Snoqualmie Valley Record, August 22, 2012

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Valley Record SNOQUALMIE

Wednesday, august 22, 2012 • Daily updates at www.valleyrecord.com • 75 cents •

The heroes of Horse Canyon

RailCamp NW shows young people that rail is still cool Page 9

Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Downtown’s true colors

Adding color to her Railroad Park scene in downtown Snoqualmie, Redmond artist Magali Lenarczak creates on canvass for the annual Plein Air Paint Out. She was one of 15 artists participating in the all-day event. For more Railroad Days photos, see page 3 or visit www.valleyrecord.com.

SPORTS

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

An eastbound driver swerves left to clear a rutted section of roadway on North Bend’s Boalch Avenue. The wornout street, which serves a number of businesses including a preschool, church, golf course, sheriff’s station and several fitness groups, is finally slated for sweeping repairs.

Ex-Cat Tim Proudfoot heating up the Tech diamond Page 12

Index Opinion 4 7 Calendar 16 Obituaries 19 Movie Times Classifieds 20-21 Back to School 23

Vol. 99, No. 13

Staff Reporter

Few city projects could get this kind of reaction: “That will be awesome! I’m so excited!” In North Bend, though, at least one did, from Angela Premoe, administrator at the North Bend Calvary Chapel on Boalch Avenue.

Jim, a North Bend resident, drops off cases of bottled water with Ryan Hooper, a North Bend deli owner who donated 150 sandwiches and gathered food and supplies Wednesday, Aug. 15, for victims and firefighters caught up in the Taylor Bridge wildfire. “It’s something that needs to be done,” Hooper said of the local response to the fire. “The people of Cle Elum might step up when we need it.”

Locals stepped up to help victims in massive Central Wash. wildfire By Seth Truscott and William Shaw Valley Record Staff

What made her react this way was learning that the city of North Bend had on Aug. 7 awarded Lakeridge Paving in Covington the contract to reconstruct Boalch Avenue, for the low bid of $413,579.

The trees were twisted and black and the ground was a study of ash and parched scrub and grass. Smoke hung like fog. But as the sun rose Thursday, Aug. 16, on day four of the massive Taylor Bridge wildlife, the heroes of Horse Canyon and their homes were safe. Snoqualmie Valley Record Publisher William Shaw was an eyewitness to the aftermath of nature’s devastating power. He experienced the Taylor Bridge fire as an anxious parent, helping on his son Liam’s ranch after the fire’s wave of devastation passed.

See BOALCH, 8

See Wildfire Effort, 7

Bye bye, Boalch bounce By Carol Ladwig

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

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