Participants from Mount Si, North Bend, Snoqualmie and other local communities will join for a night of song and music, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, North Bend Chapel, located at 527 S.W. Mount Si Blvd.
The play of Christmases past will be part of Christmas present as Valley Center Stage presents Charles Dickens’ ghost story, “A Christmas Carol” next month.
For the fourth year, members of the Snoqualmie Valley Girls Choir will lend their voices to the Bellevue Opera, this time for two late-November performances of “Hansel and Gretel.”
25 Years Ago
MUSIC AND COMEDY
Visitors to Exceptional Real Estate in Fall City got creative with their trick-or-treating apparel. Lisamari Emery and her daughter Maya were the first prize-winning couple in the Halloween costume contest, put on by the business. Eddie Coons won first prize in the single-entry competition.
After Hitler’s Holocaust, they said it couldn’t happen again. But it did. In the spring of 1994, Rwanda’s ruling Tutsi government fell to a band of Hutu extremists. For three months, Rwanda descended into one of the bloodiest and most savage genocides the world has ever seen, leaving more than one million Tutsi citizens dead.
• Questions about whether King County or local interests will be responsible for maintenance of Fall City Community Park have prompted another inquiry by the Fall City Business and Professional Association. The BPA agreed Friday to write a letter to the county parks department, inviting a county representative to a meeting concerning maintenance.
Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District recently teamed up with the Snoqualmie Valley School District to offer the “Allied Health Tools for Success” class and Western Washington Area Health Education Center’s “Project H.O.P.E.” internship program. Project H.O.P.E., which stands for Health Occupations Preparatory Experience, is a competitive program for which high school students must apply early in the spring. Mount Si High School students Kayla Wargi and Shelby Sydell were chosen for this year’s five-week paid internship, during which they rotated through several clinical and diagnostic settings. This included job shadowing doctors, nurses, a pharmacist and others at the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital and its various clinics.
Detail and heritage run strong in the heavy, yet fragile works of North Bend craftswoman Carol James.
• Mingus O’Bannon plays at 9 p.m. at Finaghty’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, 7726 Center Blvd. S.E., Suite 110, Snoqualmie Ridge; (425) 888-8833.
