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Articles by Carol Ladwig
Cast members of 'You can't win' traverse the platform at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie during filming of the independent production
Film crew goes back in time at Snoqualmie...
By Carol Ladwig • May 16, 2012 6:23 pm

“Who would hang an umbrella on a hat rack?” a set dresser grumbles as she shifts the collection of umbrellas and old-fashioned hats hanging in the entry of the Northwest Railway Museum depot in Snoqualmie.

She’s talking to herself, as she fusses with suitcases and furnishings in the depot, and there seems to be a lot of that going around Wednesday morning in Snoqualmie, as headset-wearing, clipboard-carrying creative types bustle around the depot and, kitty-corner across Railroad Avenue, an empty lot now overflowing with trailers and cars.

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Teen actors Christopher Hodel
The storytellers: Wildcat film festival puts Mount Si...
By Carol Ladwig • May 8, 2012 2:08 pm

Two boys in a stump, a three-dimensional animated hippopotamus and six Avengers will make Thursday, May 10, a full day for movie-goers in North Bend.

The boys and the hippo are the stars of two student-produced films that will run at the North Bend Theater before the showing of the long-awaited Marvel production, “The Avengers.” There are stars in the Avengers, too, but the real reason for the evening is to showcase the work of the filmmakers, all Mount Si High School students in the Wildcat Production Club.

The annual Wildcat Film Festival, as it’s called, “is our own little Snoqualmie Valley film festival,” said club advisor and video production teacher Joe Dockery.

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Fall City Elementary’s captain
Snoqualmie win, the sequel: SES team repeats performance,...
By Carol Ladwig • May 4, 2012 11:40 am

For the second year in a row, Snoqualmie Elementary School readers claimed the Battle of the Books championship and trophy.

The team of Emma Duim (captain), Vicky Copeland, Taylor Talbott, Abbigal Triou and Grace Wendlick bested the top teams from Cascade View, North Bend, Fall City, and Opstad in the annual district-wide contest, held Friday, April 27 at North Bend Elementary School.

As always, the final Battle was a tense affair, the culmination of months of dedicated reading and memorization, and multiple rounds of elimination at each elementary to designate a school champ.

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Marvin Kempf
Sacred games: Snoqualmie, tribal leaders speak out on...
By Carol Ladwig • May 2, 2012 4:23 pm

Whatever other titles he may hold, Marvin Kempf, a hereditary chief of the Snoqualmie Tribe, and the son of Snoqualmie Princess Roslyn Harvey Kempf, is a born storyteller. Creation, the monster of the mountain, and battling giants, are all easily-recalled legends from his culture, and ones he loves to share.

“I was thinking about another story,” he announced over lunch last Friday. It’s a story he learned from his elders, when he asked why his own people didn’t have beautiful creation tales like the Jewish tradition.

“They laughed and said ‘oh, that’s a young tribe,’” he said.

Then they told him their own story.

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Seth Truscott/Staff Photo Touring Snoqualmie Police Station
Ready for anything: Snoqualmie police have no doubts...
By Carol Ladwig • April 26, 2012 3:17 pm

Snoqualmie’s Police Department is ready to grow, was built for growth, in fact. Another six officers, the estimated hire needed for the department to police North Bend, wouldn’t even trigger an anticipated remodel of the 1998 building, says Jim Schaffer, Snoqualmie’s soon-to-retire chief.

The 13,000 square-foot police station on Douglas Avenue is home to 14 police officers and three civilian staff members, a handful of subletting State Highway Patrolmen, another handful of community meetings and programs, a firing range, two holding cells, a couple of dirtbikes for patrolling on trails, and a variety of special equipment.

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North Bend adopts 2012 school impact fee
North Bend adopts 2012 school impact fee
By Carol Ladwig • April 20, 2012 9:01 pm

North Bend’s City Council unanimously adopted the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s capital facilities plan recently, and with it, the school’s increased impact fees. For 2012, the school district calculated a school impact fee of $8,503.67 for each single-family home, and $2,742.52 for each unit of multi-family housing.

These fees are added to the cost of any new building permits issued in North Bend, but are collected by the city, then disbursed to the school district. Last fall, North Bend decided not to approve the 2012 fees until that city, like Snoqualmie, got the legal assurance they wanted. Both cities requested formal indemnification against any legal action that might arise from charging developers the impact fees. If builders were unable to sell their homes at the increased price, for example, the cities wanted assurance that they could not be sued.

