The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:
Thursday, Feb. 1, 1990
• Fire District 27 (Fall City) has requested that the Public Disclosure Commission investigate whether Fire District 10 (Issaquah-Carnation) violated state law during a recent petition campaign. At issue is a District 10 bid for a partial merger involving property south of Ames Lake. This area, approximately 3.5 square miles, is presently served by the Fall City district. However, the property lies between the two “halves” of District 10 created when the Issaquah and Carnation-area districts were united in last November’s elections.
• It’s not easy to find people in this area who are in favor of a prison being built a few miles east of North Bend. The local opposition group now has over 1,500 signatures behind its stance. The few who do favor it seem to be of the mind that, granted, there is a need for more facilities in the state, and they have to be built somewhere. Governor Gardner is saying the same thing. Gardner and Department of Corrections Secretary Chase Riveland have proposed new legislation that would enable a new Correctional Facility Siting Authority to exercise eminent domain to site such necessary public facilities.
• Carnation’s Sewer Task Force will meet Feb. 5 to select alternatives for further evaluation in the wastewater facility-planning project. Both Carnation and Fall City are in the midst of planning with King County’s community development office for future sewer systems. Carnation is approximately three weeks ahead of Fall City in the process; a similar meeting to the above is scheduled for Feb. 27 in Fall City.
Thursday, Jan. 28, 1965
• An ambitious and exciting undertaking, a Snoqualmie Falls Summer Theater, is about to be launched by the Christian Players, an outgrowth of the highly successful Passion Play annually presented in Fall City. A series of organizational meetings already has laid much of the groundwork for the thrilling new venture which would establish a full-fledged tourist attraction for the Snoqualmie Valley. Projected plans call for a natural-setting amphitheatre for presentation of Biblical and religious drama, a children’s theatre, a retreat center and a picnic and camping area.
• Mr. Bert Roselair of Snoqualmie is in critical condition at Providence Hospital in Seattle, where he underwent brain surgery on Friday following an accident at his home workshop. Mr. Roselair suffered extensive head injuries on a table saw some time Thursday morning. He was found unconscious, by Mr. Loyal Hall of Snoqualmie, with whom he regularly rode to work.
