Valley on alert for spread of swine flu
April 30, 2009
Snoqualmie Valley community leaders are receiving questions from the public about a possible swine flu pandemic that has reportedly reached Washington state.
Snoqualmie’s Emergency Management Director and Fire Chief, Bob Rowe, sent an e-mail to various Valley community leaders and information sources, including the SnoValley Star, on April 30 that contains information on the H1N1 influenza virus, otherwise known as swine flu.
The information that Snoqualmie is distributing comes from the Center of Disease Control and King County Health Department Web-sites.
Residents discuss North Bend brand
April 30, 2009
A group of North Bend residents and business owners gathered April 23 at the Mt. Si Senior Center to discuss creating a unique identity or “brand” for the community.
“We lack an identity. A single statement of who we are and what we stand for,” said Gina Estep, North Bend’s community and economic development director.
North Bend resident and business management consultant, Geoffrey Doy, facilitated the branding meeting. Doy and other members of North Bend’s brand team have been brainstorming ideas for the community’s identity. The meeting on April 23 was part of a series of discussions designed to get stakeholders involved in the branding process.
New plan for middle school sports a good one
April 30, 2009
Editorial:
The Snoqualmie Valley School Board returned with its budget judgment last week and formulated a theoretical plan for middle school sports that we think will work.
The school district worked for weeks to cut $4.1 million from its budget, in expectation of funding shortages from the state. As a way to save money, the district planned to reduce all competitive middle school sports to intramural sports, meaning the district’s middle-school teams would only play each other during the school year.
Letters to the editor 4-30
April 30, 2009
The multiple ironies of “silencing the silencers”
Art guild shows local artwork at library
April 30, 2009
With its mane covering its eyes, a white and black horse gallops across a piece of aging sheet music titled “Gypsy Love Song.”
Diane Solomon recently started painting horses on old newspapers, old sheet music — any paper that has escaped the recycling bin and is over the legal age.
“Feel this, its almost like cloth,” Solomon said, rubbing a newspaper she had salvaged from 1942.
Using her unorthodox canvases, Solomon paints watercolors and acrylics of Gypsy Vanner, stallions, thoroughbred and any horse that strikes her fancy. She started painting with watercolor, even though it can be unruly at times.
Diane Solomon works on a painting of a horse. The North Bend resident will have work on display during the Mt. Si Artist Guild show at the North Bend Library.
King County Library System to offer job help
April 30, 2009
Who said the library was just for kids?
The King County Library System is tackling some very adult issues this week by opening an hour early to help residents in search of jobs or unemployment resources, beginning May 1.
“Really, it is for anyone that has run into trouble with this hard economic time,” said Julie Williams, the library system’s community relations and marketing director. “We can help get them started.”
Obituary – Sexton Arthur Johnson
April 30, 2009
Sexton Arthur Johnson died April 17 at the age of 59.
Better known as Junior, or J.R., Johnson was born on Aug. 2, 1949. He and his six siblings started life in Federal Way, before they moved to the mountain town of Baring, where his love of trees began.