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North Bend Mayor Ken Hearing congratulates newly hired North Bend City Administrator Londi Lindell.
Ex-Mercer official, attorney Londi Lindell picked for new...
By Carol Ladwig • April 19, 2012 5:10 pm

City government seems to be in Londi Lindell’s blood. An attorney who grew up in the Seattle area, enjoying the same name recognition as her well-respected attorney father, Lindell has practiced law, developed real estate and managed cities (Federal Way and Mercer Island) in her career, but she will soon return to city government.

She will be North Bend’s new city administrator as of May 1.

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Partners in policing: After 39 years with the county, North Bend weighs savings, advocacy in Snoqualmie police switch
Partners in policing: After 39 years with the...
By Carol Ladwig • April 17, 2012 6:33 pm

Thirty-nine years ago, the North Bend City Council voted to dissolve the city’s own police force, and form a contract partnership for police services with the King County Sheriff’s Office instead.

According to a Nov. 29, 1973, Valley Record account of the meeting, police chief Fred Pingrey and other supporters touted the city’s ability to keep their local officers (as long as they applied to be county deputies), along with better pay and opportunities for the officers. Opponents feared a loss of local control, and a less responsive police force—North Bend’s Police Department boasted a response time of under five minutes anywhere in the city.

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Five decades after they convinced a judge to marry them on an ‘unlucky’ day
A life together: Snoqualmie’s Carol and Charles Peterson...
By Carol Ladwig • April 10, 2012 4:43 pm

Superstitions aside, the judge who refused to officiate at Charles Peterson and Carol Jones’ wedding ceremony Friday, April 13, 1962, had good reason for his reluctance.

“He was in uniform,” Carol said, pointing to her husband, Charles, a Snoqualmie City Councilman, “and (the judge) thought that I had just gotten into town and just met him, and he did not want to marry us on Friday the 13th!”

Judge John Malloy was half right. Carol had just arrived in Washington D.C.

She had come specifically to marry Charles, and begin the married life she’d been anticipating since she first met him three years earlier, at age 16.

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Shaking up the beats: North Bend weighs resources, community ties, in police service decision
Shaking up the beats: North Bend weighs resources,...
By Carol Ladwig • April 10, 2012 4:39 pm

When a plane crashed into Mount Si at 2 a.m. Feb. 15, the King County Sheriff’s Office responded within minutes, and the county rescue helicopter, Guardian One, was in the air within the hour. By daylight, the Sheriff’s Office had dispatched more than 40 people, many of them volunteers, to the crash site to locate and remove the three victims.

Later that same day, Snoqualmie police officers ran an errand to pick up the children’s books that they would read to Cascade View Elementary School students in March, through the Badges and Books program that Officer Nigel Draveling introduced to Snoqualmie last year. After reading to children, the officers donated books to the young readers.

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Teachers on the block in Snoqualmie district’s latest cost-cutting plan
Teachers on the block in Snoqualmie district’s latest...
By Carol Ladwig • April 9, 2012 1:06 pm

Eight teaching positions could be eliminated next year, in a worst-case scenario for the Snoqualmie Valley School District. The cuts will be part of a cost-cutting plan to go before the district’s School Board Thursday, April 12, at a 6 p.m. work session.

In the plan, Superintendent Joel Aune will suggest reductions amounting to between $1.2 and $1.3 million from the 2012-13 budget. He and district Business Services Manager Ryan Stokes explained in a public e-meeting Thursday, March 29, that the cuts could be necessary, depending on the outcome of the current legislative session, which alone could cut $1 million from the budget, and other factors.

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Cedarcrest's Stephanie Hall pitched seven innings Wednesday
Cedarcrest tops South Whidbey in fastpitch | Photo...
By Carol Ladwig • April 6, 2012 2:30 pm

With a win 7-3 over South Whidbey on Wednesday, April 4, the Cedarcrest fastpitch softball team added another win to its record, now 5 and 1 after six Cascade Conference games.

The Lady Red Wolves brought a lot of enthusiasm to the game, which carried them through two scoreless innings, despite South Whidbey missing a few of its starters. In the first and second inning, Cedarcrest scored one run each, and none in the third and fourth.

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Rattlesnake Lake's scenery—and eye-catching stumps—draw visitors young and old.
Best for families: Rattlesnake Lake Park voted winner...
By Carol Ladwig • April 4, 2012 11:54 am

Nearly every place in the Valley features stunning views, hiking, biking, or boating opportunities, and a nature escape, just minutes from a city. Hardly any of them, though, have the additional appeal of small numbered balls.

“If you haven’t come up to our exhibit and discovered our water-drop balls, they are a hit,” says Chris Holland, the facilities director at the Cedar River Watershed Education Center, part of the Valley’s Best Family Outing for 2012, Rattlesnake Lake Park. “We have toddlers who come running in here, going ‘Ball? Ball! Ball!'”

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