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Community photo shows the love for everyone

By Mary Miller Photographer Mary Miller, of North Bend, organized a heart-shaped community photo May 5 at Centennial Fields in Snoqualmie. She said 200 people from the Snoqualmie Valley showed up for the photo, and brought along their dogs and chickens.

When you put a call out to the Snoqualmie Valley to show up for a community photo, you never know who or what’s going to show up.

Such was the case May 5, when several people brought their dogs, and a couple of families brought their chickens.

“I couldn’t believe it — chickens,” said North Bend photographer Mary Miller, who organized the community photo. “But it was great. I loved it.”

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Sports

First playoff trip ends quickly for Mount Si lacrosse team

UPDATED: 12:44 p.m. May 17.

It was like watching a baby taking three steps before falling on his rump: The trip was short, the end painful, but you know this amazing journey is just the beginning.

The Mount Si Lacrosse team lost, 7-3, to the Three Rivers Coyotes from Richland in the Wildcat squad’s first playoff game in its three-year history.

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Schools

Valley student Kallin Spiller earns state honors for letter

Contributed Seventh-grader Kallin Spiller (center) was honored as a finalist in the state’s Letters About Literature contest May 12. Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, left, and First Gentleman Mike Gregoire attended the ceremony in Olympia. Spiller wrote a letter to Dr. Seuss about the impact his book, ‘There’s a Wocket in My Pocket,’ had in her life.

Dead for 21 years, Theodor S. Geisel still gets letters.

“His books were my favorite when I was little to read with my family,” wrote Snoqualmie Middle School seventh-grader Kallin Spiller, the author of a letter to Geisel, better known by his fictitious medical degree and his middle name, Dr. Seuss.

Spiller’s letter to the children’s books author made her a finalist in the statewide Letters About Literature contest, where children write letters to their favorite authors.

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