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Thieves take big haul from local contractors By Carol Ladwig
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Rain runners: Mount Si track team can’t stop moving Page 10
Thieves literally crashed the gates of North Bend-based Westerlund Excavation when they robbed the business early March 23, but they weren’t trying to get in. When the people who stole the company’s 1999 International rollback truck got to the gate, they were already on their way out, taking the truck, See BACKHOE, 5 Courtesy photos
A life in the blues leads ‘Little Bill’ to North Bend’s first Blues Walk Page 13
Index Opinion 4 6-7 Schools On the Scanner 9 12 Calendar 13 Movie Times Classifieds 15-18
Vol. 99, No. 46
Off and rolling New Valley Velo Club wants to make cycling connections By Seth Truscott Editor
Five people with different ages and different stories meet up on this cool, drizzly March afternoon to talk about the thing that binds them together: Their love of bikes. Jeff Scott comes out the door of Mount Si Sports + Fitness, where he teaches people to cruise on stationary bikes. See BIKE CLUB, 3
Lease would partner schools, hospital District considering 50-year deal for high-school skills center on Ridge Snoqualmie Valley Hospital commissioners are weighing a long-term lease of part of their new Snoqualmie Ridge campus as a training center for high school students exploring health care careers.
The proposed partnership between the hospital and the Washington Network for Innovative Careers, or (WaNIC), will create a WaNIC Skills Center, or branch campus, on the site of the future Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, and will draw students from about 10 school districts. See LEASE, 5
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Co-owners Don Westerlund, top, with mom Peggy, and son Lee Westerlund, bottom, seek a Kubota mini-excavator stolen from their business.
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Part of a new club that’s expanding the profile of local cycling, Snoqualmie Valley Velo Club members Anthony Cree and Phillip Jones ride Reinig Road on a recent club excursion. The Velo Club formed to gather cyclists of all walks of life, including youth. Below, Mount Si Mountain Bike Club member Truman Gray rides the trail.