25 Years Ago
Thursday, Oct. 27, 1983
• Efforts to battle local teenage drug and alcohol use were judged so important by North Bend City Council members that they agreed to set aside federal revenue sharing monies for that purpose. The recommendation followed a presentation by Barry and Marcy Dardis at the Oct. 18 meeting. The Dardises are helping to organize a community workshop to battle teen drug and alcohol abuse.
• The public didn’t come armed last week to shoot holes in Bellevue’s North Fork Snoqualmie River Dam proposal, but rather to ask some tough and pointed questions about the plan. Comments and questions at a public hearing in Carnation focused on the lack of flood control, the need for the dam, public access, effects on wildlife and water sources, and potential loss of undiscovered Indian artifacts.
• Lifelong Valley resident Josie Gaub has been selected as the Woman of the Year by the Mount Si Business and Professional Women’s Club. Josie is bookkeeper and co-owner of Snoqualmie Food Center and part owner of North Bend Thriftway.
50 Years Ago
Thursday, Oct. 30, 1958
• So long, “88.” This Sunday, Nov. 2, all telephones in the Valley now having the familiar “88” prefix will change over to a brand new prefix: Turner 8. This marks another major change in the evolution of the Cascade Telephone Company, which has grown from modest beginnings, 86 telephones served by a switchboard in the parlor of the George Gaines home, to a bustling enterprise in North Bend serving 2,562 phones. The change is part of a gigantic plan encompassing the entire United States, enabling anyone to complete a long distance call by simply lifting the receiver and dialing the number in his own home.
• A census of pre-school children will be taken in the Lower Valley by School District 407 Citizens Advisory Committee to determine probable future school population growth.
• Thirty-three feet long. And no matter how you look at it, that’s a lot of refrigerated produce, as Al Lee pointed out to an interested customer. Al can be justly proud of the shining chrome and enamel produce case just installed at Thriftway.
75 Years Ago
Thursday, Oct. 26, 1933
• Considerable excitement developed in the vicinity of North Bend Friday when the report was brought in that the skeleton of a man had been found on the slope of Mount Si. The discovery of the body, of a large middle-aged man, was made by Ernest Jacobs. Gold dental work was the only distinguishing feature. Two empty cans found near the body, labeled ether, indicated death by suicide.
• When Al Valliere, water superintendent at Tolt, started home last Sunday morning, he discovered five young wildcats and their mother, who objected to his dog. Valliere hurried to find a friend, who was able to shoot one of the young cats, which weighed 25 pounds. It caused a good deal of interest when displayed at the Central Garage.
