiscal planning for 1992, unveiling a $5.17 million proposed budget. “Rapid growth presents special problems to any city,” states Mayor Fritz Ribary in his budget message. Proposing a conservative approach, Ribary noted simply that “additional revenue adjustments are easier to deal with than additional expense adjustments.”

Protect the endangered citsnoq! That’s the rallying cry of some upper Valley residents who are calling on local, state, ad federal officials to work together to preserve the creature’s habitat. A “citsnoq” is, alas, a citizen of Snoqualmie. And the preservation plan is an attempt to gain some recognition and flood relief. Snoqualmie City Councilwomen Cathy Runkle and Colleen Johnson, who also sit on the flooding task force, devised the report.

Thursday, Nov. 24, 1966

Kevin Fulton, 4 and a half, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Fulton of Bothell, owes his life to Willard Pearson of Carnation, maintenance foreman of Division No. 2 for the Third Road District of King County. On Tuesday, Nov. 15, while playing with two other small boys, Kevin was sucked head-first 77 feet through a 12-inch drain line. A land owner near the home of the Fultons had been dredging out peat bogs and the excavations filled up during the heavy rains. On Tuesday afternoon a clogged sewer caused the water to back up and threaten a county road. When the sewer was unclogged, the water ran off with such a swiftness that a whirlpool was created. The boys were below the pool, but Kevin slipped and fell into the water and was swept through the pipe. The other boys ran some distance to where Mr. Pearson and a crew of men were working and said Kevin was drowning; when Mr. Pearson saw him he leaped into the water, which was shoulder deep, and rescued him.