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Flames claim a house, but not a home
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By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
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Snoqualmie Valley Transportation driver Colleen DeVine is, like all of the drivers, ready to help riders get on board and get where they’re going.
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Vol. 99, No. 37
Keep it rolling Valley’s bus system finds ways to run smart, stay for the long haul On the bus Snoqualmie Valley Transportation started in 2003. Rides cost a quarter then. Today, the bus service covers 650 square miles. Work, medical appointments and the senior center are on the usual bus runs, but people take the bus to trailheads, too. Call (425) 888-7001 to schedule a ride.
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Bus driver Colleen DeVine has an almost-new ride today. She’s filling in for another Snoqualmie Valley Transportation driver, and slowly getting used to the different shuttle when she notices the mileage. “It’s got only 86,000 miles on it!” she said, surprised. In contrast, the shuttle DeVine usually drives had about 190,000 miles, last she checked. The miles have really added up for
Snoqualmie Valley Transportation, now in its 10th year of operation, and with some luck and possibly some new funding partners, the odometers will keep turning for years to come. Snoqualmie Valley Transportation is the local bus service that, until last fall, carried riders up and down the valley, covering some 650 square miles, for 50 cents a ride. In September, though, SVT lost funding for about a fourth of the year’s $900,000 a budget, a federal grant the Snoqualmie Tribe usually received and then passed on to the service. SVT was less than halfway through its fiscal year, which ends in June. See SVT, 7
There is no logic to what did and didn’t survive the devastating house fire that destroyed John and Freida Perazzo’s North Bend home Jan. 25. John’s half-melted driver’s license was found where it landed outside the next day, and Freida recovered a few bank cards, but the rest of his wallet was gone. “He thought he lost his glasses,” said Freida, “but they found them out in the yard.” Together, the couple and their granddaughter Latasha saved John’s brother Ronald from the fire, each of them dragging the disabled man part of the way to the front door, where volunteer firefighter Kevin Nolet took over. See HOME, 3
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Freida and John Perazzo, married 53 years, lost much in the fire, but North Bend will always be their home.
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