A trio of fourth-graders held their noses as they dumped food waste into a worm bin at Snoqualmie Elementary School’s courtyard. Smelly as the task was, the girls’ appreciation of the environmental importance of composting spurred their enthusiasm to complete it. It’s all thanks to the education they receive as part of the school’s award-winning participation in King County’s Green Schools Program. At lunch, students and teachers dump food scraps into bowls, understanding that instead of being added to piles of garbage, their waste will help create rich soil.
The Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce has rolled out its new tourism Web site.
The Snoqualmie Valley Track Club hosts all-comers track meets for Valley youth, ages two to 17, on several Sundays this spring at Chief Kanim Middle School and Mount Si High School.
The city of Snoqualmie will more than triple its funding for charitable services and programs that help people in need this year.
Though the sub-prime mortgage crisis hasn’t hit Washington as hard as other parts of the country, local governments are feeling some pain as the real estate market slows.
Friends of Snoqualmie Library is holding a used book sale, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 16, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at the library, located at 7824 Center Blvd. S.E.
The city of North Bend invites residents to help clean up their community, at a recycling event, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at Mount Si High School’s back parking lot.
A judge last week adjourned a hearing in the appeal of the certificate of need issued to Swedish Medical Center for a new 175-bed hospital in the Issaquah Highlands.
Harold Erland, who helps match underprivileged Valley residents with resources through his volunteer work at the North Bend Community Church, is the Valley Record’s latest Citizen of the Week.
The death penalty deadline in the Carnation Christmas Eve murder case has been pushed back to August 4.
As some parents prepare to protest outside Mount Si High School on the Day of Silence, school administrators are assuring the community that the event, scheduled for Friday, April 25, will not endanger the school’s learning environment. The event, in which students may choose to take a day-long vow of silence as part of a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the mistreatment that gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gendered and questioning (LGBTQ) students regularly face, has come under fire over the past couple of months as some non-participating students told stories of being called “anti-gay” and even harassed by their peers on past Days of Silence.
A bigger, brighter, roomier Fall City Library will open to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 3, with a ribbon cutting, live music, children’s events and an open house.
