Snoqualmie Valley Record, January 18, 2012

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VALLEY RECORD SNOQUALMIE

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012 â– DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM â– 75 CENTS

NEWS

Sole recycle station slated for shutdown

For the Snoqualmie Community Center, it’s

Showtime, at long last

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King County dumping free Cedar Falls service to cut the budget

Sharpshooter Molly Sellers takes aim at season wins Page 7

BY CAROL LADWIG

SCHOOLS

Staff Reporter

Music teachers to share talents in a recital of their own Page 11

Moment of truth arrives for joint city-Y venture on Snoqualmie Ridge BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor

INDEX OPINION LETTERS SCHOOLS PUZZLES ON THE SCANNER OBITUARIES CALENDAR

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hoes have been kicked off and board games are on the table on this lazy January afternoon. The trio of teens, Cali Rose, Ellie Miller and Allie Murphy, laugh as they play “Buzzword, then switch to “Apples to Apples.� “That one made me think too much,� said Miller, who’d rather just hang out. The atmosphere is relaxed, but these girls aren’t at home. They’re regulars at the teen center at the Snoqualmie Community Center and Valley YMCA, which quietly opened January 1 and with a grand-opening bang on Saturday, Jan. 21. The three girls have been coming here since day one, dabbling in games and bouts of ping pong, but mostly coming to see each other.

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

Founding director of the new Snoqualmie Community Center and Y, Dave Mayer doesn’t hesitate to shoot a few hoops or engage visitors. Mayer is responsible for getting the center off to a strong start.

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Recycling is easy, for most people in the Valley. Plastic blue bins for depositing plastic, glass, paper, and metal are part of the landscape, anywhere you’d find a trash can, and every commercial trash hauler in the county will pick up recycling right off your curb, if you ask them to. For the rest, recycling is not exactly hard—t hos e who don’t get curbside collection can still haul their recyclables to a collection site—but it is about to get harder. King Seth Truscott/Staff Photo County will Signs at the Cedar close its free Transfer recycling col- Falls lection sites Station in North at most solid Bend inform users waste transfer of the impending stations on closure of public We d n e s d ay, recycle service. Feb. 1, including North Bend’s Cedar Falls facility. SEE RECYCLE, 3

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