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. 13, 1990

• The Mount Si Business & Professional Women’s organization has selected Maxine Dovenberg of North Bend as its 1990 Woman of Achievement. She was honored at a special banquet at the Mount Si Senior Center Sept. 4. Maxine was born in the Snoqualmie Valley and has lived in North Bend all of her life. She and her husband, Harold “Buck” Dovenberg, raised three children. Sons Jim and Garry live out of state and daughter Jill resides in Fall City. Included in the family are 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

• Two teenage students from the Soviet Union will be studying at Mount Si High School this year because Tatyana Khromchenko liked what she saw here. The Moscow woman runs a “Global Family” exchange program that will bring Russian students to the western U.S. and Canada from Oct. 15 to May 15. During her visit here earlier this year, Khromchenko was most impressed with Gene Clegg’s science classroom.

Thursday, Sept. 16, 1965

• A federal grand jury meeting in Seattle returned a 15-count indictment Sept. 9 against Donald A. Park, 38, former manager of the North Bend Branch of the Seattle-First National Bank. Park is accused of embezzling $76,300 from the bank between 1962 and last July 29, when he was arrested.

• A public hearing on the town of Snoqualmie’s budget for 1966 will be held Sept. 27. Next year’s budget, as tentatively approved by the council, totals $122,426.45. Last year’s budget amounted to $113,487.07 but the 1966 budget includes $12,000 cash on hand in the Water Department, $10,000 on hand in the Street Department and $3,316.75 in the Arterial Street Fund.