Snoqualmie Valley Record, September 07, 2011

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VALLEY RECORD SNOQUALMIE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS

Scouts find room to grow With 20 acres in North Bend, board has home for new Youth Activity Center

Season begins: Full schedule, profiles for Wildcat sports Pages 7-10

BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

Working a weekly route on Snoqualmie Ridge, Allied Waste collector Rod Holmes handles all yard debris collection in North Bend and Snoqualmie—and is proud of his role. Garbage contracts in the Valley are up for renewal starting this fall.

Transforming the trash SCENE

Garbage footprint evolving as contracts go up for grabs Calendar fame? Some surprises as judges meet ‘Tractor Men’ Page 3

INDEX OPINION 4 5 LETTERS 6 BACK TO SCHOOL 12 LEGAL NOTICES 13,14 CLASSIFIEDS 15 CALENDAR

Vol. 98, No. 15

BY SETH TRUSCOTT AND CAROL LADWIG

The hydraulic arm lifts the plastic bin up into the air, dumps the

aromatic contents and then sends it back down to the ground in seconds with smooth motion. But inside the cab, driver Rod Holmes, along with the rest of his 50,000-pound garbage truck, is wobbled like a kayak in a gale by the power of that arm.

“It takes a lot of getting used to,� admits Holmes, a 15-year Allied Waste collector—don’t call him a garbage man—and five-year veteran on the yard waste route in the Snoqualmie Valley. SEE TRASH, 11

Hero Sunday, hospitalized Monday Fall City man rescues rafter, suffers heart attack BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

Russell Holl of Fall City had a back-breaking week. His schedule so far has been as follows: Sunday, Aug. 28, save a woman from drowning in a rafting accident; Monday, rush to hospital with a heart attack; Tuesday, more hospital; Wednesday, come home with a new stent in the chest. “It was a little more excitement than I planned on,� said the 45 year-old last Thursday, Sept. 1, after admitting he was still a little woozy from the past week. Holl had just been planning on a sunny float down the Snoqualmie River Sunday, with some friends and neighbors from the Snoqualmie RV Park and Campground. SEE RESCUE, 3

Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Friends Lisa Sweet, left, and Russell Holl sit at the Snoqualmie River RV Park and Campground. Holl and his neighbors saved a young woman from a river accident in August; he suffered a heart attack the following day.

It’s a good thing Bryan Zemp built his Eagle Scout project to last. The 25year-old sign announcing the future site of the Snoqualmie Valley Youth Activity Center has been installed again this week on Boalch Avenue in North Bend, across from Encompass. Ty Powers restored the sign last year for his own Eagle project, making it a symbol of what the YAC Board of Directors hopes the center will be. “We really want to emphasize the multi-generational aspect of the center,� said board member Jim Green, who is excited to get the YAC “back on the map.� The center has been closed since March of 2008, when the building it then occupied on Bendigo Boulevard, was flooded with sewage from North Bend’s nearby water treatment plant. Youth groups that relied on the center, mainly Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the Venturing Crew, have been meeting in other facilities over the years, and focusing more on outdoor activities. “It kind of disappeared for a few years,� Green said of the center. Board members were working all along, though, to settle the issue of the old building with the city of North Bend, and to buy new property for a new, bigger center to accommodate the expanding club sizes. In 2010, the city of North Bend bought the property from the YAC for $425,000, and earlier this year, the board purchased a 20-acre site on Boalch Avenue for about $225,000. SEE YAC, 5

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