Day-of registration and the start line of the 25th annual Tour de Peaks bike run has moved to downtown North Bend. The ride begins Sunday morning, Aug. 11, at Main Avenue and North Bend Way. Ride check in is from 7 to 10 a.m.
Bree Loewen sees things pretty clearly, and acts accordingly. When she and her husband, Russell Anschell, found themselves in the mountains every weekend, they decided to move to North Bend. Since they are “heavy back-country users,” she said it only made sense for them to volunteer with Seattle Mountain Rescue. Because they have a 5-year-old daughter, she is a stay-at-home mom, and they avoid working on the same missions, to minimize their risks.
It all sounds logical enough, but that’s not all there is to Loewen’s commitment.
“It really comes down to ‘this is our community,’” she says. “We’ve been doing this for such a long time and I think people have really come to rely on us.”
The Festival at Mount Si lets you indulge your sweet tooth in some berry-licious activities.
Juicy events at this year’s event again include the Burstin’ with Blueberries cooking contest, at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, and the cherry pie eating contest, 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.
The annual Festival at Mount Si is August 9 through 11, 2013.
All events are at Si View Community Park, 400 Orchard Drive, except the grand and kiddie parade, which are held on downtown streets. Fireworks are launched from Torguson Park.
Hear live tunes all weekend at the Main Stage at Si View Park during North Bend’s festival weekend.
Tunes range from rock to country to rhythm and blues.
Friday, Aug. 9: Ian McFeron, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
A bubbling, well-seasoned pot of chicken chili won a major award. And brought mom and daughter a little bit closer together.
In 2012, the Old Hens, a mother-daughter team of Deanna and Brittany Morauski, took home the people’s choice award in the Festival at Mount Si Chili Cookoff for their Chick Chick Chili.
Deanna, who runs the Old Hen Bed and Breakfast in North Bend, has every year fun cooking with her daughter, and enjoys the hearty competition at the Festival cooking challenge, which is judged by a local panel and by the people.
You already know how great your pet is, but why not let everyone see it for themselves? Bring your critter to the Festival at Mount Si, and let him or her strut their stuff in the Amazing Pet Contest, starting at 4 p.m. Saturday at the lawn tent.
“It’s very casual, you just bring your pet. There’s no pre-registration, no fee, it’s just a fun time,” says pet contest coordinator and event emcee Kathy Paulus.
Carnation Farmers Market, (www.carnationfarmersmarket.org) in the heart of the Snoqualmie Valley farming district, hosts a celebration to honor farmers markets across the country and their contribution to good food and good health.
National Farmers Market Week Celebration is 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the Carnation Farmer’s Market, Bird Street, downtown Carnation. National Farmers Market Week is officially August 4-10.
For Duvall’s 100th anniversary, the city is hosting the Sno River Rock Concert and Lighter Than Air Fair 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at McCormick Park.
The concert celebrates not only 100 years of Duvall history, but the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair, an all-day rock concert in a Sultan pasture on Aug. 30, 1968, a year before the famous Woodstock.
North Bend resident (and professional photographer) Sandy Horvath was driving along that city’s 426th Avenue with buddy and fellow shutterbug Danny Raphael last Monday, July 22, following a relaxed lunch at the Riverbend Cafe. Suddenly, an elk appeared. “I fortunately had my camera with me,” says Horvath, who snapped a shot as the elk “frantically crossed.”
The Friends of the North Bend Library’s annual book sale will take place during regular hours, Friday, Aug. 9, though Sunday, Aug. 18, at the library. The sale will include gently used hardcover books, paperbacks, children’s books, DVDs and CDs, priced from 25 cents to a dollar.
Long-lost alumni of Tolt High School can gather to catch up and recapture old times, Sunday, Aug. 4, at the Sno-Valley Senior Center, 4610 Stephens Ave., in Carnation.
Some classmates may still remember the center as the former Odd Fellows Hall where they danced every Saturday night to Bob Wheeler’s band.
Thursday, July 28, 1988: Carrie Pierce, a clerk at the Thriftway grocery store for three years, won $1.5 million in the Washington State Lottery. She bought her usual one ticket, and didn’t find out she won until she went to work on Friday. She is the second Thriftway clerk to win big this year. Lori Brown, now a resident of Redmond, took the $5 million grand prize early last October.