Snoqualmie Valley Record, April 11, 2012

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Smooth start: ‘Cat baseball defense holds off ace pitcher Page 7

Young voices: Junior Valley Idol winners sing at Si View Page 9

Index Opinion 4 5 Letters 8 Easter 12 Obituaries On The Scanner 12 Classifieds 13,14

Vol. 98, No. 46

Shaking up the beats

Schools brace for more layoffs

North Bend weighs resources, community ties, in police service decision

Teachers on the block in cost-cutting plan; Snoqualmie Valley district may rely on attrition

By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter

By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter

Eight teachers’ jobs could be eliminated next year, in a worst-case scenario for the Snoqualmie Valley School District. The cuts are part of a costcutting plan to go before the district’s board at a 6 p.m. Thursday, April 12, work session. In the plan, Superintendent Joel Aune will suggest reductions of between $1.2 and $1.3 million from the 2012-13 budget. He and district Business Services Manager Ryan Stokes explained in a public e-meeting on March 29 that the cuts could be necessary, depending on the outcome of the current legislative session, which alone could cut $1 million from the budget, and other factors. Lower than expected student enrollment is a contributing factor, and one the district has anticipated since the start of the year. Projections showed 80 more full-timeequivalent students (about 60 at the elementary level, 20 at middle and high school) than were enrolled in September, which will result in about $300,000 less in state funding than what was budgeted. See SCHOOLS, 14

Photo by Brenda Huckle

Five decades after they convinced a judge to marry them on an ‘unlucky’ day, Carol and Charles Peterson will celebrate with a party at Snoqualmie City Hall.

A life together

Well-connected Snoqualmie couple celebrates 50 years of marriage on Friday the 13th By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter

Superstitions aside, the judge who refused to officiate at Charles Peterson and Carol Jones’ wedding ceremony Friday, April 13, 1962, had

good reason for his reluctance. “He was in uniform,” Carol said, pointing to her husband, Charles, a Snoqualmie City Councilman, “and (the judge) thought that I had just gotten into town and just met him, and he did not want to marry us on Friday the 13th!” Judge John Malloy was half right. Carol had just arrived in Washington D.C. See TOGETHER, 6

When a plane crashed into Mount Si at 2 a.m. Feb. 15, the King County Sheriff’s Office responded within minutes, and the county rescue helicopter, Guardian One, was in the air within the hour. By daylight, the Sheriff’s Office had dispatched more than 40 people, many of them volunteers, to the crash site to locate and remove the three victims. Later that same day, Snoqualmie police officers ran an errand to pick up the children’s books that they would read to Cascade View Elementary School students in March, through the Badges and Books program that Officer Nigel Draveling introduced to Snoqualmie last year. After reading to children, the officers donated books to the young readers. See POLICE, 3

Comparing the cops King County Sheriff • Serving North Bend since Jan. 1, 1974. • 2012 cost is $1.6 million, $1.2 million of that is contract cost. • Contract includes 1.52 officers patrolling 24/7. Snoqualmie Police • Contract includes 1 officer patrolling 24/7. • Could begin service by July 2013. • 2013 startup cost would be $1 million, 2014 cost would be $1.2 million.

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