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Breaking the code
Wildcat girls basketball starts to deliver offensive heat Page 8
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Working individually, fifth grade girls at Cascade View Elementary School are intent on their programming lessons during the national Hour of Code event, lessons meant to introduce children to software language.
HOLIDAY
BY CAROL LADWIG
Evening Magazine TV show swings by for skating Page 2
INDEX Holiday Events 2 4 Opinion 5 Legal Notices 6 Calendar On the Scanner 11 Classifieds 12-14
Vol. 101, No. 31
Staff Reporter
A few glitches plagued classrooms and computers at Cascade View Elementary School Wednesday, Dec. 10. There weren’t enough iPads—and definitely not enough with “Move the Turtle” installed—in Joyce DeLurme’s classroom, not enough bandwidth in the computer lab, and not enough exercises to keep all of the students participating in code.org’s Hour of Code, busy for the aforementioned hour. “You finished? All of it?” SEE CODING, 5
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Volunteer Dave Kelley of North Bend loads his truck with baked goods bound for Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank. “That little red truck goes all over,” said food bank director Heidi Dukich. Kelley is just one of many local volunteers ensuring local food banks meet increased winter demand.
Feeding the need
Food banks rise to winter challenges BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor
North Bend resident Dave Kelley’s little red truck goes all over town. As a volunteer driver for Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank, Kelley ferries food dona-
tions from Valley and Eastside supermarkets, hitting up the local Safeway, QFC and IGA, and going as far afield as Costco and the Redmond Whole Foods, in what’s almost a daily operation. “He’s everywhere,” said food bank Executive Director Heidi Dukich. SEE FOOD BANKS, 3
Fixes in the pipeline for North Bend sewer Repairs to city’s aging treatment system expected to be done in May BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
A series of repairs estimated at $265,000 began at North Bend’s wastewater treatment plant last September, and are expected to be done by May.
Although weather and equipment problems set the project back a week in November, the most critical repair, a new outlet structure, gate and piping for the plant’s oxidation ditch, was finished earlier this month. “That was our capacity issue,” City Administrator Londi Lindell told the North Bend City Council at its Dec. 2 meeting. She reminded the council that the city was permitted to process
nearly 2.6 million gallons of wastewater per day, but a since-repaired bottleneck in the oxidation ditch limited their effective capacity to 1 million gallons per day. “This weir, that will have a gate, will allow us to function at our intended capacity. This is really great news that this will be done before year-end.” SEE SEWER, 10
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