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How their garden grows
It’s quiet, inside, too, until about a half-dozen cars and people stop in at the storefront on the end, the Kind Alternative. They’re gone almost as soon as they came, but those cars and people have had a powerful effect on at least one shop in this small community. Just months after opening its doors last March, the Kind Alternative in Preston expanded, hugely, and with hardly a growing pain.
Preston’s Kind Alternative medical marijuana collective enjoys growth spurt BY CAROL LADWIG
Wildcats don’t say die in rough homecoming Bellevue battle Page 8
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It’s mid-afternoon on a Monday, and things are quiet outside the cluster of businesses along High Point Way in Preston. No one is parked at the Subway, and only a car or two are at the Shell Station.
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Bud-tender Danielle, an employee at the Kind Alternative collective in Preston, fills a plastic bag with marijuana vapor for a patient in the Goin Glass Lounge. The newly opened, members-only lounge is a place where patients can partake of cannabis vapor, and requires a doctor’s recommendation for entry.
Mount Si’s royal acclaim
A Spotlight on historic Snoqualmie Valley Businesses
HISTORY
PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SNOQUALMIE VALLEY RECORD
Valley police call take-backs on prescription drugs in three cities, this Saturday
Record’s new ‘Then and Now’ section looks at local past Pages 9-16
By Valley Record Staff
INDEX LETTERS 4 5 OPINION 6 BUSINESS 18 CALENDAR 18 MOVIE TIMES ON THE SCANNER 20 CLASSIFIEDS 19, 20
Vol. 98, No. 22
Stop abuse, clean out the medicine cabinet
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Newly crowned Mount Si High School homecoming royals, Queen Dana Pecora and King Jake Rouches, react to their election Friday night, Oct. 21. The full homecoming court includes senior princes and princesses Anthony McLaughlin and Sarah McDonald, Henry Owens and Megan McCulley, Alex Pease and Eden Altwies, and Josh Mitchell and Rissy Past. Reece Karalus was the jester. The junior prince and princess were Aaron Tevis and Drew McKeen, sophomores were Tristan Schattler and Halle Parker, and freshmen were siblings Lucas and Emma Currie.
Aiming to keep unused, unwanted prescription drugs off the street, North Bend and Snoqualmie police will take them off locals’ hands at a semi-annual special event. Police hold a second ‘Drug TakeBack Day’ for 2011, Saturday, Oct. 29, at two locations. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. residents can bring their unused or unwanted prescription medicines to the North Bend Park and Ride at East North Bend Way and McClellan Avenue, or the Snoqualmie Fire Station on Snoqualmie Parkway. The King County Sheriff’s Office will staff a drop location in Redmond Ridge, in the QFC parking lot at 23475 Novelty Hill Road. This national event, developed with the Drug Enforcement Agency, gets rid of tons of potentially dangerous, expired or no-longer-needed prescription drugs. SEE DRUGS, 3
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