Last straw: On April 12., a caller in the 3800 block of Southeast Newton Street asked Snoqualmie police to remove an unwanted guest from a home. The caller was not the tenant, but was calling out of concern for the tenant, as the visitor had been overheard threatening to punch someone and stab them with an ice pick. Officers responded and removed the visitor, then spoke with the victim, who admitted being the victim of several incidents of domestic violence. The unwanted guest was arrested, and denied threatening the victim, but admitted to kicking in the front door once.
The third annual Northwest Paddling Festival is a day-long celebration of paddles ports for sea kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding (SUP), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Sunset Beach Park in Issaquah. For expert paddlers or those looking to try sea kayaking or stand-up paddling for the first time, the Northwest Paddling Festival is the place to be to get started for a summer on the water.
The festival will feature: 45-minute sea kayak tours every 15 minutes; 30-minute SUP intro on-water classes, every 15 minutes; an open-air market; and outdoor related non-profits.
Two bands play live this Saturday, April 27, at Finaghty’s Irish Pub in Snoqualmie.
Playing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., the NW Rivals are comprised of musicians from some of the best bands that Seattle produced in the early 1980s.
The Heats, Cowboys, Moberleys and The Rangehoods were the hottest bands locally and were selling out clubs up and down the West Coast. On Saturday night, the NW Rivals will perform some of their bands’ biggest hits.
Valley Center Stage will present a new, unpublished work by legendary theater director and playwright Paul Sills: Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows.”
It’s a charming, exciting and humorous tale of the riverbank and its life featuring the kind and gentle Ratty and Mole, the gruff but benevolent Badger and the irrepressible but conceited Toad of Toad Hall — whose passion for motor cars lands him in many scrapes.
“This is a story theater production just like our annual favorite, A Christmas Carol. In fact it is written by the same author,” says director Gary Schwartz. “Story theater is where the characters tell the story using original prose and act out scenes using the original dialogue from the book.”
Suburban lots are getting smaller and many city dwellers don’t have gardens at all. So, what’s a gardener to do?
Join Richie Steffen, curator of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and Great Plant Picks Selection Committee member, for Small Spaces; Big Impact, a free seminar at Molbak’s in Woodinville, 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, and discover how small spaces can still pack a punch. Steffen will recommend plants that offer spring beauty and work well in smaller spaces, including containers.
Green Fire, a film about conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy, shows 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at North Bend Theatre.
Green Fire shares highlights from his extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how Leopold’s vision of a community that cares about both people and land continues to inform and inspire people across the country and around the world, highlighting modern projects that put Leopold’s land ethic in action in a multitude of ways.
The third annual Northwest Equine Fashion Show & Auction, benefiting the Warrior Family Retreat program, is 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Northwest Natural Horsemanship Center, 31022 SE Redmond-Fall City Rd., Fall City.
Timber Creek Western Lifestyle, Olson’s Tack, the Grange Supply and Ring Bling Designs are presenting the show as a benefit, and planning an evening of fun and elegance that includes a sneak peek at the latest spring fashions for the horse, human and hound.
The stories of the past 25 and 50 years, as published in the pages of the Snoqualmie Valley Record. This week’s entries include:
Thursday, April 21, 1988
• Carnation is the only city in the county, possibly the state, that runs its own landfill. Because of new state laws adopted in 1985, it may be unfeasible for Carnation to keep it open. It’ll need monitoring stations, a treatment system for leaks, and a liner.
We all spend a fair amount of our life in front of a computer and there are some simple steps to avoid pain and injury.
Here are some tips to keep your spine in a neutral position so that your muscles are aligned in their most efficient way.
Hot Cider String Band will play, 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 19, for the regular Contra Dance at Sallal Grange, 12912 432nd Ave. S.E., North Bend.
It’s the last of the season. Hosts open the Grange Hall for a light meal of soup before the waltz lesson starts at 7 p.m. and food and beverages are available all evening. The beginning waltz lesson will introduce new dancers to the basic traveling waltz with a few cool moves thrown in for those who are adventurous.
A man with a tenor sax is waiting to jam. A couple just pulled up chairs by the stage, and there’s two guys in the back playing a board game.
It’s a real mellow atmosphere, with Paul Green crooning “Lost Mind”, just about to let his harmonica wail through The Black Dog cafe.
Green, North Bend’s resident blues legend, takes the stage every week here. Music, the blues in particular, has been his life, ever since he picked up a harmonica at age 20.
Global climate change is, in a word – daunting. What can one person do to make a difference? Earth Day is April 22, and the EcoConsumer Earth Day Climate Challenge offers a fresh look at daily actions we can all take to reduce the effects of climate change. The Challenge includes tips and resources that can help us save money, cut waste and clutter, and better connect in our community.
“There are more resources than ever to help us make shifts in our lives that benefit the climate, whether it’s a service that allows you to share and swap things with your neighbors, or classes on how to build a solar oven,” said King County EcoConsumer Tom Watson.
Mount Si High School hosts a show of student-created art this Thursday, April 18, and if the event name—Festival of the Arts—doesn’t tell you it’s more than just an art show, the organizers will.
The Festival of the Arts, says Fall City Arts vice-president Inga Rouches, who ran the event in 2010 and 2011 and is helping with it this year, offers students a rare opportunity to “shine.”
“It’s not like (an athlete), where you can go out and watch them play every week,” Rouches explained. “An artist doesn’t have that exposure very often.”