Lonesome George is always on. Even in a short phone call to promote his upcoming show at the Snoqualmie Casino Oct. 1, George Thorogood, the rocker behind the hit songs “Bad to the Bone” and “I Drink Alone” brought out his best material.
For pure novelty, few events in North Bend could top the 2013 Blues Walk, held one day after, and just a block or two away from the huge gas explosion that destroyed several buildings. Blues Walk organizer Danny Kolke remembered that many media outlets reporting from the site also reported that the Blues Walk was still on.
At a special meeting called for today (Monday, Sept. 21) the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital board of commissioners is expected to hire a consulting firm Edie Bailly, for a departmental productivity analysis, and to approve a contract for television advertising with EZTV Spots.com.
Everything looks new in the Si View Community Center gym, but it’s already familiar turf for Bobby Lawrence, age 3 and-a-half. He goes directly over the gleaming wood floors to the cleverly hidden drawers under the stage, where he knows the toys for Snoqualmie Valley Indoor Playground are stored. He wants a ball.
A new high school gym was not part of the plan in the $244 million bond issue that Snoqualmie Valley School District voters approved in February, but it might be soon, depending on how the school board decides to proceed at its next meeting, Sept. 10.
Before they could battle each other in a historic re-enactment this weekend, a group of Civil War historians had to battle the weather. The group, members of the Washington Civil War Association, putting on the first Battle of Snoqualmie at Meadowbrook Farm Saturday, were surprised by a sudden, tornado-like wind that swept away their tents, gear and supplies and forced the weekend of events to an abrupt stop.
There is still work to be done on Snoqualmie’s current infrastructure project, but city officials recognized the visual transformation of Historic Downtown Snoqualmie in a small, but well-attended ceremony in Railroad Park.
Home builders and industry representatives voiced strong opposition to the city of North Bend’s proposed increase in its traffic impact fee at the Aug. 18 meeting of the North Bend City Council. The proposed fee of $14,146 represents a tripling of the current fee. The public will have another opportunity to discuss the change at the Sept. 1 meeting.
Cynicism is one of my strongest suits. It hasn’t always served me well, but it’s become a habit that I don’t often see the benefit of breaking.
A women’s conference, held smack in the middle of a nationally-televised PGA golf tournament, sounds like a great idea to keynote speaker Molly Fletcher. The author, CEO and former pro sports agent, sees the pairing as a logical combination, because golf is good for business, and so are women.
There’s a saying, often misquoted and misattributed, to the effect that the news, newspapers, or journalism, take your pick, is the “first, rough draft of history.”
If anyone can make lemonade from lemons, as the saying goes, it’s the people at the North Bend Les Schwab.
It is a real honor to be chosen as the Grand Marshal of this Saturday’s Railroad Days parade, says Matt Wenman, but it can’t really compare with getting stuck, with the Mount Si High School band, on a bus on Snoqualmie Pass for hours.
