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New rules for marijuana Medical need no longer needed in North Bend, recreational businesses can set up shop if they follow the rules BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
BUSINESS
Months after Washington’s Liquor Control Board laid down the law for marijuana production, processing and sales, North Bend has done the same, in a unanimous vote June 17.
At its regular Tuesday evening meeting, the North Bend City Council approved recommended changes to the city zoning and land use code, to allow marijuana businesses in the city’s Employment Park 1 and Interchange Commercial zones.
The revised code, NBMC chapter 18.60, specifies that no marijuana-related businesses are allowed in residential areas, and none will be allowed as home-based businesses. SEE MARIJUANA, 5
Roads less traveled
Year one goes by fast for North Bend’s The Swirl Page 6
North Bend’s Dave Olson finds the brave common thread in a three-generation memoir BY SETH TRUSCOTT
Photo gallery: Cedarcrest High School Class of 2014 is off! Page 13
INDEX Letters 5 7 Movie Times 8 Legal Notices On the Scanner 17 Classifieds 17-20 23 Calendar
Vol. 101, No. 5
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
School’s out, let’s party
First grader Olivia O’Neill plays in the breeze of bubbles as Opstad Elementary School wraps up classes Wednesday, June 18. School is out for 10 weeks of summer in the Snoqualmie Valley School District, resuming Wednesday, Sept. 3. See more photos from the last day of school on page 9, or go to www.valleyrecord.com.
On the edge Bond survey results show district has work ahead BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
Snoqualmie Valley School Board members didn’t get the clear direction they hoped for from a formal
telephone survey conducted May 28 through June 2, but they now have a lot more information. Results of the survey were presented at the board’s June 12 meeting, and showed that survey respondents liked many components of a possible $224 million comprehensive bond, but they liked the cost of it much less. Overall, 67 percent of the 400 people surveyed said they supported the bond proposal. SEE BOND SURVEY, 8
Bravely voyaging into uncharted waters is the common thread that links North Bend resident Dave Olson’s life to three generations of his family. Olson explores how he, his father, the Reverend Roy Olson, his brother Ken, and his daughter Jenifer each took paths less traveled, and changed lives around them, in his new book, part memoir, part anthology. “Bonded by Water” publishes this Friday, June 27. A book release party is 7 p.m. Friday at the DAVE OLSON Meadowbrook Farm Interpretive Center in North Bend. The public is invited to a slideshow and presentation by Olson on the book, which has taken him more than eight years to write. SEE MEMOIR, 7
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