Out of the Past: Snoqualmie Falls and Puget Power building considered for National Historic Register; High schools hosts memorial for coach Don Lee

May 5, 2017 8:30 am

The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:

Thursday, May 7, 1992

• Two local nominees for the National Historic Register are now before authorities in Washington, D.C., triggering a 45-day comment period. Snoqualmie Falls is nominated as a traditional cultural site, while the old Puget Sound Power &Light Company building at the falls is suggested as an historic district.

• His first race was run when he was 7 years old, but Victor Fort has long since graduated from the go-cart crowd. The NASCAR season at the Evergreen Speedway in Monroe began April 4 and the Snoqualmie resident has won six out of nine races, including a couple of the “A” main features. Fort races in the Bomber class and his car sports the names of his Snoqualmie Valley sponsors, Loranger Radiator, Fury Construction, Northwest Sales, the Town Pump, El Caporal Restaurant, DLB Plumbing, Floyd’s Texaco and Eastside Auto Body and Repair.

• It will be reigning cats and dogs at the Carnation Farm on Saturday, May 9, when “Friskie Acres” opens to the general public. The event marks the end of “Be Kind to Animals Week” and features the newest attraction on the farm’s free self-guided tour of its working dairy and formal gardens. Friskie Acres includes the Kitty Barn and the Kennel Klub, a pictorial display of the farms Labrador retrievers.

Thursday, May 4, 1967

• A public memorial service was held at Mount Si High School last week for Don Lee, 43, teacher, head football coach and assistant basketball coach at the school since 1963. Mr. Lee died of a heart attack April 26 while playing in a softball game at Si View Park.

• A special school levy of 30 mills to build new facilities for District 410 was approved Tuesday by an overwhelming margin. Unofficial tallies gave the returns as 1,123 for the levy, 149 against, better than an 88 percent favorable vote. The levy, to be effective only in 1968, will raise nearly $500,000 for school construction that will give North Bend eight new classrooms, and Snoqualmie Falls-Snoqualmie and Fall City each four new classrooms.

• A new Triple X drive-in restaurant and candy store are scheduled to open in North Bend in August. Drury Pickering of Issaquah, developer of the facilities, said site preparation would begin this week on land adjacent to the UGA store on Highway 10. The candy store will be eight-sided with a diameter of 30 feet.