Snoqualmie Valley Record, August 06, 2014

Page 1

Valley Record SNOQUALMIE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2014 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

Voice of the Valley

‘Voice’ contestant Austin Jenckes takes main stage at Festival The

Festival at

Mount Si August 8-10, 2014

HOMETOWN CELEBRATION PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SNOQUALMIE VALLEY RECORD

Couples, start your training, Page 8 Wife-carrying contest added to field games

Fireworks for the Festival, Page 13

Festival at Mount Si brings the smiles to Si View Park Pages 7-14

Local youth soccer clubs finding success in summer play Page 19

INDEX Opinion 4 5 Puzzles 5 Calendar 6 Obituary On the Scanner 15 Classifieds 15-18

Vol. 101, No. 11

Snoqualmie tax rolls over for roads Council seeks funding for aging infrastructure BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor

Snoqualmie’s City Council has found a funding source for needed road improvements. Now they just need to pay off city hall. The council voted 5-2 to approve an ordinance repealing the scheduled sunset of a 3 percent utility tax that is now paying for the 2009 construction of city hall. Council members Bryan Holloway and Charles Peterson voted against the change. SEE COUNCIL, 3

Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Top: Senior Center Director Amara Oden, center, talks with a center guest during a musical performance in July. Oden recently launched her own consulting business. Board members held a public reception last week for members to meet the finalists. Inset: Carnation resident Maya Smith takes notes at the reception.

Called to lead

Outgoing Sno-Valley Senior Center director Amara Oden looks back on her mission to help elders BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

What Amara Oden does shouldn’t really be called work. It’s more of a calling for the Carnation woman, and has been for most of her life. “I’ve always worked in the non-profit field,” she says, looking back through, and beyond, her seven years as the SnoValley Senior Center’s executive director. Although she’s leaving the center this month, she will still be working with non-profits, and doing more of what originally led her into the field. “One of the times I felt most alive and connected to my work is … in the thick of a group, working together, when people are all committed and working on some kind of issue,” she said. “I just love that energy.”

Oden has guided the center through a few challenges, including a seven-month facilities renovation in the fall and winter of 2011-12, and a start on the path to a new funding model. When she started at the center in 2007, Re-in-Carnation, the affiliated thrift store on the same block, was just a gleam in one board member’s eye. “We had a board member, dear Fran (Carlson), who’s since passed away, who always wanted to do a thrift store,” Oden said. The center owned a rental property right next door, “and she had an idea that it could work as a thrift store.” The plan was always to staff it with volunteers and use the shop profits to support the center, but the store idea took commitment, a lot of work, and a surprising amount of cash to become a retail reality. “One of the scariest things was all the money we had to pour into it to get it up to code as a store!” Oden recalled. SEE CENTER, 3

YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF SNOQUALMIE n NORTH BEND n FALL CITY n PRESTON n CARNATION

RAILROAD DAYS Aug. 15th-17th

www.lesschwab.com 1102553

SPORTS

FESTIVAL

Love of fireworks shows in annual spectacle

Singer-songwriter Austin Jenckes, a Nashville musician with local roots, is the headliner for the Festival at Mount Si. He plays his blend of rock and country at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, on the main stage at Si View Park in North Bend. With his unmistakeable vocal style, Jenckes has been a longtime favorite of Valley audiences. He became a national hit last fall, when he competed on “The Voice” television show, and followed up his top-10 showing with a lengthy concert tour. Earlier this year, he signed a songwriting contract with Nettwerk/ R e v e l r y / L a ke Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo Gloria music An animated Austin groups, and workJenckes belts out a song in a began Duvall concert last fall. The ing on his next Nashville-based singer and album. former Valley resident headSEE JENCKES, 3 lines the Festival at Mount Si.

Come see us at the Car Show for FREE Giveaway items and a look at our 2014 Wheel Trailer with styles guaranteed to ‘WOW’ you!

610 E. North Bend Way

North Bend

425.831.6300


Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.