25 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 26, 1984

• Classes are scheduled to start in June at the state fire training center now under construction east of North Bend. The center, which will serve as a training facility for all of Washington’s firefighters, is located about seven miles east of the city near I-90. Once operational, the center will provide basic and advanced hands-on training for about 13,000 firefighters a year.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 29, 1959.

• Two parties and dozens and dozens of cards, gifts and messages noted the 97th birthday last week of one of the Valley’s favorite people, Henry A. “Grandpa” Mills of Carnation. There was a birthday dinner at the home of his son and wife. Everyone who knows Grandpa Mills feels he deserves all the attention he has received, and then some. It’s a common sight in the summer to see him walking to the home of a neighbor with a gift from his garden. He walks a half mile to his mail box each day.

• Barbara Sue Innes has been named Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow at Mount Si High School. She received the highest score on a 50-minute written examination on homemaking knowledge and attitudes taken by graduating senior girls in her high school. Her examination paper will be entered in competition with those of winners in other states.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 25, 1934

• The victim of a wilderness tragedy, Dick Horn, 55, of Seattle, was given up for dead Monday by deputy sheriffs and woodsmen after a fruitless search in the snow-covered timberland where he disappeared two weeks ago. Horn was a Spanish and World War veteran and on the day of his disappearance was seen to depart with a knapsack from the gold mine 25 miles from North Bend where he had been working. Fellow workers followed his trail to a log jam on the Snoqualmie River.