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Community cleanup
SPORTS
Erasing Graffiti
Pole position: Mount Si sends nine to state track finals Page 11
‘Community Cleanup’ is the second story in a two-part series looking at how Valley police are dealing with the persistent problem of graffiti and vandalism.
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Snoqualmie Police Capt. Steve McCulley says community involvement and tips helped solve graffiti vandalism at the Snoqualmie Community Park restrooms. Officers say prompt calls and local vigilance can stop graffiti.
Police: Resident help will end graffiti’s rise By Seth Truscott Editor
When teenagers spot him and start ducking out of sight, Mark Pray knows there’s trouble brewing at Torguson Park. As North Bend Parks Lead, it’s his job to keep city parks at their best. That puts Pray at odds with the perennial problem of graffiti. See GRAFFITI, 3
Sober thoughts Mount Si mock crash pushes students to think before driving By Carol Ladwig
Two Rivers bead builders help Uganda families strive Page 15
Index
Opinion 4 5 Calendar On The Scanner 9 11 Sports Classifieds 13-14
Vol. 98, No. 52 Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Taylor Pearlstein is overwhelmed when she finds her boyfriend, Chace Carlson, severely injured after a head-on collision. The scene was part of a May 17 mock crash exercise showing students, on the eve of their senior prom, the dangers of drinking and driving.
“What did you do?” Tracie Smith’s howl shreds the stunned silence on Schusmann Avenue Thursday morning, as a sickening scene begins. Staggering with shock and mindless of cuts on her face, Smith confronts a dazed and bleeding Taylor Pearlstein, staring, horrified, at the hood of her car, where boyfriend Chace Carlson lies prone. “You’ve been drinking! What have you done to my babies?” Smith screams again, but soon, all sound is drowned by incoming sirens, and the hydraulic pump for the “jaws of life” equipment. Fifty feet from the crushed cars and blood-spattered victims, Mount Si High School seniors and juniors watched as paramedics tended to their injured classmates. Reece Karalus, Meg Krivanek, Carlson and Pearlstein were in the grey car, and Amanda Smith, her little brother Braden and mom, Tracie, were in the red one, when they collided head-on. See CRASH, 6
Photo by Mary Miller
Michael Pitt, lead actor in the independent film version of ‘You Can’t Win,’ rehearses Wednesday, May 16, in a boxcar at the Northwest Railway Museum.
Hello, Hollywood
Film crew goes back in time at depot By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
“Who would hang an umbrella on a hat rack?” a set dresser grumbles as she shifts the collection of umbrellas and old-fashioned hats hanging in the entry of the Northwest Railway Museum depot in Snoqualmie. See FILM, 8
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