Valley Record SNOQUALMIE
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 n Daily updates at www.valleyrecord.com n 75 cents
A legendary connection in library’s local poster tour Page 9
Cedarcrest girls take annual football rivalry seriously Page 8
Trash, then traps
Snoqualmie’s just-promoted police chief, captain share plans
Mama, cub makes for unexpected surprise in Lake Alice bear trapping
By Seth Truscott Editor
Steve McCulley’s two decades as a Valley resident, parent, and police officer had a culmination Sunday, July 1, when he officially took the reins of the Snoqualmie Police Department as chief. Handpicked for this moment two years ago this August when he was hired as captain, McCulley replaced the newly retired Jim Schaffer, the personable officer who saw Snoqualmie through more than two decades of massive population growth.
By Seth Truscott Editor
A low, steady moan comes from inside the steel tube as Sgt. Kim Chandler approaches. When he gets too close, the occupant lets out a huffy snort, and Chandler springs back, not eager to get his face coated in bear sneeze. Chandler and four other Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officers had trapped the bear in the usual way—Krispy Kreme donuts are the favored bait—but were in for a surprise after they shot the animal with a tranquilizer dart in the shoulder. See BEARS, 3
The new top cops
See top cops, 2
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Wildlife officer Bruce Richards checks out a dozing, tranquilized bear, trapped at Lake Alice on June 27. The sow bear was released in the vicinity days later, and officers hope the capture will make her think twice about raiding garbage cans.
Past keeper
Index
Still busy, Carnation parade marshal Isabel Jones, 88, helps town remember its past
Letters 4 9 Puzzles On the Scanner 11 Obituaries 11, 12 Classifieds 13-14 15 Calendar
Vol. 99, No. 6
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Sharing the past with others, Carnation historian Isabel Jones has lived in the city longer than anyone. She holds an ornament now being sold for the Tolt centennial.
Retirement does not suit Isabel Jones. It’s been more than 30 years since Carnation’s de facto historian last worked for a paycheck, but she’s never really
adapted to the leisurely lifestyle. She and her late husband Ben, used to travel all over the country, she said, for conferences and to golf, but she always preferred their home life. “I told Ben, ‘I don’t have any of my hobbies here, and I can’t go to any meetings,’” she explained. These days, Jones has a full slate of meetings most of the time. She is the director of the Tolt Historical Society Museum, See KEEPER, 6
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
New captain Nick Almquist, left, and new chief Steve McCulley will lead Snoqualmie Police Department into a new era.
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