Santa Claus typically seeks out milk and cookies at Christmas. But the big canvas in Snoqualmie Valley ARTS member Richard Burhans’ studio shows the jolly old elf munching on a frosted green wreath-shaped doughnut.
The pastry’s presence gives a clue to the painting’s final destination. The canvas, created for Snoqualmie Ridge merchant Steve Pennington, owner of Steve’s Doughnuts, is one of more than 30 works that Burhans and other Snoqualmie Valley ARTS members are creating as part of a holiday collaboration with Ridge and Valley businesses.

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Olivia and Preston Henning and Jana Slechta of Fall City donned turkey headgear to cheer on their friend Julie Peterson, who ran her first-ever fun run Saturday, Nov. 13, during the Snoqualmie Ridge Turkey Trot.

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“Two Gold Coins and a Prayer” is the first, last and only book that James Keeffe, III, of Fall City will ever write.
The true-life story of his father James Keeffe, Jr., experiences as a Army Air Corps bomber pilot and prisoner of war in World War II Europe, “Two Gold Coins” was a nine-year labor of love that consumed the younger Keeffe’s life. But the fruits of his efforts are evident in the richly detailed writings, which go far beyond his father’s life to connect with the descendants of the Europeans who helped him and the aftermath of the war’s titanic struggle.

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Workers with Snoqualmie-based Imhoff Crane Service lowered a nearly 120-year-old wooden caboose onto rails Friday, Nov. 5, near the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie.

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