Snoqualmie Valley Record, November 28, 2012

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Valley Record SNOQUALMIE

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 • Daily updates at www.valleyrecord.com • 75 cents •

Fresh interest in Mount Si remodel School board agrees freshman campus at SMS is temporary; High school project pondered

Road ends at the Tacoma Dome for Mt Si football vets Page 14

By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter

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Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Preston girl off to study at world-class Russian ballet company Page 8

Index Opinion 4 5 Letters 6 Schools 10-12 Holidays Classifieds 15-18 On the Scanner 19

Vol. 99, No. 27

Jeff Moe, left, and Ed Dodd of Friends of the Trail consider how to lift an abandoned car from a ravine off Lake Alice Road during the final stage of a clean-up that took almost four years to complete, earlier this month. Below, Morgan John helps a junk tire over the guardrail. Friends of the Trail, with funding from John’s Solid Waste Division, finished the cleanup of the decades-old dump site near Fall City.

Returned to nature Four years in, it takes team effort, funds and patience to clean up illegal Lake Alice canyon dump By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter

The post came out more easily than the car did, but that was a pleasant surprise in this project, a four-year effort that was finally finished in early November. Ed Dodd and Wade Holden, a project manager and president, respectively, of Friends of the Trail, speculated on whether the post, holding up a stretch of guardrail on Lake Alice Road, really was 11 feet long, as it was slowly lifted straight up and out, and whether it would be reusable. It was, on both counts. The post and its stretch of guardrail were neatly lined up on the edge of the road so the men, could get back to the real reason they were there, hauling about three decades worth of junk out of an illegal dumpsite in the ravine alongside the road.

Already debating another school bond and forging ahead with plans for a freshman campus, the Snoqualmie Valley School Board this fall committed to a third facilities exploration, remodeling Mount Si High School. The exploration, proposed at a September board work session, is rooted in the assumption that the Freshman Learning Carolyn Simpson Center, planned to open School District 410 next year in Snoqualmie board member Middle School, will be only temporarily housed at SMS. “We as a board have, fair agreement, on a comprehensive 9-12 high school, grades 9 through 12, and that we also have fair agreement that a freshman concept using the SMS building was short-term, and long-term, that concept needs to be on the same campus,” said school board member Carolyn Simpson, reporting on a meeting she, board vice-president Scott Hodgins, and Superintent Joel Aune had with NAC architects in September. See REMODEL, 5

A spirited season

Holiday events in the Valley begin this week. Plan ahead for tree lightings, bazaars and recitals, starting on page 10.

See DUMp, 15

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