Out of the Past: County puts all annexations on hold; North Bend contracts for study of damaged water system

Published 2:15 pm Thursday, January 21, 2016

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

Thursday, Jan. 17, 1991

• Five members of the King County Council introduced a bill that would prohibit many annexations in the Valley until 1993, when King County is required to complete comprehensive plan updates in line with last year’s State Growth Management Act.

• Four Valley teens were in an accident at the intersection below Snoqualmie Valley Hospital. Just after 4:30 p.m. in rainy weather, the 16-year-old driver of a Volkswagen Rabbit was westbound on old U.S. 10. Police say he was in the right-turn-only lane but changed lanes just as he approached the intersection. Another vehicle, driven by a 19-year-old coming from the freeway, was preparing to turn left at the intersection. They collided, head on.

Thursday, Jan. 20, 1966

• Members of the North Bend Town Council voted unanimously at their meeting to make a comprehensive study of the town’s water system. Several months ago, the water system was severely damaged by a slide that left the town without water for almost five days. Since then, town officials have considered other sources of supply, including a source on Mount Si to which water rights were obtained, and the purchase of water from the Town of Snoqualmie.

• North Bend firemen answered an alarm at midnight Friday and extinguished a fire set in the Salvation Army collection box on the Lee Brothers parking lot. Fire chief Gordon Weller reminds residents of North Bend that the fire department number is TU 8-6565.

• Mayor Glenn P. Hall of North Bend and Mayor James Q. Wallace of Duvall have voiced their support of Initiative 226, calling for one-tenth of the sales tax revenue to cities.