Matt Heikkila has been named executive chef at the Salish Lodge and Spa in Snoqualmie.
Gather the family and get out your favorite costumes for some fall festivities at the Snoqualmie Depot, Oct. 24, 25 and 31. Ride the Halloween Steam Train, with the 100-year-old Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co. #2 steam locomotive. Check out the cider press demonstrations, try the press yourself, or enjoy some hot apple cider.
Sno-Valley Senior Center in Carnation hosts its annual dinner and auction benefit, 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Blue Heron Bar and Grill, 1810 W. Snoqualmie River Road, Carnation.
Visit Snoqualmie Ridge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, for Trick or Treat on the Ridge.
In a garden shed turned writing studio, North Bend writer Tonya Jermann Fraser created “Providence of Souls,” which was released in July.
The fourth annual Verizon innovation App challenge is now open for entires. In this contest, teams from schools and nonprofit organizations can enter their designs for an app that will solve a problem in their community.
Dozens of local volunteers from REI, Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, Washington Trails Association, and the U.S. Forest Service teamed up to repair trails in the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River Valley to celebrate National Public Lands Day Saturday, Sept. 26.
After all of the North Bend Station 87 construction bills were paid, fire district commissioners learned that approximately $35,000 remained unspent in the bond fund. The three-member board decided to use those dollars to buy down the bond, which will be paid off in about 17 years.
Habitat for endangered salmon and other wildlife in the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish watersheds will see added improvements, thanks to more than $800,000 in Cooperative Watershed Management grants from the King County Flood Control District.
On Monday, Sept. 28, Mayor Matt Larson and Fire Chief Mark Correira recognized Snoqualmie Fire Department volunteers for the completion of their training. Lorrie Jones and Peter O’Donnell were presented badges for completing their EMT training. Marshal Griffin was presented a helmet for completing his fire training. Pictured from left are Fire Chief Mark Correira, Lorrie Jones, Marshall Griffin, Peter O’Donnell, and Mayor Matt Larson.
A four-hour strategic planning workshop for the hospital board was held on Sept. 30. The hospital board brought in attorney Charles “Skip” Houser, to lead the workshop.
A new vice-president was elected to the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Board of Directors Thursday, when the board held its regular monthly meeting at Snoqualmie City Hall. Joan Young, recently removed from the position of president, was quickly and unanimously elected as Vice President of the board of commissioners.
Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps annually practices responses to simulated disasters. The group has simulated an earthquake with survivors in Tolt-MacDonald Park and a breach of the Tolt Dam, meeting with students and residents up on Evacuation Hill above Carnation. Last May, they simulated a wildfire evacuation at Lake Margaret.