Out of the Past: Tony Berg is state track champ; Tokul Creek Hatchery begins rearing steelhead for release in fall

July 21, 2017 7:30 am
Out of the Past: Tony Berg is state track champ; Tokul Creek Hatchery begins rearing steelhead for release in fall

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

Thursday, July 23, 1992

• Two Snoqualmie City Council members say they’re upset that they were not told sooner about the misuse of petty cash funds by a city employee. Paul Mosher and Colleen Johnson say Mayor Jeanne Hansen or City Administrator Kim Wilde should have told them three weeks ago that an employee had improperly taken $150 in petty cash funds for personal use. Wilde would say only that the city “has taken the necessary personnel action to respond to the problem.”

• Members of the North Bend-based Rad Runners Track Club, along with 500 other Washington State athletes, participated in the Washington State Hershey’s Track Championships on July 11 in Renton. Tony Berg has the proud distinction of being the Rad Runners’ first state champion, placing first in the 100m sprint, with a personal best and a new Rad Runners record of 12.8 seconds.

Thursday, July 27, 1967

• Some 250,000 steelhead, for the delight of anglers a couple of years hence, will be raised in the new 1.5 acre pond at the Tokul Creek Hatchery. Water flow and dike strength were tested Tuesday as a geyser of water from Tokul Creek slowly filled the pond. Trout now two to three inches will be fed there until next March or April, then released into the Snoqualmie system, or into other rivers in the Skykomish watershed. If all goes well, thousands of them will return in the winter of 1969, after two years in salt water, to test the skill of Valley fishermen.

•As the summer progresses, so does the Puget Sound Power and Light Company’s construction of new facilities for the constant flow of visitors to Snoqualmie Falls Park.

• Two Carnation Milk Farms’ cows were sold at the annual sale held with the national convention of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America at Minneapolis recently. One was a 3-year-old, No. 906, a full sister of Carnation Peacemaker, which was sold on a mail bid for $4,000 to Mr. Keki Machimura, of Okido, Japan. The other was a breed heifer that was purchased by a Colorado breeder for $2,000.