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Roots of a 40-year festival, Page 8 Community party remains an inclusive affair

Soaked for a good cause, Page 9 Fall City firefighters brave dunk tank for drive

Stories for everyone, Page 10 Parade Marshal Ed Stow has gift of gab

The arts come to life, Page 11 Live performers bring unique sights to Valley

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Making connections, Page 12 Historical Society looks at local crossroads

FOUR DECADES OF FUN Saturday, June 18, 2011 Downtown Fall City, Wash.

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Forty years of fun

Pet, kid parade is new Fall City tradition Happening right before the main parade, children are welcome to bring their animal—just about any animal—to show off in a kids and pet parade.

Dogs aren’t the only beasts welcomed: “It could be a llama, a goat, a cow on a leash,” said volunteer Laurie Hauglie.

‘Grand Poppa’ Don Peterson is the marshal of the children’s parade, by virtue of his long involvement in the community. Besides being an active part of his grandchildren’s school years, Peterson can often be found weeding and cleaning up his community.

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t’s official. Summer has begun early with a weekend of fun for four full decades in Fall City.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Fall City Days, a celebration that traces its roots back to oldtime logging exhibitions, firefighter contests and soap-box derbies.

The milestone this year is marked by some new events, some old. Favorites that are back include the rubber Duck Derby, watermelon-eating competition, Fall City Fun Run and lots of artistic performances.

New events include a children’s pet parade and a concert and talent show on a brand new stage.

“We think it’s awesome,” committee member Judy Dix said of the milestone.

The entire weekend is a benefit for the community.

Proceeds raise funds for local schools and organizations.

“We do it for the kids,” said longtime volunteer Bill Aggenbach. “It’s neat to have an event we can give to the community.”

Looking back Fall City Days has come a long way in 40 years. It was in 1971 that the Fall City Business and Professional Association took over the festival and changed the name to the Fall City Days and Logging Show.

That continued the tradition of an older summer celebration that led back to Derby Day and the even older Strawberry Festival.

Above, Seth Truscott/Staff Photo.

Above, Fall City Days committee members continue a tradition of service, organizing and promoting the hometown festival. From left are, back row, Bill Aggenbach, Angela Donaldson, John Lazenby, Kirk Dunckel and Libby James, middle, Judy Dix, Laurie Hauglie, Melody Tjossem, Laurie Edwards, front, Kaila and Jaden.

During the late 1940s, local Scouts raced their soap box derby cars down main street. The derbies led to the naming of the celebration as Fall City Derby Day. According to Jack Kelley’s “History of Fall City,” “Derby Day flourished over the years. There were all kinds of events: Hydroplane races, bake sales, queen contests, square dances... bed races, Fall City Fire Department water fights... jam sessions in Quigley Park, horseshoe and draft horse competitions, skeet shoots and pony rides, to name a few. And you wouldn’t be caught dead without your derby hat.”

Legend has it that those who didn’t have the proper headgear might find themselves in the lockup.

Up through the ‘90s, local firefighters used to gather in the park for a water-powered tug-of-war. Local resident Angie Donaldson remembers seeing teams from Duvall, Snoqualmie, Preston, North Bend and the hometown use hoses to spray a suspended ball on

a line in some wet-and-wild competition.

The events changed a lot over the years. The logging show came and went, but new events always came forward. Today, the afternoon Ducky Derby is a big hit, providing proceeds to good local causes.

If it only takes place on Saturday, why is it called ‘Fall City Days’? Dix explains that there used to be several events on Sunday, such as a beer festival.

Those went away, but the name stuck.

Volunteers, adults and children alike, help prep for the big day. Firefighters and Fall City’s best and brightest offer to be dunked in a tank of water to raise money. After everyone goes home, local Boy Scouts clean up.

“It’s a community effort,” said Dix. • You can sign up to take part in the Fall City Days parade or watermelon contest online at http://www. fallcity.org/fallcity_days.html.

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Come Saturday, June 18, the ducks will be launched from the bridge at approximately 2:30 p.m., with prizes awarded at 4 p.m. on the center stage during Fall City Days.

More than half-a-dozen Fall City firefighters have volunteered to be dunked for a good cause during Fall City Days. Staff at King County Fire District 27 are hosting the dunk tank this year, 12:30 to 5 p.m. by the children’s carnival area off main street.

Donations for dunkings raise money for Operation Santa, in which Fall City firefighters identify local families and children in need. Every holiday season, they provide gifts for children and a box of food.

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additional prizes, and gift certificates donated by local businesses are also up for grabs.

This year’s beneficiary is Fall City Elementary School.

“It’s just a lot of fun,” said Laurie Hauglie, who has helped organized the Ducky Derby for the past several years.

“There’s something about those yellow ducks, floating down the river,” Hauglie said.

“Everybody giggles.”

The ducks will begin the 400-foot course from the state Route 202 bridge over the Snoqualmie River. From there, they travel downriver with the help of a floating boom and volunteers with leaf blowers.

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Gift of gab

BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor

The annual Fall City Days watermelon contest is all about community involvement and having a big, red, juicy good time in the bargain.

The watermelon-eating competition happens rain or shine at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at at Olive Taylor Quigley Park. The contest is free to participate and is sponsored

by Farmhouse Market.

Divided by ages, the contest seeks the person who can most quickly devour melons.

The older you are, the more fruit you have to eat. It’s amazing and fun to watch A drawing will be held at 1:15 p.m. to pick the 10 people that will compete in each category. Age groups are 5 to 7, 8 to 10, 11 to 13 and 14 and older.

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The travel bug often bit locals Ed and Anne Stow, 2011 Fall City Days grand marshals. But life always led back to Fall City. Ed said he liked how the town didn’t have any ‘big shots.’ to hear a story about inflation?”

