The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:
Thursday, Sept. 21, 1989
• Snoqualmie’s centennial-year project to provide a shelter for its log display will also include preservation of part of the old Weyerhaeuser sawmill. The main idea is to build a protective cover for the huge Douglas Fir log section on display in Railroad Park. The 24-foot log is 39 tons and about 800 years old.
• HOPE, a Snoqualmie support group for people living with cancer and other serious illnesses, and their families, is founded.
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1964
• State Highway and contractor crews are working six days a week, sometimes 12 hours a day, in an effort to finish the Echo Lake Cutoff. The long awaited high-speed highway between Tacoma and the Sunset Highway will be finished in eight weeks.
• Mrs. William Carey of Snoqualmie avoided critical injury when the bus she was riding in went off a 90-foot cliff in California.
• The annual Kids Day Football jamboree happens at Mount Si field. It matches juniors and pee-wees in intra-squad games.