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Maple Valley tremor felt in Snoqualmie Phil Stafford was working in his home office on Snoqualmie Ridge when the room started to move. “It was just like a super-quick jolt,” said Stafford, who had been leaning back in his office chair, in a conference call with east coast colleagues on speakerphone.
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Smiling and gesturing during lunch with members, new Mount Si Senior Center Interim Director Janet Fosness shares in a conversation Monday, Sept. 19. She is guiding the center in a time of shrinking revenues and new directions.
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Forest Center of attention expansion Changing Mount Si Senior Big dogs get second chances with Valleybased rescuers Page 13
BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
As a final treat for his dance class, Glen Blomgren decides to show his students how they’ll look when they’ve learned the “Tush
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Definitely, Julia answers, which is why she and Glen hope to offer more than just one weekly dance class at the Mount Si Senior Center. Since the center’s primary focus is to offer activities for the community, not just senior citizens, they’ll probably get the chance. SEE SENIORS, 17
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Growth could mean votes, savings for existing taxpayers BY CAROL LADWIG
Fall City woman’s daring pose celebrates cancer survivors’ courage Never lose sleep over a hairstyle, is calendar girl Jill Holen’s advice. “There’s no such thing as a bad hair day, because it just isn’t that important,” says Holen, a former professional hairstylist. Neither, for that matter, is posing nearly nude in a fund-raising calendar.
Fire District 38, serving areas east of North Bend, is expanding. Within a year, seven parcels of land totaling more than 20,000 acres will be added to the taxpayer-supported fire district’s service area, some by annexation, part by formalizing a state action that gave it forest lands eight years ago. The fire district board is inviting public testimony on the expansion
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Donning white wings and not much else, Fall City resident Jill Holen poses for the Angel Care survivor calendar.
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Push.” He points the remote at the sound system, and as soon as the music comes up, his wife Julia, jumps in to the dance, and the two spin, stomp, and waggle their hips to the open-mouthed awe of their class. “Do you get that stuff better when you do it more often?” a student rushed up to Julia and asked after class.