Thursday, Oct. 4, 1990

• The “Twin Peaks” television show has generated an incredible amount of publicity for the Upper Valley. But who would have thought the governor would come to Snoqualmie for an important press conference on the topic? Booth Gardner was in town Friday morning. So were Mike Lowry and Brian Boyle. But their subject was the real Twin Peaks. Boyle, the state’s public lands commissioner, came to announce the purchase of 740 acres on Mount Si, which expands the conservation area to 3,340 acres. Georgia-Pacific was paid $825,000 for its two parcels of timberland in the saddle between the “Twin Peaks.”

• Four coffins, each containing a layer of soil from Transylvania, have been discovered in the vicinity of 432nd Avenue Southeast and North Bend Way. The most unnerving fact about this discovery is that the coffins were occupied by daylight. When the discovery was investigated that evening, the coffins were found empty! Of course, the mystery was solved quickly. The coffins belong to the Enter Act Theatre and are props for the EAT’s production of “Dracula.”

Thursday, Oct. 7, 1965

• Mr. Wesley Lee McGill, 42, met death Oct. 1 in an industrial accident when a crane boom on which he was riding broke and he fell 30 feet to the ground. The scene of the accident was one mile north of Kirkland. Mr. McGill was born in Fall City on July 27, 1923. He lived in the Valley all his life, except for the time served in the Navy during World War II.

• Weyerhaeuser Company has announced that 165,000 acres of its Snoqualmie Falls Tree Farm will be open to hunters again this year. Entry will be via the Spur 10 gates only. Gates will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends throughout the hunting season.