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Young people are showing more interest in helping their communities and people in need than ever before.
• The city of Snoqualmie has not done enough for its all-volunteer fire department, according to several firefighters who demanded answers from the city council Dec. 12. The volunteers wanted to know why a paid firefighter wasn’t included in the 1984 budget and why the city doesn’t allocate any tax money toward the department.
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A 10-week course on the slow-moving, meditative martial art of Tai Chi is starting up in Snoqualmie.
• The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace Health and Hospital Services may sign an agreement to lease Snoqualmie Valley Hospital as soon as this week. The Hospital District 4 board gave its unanimous backing Monday to begin detailed negotiations with the Bellevue-based nonprofit health care corporation. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace will apparently get their chance to save Snoqualmie Valley Hospital from the demons of financial despair.
• Open mic is 7 to 10 p.m., the first and third Thursday of the month, at Isadora’s Books and Cafe, 8062 Railroad Ave., Snoqualmie; For more information, call (425) 888-1345.
Twenty-six. That’s the average number of years that the 34 members of the Mount Si Community Band had been “off music” until they started practicing this November, said band director Dean Snavely.
Every parent aspires to raise happy, well adjusted, prosperous children. What that looks like and how we get there, though, is a matter of debate.
Snoqualmie Tribe-owned Paddle store is hosting its first large-scale art show
• Duvall may change its nebulous “country living” theme to an exciting salute of its past history of riverboating. The downtown revitalization process is setting the stage for a new look, and Diane Baker says she thinks a riverboat town would be “something no one else has.”
• Open mic is 7 to 10 p.m., the first and third Thursday of the month, at Isadora’s Books and Cafe, 8062 Railroad Ave., Snoqualmie; (425) 888-1345.
