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School district staff take high-level look at Freshman Center solutions
PLAN NOW, SAVE WORRY LATER
PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SNOQUALMIE VALLEY RECORD
WINTER
Always ready: Prepare your Winter pet safety, Page 11 family, home Kits for every disaster, Page 12 for a stormy Keep calm and carry on, Page 14 season Prepare on a shoestring, Page 15 See inside
By Carol Ladwig
Always be prepared, Page 10 Even dry winters can pack a punch
Staff Reporter
How to keep your critter warm and dry Take winter by storm with gear list
Stayin’ alive at Carmichael’s, page 14
Thrifty ways to stay safe, gather resources
SPORTS
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Mount Si Tennis improves, preps to host KingCo tournament Page 4
Index Opinion 5 2 Business 7 Calendar On the Scanner 8 Classifieds 17-20 21 Movie Times
Vol. 99, No. 21
Benjamin Rasmus, program director with Rotary First Harvest, Lisa Harper, Hopelink gleaning coordinator, and David Bobanick, First Harvest executive director, hoist beans picked by volunteer gleaners at Carnation’s Oxbow Farm. A fast-growing local network connects volunteer pickers with farms for the benefit of several Valley food banks. Below, Oxbow Production Manager Adam McCurdy, visiting a field of leeks, says giving back is a big part of the farm’s mission.
Harvest of hope Gleaning partnership between farms, volunteers achieves first successful year of feeding the hungry By Seth Truscott Editor
The 2013 freshman class may be going to a separate building from their older schoolmates, but they will have a true high school experience, say district administrators. “They’re still Mount Si High School students,” said Vernie Newell, who gave a recent update on the proposed Freshman Learning Center to the Snoqualmie Valley School Board. Newell, now principal at Snoqualmie Middle School, will serve as principal for the freshman branch when it takes over Snoqualmie Middle School next year. See CAMPUS, 6
Car chase gone very wrong Tolt neighborhood locked down after man crashes stolen car, gets stuck in a bog
There’s nothing quite like a vegetable freshly picked from the farm. So says Benjamin Rasmus, a Rotary Club member and sometime harvester himself, who joined a half-dozen fellow Rotarians on an overcast day in September to pick beans on Carnation’s Oxbow Farm. But these veggies aren’t for his plate. Rasmus hefts a boxful of green beans that are slated, today, for the Hopelink delivery truck and, eventually, the dinner plates of low income Valley residents. Rasmus, who is program director for the Rotary Club’s First Harvest program, was among a group of gleaners—volunteers who pick seasonal crops at Valley farms to help fight hunger.
A 23-year-old transient man, trying to evade police in the Tolt Hill area recently, was rescued by those same authorities, but not before he crashed a stolen car, locked down a neighborhood, and got himself trapped in a bog. According to police reports, the man had reportedly been involved in drug activity at a Carnation home around 2:19 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17. Duvall-Carnation Police Officer Lori Batiot said a neighbor had called about drug activity that was in progress, but the suspect had left before Batiot arrived.
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See LOCKDOWN, 6
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