Out of the Past: Mount Si welcomes Charlie Kinnune as new head football coach; Hearing’s Drugs robbed by team of four
Published 7:30 am Friday, May 19, 2017
The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:
Thursday, May 21, 1992
• Sparks flew during the May 12 public hearing on North Bend’s proposed Sensitive Areas Ordinance. The draft ordinance, one of the most sweeping land-use documents ever introduced in the city, sets up standards for the protection of fish and wildlife habitats, flooded areas, wetlands, streams and geologically hazardous places. Snoqualmie completed its SAO last summer and is in the midst of amending it.
• The newest addition to Mount Si High School’s coaching staff says he wants his players to understand the importance of sports, but not at the expense of academics. “I expect my athletes to take their schooling very seriously,” says new football coach Charlie Kinnune, 29. He was inspired early on by coaches and teachers who stressed the close relationship between teaching and coaching. Kinnune, who is replacing longtime Mount Si coach John LaLanne, grew up in Issaquah and played football at Issaquah High School and Western Washington State University.
Thursday, May 18, 1967
• Hearing’s Drugs in Fall City was robbed of about $100 in cash and an undetermined amount of drugs Tuesday afternoon by a two-man, two-woman team with an old but effective style of thievery. “One woman got me aside asking about this and that item, while one of the men harassed me with questions about how much various things cost,” Gordon Hearing said. “After a few minutes I noticed the second man behaving oddly, and when I broke away to go back and check, they all took off.”
• Five new members have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Christian Players, the Rev. George Pratt, director, announced this week. Major business confronting the Board, he said, is a campaign to increase Christian Players membership to 500 to qualify for a long-term loan. The loan, some $400,000, would be used to develop the 100-acre area called the Snoqualmie Falls Family Park into a major recreation site, which would be the “home” of the Christian Players.
