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. 19, 1991
Crime Stoppers, in cooperation with the King county Police and the Puget Sound Railway Historical Association is offering a reward for information on an arson incident that occurred Aug. 15. Investigators believe that someone on that Thursday use wooden matches to set fire to the interior of a railroad boxcar parked on private track between Snoqualmie and North Bend. The act caused approximately $1,000 in damage to the car, which belongs to the historical association. The North Bend Fire Department extinguished the fire after being called by a neighboring property owners.
All it takes to understand why the North Bend Post Office is relocating is a peek through the back door at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. By that time, the combined mail volume fills the small facility. The location of the new post office is officially a secret, but word travels fast in small towns. The likely site seems to be the land across from the Gateway Cafe.
Fire consumed the home of Bris and Shirley Henderson near Fall City on Monday. Firefighting efforts were hampered by the presence of explosives in the two-story home and by the lack of a nearby water supply. Firefighters from Fall City, Carnation, Preston and Klahanie responded to the 10:46 a.m. call from a passerby who spotted the blaze. By noon, the flames were under control but the house and its attached workshop were destroyed. No one was inside.
Thursday, Sept. 15, 1966
The estimated cost of the proposed sewer project for the Town of Snoqualmie is $862,000, it was revealed Monday night at the meeting of the Town Council. The new figure is $12,000 higher than a previous estimate made on April 11. The total was established with the passage, by unanimous vote Monday night, of Ordinance 353.
A petition to annex about 30 acres to the Town of Snoqualmie was presented to the Town Council by Dick Zemp and John Glazier of the Snoqualmie Valley Land Co. Other signers o the petition were Gordon McIntire, Superintendent, representing Snoqualmie Valley School District, and Francis Barter. The property includes the 1st Meadowbrook Division (old Meadowbrook Farm), the 12-acre site of the new Snoqualmie school and about four acres across fro Mount Si High School.
