Friends and family welcome all comers to celebrate Valley resident Ted Kehoe’s 80th birthday at an open house, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Sigillo Cellars, 8353 Meadowbrook Way S.E., Snoqualmie.
A dinner and movie fundraiser benefit for the Lady Wildcats fastpitch softball team is 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the North Bend Theatre.
Boosters will be showing the Disney movie “Frozen” and serving pizza. All funds help the Mount Si softball squad.
The Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District Lunch and Learn, at noon on Thursday, May 1, will focus on stroke prevention. Presenters are Rachel Weber, Director of Nursing for Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, and Dr. Anderson, Emergency Department Medical Director at Snoqualmie Valley Hospital.
As spring approaches thoughts turn to cleaning up our yards from the long winter months, making repairs around the home, and enjoying the outdoors. Keeping a few safety thoughts in mind will help make your spring experience more enjoyable.
Eastside Fire and Rescue offers the following tips to ensure your home is made safer as well as spic and span this spring.
Cyclists can raise money for Camp Korey and explore the Eastside and the Valley at the Flying Wheels Bike Ride, set for Saturday, May 31.
Entrants who raise $150 or more for Camp Korey receive free entry to Flying Wheels, which including a 25, 45, 65, and 100-mile route. The ride starts and finishes at Marymoor Park in Redmond with the three longest routes winding through Snoqualmie Valley, featuring a water station at Camp Korey. All proceeds will benefit Camp Korey and its year-round camp programs for children with life-altering medical conditions.
Thursday, April 20, 1989: The Weyerhaeuser Company intends to clearcut most of its timber on the east slope of Rattlesnake Ridge over the next 17 years. The company met with 20 community leaders Monday to discuss logging plans.
The Fall City Learning Garden and P-Patch will host a free hands-on workshop, “Companion Plants and Plant Allies,” 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27.
Enhance the beauty and productivity of your garden by grouping plant friends together, and including flowers and herbs to attract pollinators and beneficial insects. Plant a hedgerow of annual flowers and herbs. Any extra plant starts will be shared with workshop participants.
Mount Si High School’s Festival of the Arts returns this week.
The festival, set for 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at the high school library and in the Wildcat Court, is open to all students, not just those focused on art.
The Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Auxiliary holds its annual Plant Sale, 9 a.m. to 1p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Mount Si Senior Center in North Bend. Find lots of garden plants, decorative urns, craft items, homemade bakery goods and more. The popular garden cart raffle will be available. Sale proceeds go to a $1,000 scholarship to a graduating Mount Si senior pursuing a degree in the medical field.
Spring is in the air! The budding trees, bright yellow daffodils and pollen dust on cars are obvious signs that allergy season is here. For children, who are generally outside more than adults, allergy season can be especially miserable.
Allergies can start in children as early as three years old, and in rare cases, earlier. If your child suffers the same symptoms around the same time each year, they most likely have allergies.
Thursday, April 13, 1989: Carnation receives good news: Groundwater at the city dump is clean and free of contaminants. The Department of Ecology ordered tests last year. The city is researching the cost of closing the city dump, and may install a recycling or transfer center.
Things are falling into place for Austin Jenckes, a singer-songwriter who grew up in the Valley. He has just returned to his Nashville home after his final appearance on NBC’s “The Voice,” and two whirlwind performance tours that started immediately after the show. He’s marrying his longtime friend and girlfriend, Brittany Townsend, this August, and is working on his next album, scheduled to come out this fall. And this week, he accomplished what he moved to Nashville to do, become a professional musician.
“This week, I’m signing my first publishing deal,” Jenckes said in a telephone interview. “That basically means I’ll be paid to write songs, and that includes my songs for myself, and for other people.”
1989: Action was taken on one of the most controversial aspects of the massive “Snoqualmie Ridge” master-planned development. The council voted to restrict what will be visible of the development from the Falls viewpoint.