Snoqualmie Valley Record, November 23, 2011

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Decision time for Carnation police cuts

Hunger fighters Rotary Club hosts first free Thanksgiving dinner Thursday

Council takes new look at budget in hopes of keeping force of three

BY CAROL LADWIG

SCENE

Ridge’s Indian community comes together for night of light Page 12

SPORTS

Staff Reporter

Eastside youth league team undefeated in fall football Page 14

INDEX OPINION PAST TIME SCHOOLS BUSINESS MOVIE TIMES CALENDAR CLASSIFIEDS

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Vol. 98, No. 26

As most families sit down to their traditional Thanksgiving dinners on Thursday, a small group of volunteers will be on their feet, cooking and serving the first community Thanksgiving dinner in the Valley. The dinner, with noon, 1:30 and 3 p.m. seatings at the Mount Si Senior Center, 411 Main Avenue South, North Bend, is free and all are welcome to attend. It’s the first such community dinner in the Valley, and it’s the brainchild of Snoqualmie Valley Rotary Club service project chairperson Rick Woodruff. “He said ‘there doesn’t seem to be a Thanksgiving Day dinner in the Valley,’” said Club President Jolene Kelly. Several groups, including the Mount Si Helping Hand Food Bank, offer needy families all of the ingredients for the traditional holiday meal.

BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

the bird itself was bagged and frozen far from here. There’s no bird on the other end of Bullock’s muzzle—he’s the designated shotgunner at the Mount Si Fish and Game Club’s annual Turkey Shoot, blasting targets, not fowls. The Turkey Shoot is part of the venerable, increasingly challenged organization’s long-lived legacy.

Carnation voters rejected an almost 50 percent property tax increase in the Nov. 8 election, leaving their city council members wondering what exactly the community wants. Proposition 1, a nearly 50 percent increase in the city’s property tax rate to be designated for police services, failed in the Nov. 8 election by 38 votes, 266 to 228. It’s the widest margin of failure for the issue that voters have decided three times now; in 2008, it failed by 35 votes, 402-367, and in 2009, it failed by 23, 246 to 223. Yet the voter turnout was only about half of the city’s 976 registered voters. Following the election, the council had to consider a 2012 budget that reduced police services by $90,000, or the equivalent of one full-time officer. Councilman Mike Flowers said at the council’s Nov. 15 budget discussion that the group had never really discussed the possibility of cutting the police, which would result in only one officer on patrol at any given time, and no round-the-clock coverage. He proposed delaying the budget adoption until the council had more time to talk about their situation, and any possible alternatives to a service reduction, which he opposed.

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SEE POLICE, 7

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Sammamish residents want out of Valley schools Snoqualmie District considers land transfer to Lake Washington By Valley Record Staff

Some residents of the Snoqualmie Valley School District want to move to a new district, without moving their homes. They, and the rest of the district, will get the chance to talk about their wishes at a public hearing, Dec. 1, at the district office. SEE TRANSFER, 7

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

Peppering placards at the Hamerly home outside Snoqualmie on Sunday, Nov. 13, Jordan Bullock inspects his handiwork as a target shooter for the Mount Si Fish and Game Club during its annual Turkey Shoot fundraiser. The 64-yearold club still sticks to enduring recreational traditions.

Sporting tradition 60 years of customs linger at Mount Si Fish and Game Club BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor

Jordan Bullock pulls on his earmuffs, lifts his grandfather’s bird gun, a Remington 12-gauge, and shoots Greg Mason a virtual turkey. Virtual, that is, in the sense that

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