Despite the cloudy skies and occasional rain, North Bend’s annual Festival at Mount Si brought together the community for another year of contests, competitions, live music, games, and performances.
The festival began Friday night with the opening of the beer garden and two stages of music and entertainment. Although many of the Twin Peaks-themed events were canceled due to copyright issues, the cherry-stem tying contest Friday and Tibetan rock throw on Sunday went on as scheduled.
Saturday morning began with a parade down North Bend Way celebrating various community organizations as well as event sponsors which helped make the festival a reality. Community mainstay Pat Cokewell was honored as the Grand Marshall of the parade for her 49 years of history in North Bend which included running the Mar-T Cafe for more than 20 years, and helping organize the past North Bend festival Alpine Days.
The rest of the day featured live music, games, and contests at Si View Park. The community stage featured a blueberry dessert contest and cherry pie eating contest. The stage also had performances from the Sno-Valley Winds, Veils of the Nile Belly Dance Company, Cascade Dance Academy, and Mount Si Karate.
Sunday began with the 16th annual chili cook off, where teams got to work early chopping, grilling and taunting each other. The Amazing Pets Contest, despite a rain delay, had an excellent turnout, with strong competition in both the Best Costume and Best Trick categories. The sun came out in time for the now-traditional wife-carrying contest, followed by the all new sibling carrying contest. Chris and Jamie Teteak repeated as champions in the adults’ event, cousins Will Scott and Jackson Shankles won Jackson’s weight in root beer in the under-21 division.
Stella and Nyla Krieble try out the Piano in the Park during a break in the activities Sunday at Si View Park. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Addison Church shakes with her dog Ruger in the Amazing Pets Contest. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Oleaje Flamenco opened the Festival at Mount Si’s evening of entertainment with a performance on the Main Stage. (Jessie Koon Photo)
J.D. Duggan adjusts “police dog” Sooki’s hat as he, with Scott Massengill and the costumed Apollo, presented their cops-and-robbers themed pet costume entry Sunday. The team took first place in the costume category of the Amazing Pets Contest. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
The youth cherry pie eating contest was a vicious competition that left all the participants covered in cherries. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Jessica Good’s dog Patches emerges from her tunnel to loud cheers from the crowd in the Amazing Pets Contest. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Cassidy Church and her Wonder Dog Molly, receive a curious sniff from another contestant in the pet costume contest, Apollo. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Molly the Wonder Dog. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
A volunteer demonstrates how to run the wife-carrying course. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Winners of the sibling carrying competition, Will Scott and Jackson Shankles charge up to the final obstacle. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Competitors in the sibling carrying competition get a helpful jet of water to speed them to their finish in a waiting kiddie pool. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
More Sibling carrying competition fun. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Festival at Mount Si’s grand Marshall Pat Cokewell gets applause from the crowd as the passes through Saturday’s Grand Parade. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Crawling under a second obstacle, wife-carrying competitors Chris and Jamie Teteak, left, and Pactrick and Faith McKee, right, are evenly matched in the first race of the day Sunday. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Si View Parks brought out a basketball playing dinosaur for their festival parade float. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Judges chose the winner of the blueberry dessert contest by evaluating each dish in a number of different categories including taste and blueberry component. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Olivia Murray won the youth category for her blueberry cheesecake cups. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Jessica Good commands her dog Patches in the Amazing Pet Contest Sunday. The pair came away with the second-place prize for Best Trick. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
The sun came out for the Festival at Mount Si volleyball tournament on Saturday. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Team Cloud City — named for the “Star Wars” location, chef Shane Michard pointed out, chops up vegetables on a rainy Sunday morning for their chili creation. The team includes Chris Lamphear, pictured, Shane Michard, behind him, and Michard’s father Kyle, not pictured because he was operating the grill. (Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo)
Twin Peaks fans Eva, Amy and Tara got all dressed up for the Twin Peaks themed events during the festival. (Jessie Koon Photo)
The Dylan Jakobsen Band performs on Friday night. (Jessie Koon Photo)
Exchange students from Snoqualmie’s sister city of Gangjin, South Korea, walked in the parade and performed a dance to Korean pop music. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
The annual fireworks show at Torguson Park lights up the sky. (Jessie Koon Photo)
The Grand Parade began with the color guard displaying the Flags and stopping at the judges table for the pledge of allegiance. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
Ken Hearing jokes with the parade audience about accepting the morning’s rain showers. (Evan Pappas/Staff Photo)
