Calvary Chapel North Bend has remade itself in recent months, in the image of what members believe to be a modern community of faith.
Every year, when my ballot appears in my mailbox, I feel a little pang of loss. It reminds me that I don’t get to vote in person any more, don’t get to go into the church basement, and chat with the election volunteers, don’t get to find out if the trick for finding my name in the voter list — the second one after all the Andersons — still works, don’t get to watch as the ballot box whooshes my marked ballot back and down into the “vault” in the bottom.
Snoqualmie couple John and Wendy Miller received initial support from the North Bend City Council for their plans to build an indoor-outdoor athletic complex on 12 acres of open space between S.R. 202 and Boalch Avenue, just north of N.W. 14th Street, at the Oct. 18 meeting of the city council.
Snoqualmie couple John and Wendy Miller received initial support from the North Bend City Council for their plans to build…
In two years, Washington high school students will be required to earn 24 credits before they can graduate. That’s two more credits than the classes of 2017 and 2018, today’s seniors and juniors, will need. Twenty-four is also the exact number of credits that students at Mount Si School can earn right now, assuming they don’t fail any classes.
The Encompass NW organization serving the Snoqualmie Valley is probably the most youthful 50-year-old you’ve ever seen. Its three locations (in North Bend and Carnation) are filled with children almost year round and with the energy needed to serve this growing population.
Madi Shinn, a senior at Cedarcrest High School, is the first runner in her family. She’s also the first runner on her girls cross country team to cross the finish line in a lot of the races she’s competed in this season.
Last year when every Valley city had council races and most other local government entities did too, emotions were running high and a lot of people spoke without thinking, which was especially unwise in this age of mistakes living on indefinitely, courtesy of social media. I announced then that I would be taking vacation the entire month of October this year, because I knew, with national races on the ballot, that things would only get worse this year.
Education, and its impact on the development of Washington State’s workforce, is the top priority for Bill Bryant (R), who is challenging Governor Jay Inslee for that office in the November election.
The two candidates for 5th Legislative District Representative, Position 1, agreed on several points when they met at the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce’s second candidate forum last Wednesday. Both the incumbent Jay Rodne (R) and challenger Jason Ritchie (D) concurred, to varying degrees, that small businesses need state regulation reforms, that school districts need the local control that local levy authority gives them, that the state’s Growth Management Act is outdated, and that a state income tax is not a good solution.
North Bend’s largest park, Torguson Park on North Bend Way, will be getting an update almost two years in the planning. North Bend City Council members voted Sept. 20 to approve the $1.6 million project to add restrooms and a concessions building, relocate two of the fields and add turf, build a trail looping through the park, and improving drainage on the fields.
Carnation is not a sleepy little town any more. The city of about 1,800 people is starting to grow, with 65 homes permitted, or almost through the permitting process, for construction in four subdivisions, plus infill development. That growth, while welcome for its potential revenue to the city, may be a threat to Carnation’s “country cool” culture, according to about a dozen people — and two chickens — who spoke at last Tuesday’s Carnation City Council meeting.
North Bend’s streets and sidewalks will fill with visitors this weekend as the fourth annual Blues Walk returns to downtown. It will be a blues-lovers bonanza with live blues performances staged in 21 venues, large and small, throughout the evening, and admission to all via one ticket.
