Out of the Past: Greg Watson joins Sno Valley Historical Museum; new laundromat under construction in Snoqualmie
Published 8:30 am Friday, April 1, 2016
The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:
March 28, 1991
• The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum has hired Greg Watson to fill the position of paid director. A graduate of the Museum Studies program at the University of Washington, Watson has some enthusiastic plans for the museum in North Bend. These include an expansion of the facility’s outreach program in the schools and the possibility of collecting oral histories from elders in the community.
• Metro crews are back at work north of Snoqualmie, using treated municipal sludge to fertilize trees on Weyerhaeuser land. In 1987, 1988 and 1989, the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle used over 73,730 tons of digested sludge, called Silvigrow, to fertilize over 1,100 acres at Weyerhaeuser’s Snoqualmie Tree Farm.
March 31, 1966
• The North Bend Volunteer Fire Department was called to the scene of a wreck on Highway 10 on the hill in front of Nelems Memorial Hospital Monday forenoon. Fire Chief Gordon Weller said George A. Korb of Spokane apparently had fallen asleep behind the wheel of his Impala and ran into a wheat truck driven by Don Joyce of Ellensburg. Weller said Korb escaped from his burning car with only slight injuries and his car was a total loss. The driver of the truck as not injured.
• Work has begun last week on a new building in Snoqualmie at the corner of S.W. 2nd Street and the Snoqualmie-North Bend Highway to house a laundromat and dry cleaning establishment. John McKibben of Snoqualmie, who operates Consolidated Cleaners in North Bend and a laundromat at Maskrod’s Corner in Snoqualmie, is the owner of the building. McKibben told the Record he expects to be ready to open for business by fall.
