Snoqualmie Valley Record, August 24, 2016

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Three nations join Sister Cities Park celebration By EVAN PAPPAS Staff Reporter

On Wednesday, Aug. 17, representatives from Snoqualmie, North Bend, Korea and Peru gathered for the dedication of Sister Cities Park on Maple Avenue S.E., next to Snoqualmie’s City Hall. The event recognized and honored the Snoqualmie Sister Cities Association and the work its members have done facilitating cultural exchanges and building relationships with people across the world. At the dedication, Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson introduced Mayor JuHong Kang from Snoqualmie’s sister city of Gangjin, Korea, and ConsulGeneral Miguel Velasquez of the Consulate of Peru in Seattle. All three representatives spoke about the Sister City program and its importance in cultural education. Sister Cities Association chairperson Tina McCollum received a standing ovation for her work with the program after Mayor Kang

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Musicians from Peru played fusion music from Peru, Japan, and Latin America as guests arrived for the dedication of Snoqualmie Sister Cities Park at Snoqualmie City Hall last Wednesday, Aug. 17.

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Tracing the ‘hop craze’ Fall City Hop Shed is part of world’s beer history

of beer in the Holy Roman Empire. The other two ingredients are barley and water. If it weren’t for that little insect, locally called the hop louse, or its great love of By CAROL LADWIG eating those little flower vines, the hop Editor industry might never have taken off in the Sometimes, it’s the smallest things that Snoqualmie Valley. make history. In the 1880s, a tiny, hungry Hops were grown in Washington since aphid in Europe devastated hop fields over- the early 1860s, explained Ruth Pickering of seas, sending fame and, to a lesser extent, the Fall City Historical Society, but were not fortune to the Snoqualmie Valley area for very profitable, until European hop crops the decade-long hop craze. failed. When the prices for hops rose from Hops are small, fragrant flower buds used a few cents to more than $1 per pound in in beer-making. They are one of only three 1882, many farmers went into debt to buy ingredients allowed by the 500-year-old land and hop roots to cash in. A group of beer purity law governing the manufacture Seattle investors bought more than 900 acres in the Valley to establish, on today’s Meadowbrook Farm, what has been called Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo “the world’s largest hop ranch.” The U.S. Harrison Goodall and Ruth Pickering are Transcontinental Railroad, finished in 1869, hoping to start a conversation now about the future of Fall City’s historic hop shed. SEE HOP SHED, 12

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