Three Snoqualmie Valley residents receive Earth Hero awards for helping keep the valley green
May 13, 2010
NEW — 3:59 p.m. May 13, 2010
Snoqualmie Valley is a green place, but three individuals here are working especially hard to make it even greener. Those with the green drive — Elizabeth Johnson, Jed Smith and Mark Schlosser — received 2009-10 King County Earth Hero awards, along with North Bend Elementary School.
Voting in online grant contest ends with Chapel Car 5 in 9th place
May 13, 2010
NEW — 4:05 p.m. May 13, 2010
Voting ended yesterday in the Partners for Preservation competition for part of $1 million in grants. Early results indicate that the Northwest Railway Museum’s Chapel Car 5, Messenger of Peace, finished in ninth place with 3 percent of the vote.
Tacoma’s Schooner Adventuress finished first with 20 percent of the vote.
Seattle-area ranks high and low depending on who’s count
May 13, 2010
NEW — 3:45 p.m. May 13, 2010
Do you want the bad news first? Or the good news?
The Seattle area recently made its way onto two widely publicized lists for two very different reasons. Seattle is the worst city in America for sports, but the area also has the best economy of any metropolitan area in the country.
Greening Salish Lodge & Spa: Hotel receives green audit to lower environmental impact
May 13, 2010
NEW — 3:11 p.m. May 17, 2010
Editor’s note: This story has been updated.
The green movement has become so pervasive, that almost no aspect of life goes unexamined.
Consultants, or green auditors, can calculate carbon footprints, measure water-flow rates, compare the efficiency of light bulbs and even see whether cups are disposable or reusable.
Scanner revitalizes math class in Snoqualmie Valley middle schools
May 13, 2010
NEW — 2:00 p.m. May 13, 2010
Back in the day, students taking a math exam might get it returned in one day or one week. They might see red slash marks through a number of problems and not understand why they got it wrong.
Those days are now things of the past, thanks to new scanners and grading software used in Snoqualmie Valley middle school math classrooms.
Busy bee in North Bend
May 13, 2010
A bumblebee enjoys a light lunch outside the Mt Si Senior Center in North Bend. (Photo by Dan Catchpole)
Festival of Music set for August in North Bend
May 13, 2010
NEW — 1:47 p.m. May 13, 2010
By Seattle Times Staff
Fans of chamber music and the outdoors can enjoy both at the Snoqualmie Valley Festival of Music, planned for Aug. 7-8 at Mountain Meadows Farm in North Bend.
Walk to combat hunger
May 13, 2010
NEW — 1:45 p.m. May 13, 2010
Four Snoqualmie Valley churches are walking together to combat hunger.
The CROP — Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty — Hunger Walk begins at 12:30 p.m. May 16 at Snoqualmie United Methodist Church, 38701 River St., Snoqualmie. Registration opens at 9 a.m. that morning.
John David Bartholomew
May 13, 2010
NEW — 1:45 p.m. May 13, 2010
John David Bartholomew
John David Bartholomew, of North Bend, died May 1, 2010.
Jack was born on December 6, 1930, in Buffalo, New York, to Lee Bartholomew and Rebecca Van Waters.
He was raised in Chicago. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War.
Jack graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in business and got his Master of Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta.
He went to work for Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta, where he was in charge of cost control.
Turkey trots around the Rim
May 13, 2010
NEW — 1:41 p.m. May 13, 2010
Ben the Turkey (Photo by Emily Rourke)
A handsome tom turkey is running lose in the Wilderness Rim in North Bend.
The neighbors dubbed him Ben after Benjamin Franklin, who wanted to make the turkey — not the eagle — the national symbol of the U.S.
