On behalf of the Snoqualmie Valley Garden Club, I would like to thank our local businesses for their generous contributions of plants, the community for its unwavering support of our sale, master gardeners for sharing their wealth of knowledge and garden club members for their unselfish giving of time. All helped to make our annual plant sale a great success.
Thanks to Eastside Fire and Rescue for help above and beyond on June 18.
Besides taking my husband, Ron, to the hospital, they also drove our car from the freeway to the hospital, taking me to be with him. Thanks for being so special to us.
It would seem that some members of the school board believe that they can keep bonding us to death and thereby ratchet their way to approval.
In their carte blanche support for a bond — then a plan — the board sounded much like Nancy Pelosi in her infamous claim that “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”!
Board member Carolyn Simpson, however, seemed to be a voice of reason reminding the board that “other schools have done successful remodels without relocating students.” Now that’s refreshing! Pursue a line of thinking that doesn’t involve building another school and our considered opposition that defeated the bond last time might turn into support.
The Fall City Community Food Pantry wishes to express its gratitude to the staff of the Fall City Post Office for their participation in the 2012 “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive. We truly appreciate the efforts of all the letter carriers; and we particularly want to thank Ralph Westermann for his time, effort and dedication to this annual charitable cause.
Last week, when I read that there would be a Memorial Day Service at the fairly new Snoqualmie Valley Veterans Memorial, I really thought the city of Snoqualmie would make certain this memorial, right across from city hall, would be cleaned up and weeded for this sacred service to honor our fallen local heroes.
But this morning, when I had the chance to drive by, I discovered the memorial was looking pretty rough with all kinds of weeds growing all over the place.
The Fall City Community Food Pantry wishes to express its gratitude to the staff of the Fall City Post Office for their participation in the 2012 “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive. We truly appreciate the efforts of all the letter carriers; and we particularly want to thank Ralph Westermann for his time, effort and dedication to this annual charitable cause.
The Food Pantry has received food through the “Stamp Out Hunger Drive” since 2008, and this year more than 1,200 pounds of food—the most ever—were delivered to the Food Pantry. This makes an enormous difference in the amount of food we are able to provide to people in Fall City and the surrounding Valley communities.
The Fall City Community Food Pantry wishes to express its gratitude to the staff of the Fall City Post Office for their participation in the 2012 “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive. We truly appreciate the efforts of all the letter carriers; and we particularly want to thank Ralph Westermann for his time, effort and dedication to this annual charitable cause.
The FCCFP has received food through the “Stamp Out Hunger Drive” since 2008, and this year over 1,200 pounds of food—the most ever—were delivered to the Food Pantry. This makes an enormous difference in the amount of food we are able to provide to people in Fall City and the surrounding valley communities.
The need in our Valley is great and growing. Last year, we assisted over 220 families with food and household items. This number will be surpassed in 2012, judging by how many new have families have signed up for assistance from the Food Pantry.
The quality of the music program in the Snoqualmie Valley Schools has to be one of the Valley’s best kept secrets.
My husband and I have been attending school concerts and performances since we move here nearly nine years ago. In that time we have watched ongoing improvement in the quality of the music and the numbers of young people involved.
Sno-Valley Indoor Playground’s annual Safety Fair, held on Friday, May 4, was a rousing success, if you ask the little folks who lined up to explore a real fire truck and a sheriff’s car!
Fifty free bike helmets were distributed to local families, complimentary child car-seat safety checks were provided, and there were bags of information and coloring materials for each family.
Between your man-on-the-street column and the eloquent guest editorial from the Mount Si GSA officers, I had to write in.
I was happy to read that three-fourths of the folks you polled regarding your man on the street question “Is high school the right place to talk social issues?” had reasonable responses. It gives me hope that the things so many people I encounter outside of the Valley say about our community are dead wrong.
I want to ask the readers of the Snoqualmie Valley Record: Are we raising children that will be future adult citizens or not? If we don’t teach them—allow them to drive the discussion regarding issues they are already faced with in a school setting—about these issues, we are doing them and our communities a great disservice. By high school, students find themselves in part-time jobs, looking at college options, etc. They are in the world where things like racism, sexism and homophobia, along with too many issues to list here, exist. They will have to face them.
Mountain Creek Tree Farm and the Kassian family would like to thank the following people who came to our farm on March 17. They helped after Tate Creek flooded, bringing hundreds of tons of sand and gravel onto more than 1,000 Christmas trees on February 22.
Helpers included Mayor Ken Hearing and his wife Marie, Mayor Matt Larson and his wife Jennifer, Venturing Crew 115 and Boy Scout Troop 115 of Snoqualmie, with Kim Ferree and wife Anita; Boy Scout Troop 466 of North Bend; Venturing Crew 954 of Covington with advisor John Hearing; Boy Scout Troop 945 of Covington, and parents of many of the Scouts and Venturing Crews. A special thanks goes to our friend Marie Hearing, who, after seeing the damage, alerted John Hearing. He contacted Kim Ferree, and they organized the work party of Scouts and Venture Crews.
I have had three children in the Snoqualmie school district, with two completing K-12 in 2011 and 2012. They have attended all three middle schools and have had an excellent education at all three.
My middle son was in the last class to graduate from Chief Kanim Middle School before Twin Falls opened. At that time, they had extra classes such as Spanish that could be offered, because the student body was large enough to support the extra teachers required.
Since King County does not have the budget to maintain and snowplow dead-end residential streets in unincorporated King County—nor the budget for a lot of other road projects in unincorporated King County—I do not want King County to be spending any money on transportation projects to serve the new $500 million sports palace in Seattle.