Tim Corrie wasn’t expecting his Interlake opponent to take a shot right at the whistle. He reacted, fast all the same.
The 182-pounder, Jonathan Palagashvili, went for Corrie’s legs. Tim went for the headlock, and made his pin in a minute-55. It was his third in a season that’s included two decisions and four occasions when he was unanswered on the mat.
“I want to keep my undefeated streak,” the senior says.
Something’s clicking for the Mount Si wrestling team right now.
Fall sports are grand, but I love winter sports—perhaps selfishly, because I’m not getting rained on and windblown. There’s something about the thrill of standing only a few feet away the action, and being right up in the thick of it.
Winter high school sports, held in gyms, allow the reporter to do that. You’re face to to face with the game, and you can see the looks of triumph, determination, and sometimes tragedy, in these young athletes’ eyes.
When I came to this newspaper, six years ago, sports weren’t part of my brief. But situations and faces change, challenges come and go, and you rise to the occasion. The way it’s done today is different, but expectations still remain.
From the sidewalk, windows and balconies, onlookers wave and smile as Bonnie and Belle, pulling an oversize wagon and a well-bundled family, pass.
The big Belgian horses enlivened the evening of Saturday, Dec. 1, offering free rides during Snoqualmie’s holiday celebration.
The bells on the wagon jingle energetically as driver Jeff Van der Peyl navigates the intersection, cars and trucks slowing to make way.
Educationally, we’re entering a new era.
With the approval earlier this month, 3-0 with one abstention, of new middle school boundaries that split all Snoqualmie Valley School District students in grades six through eight between Chief Kanim Middle School and Twin Falls Middle School, the new direction in middle and secondary education in this Valley is solidifying.
Boundary approval is a concrete step in shuttering Snoqualmie Middle School and installing a freshman campus at that site. It’s part of a bold vision to fix crowding and drop-out rates at the high school. But what will it mean for middle schoolers? Here’s a short answer: Challenges. And more portables.
Mount Si’s history-making arrival at the 3A state semi-final football game saw the Wildcats make a season-first impact on a tough foe. Mount Si beat Bellevue onto the scoreboard—a first for the Wolverines this season–but ended up falling, 37-7.
It was senior Joey Cotto who put up the Wildcat touchdown, collecting a pass from Nick Mitchell, at 6:45 in the first quarter. Cameron Van Winkle then delivered the kick.
In the first quarter, Bellevue elected to receive, and Cameron Van Winkle kicked it clear to the end zone, his standard procedure.
In their first drive, Mount Si’s rushes were halted. A Van Winkle punt to Bellevue led to a fair catch fumble, recovered by Jimbo Davis.
When the long-envisioned Snoqualmie Community Center began to gel two years ago in the form of a new Y on Snoqualmie Ridge, there were some questions to answer.
Some big ones: As both a Y, with paid memberships, and as a free civic center, how would the place serve two functions? And would Valley residents support it?
Eleven months after the Y’s grand opening last January, we have some answers, thanks to some eye-opening statistics shared by Director Dave Mayer.
For two decades, he made a huge impact on the lives of people of all ages. And when tragedy struck his family, a sacrifice in a battle half a world away, Borden left the Valley, and painful memories behind. But he wasn’t forgotten, not during World War II, and not today.
George Borden and his son Bill were honored this month with a commemorative plaque at the new flagpole at the Snoqualmie Valley Y.
As manager of the Community Hall, George Borden was at the center of work and play in Snoqualmie Falls during the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The lane up to the new Y is named for him.
After more than a decade as the voice of Northwest Railway Museum’s Santa Train, Richard Schall will still be making the children laugh and sing this season. Just in a different way.
As “Mr. Bells,” Schall’s stories and songs have delighted families aboard the museum’s holiday rides since he donned the jingling brakeman’s cap 10 years ago.
Yet, at age 84, Schall doesn’t get around like he used to. He has difficulty with physical mobility, doesn’t drive anymore and knows his limits—“Don’t court trouble” is his rule.
Schall still wants to be a part of the fun at the Northwest Railway Museum. With Santa Train getting underway this weekend, he probably won’t be riding with his hand-held public address system this time around.
But you’ll still find Mr. Bells somewhere in Santa’s proximity at the Snoqualmie Depot, likely serenading guests in the stationary refreshment car, singing and telling stories by the Christmas tree.
Tour guide and historian Dave Battey led a group of hikers over a Boy Scout-built bridge and through the woods during an October 20 hike to Meadowbrook Farm’s “Big Cedar,” a surviving old-growth tree in the northern corner of the farm.
Pointing out the vanished roadways, interesting local, native and noxious flora—interesting examples include the wide-ranging native cucumber and filbert species, the big leaf maple, and invaders like Himalayan Blackberry, Battey annually leads tours of the farm. The big cedar is surviving old growth; It’s so large, a younger tree is growing in its branches.
It’s unsettling to see flames consume the flag of the United States of America.
Boy Scout Cooper Brown certainly felt that way as he used scissors to ready a flag for the waiting fire. But the important lesson on this cold November night is that everything has a final end, including a well-treasured flag.
The important thing is to give these banners a respectful send-off.
“It’s a hard thing to do,” said Scoutmaster Robert Odekirk. “It’s difficult for the boys, and it should be.”
The 2,500-pound boulder nestles into place with hardly a splash.
Guided by the hand signals of a construction worker, Cory Marvin of Auburn, and moved by the enormous strength of a Caterpillar-tracked hydraulic arm parked on the bank above, the huge stone settles into a precise position, to be locked into place and, it’s hoped, stay put for generations.
Marvin and fellow employees with Gary Merlino Construction of Seattle have been visible along Snoqualmie’s Park Avenue Southeast riverbank for a week. They’re doing the hard work in a $150,000 riverbank repair project for the King County Flood District that’s scheduled to last through November 20.
We don’t do snow very well in the Puget Sound region. Last January’s snowstorm was a tough time for a lot of people. The slick stuff snarled traffic and generally caused chaos throughout the region.
If you traveled to other Eastside cities, you noticed the humps of snow on the roads and tricky driving conditions. But the city of Snoqualmie’s streets were, by and large, different. The city kept the plows rolling throughout the storm, and the roads as safe as possible, even through the ice storm and the blackout that followed.
Last fall, I had the duty and the pleasure to witness Si View Metro Park District’s election night thrills.
Gathered around a table at Boxley’s, Si View commissioners, the director and a number of instructors and families, watched as the early results came in. Smiles broke out when they realized that the result was a landslide of support in favor of the two propositions guaranteeing them their tax levy support.