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School bond gets bumped
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Snoqualmie Valley school board reconsiders date, purpose of next measure
SCHOOLS
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Hellos and goodbyes on first day of the school year Page 8
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
SPORTS
Organizers and volunteers of the Snoqualmie River Fish Festival get creative as a long-awaited river clean-up and treasure hunt nears. From left are Dan Colvin; Kim O’Hagan; Marci Sanders, event co-chair; Beryl Knauth; Annelise Ring; Carol Whitaker; Sharlett Driggs, co-chair; Mike Saffer and Cynthia Gerdes. The public is invited to join the festival, starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Fall City Art Park. For details, see page 5.
After 30 years, Fall City soccer player won’t slow down Page 14
Index Letters 4 6 Business 9 Calendar 11 Movie Times On the Scanner 12 Classifieds 12-13
Vol. 99, No. 15
River renewal
Fall City residents rally to clean up their stretch of the Snoqualmie with help from rafters–and artists By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
On a warm sunny day, you might think about taking a trip to the river, and you’d have plenty of company. On that same warm day, while you’re floating gently down the Snoqualmie, Del and Nancy Moore might be making two or three trips to the river. That’s what it takes, some weekends, to keep the put-in and take-out areas free of litter, to both welcome and set an example for the next group of rafters to visit Fall City. “Nobody else is doing it,” says Del, a longtime Fall City resident and member of the Fall City Community Association. The Moores are acting for the FCCA when they visit the Plum 1 put-in, the Plum 2 boat launch, and a couple of takeout sites within Fall City on high river traffic days, to tidy up See RIVER, 5
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Supporting efforts to keep the river areas clean and trashfree, Kirk Harris, Nancy Moore, Del Moore, Julie Spiry and Nancy Myhre survey one of the trash bins that Fall City Community Association plans to put at river access points.
No bond, either for a replacement middle school or a high school remodel, will be coming to voters this February. The board of the Snoqualmie Valley School District agreed on Thursday, Aug. 30, that they didn’t have enough time to properly plan and campaign for a bond in time for the February election. Board president Dan Popp noted that the board hadn’t discussed the issue for several weeks, and had achieved no resolution on the purpose of the bond at their last work session. Board members had debated both a new middle school—deemed unnecessary by opponents of the freshmancampus concept, and a remodeled high school— deemed impractical, disruptive and expensive by supporters of the SCOTT HODGINS campus concept. SVSD 410 School Calling it “nearly impossible to Board member achieve, and have that kind of dialog with the community,” board member Scott Hodgins agreed that the board could not pursue a February bond issue. “I want to pass a bond issue, though, for sure,” he added. A replacement middle school bond was one of Hodgins’ conditions last February to support the decision to proceed with the annexation of Snoqualmie Middle School. See BOND, 7
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