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State rep., senate hopefuls square off on reform, economy in Chamber forum By Carol Ladwig
Mount Si volleyball rising to take on top competition for postseason Page 4
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The 2012 spotlight on historic Snoqualmie Valley
PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SNOQUALMIE VALLEY RECORD
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Candidates Brad Toft, Mark Mullet, David Spring and Chad Magendanz spoke at a Snoqualmie Valley Chamber forum Friday. Toft and Mullet are running for state Senate, Spring and Magendanz, for House, Position 2.
The five candidates for three positions in the 5th Legislative District aired their views on education, reforms supporting small business, and transportation issues at a Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce lunch forum held Friday, Oct. 19, in Snoqualmie. Brad Toft (R), Snoqualmie mortgage manager and Mark Mullet (D), Issaquah business owner, are both running for the 5th District State Senate seat left vacant by Cheryl Pflug’s withdrawing from the race in May. David Spring (D), North
Inside this issue
Toft: The first dollar of our budget should be going to education. What’s happening in Olympia now is false choice being put in front of the voters. Education is being mixed in with other social services, and then we’re being told that there’s not enough money. So the dollars need to go to education first, and then we can have a discussion about raising revenues. See SEAT, 27
Levels of service
Historian Jerry Mader explores the faces, and the tales, behind Tolt’s first century. Page 11
Focal point Fall City’s 117-year-old Masonic Hall remains a centerpiece for Lodge, wider community. Page 12
Hops odyssey After boom and bust a century ago, wild vines linger on in Snoqualmie, and in local beer. Page 15
On the books
HISTORY
How would you fully fund education?
Fireworks, curfews, speeders—and smallpox. North Bend laws have come a long way. Page 17
Valley’s past comes to life at Meadowbrook Farm, Tolt Pages 9-20
Si View Parks ponders hard decisions as proposition goes back to voters By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Index Halloween 3 5 Opinion 7 Calendar Classifieds 21-24 21 Obituaries On the Scanner 21
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A youngsters shows her drawing to Michael Bodwick, lead instructor in the Si View after-school program. About 40 students a day come to Si View after school, for snacks, play, study time and adult supervision.
Fridays are special at Si View Community Center. On Fridays, every child involved in the after-school program there, plus the ones in the satellite program at Fall City Elementary School, can go swimming, and then enjoy popcorn and a movie. That’s on top of the arts and crafts, games, snacks, homework time and, on this particular October Friday, a costume box to explore, built into every other day of the Si View Metro Parks District program. “Everybody who can hear me, put your hands on your head!” That’s program leader Michael Bodwick, trying to quickly settle about 20 youngsters from North Bend Elementary School down so he can take attendance before the buses from other elementary schools begin to arrive, about 10 minutes apart. See SErvice, 6
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SPORTS
Staff Reporter
Bend activist, and Chad Magendanz (R), Issaquah software consultant, are competing for the 5th District Representative seat, Position 2. Position 1 Representative Jay Rodne (R) is running unopposed. Bill Shaw, publisher of the Valley Record, led the forum. Candidates took turns answering his questions: