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

Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991

• Population growth does not equal an increase in student enrollment. That’s the difficult lesson the Snoqualmie Valley School District is learning. For the second year in a row, a smaller-than-expected student body is causing budget troubles in the district.

• H.L. “Red” Engle grew up hearing frontier stories and now most enjoys reading, writing and researching western history. Engle has written a lot about the history of the Snoqualmie Valley. Sometimes he writes it as “historical fiction” using the right skeleton story but changing names. It was presented that way in “The Track of the Mammoth,” serialized in the Valley Record last spring; and in “The Lost Tolt River Gold,” which we ran in four parts this summer.

• Just a reminder for all you good cooks, from Duvall to North Bend: the “Sample Snoqualmie Valley” cookbook deadline is approaching. The North Bend Festival Committee wants to have the cookbook ready for sale at the Dec. 7 Christmas festival.

• Ribbon-cutting, speeches and a reception were part of the official dedication of the Sno-Valley Youth Center last week. Two years in the making, the new youth center is next to the Sno-Valley Multi-Service Center in Carnation, in what were once apartments and a laundromat.

Thursday, Oct. 6, 1966

• A fire blamed on the malfunction of an old refrigerator kept for the person use of the staff at Dubey’s Furniture Store in Snoqualmie, caused extensive damage to the story and contents last Thursday evening. Most of the blaze was confined to the rear part of the building where the refrigerator stood. A large stock of mattresses and furniture was stockpiled near the refrigerator and Neil Dubey, owner of the store, said that stock was a total loss.

• Richard J. Zemp of North Bend estimates his loss in the theft of corn from fields between Meadowbrook and North Bend at $300 to $500. He told the King County Sheriff’s office he saw a pickup leaving the property with four people in the car and several sacks of corn. He spotted the car about 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 29. The Sheriff’s office said the fence had been cut or torn.

• When a logging truck, owned by John Solomon and driven by Curtis A. Ridder attempted to turn onto the Mill Pond Road, the logs shifted and the truck turned over, spewing logs over a good-sized area. Snoqualmie Firemen hosed down the diesel fuel which spread over the highway. The driver was not injured.