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Ridge II apt. plan raises neighbors’ fears
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By Seth Truscott Editor
the camp that high school teachers Tracy (Petroske) Roberts and Kyle Warren are planning has very specific requirements. Bots on the Sound, a weeklong camp funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, is aimed at fostering high-school-aged women’s interests in science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM.
Residents of Snoqualmie Ridge’s Eagle Pointe neighborhood shared angry looks as details emerged Monday, June 11, of a large affordable-housing project in the offing next to their neighborhood. When the time came to speak during last Monday’s regular Snoqualmie City Council meeting, about a dozen took the microphone to air their concerns and surprise over the plan. Still Housing in the early hearing stages, the design would canceled house some Due to the level of 400 people at questions on the below-marproposed Ridge II ket rents, but housing project, also send the city staff have entirety of its asked that its tax traffic through exemption ordia block of nance be pulled single-family back to its council homes. committee. A Snoqualmie public hearing City Council first slated for July heard from pro9 has been canspective develceled for now. opers of what could be the Valley’s biggest affordable housing complex, and from concerned residents of the adjacent Snoqualmie Ridge Phase II neighborhood, during a lengthy, strident discussion at Monday’s meeting.
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The historic Moore House was the family home during Fall City resident Irene Pike’s teen years. Today, as she prepares to pass the home on to her daughter, Pike is nearing the completion of a 10-year restoration of the 108-year-old house—one of the community’s oldest—as a legacy to her mother, Elizabeth Parmelee, pictured below with her husband Gene in 1912.
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Fall City’s 108-year-old Moore House gets new lease on life By Seth Truscott Editor
Moonbeam and Sunshine flew the coop. The beer-drinking bear has long since departed. The families have come and
gone, even the trees have aged and fallen. But Fall City’s historic Moore House is still here, better than ever in 2012. Much of the credit for that is due to Irene Pike. For the last nine years, Irene, a longtime Fall City resident, has been giving the 108-year-old Moore home a new lease on life. See HISTORY, 9
Robot meets girl Valley camp, program helps girls connect with hi-tech By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
A summer camp that includes food, T-shirts and Lego play time and looks good on future resumes Courtesy photo should fill up fast, right? It probTeachers Tracy Roberts and Kyle Warren ably would, if it were aimed at a are behind a girls’ robotics camp. different age group and gender, but
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