Out of the Past: The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record:
Thursday, Jan. 18, 1990
• A torrent of mud, gravel and logs slid off the hillside behind the Fall City homes of the Everetts and Haffners, turning their yards into a deep, ugly mass of debris. A lucky Snoqualmie resident crawled out of his damaged antique panel truck after high winds toppled a big dead cedar tree onto the street. This wasn’t the typical flood event in the Valley. The Puget Power generating station at Snoqualmie Falls recorded close to nine inches of nearly continuous rain from Friday, Jan. 5, through Tuesday.
• On Jan. 10, a black parents’ association in Renton asked its local school board to cancel future games with Mount Si High School. The angry parents also wanted to see Mount Si booted out of the Seamount League, which Renton entered this year. Parent leader Charles DeChabert told the Renton school board that there had been at least four occasions in which Mount Si students had harassed black Renton students during athletic events. The most recent was a freshman basketball game on Dec. 15.
Thursday, Jan. 21, 1965
• Roy A. Reinertson, 41, of Fall City, received fractured ribs and vertebrae in a series of accidents on the Falls hill at 7:20 a.m. Jan. 18. Reinertson was eastbound on No. 502 when his car skidded on ice and slid across the other lane onto the opposite shoulder. Another vehicle struck the rear of his vehicle, knocking it into the ditch. The driver of an empty hay truck then reached the scene and applied the brakes, causing the truck to jack-knife. Reinertson had gotten out of his vehicle by this time, but was knocked into the ditch by the empty trailer.
• The Forest Service confirms reports of a planned timber sale on National Forest land in the upper reaches of the Tolt River Wateshed. L.O. Barrett, supervisor of the Snoqualmie National Forest, stated that the proposed timber sale was advertised in December, 1964, and has been in preparation for more than four years. During this period, all possible impacts upon the water resource were given careful consideration.
