Thursday, Aug. 29, 1991

• Persistent in-fighting plagues North Bend city government, according to council member Arlen Reno, and it’s the council’s responsibility to fix that. Reading from a stinging letter at last week’s meeting, Reno asserted that disagreements between council member Chris Lodahl and Mayor Fritz Ribary have left the city without responsible government. “What’s even more alarming is that both are now running for mayor,” exclaimed Reno, who asserted that the city suffers from a “leaderless vacuum.”

• In 1990, Billy Wallace was ranked the No. 10 outfielder in the country. After an even better year, the Snoqualmie 29-year-old is on his way to the U.S. Slo-Pitch Softball World Championship next weekend in Irvine, Calif. Wallace is the lead-off hitter for Slo-Pitch News out of Seattle. The team took the A/AA state tournament Aug. 18 in Bellingham and will be the Northwest’s top contender in Irvine.

•Check out the 1991-92 Issaquah-North Bend-Fall City-Snoqualmie neighborhood telephone directory cover and you’ll notice the photographs were designed by local photographer Joy Hoffman-Baunsgard. Although Joy specializes in portraits, she occasionally takes time out to create beautiful scenics of her favorite place, the Snoqualmie Valley. “This was the first year North Bend and the Valley were added to the directory, so they were looking for a special image to adorn the cover,” she said.

Thursday, Aug. 25, 1966

• Snoqualmie area cone collectors face the happy prospect of harvesting a record crop this year, a Weyerhaeuser Company official said today. Lynn Westlund, Operation Foresters, said studies show that the 1966 cone crop will parallel the record harvest of 1959, when one tree farm alone yielded 100,000 bushels. Weyerhaeuser and most of the other large fir seed users need cones obtained from trees growing at elevations about 2,000 feet.

• Hilda Siegenthaler Riechman of Carnation, and Alice Jackson Maxwell of Homer Alaska, knew each other 28 years ago, when Alice was a polio patient in Hilda’s student-nurse case study; they recently discovered they are neighbors. Alice was only 14 when Hilda, then a student at the Everett General Hospital School of Nursing, chose her as the subject of her required case study in surgical pediatrics. They were reunited recently when Hilda, visiting a friend, Mary Amos, found out that Alice, whose case was memorable, was living nearby.