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Maybe it’s the traveling salesman in him, but Ed Stow has the gift of gab.

Blessed with enough anecdotes, jokes and stories to keep the clerks at Farmhouse Market and any old friends he meets entertained, the 88-yearold Fall City resident isn’t shy about telling tales.

As the oldest living resident

born in Fall City, he happens to have plenty.

“Well, when I say born, I was actually born in the old Weyerhaeuser hospital. But I feel I qualify because I spent my first nine months here,” he said.

Named grand marshals of the 2011 Fall City Days parade due to their local history and connection, Ed and his wife Anne haven’t spent their entire lives in Fall City; they widely traveled and lived in several other Northwest cities. But Ed still has a pretty good claim to the place.

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his block in 1972 for $29,000.

He sold the house and two acres for more than $200,000 and the acre that was left was worth $200,000 in 2004. “Ain’t that something? I couldn’t believe it!”

In his retirement, Stow’s got something he thought he would never brag about.

“I’m 88 years old, and I don’t owe two cents to nobody,” he said.

In his pocket, he keeps a list of the dozens of jobs that he’s held in his life. Mostly, he was in hardware and sales, traveling the Northwest as the face of electric motor companies like Curtis Industries and Grainger.

But Stow also held down other gigs. He was a Safeway clerk, a railway agent running a station in Eastern Washington, a school bus driver in Oregon—a job that he remembers fondly.

“I never had a job in my life that I enjoyed so much,” Ed said. “I had over 150 kids on my bus. Everything that even looked like a holiday, every one of those kids gave me something. The other drivers would say, ‘What have you got that I haven’t got?”

When the Stows were newly married and just out of school, he worked at his family hardware store in Fall City. He had plenty of close family to help build his first home.

“I’ve always had a job. I never had to ask nobody for nothing,” Ed said. “My dad taught me that if you can’t afford something, you don’t need it.”

Stow proudly pulls out a T-shirt that reads ‘Class of 1942, Fall City High.’ Of the original 19, there are seven left.

During World War II, he was a motor messenger for the U.S. Army, running from Ike’s headquarters to Army posts in Belgium, Holland and France.

“I put 48,000 miles on two jeeps in Europe. I loved it,” he said. “We did troop movements, casualty reports, anything that couldn’t be sent over radio.”

For Stow, all roads kept leading back to Fall City.

“I always liked Fall City, for one reason,” Stow said.

“We never had any big shots to look up to.”

With no mayor, no council, “this town doesn’t seem that big to me,” he said.

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A full schedule of fun Fall City Days events

Live performers bring creative, unusual works

Chalk time

Look for Brian Major to create his works of ground-level fine art just outside the Art Park. This year, he is creating a community-oriented “chalkby-numbers” piece, inviting everyone to help.

Majors has been a regular presence at past Fall City Days.

He works in a variety of mediums, including oils, acrylics and pencils, and uses light and color to set a mood and bring his art to life.

Right, Seth Truscott; Other images provided

Artistic acts coming to Fall City Days include, top, MirrorMan, right, the Trash Apes, and below, semaphore art by Amy-Ellen Trefsger.

Trash Apes The Trash Apes show everyone just how easy it is to throw away trash. The apes (artists in costume, not real gorillas) will be roaming around downtown Fall City, picking up after the humans and interacting with them.

This project is meant to entertain as well as raise awareness of a number of issues within the human community. The apes are trained to recycle.

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metallic suit. He rolls through festivals mounted on an oversize Segway, as small mirrors mounted all over his body catch the light.

A West Seattle-based entertainment vendor, Vinton created the identity for raves and parties. He put himself into a gyrotron, the spinning frame used to train astronauts.

“You become a six-foot-tall, shapechanging mirror ball,” said Vinton. “It’s really neat 499130

Flag-waving signallers.

Trash-handling apes. Do-ityourself chalk artists. A man made of mirrors.

All these sights and more are there for the beholding during Fall City Arts’ annual Art Extravaganza, all day Saturday, June 18.

Street performers hit the main drag between the hours of 12:30 and 4 p.m.

Directly after the parade, visitors are welcome to witness the unveiling of the newlypainted Fall City mural, created by local students under the direction of artist Brian Major, at the corner of 335th and Redmond Fall-City Road.

The Fall City Days arts and entertainment lineup includes Andrew the Magician, Semaphore flag artist AmyEllen Trefsger, Craig Vinton the “MirrorMan,” Major and the Slow Walker, among others.

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By the way, he’s not actually hot in the suit— it reflects everything.

He rolls on a Segway because the mirrors might fall off if he hikes it.

As MirrorMan, Vinton never speaks.

“People have a lot of different variations of what they think it is,” he said. “I don’t tell them anything. It’s more fun to have them come up with their own interpretations.”

He’s amused by people’s reactions.

“I’m a reflection of you,” he said.

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Look for the Trash Apes, Andrew the Magician, The “Slow Walker”, Flag Semaphore, Mirror Man and Brian Major, the chalk artist.

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Fall City has always been a place to make a connection.

The Fall City Historical Society celebrates the community’s role as a crossroads during Fall City Days.

It may be hard to imagine for the younger generation, but for hundreds of years, this area was an important connection point for travelers and commerce. From its origins as one of the major Snoqualmie Tribe villages and later as “The Landing,” Fall City was a hub for connecting land to river, rail to road, and east to west.

The Snoqualmie River was the first means of transportation. “The Landing” was the farthest point up the Snoqualmie River that riverboats could travel.

In 1889, the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad

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Signposts at the Riverside Lodge in Fall City show travelers the way in 1950. laid tracks through the Snoqualmie Valley, putting a depot near Fall City for easier means of shipping goods to market. The dependable, yearround railroad quickly became the transport of choice.

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