The following stories happened this week, 25 and 50 years ago, as reported in the Snoqualmie Valley Record. From the Record’s archives:

Thursday, Jan. 16, 1992

• Neil and Hadley Rogers, president and vice-president of Truck Town, Inc., were notified by the U.S. Small Business Administration late last week that they had won an important regional award, the SBA’s 1992 “Entrepreneurial Success Award” for their contributions at Seattle-East 76 Auto/Truck Plaza in North Bend. Truck Town began as a small cafe, purchased by Ken and Dorie Rogers for $5,000 back in 1941. The operation was moved five times over the years, landing at the I-90/Edgewick Road intersection in 1976.

• The best nesting grounds, wetlands and other life-sustaining conditions for wildlife are down in the farm; in this case, the Bob Pepper farm near Carnation. The Pepper farm has been declared the King County Conservation District Wildlife Farm of the Year for 1991, for incorporating practices that nurture wildlife.

• It is hard to imagine small children who don’t know how to play, but that’s what Krista Eberle of Children’s Services of Sno-Valley encountered during a recent six-month stay as a volunteer in Romania. The children were living in a government-run institution near Bucharest and Eberle helped set up activities for them. “We would bring the children into the playroom and they just didn’t know what to do,” she said.

Thursday, Jan. 26, 1967

• The first news item for the week of Jan. 19, 1967, is the only one, a report that this week’s issue of the Snoqualmie Valley Record has gone astray. It also appears that the newspaper was briefly renamed the Snoqualimie Valley Record for the following week.

• Mrs. Marilyn Herzog has submitted her resignation as Town Clerk of Duvall to Mayor James Q. Wallace. A new clerk is expected to be named at the Feb. 9 meeting of the Town Council. Mrs. Herzog, who has been Town Clerk for more than three years, said that she and her husband, W.T. Herzog, plan to move to a home nearer Bellevue, where Mr. Herzog is employed.

• For Snoqualmie residents who have cursed the mud, water, dirty floors and mired-down vehicles, by-products of the sewer construction, the pipeline foreman, George Bradshaw of National Construction Co., has good news. “If the weather holds as dry as it was Sunday and Monday, we will be through sooner than anticipated.” He said construction on the sewer lines is going well all over town and work should be completed in from three weeks to a month, if the rain holds off.