An all-Valley hug: Mary Miller's whimsical 'Heart of the Valley' portrait draws a big crowd
Photo by Mary Miller
Locals form the shape of a heart for Mary Miller’s “Heart of the Valley” community photo, Sunday, May 19, at Snoqualmie’s Centennial Fields. In the center, three engaged couples kiss: Nicole Hautsreit and Kyle Rotha, Mark Lowe and Heidi Houser, and Phyllis Nieman Rasco and Larry Weidel.
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It all came down to a single hit.
With the score tied, two-all, two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the second, Nick Adams was in the hot seat, hoping to stave off an overtime battle with a dangerous North Thurston team.
Adams nailed it, hitting a fielder’s choice grounder to second, and runner Evan Johnson made it safely to second, allowing Joey Cotto to cruise home for his second run.
See you at the movies: Young filmmakers' visions on view at North Bend film fest Thursday
Local talent and creativity is celebrated annually with the Wildcat Film Festival, the big-screen premiere of student films at the North Bend Theatre. Every year, film students, many of them fresh from wins in the Northwest Film Festival (and this year is no exception, see sidebar), present some of their best works during the evening fundraiser for the Wildcat Production Club at Mount Si High School.
This year, local caring and concern will also be a part of the celebration. Roughly 30 short films entered in the “Your Choice, Your Voice” video contest sponsored by the Snoqualmie Valley Community Network will also be screened during the evening, and the winners of the $500 top prize will be announced.
Excellent films: Mount Si student movies recognized at Northwest festival
A dozen Mount Si High School students earned honors at the Northwest High School Film Festival, held May 14 at Seattle’s Cinerama Theater.
Their winning films will be shown as part of the Wildcat Film Festival Thursday, May 23, at the North Bend Theatre. The festival begins with a reception for the students at 4:30, followed by the film screenings at 5, and a showing of “Iron Man 3” at 7.
Four groups received awards of excellence for their entries.
Next art walk is this Friday in Snoqualmie
The next Snoqualmie Art Walk is 2 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 31. Find food, music and entertainment in downtown Snoqualmie.
Artwork from Mount Si High School’s Festival of Arts will be featured at City Hall and Chamber of Commerce.
Good news and bad: Standing-room North Bend crowd discusses fears of crime, drugs and homeless at community meeting
He was in a minority of two in a community safety meeting Thursday night, but Dave Black offered the roughly 200 people there some good news. It was regarding a drug dealer that he’d previously complained to the North Bend City Council and police about, a drug dealer who was now gone.
“He did it,” Black said, pointing to North Bend’s Police Chief Mark Toner. He “got them out of there” in a few weeks’ time, Black said, but not alone. “You have to work as a team,” Black told the audience, nearly all of whom were tense after a recent series of break-ins and last Monday’s home invasion and homicide just outside the city. “Don’t be afraid, write plates down, call him, tell him—we are a community and a team—if you don’t, you are part of the problem."
Car prowler caught with evidence of thefts
A 20 year-old Newcastle man was arrested May 3 in North Bend, when deputies captured him with evidence of recent thefts, and in the act of committing another one, around 1 a.m. at Northeast Eighth Street and Thrasher Avenue Northeast.
The man was captured during a car prowl, when a citizen, who owned the car, watched him approach and enter the car. The citizen called the police and deputies contacted the man, who was in possession of items he’d stolen from the neighborhood. He said he was visiting a friend who was house-sitting for a relative in North Bend.
Valley Election 2013: Lots of races, board members vs. board members
A four-way race for a school board seat and a three-way race for Snoqualmie City Council have developed at the close of the candidate filing period at King County Elections.
Four candidates, two of them incumbents, have filed for Position 4 on the Snoqualmie Valley School Board. Both Marci Busby and G. Scott Hodgins were located in director district 4 after the school district redrew its director district boundary lines last summer. Prior to the U.S. Census and the redistricting that resulted from it, Hodgins had been in director district 1.
Meadowbrook, Camp Korey, STEM, pets get Snoqualmie Tribe fund help
The Snoqualmie Tribe Fund recently awarded donations to 113 organizations following its winter application cycle. For this funding cycle, 83 grant recipients were new, and 44 of the funded organizations are located in the Snoqualmie Valley.
An expansion of the trail system at Meadowbrook Farm, Camp Korey’s farm-to-table program, Snoqualmie Valley School District’s STEM programs, and microchipping and vaccinations for Snoqualmie Valley pets were a few of the new local projects to receive grant funding.
Achievement nod for North Bend’s Natalie Guterson
Natalie C. Guterson of North Bend received a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Guterson, who attends Mount Si High School, plans to go into studies in foreign language.
She was one of 800 high school students to earn achievement scholarships.
Lifted lawnmower, public drunk, running bears: Snoqualmie Valley police blotter
Mailbox vandal: On Wednesday, May 8, a resident in the 300 block of Ogle Place in North Bend filed a complaint in the online reporting tool about mailbox vandalism. The resident said someone had apparently tried to remove the entire multiple-box unit by removing the base and bolts. The postal carrier had notified residents that mail couldn't be delivered to the box because of the vandalism
