The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1991:
Confusion over voting regulations led to some non-residents voting in Snoqualmie city elections last month. Some out-of-towners who cast ballots in Snoqualmie said they were unaware that they had to change their voting registration when they moved. Part of the problem may be that King County tracks voters through the mail and many who move away often retain their Snoqualmie post office boxes. In this year of close city council elections, such oversights have caused concern. “For all I know, these people voted for me, so this isn’t a matter of sour grapes over the election,” said Tom Fix, who lost to incumbent City Councilman Terry Sorenson by four votes.
Carnation officials are re-examining their city’s police force as they work out the 1992 budget. No big changes are likely to happen soon, according to City Administrator John Sevy, but the city is considering contracting with King County for police protection. Currently, Carnation has its own force, but many municipalities, including North Bend, instead pay the county to police their cities. Sevy said the city is expecting to spend far more on police in the coming year than it has in the past. In 1991, Carnation budgeted $196,000 for its police force; the projected spending for 1992 is $273,000.
The Snoqualmie Valley Junior Soccer Associations’s Pink Cadillacs team had an undefeated season. Team members include Laura Fletcher, Jessica Raisio, JoAnna Pleasants, Melissa Harris, Erin Carter, Amber Schneider, Gabrielle Giroux, Holly Dion, Elizabeth Ayres, Ashley Sherrid, Erika Klein, Jocelyn Lippert, Stephanie Holt, and Emmalee Littlejohn, with coach Bud Raisio.
Thursday, Dec. 8
A birthday dinner at the Space Needle turned out to be more exciting than anticipated by the George Bramlet family of North Bend on Oct. 20. Responsible for the fireworks was 11 year-old Jim, and it wasn’t his birthday. He was just the right age though. Jim was the 100,000th person under the age of 12 to be served dinner at the Space Needle and a framed gilt-edged certificate commemorates the event.
Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) Gary L. Genson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John K Genson of Snoqualmie, has been awarded the coveted Centurion Certificate for his 100 landings in a Vigilante on the attach aircraft carrier, the Independence. Genson, a reconnaissance attach navigator, accomplished the greater part of these landings while serving on a combat deployment off the coast of Vietnam during the fall of 1965.
