The Fall City Elementary School library was packed with people, students and adults, and a nervous tension is in the air. Students sitting on the floor held construction paper pennants and poster boards with team names on them. “In which book does a character eat a delicious shelled fruit called a rambutan?” librarian Meg Handy…
Project Crayon Drive collects crayons for Seattle Children’s
For the eighth year in a row, Cascade Team Real Estate is collecting crayons and coloring books for hospitalized children. Every year, Seattle Children’s goes through 240,000 crayons, according to the Cascade Team Real Estate website. Amid the medicine and blankets, something as simple as crayons and coloring books are often overlooked, but are just…
Students draw close to friends through Anime
An old Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and Pluto was called “The Eyes Have It.” No word on how prescient ol’ Walt was back in 1945, but he might have well been talking about a different brand of cartooning hailing from Asia: Anime. Anime’s young acolytes in the Snoqualmie Valley all agree that expressive peepers…
Hoof rot strikes elk
Corrected version. The earlier story said Erland found that the three elk had selenium and copper deficiencies. Elk hoof rot, a disease seen predominantly among elk in Southwest Washington, has found its way to the Snoqualmie Valley herds. Harold Erland, a wildlife biologist with the local Elk Management Group, said Feb. 20 that three elk…
Missing Redmond man shot himself at Rattlesnake Ridge
A Redmond man missing near Rattlesnake Ridge was found dead at about 10 a.m. Feb. 9, according to Jim Bove, spokesman for the Redmond Police Department. Bove said King County Search and Rescue found the body of Ira Thomas Clodfelter, 28, about three-quarters of a mile from the main trail, and it appeared to be…
Search ends for skydiver
After four days of trying to find a skydiver who went missing when he jumped from a helicopter near Mount Si, King County Sheriff’s Office has officially called off the search. Sgt. Cindi West with the sheriff’s office said Jan. 7 that 386 search and rescue volunteers from 19 different agencies had gone over about…
Hospital board OKs early closing on Leisure Time property
The Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District Board of Commissioners unanimously approved an early closing agreement with Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. on Dec. 6 for possession of the 22-acre Leisure Time campground site, according to a press release. Under the terms of the early closing agreement, the district will pay approximately $7.5 million for the property (down…
Vote to approve marriage, marijuana
Referendum 74 Referendum 74 offers Washington voters a chance to expand civil rights to same-sex couples. In February, after receiving crucial support from the state House of Representatives and state Senate, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed landmark legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. Opponents petitioned to put the measure before voters on the November ballot. Washington already…
Valley author Victoria Bastedo publishes her first romance novel
For her first romance novel, Snoqualmie writer Victoria Bastedo flew without a net. To Greece, no less. Bastedo, a fantasy novelist until “Dear Miklos” was published in August, decided to write her first lovey-dovey story not knowing where it would end. Not only that, but she based the story in Greece, circa 1975. “I wanted…
Eighth time is charm for local author
It’s not “Harry,” it’s not “Hunger” and it’s not him, either. “Stars in the Texas Sky,” the eighth novel by Snoqualmie Valley author Stephen Matlock, may not fit in with the best-sellers of the young-adult genre and it’s obviously not based on his California childhood. But the novel, which tells the story of a 13-year-old…