SnoValley Winds Ensemble seeks new band members
October 26, 2011
The visitor, armed with nothing more musical than fingers to snap together, earned a few stares and then an invitation, seconds later.
“Hey, do you want to join us?” David Kelley said. “We need a clarinetist.”
Such are the days at the SnoValley Winds ensemble, a group of community musicians seeking members for their upcoming gigs.
“We will take anybody,” tuba player Lorraine Thurston said.
Bandmate Natalie Kryger agreed.
“Any willing soul willing to share Monday nights with us,” she said.
Well, almost any willing soul. The band would prefer that the musicians own or rent their own instruments, be older than 18 years old and already know how to play their instruments.
Snoqualmie 12-year-old tells tale of her first movie
October 26, 2011
Valley middle-schooler Shaye Hodgins (foreground, center) during filming of “Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas” in Leavenworth. Movie director Sue Corcoran (gray jacket, sunglasses on forehead) stands behind Hodgins. Contributed
Snoqualmie middle-schooler Shaye Hodgins walked down a Leavenworth street in the middle of a snowfall.
Someone she barely knew walked right alongside her, holding an umbrella. For her.
Welcome to Hollywood, Shaye.
Seven Mount Si High School students hit heights on the PSAT
October 26, 2011
Seven Mount Si High School students earned high PSAT scores and a variety of laurels at the national level.
Seniors Brian Copeland, Riley Edwards and Sally Miller were named National Merit Semifinalists after their test scores finished among the nation’s top 16,000 students.
More than 1.5 million children took the PSATs.
Seniors Natalie Brookes, Landon Edwards (Riley’s twin sister) and Kayla Tostevin were named National Merit Commended Students, as their scores stood among the top 50,000 in the nation.
The Snoqualmie Valley School Board honored these seven Mount Si High School seniors for their PSAT scores. Back row from left: Brian Copeland and Kyle Seymour. Front row, from left: Kayla Tostevin, Natalie Brookes, Sally Miller, Riley Edwards, and Landon Edwards. By Sebastian Moraga
Senior Kyle Seymour was named Outstanding Participant in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.
Seymour scored in the top 3 percent of more than 160,000 black American students who took the test. About 3,100 students nationwide received the honor.
“Congratulations to you, it’s an extraordinary accomplishment,” said Dan Popp, the president of the Snoqualmie Valley school board.
The students and their families received certificates and a string of ovations at the Oct. 20 school board meeting.
Snoqualmie, Twin Falls middle schools plan trip to Grand Canyon
October 26, 2011
Wanted: a yo-yo with a 2,000-foot string.
OK, so maybe comedian George Carlin’s invention won’t travel to the Grand Canyon, but a group of Valley middle schoolers might.
Sixth- and seventh-graders from Snoqualmie Middle School and Twin Falls Middle School plan to visit Arizona’s grandest natural wonder during their 2011-12 spring break, March 31 to April 4.
The trip will happen if enough children show interest, said Heather Kern, a Snoqualmie Middle School counselor who would also go on the trip.
“We have got to get enough kids in order to make it happen,” she said.
The trip will be part recreation, part academics, she added.
“They’ll be learning about the geography of the area, how it was formed, the flora, the fauna,” she said.
They would also raft, hike, rock-climb and mountain-bike.
The four-day trip takes up to 20 students. The trip costs about $1,200 per child. That money will cover everything, Kern said, including transportation, hotel accommodations, meals, activities and medical insurance.
Mount Si football folds to Bellevue but still clinches a playoff berth
October 26, 2011
Mount Si High School quarterback Ryan Atkinson looks for a receiver as Bellevue players close in. By Dan Catchpole
Mount Si got on the board against Bellevue, but after a close first quarter, the Wildcats couldn’t hold the Wolverines back. Bellevue won the Oct. 21 game at Mount Si, 35-3.
Mount Si Coach Charlie Kinnune was upbeat about the loss to Bellevue, one of the top high school teams in the country.
Mount Si runner takes fourth place in KingCo
October 26, 2011
Bailey Scott finished fourth among girls in the KingCo Conference Cross Country championships at Lake Sammamish State Park on Oct. 21.
“That’s better than I could ever have asked for,” said the sophomore Scott after the race. “Last year, I got 16th.”
On a mild, windless day, Scott and the rest of the competitors ran for 3.1 miles on a flat course, with stretches of sand, grass and dirt.
Bailey Scott, Mount Si High School sophomore cross country runner, reaches the finish line in fourth place with a time of 19 minutes, 47.3 seconds, during the girls 3A KingCo championship Oct. 20 at Lake Sammamish State Park. By Greg Farrar
“The sand was the hardest part,” Scott said.
The Wildcats, Scott said, made it into districts last year and showed up in Issaquah wanting to repeat the feat.
The top four teams and 20 individual runners in both boys and girls races make it to districts.
“I thought we all ran really fast, placed really good,” Scott said of her teammates.
C team finishes season undefeated
October 26, 2011
The goalkeeper practices her French while on the field.
The postgame talks deal with diapers and deodorants.
The bench players drink from an upside down water bottle. And instead of eye black, some of the defenders have drawn cat whiskers.
It’s life on the Wildcats’ soccer C-team, a squad that has as good a time on the field as off.
Coach Bronwyn McDaniels addresses the Mount Si High School Girls’ Soccer C-Team after a victory against Redmond. The team finished the season unbeaten, with 10 wins, and two ties. By Sebastian Moraga
The team’s last game, a 1-1 tie against Mercer Island, sealed their impressive 2011 season: 10 wins, no losses, two ties. Forty goals scored, three received.
“We are small and feisty,” said head coach Bronwyn McDaniels, who at one point led this group to a six-game winning streak, interrupted by a cancelled game.
The team won four out of their last six after that.
All accomplished by a group of three sophomores and 15 freshmen, the latter group in their second month of high school.
Calendar
October 26, 2011
Public meetings
- Cancelled: North Bend Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Oct. 27, 211 Main Ave. N.
- Snoqualmie Public Safety Committee, 5 p.m. Oct. 27, 37600 S.E. Snoqualmie Parkway
- North Bend Finance and Administration Committee, 2 p.m. Nov. 1, 211 Main Ave. N.
- North Bend City Council, 7 p.m. Nov. 1, 411 Main Ave. N.
- Si View Metro Park District Board of Commissioners, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 2, 400 S.E. Orchard Drive, North Bend
- Public Hospital District No. 4 Board of Commissioners, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 3, 38624 S.E. River St, Snoqualmie
- Snoqualmie Valley School Board, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3, 8001 Silva Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie
Snoqualmie City Council approves agreement that paves way for vote on Weyerhaeuser mill annexation
October 25, 2011
Snoqualmie City Council has approved an agreement between the city and property owners of a former Weyerhaeuser mill that paves the way for a vote on annexing the property. The vote on annexation could come as soon as Nov. 14.
While the pre-annexation agreement passed with unanimous support at the Council’s Oct. 24 meeting, several council members expressed reservations about added infrastructure maintenance costs the city would take on by annexing the property. After annexation, the city would assume responsibility for maintaining the Meadowbrook Way Bridge, Mill Pond Road and a stretch of Reinig Road.
Mount Si folds to Bellevue but clinches playoff berth
October 24, 2011
Mount Si got on the board against Bellevue, but after a close first quarter, the Wildcats couldn’t hold the Wolverines back. Bellevue won the Oct. 21 game at Mount Si, 35-3.
Mount Si Coach Charlie Kinnune was upbeat about the loss to Bellevue, one of the top high school teams in the country.
“We’ll come out of it a better team,” Kinnune said.
