Mount Si’s fleet-footed sophomore Hannah Waskom was in the lead—usually where you can find her in girls races this fall—but she wasn’t done yet.”
At home against Redmond and Woodinville, she was in front of Lindsey Sydnor by a few seconds. Then she hit the gas.
“At the end, I felt like I had a lot more in me,” Waskom said. “I tried to go as hard as I could on the finish.”
Residents told King County Public Hospital District 4’s board of commissioners Thursday, Oct. 2, to protect of local rights and services at the first public hearing on the hospital’s affiliation with Overlake Hospital of Bellevue.
The board is considering selling its hospital and clinic operations to Overlake. Commissioners Ryan Roberts and Dariel Norris are part of a negotiating team working with Overlake on terms of the deal, which has a new deadline of March 2015.
I’ll be honest with you—I slept right through the magnitude 4.0 quake, centered on the Hood Canal about 45 miles west of here, last Wednesday, Sept. 17. My wife was up early, browsing her iPhone; she’s usually the one who tells me about these quakes, and all I can do is shrug. A heavy sleeper, I’ve slept through every minor tremblor in the past decade. The noise from that fatal plane crash on Mount Si failed to wake me.
When Anna McCreadie goes up, volleyballs come down, hard, and often don’t come back up.
The Santa Clara-signed senior has been raining hits for the Mount Si volleyball team, and the scores show that the outside hitter has come into her own this fall.
Led by McCreadie, Mount Si volleyball is currently undefeated, beating all comers. The latest was Issaquah on Thursday, Sept. 25, Mount Si won in four sets, 25-23, 25-17, 16-25, 25-14.
What Snoqualmie really needs is a recreation manager—that’s the recommendation of Ralph Dannenberg, the consultant the city hired to examine efficiencies and leadership of its parks and recreation arm.
Snoqualmie has been without a standalone parks and recreation head since Gwen Voelpel resigned in 2011; Dan Marcinko’s Public Works Director role expanded to become Interim Parks and Public Works Director.
Joey MacArthur grits his teeth and lifts nearly 100 pounds of solid, rusty metal from atop a stack of tables.
Once, perhaps a century ago, this ochre-tinged iron hay bale pulley, shuttled huge bales of hay inside a Northwest barn.
Today, it’s one of the prides of the collection at the Wild Hare Vintage and Antiques in Snoqualmie, where Joey and his partner Tami Smith buy and sell finds. Like many treasures, though, it’s here today, and gone tomorrow. That’s by design, says Tami.
The other day, after much procrastination, we took the plunge and got a new car—not brand new, mind you, but new to us. That’s what counts, right?
The new ride lacks the smooth ride of my old domestic sedan. A Nissan, it’s not plush, and there aren’t a lot of frills. But besides that great ‘new car smell,’ it’s got one good thing going for it—it costs about $29 to fill up. I love that fuel economy, and that was single biggest reason to get it.
“There’s age here,” says Marcia Reinert. “There’s wonder in these walls.”
Reinert, a congregation member at Snoqualmie United Methodist Church, is right. The walls of the old downtown church do tell a tale.
In the dining hall, Reinert points up to a ceiling beam that dates from the original 1926 structure, surviving a catastrophic fire. Upstairs, the bride’s room has launched uncounted weddings.
Hannah Waskom left all challengers behind, somewhere around the last mile of the wooded, sunny Lake Sammamish cross country course.
The next person to cross the finish line was Lyndsey Sydnor, the fellow Mount Si High School runner who’s been training with Waskom, current girls running record holder, all summer.
DirtFish Rally School in Snoqualmie will holds its first major race in three years this month.
The driving school will host Red Bull Global Rally Cross race, on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27.
On Monday, Aug. 24, the Snoqualmie City Council approved a special event permit for the race, contingent on staff recommendations. The rally school, located on the former Weyerhaeuser mill site that was annexed into the city in 2012, is allowed by the city to hold two rally-cross races each year.
Colleagues of Jeanne Hansen say she was a master of transformations.
The late Hansen, mayor of Snoqualmie from 1987 to 1997, shepherded the development of Snoqualmie Ridge. She died Jan. 3, 2001, and never got to see the changes she wrought.
In 2013, Mount Si’s girls swim team embarked on a trial run as a newly organized group swimming in a new, hometown pool.
This fall, team captains expect the 25-girl squad to come into their own.
Suzanne Perkins laughs and admits she’s not exactly ready for her fifth Bike MS ride.
When the North Bend mom hits the pedals this Saturday and Sunday, taking part in the bicycle trek and fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, she doesn’t plan to ride far.
