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Fatal fall for teens
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Two Federal Way boys die in rock climbing accident near North Bend
Hillclimbers: Mount Si XC overcoming obstacles in Bellevue meet Page 11
Two Federal Way teenagers were killed Sunday night, Sept. 16, after falling during a hike near Otter Falls outside of North Bend. According to the King County Sheriff ’s Office, a group of four teen boys was hiking the area, when two of the four climbed a rock near the falls. The two boys fell from the rock and were seriously injured.
Schools should do better? Pathways proposal eyed for future meeting By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
LIFESTYLE
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Tilth tour: Get back to basics with family farm fun this weekend Page 10
Index Letters 5 7 Calendar Back To School 9 14 Movie Times 15 Obituaries On the Scanner 16
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Man shoots, kills bear on Ridge A Snoqualmie man is under investigation for shooting and killing a large black bear near his home in The Heights on Snoqualmie Ridge. Both the Snoqualmie Police Department and state Department of Fish and Wildlife are looking into the incident, which occurred just before midnight, Monday, Sept. 10. Snoqualmie Police spokeswoman Becky Munson said police were called to the 34000 block of Strouf Street at 11:45 p.m., and, after talking to the man, called the DFW to find and recover the bear. See BEAR, 3
“They give everybody one seizure in their lifetime,” Heyting explained. Sometimes a healthy person will seize—once— for no apparent reason, the neurologist told him. As a rule, those seizures almost never re-occur, but just to be safe, the doctor ordered an MRI of his brain.
Nothing could move school board members Geoffrey Doy and Carolyn Simpson from the basic idea that the Snoqualmie Valley School District should do better, despite a flurry of arguments in opposition. “Why wouldn’t we want a policy like this?” asked Simpson, toward the end of an hours-long discussion on a policy the two carolyn simpson board memSVSD 410 School bers had Board member proposed. Their policy would establish educational pathways, starting in sixth grade, for students planning to pursue a post-secondary education at a sample list of four-year institutions including the University of Washington, Washington State University, Oregon State University University of Oregon, Cornell University and University of California Los Angeles.
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David Heyting and his wife, Jessica pictured on a family outing with sons Colby and Cade, have always included their sons in their adventures, including David’s ongoing fight against brain cancer. Below, an image of David’s brain shows Goliath, his tennis-ball-sized tumor, centered in the part of the brain that controls left-side motor functions and emotions.
The exception Snoqualmie blogger, family moving to fight brain tumors By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
When David Heyting had a grand mal seizure last November, he was embarrassed. Meeting a potential business client “at a UW Starbucks, so it was a packed house,” Heyting said he had no memory of what actually happened. He just fell to the floor unconscious, in a violent fit of muscle spasms. Days later, the healthy, active 34-yearold Snoqualmie man met with a neurologist, and was somewhat reassured.
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