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Tonya Guinn, co-founder of The Trail Youth Coffee Home, holds a coffee cup with one of the shop’s signature positive stickers on it April 11, 2025. Grace Gorenflo/Valley Record

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Trail Youth Coffee Home co-founder stepping back from role

Tonya Guinn discusses the legacy she’s leaving at the North Bend youth nonprofit.

Tree-planting volunteers at the Snoqualmie Community Park Arbor Day celebration 2024. Photo courtesy of the city of Snoqualmie

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | April 25 edition

Help care for the planet this week with Earth and Arbor day events in the Valley.

Volunteers at an Earth Day Event co-hosted by the Snoqualmie Tribe and Mount Si Green Team pose for a photo. Photo courtesy of the Snoqualmie Valley School District

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | April 18 edition

The Valley is celebrating Easter on April 20 and Earth Day on April 22.

An auction table at the 2018 Northwest Art Center steampunk-themed benefit auction. Photo courtesy of Northwest Art Center/Lake Joy Design

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Northwest Art Center to host first benefit auction since pre-pandemic

The nonprofit’s steampunk-themed event is April 26.

The Kimball family, Brittany, Tucker, age 4, Penelope, age 2 and Leland, had a successful egg hunt, with many eggs to crack open after all the excitement in this 2017 file photo. Valley Record photo

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | April 11 edition

Get hoppin’ at these Easter festivities across the Snoqualmie Valley.

Camlann’s Bors Hede restaurant, modeled after a 14th Century village inn, March 9, 2025. Camlann is having a fundraising event April 12. Grace Gorenflo/Valley Record

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | April 4 edition

Camlann Medieval Village is having its first fundraising event April 12.

A display about the 1800s Snoqualmie Valley hops craze, complete with a replica of the Fall City hops shed, at the 2025 Fall City Historical Society pop-up museum. Photo courtesy of Cindy Parks

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Fall City library hosts pop-up museum on town history

The Fall City Historical Society display will run at the Fall City Library through April 5.

A large, smiling sunflower puppet welcomes a crowd at Depot Park on Saturday, March 30. Photo by Grace Gorenflo/For the Valley Record

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | March 28 edition

Welcome spring with the March of the Vegetables parade this Saturday.

The King County Search and Rescue Association, known as KCSARA, held its 60th anniversary celebration Feb. 13 at the South Fork Restaurant in North Bend. Pictured: King County 4x4 SAR with Bob Gordon, Milestone Marvel award recipient with 50 years of volunteer service (center). Photo by Ben Klassen

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Search and rescue volunteers are crucial in King County

What happens if you get lost?

Redmond’s 2019 Holi Festival of Color. Duvall is holding its first Festival of Color at Depot Park on March 22. Photo courtesy of Creative Flashes Photography

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | March 21 edition

The city of Duvall is hosting its first celebration of Holi, a Hindu festival known as the Festival…

The Salish Retreat. Photo by Mindy Stern

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From dumpster to diva at the Seattle Flower and Garden Festival | Meanderings by Mindy Stern

Travel column by local writer Mindy Stern.

The King County Firefighters Pipes and Drums band at Snoqualmie’s Saints and Scholars Irish Pub for St. Patrick’s Day 2023. The band will be back performing at the pub this weekend. Photo courtesy of King County Firefighters Pipes and Drums

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Snoqualmie Valley Community Calendar | March 14 edition

The Snoqualmie Valley has an array of St. Patrick’s Day events this week — lucky us!

Adventure Church pastor Jeff Hansen (left) breaks ground on the construction of a new church facility with architect Evelyn Hommas, March 9, 2025. Grace Gorenflo/Valley Record

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Duvall’s Adventure Church set to rebuild after 2020 fire

The historic 1913 church was entirely lost to fire in 2020.