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One team, one dream: Wildcat softball team finds its stride Page 14
Help on the other end of the line
Valley runner escapes Boston Marathon blast
For North Bend’s hero dispatcher Mark Wood, saving lives is a team effort
Bombs could have hurt many more, says racer Sean Sundwall
By Seth Truscott Editor
By Carol Ladwig
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Staff Reporter
Toad, Rat and Mole get up to hijinks in Valley Center Stage children’s classic Page 7
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Vol. 99, No. 48
When two bombs exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, Sean Sundwall of Snoqualmie, the first of about a dozen local runners to finish the race, was back in his hotel room, thinking about his race time of 2:29:32 and getting ready for Sean Sundwall the trip home. Just over four hours into Boston’s Marathon Monday, the explosions killed three people and injured 170. Within 45 minutes of Sundwall’s finish, another four local racers crossed the line, Dave Latourette of North Bend and Paul Scott, Snoqualmie, a minute apart at 3:01:35 and 3:02:38, then Curtis Pitts of Carnation crossed the finish line at 3:15:02, and Sommer Reynolds of Snoqualmie finished two minutes later. See MARATHON, 3
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Kris and Dick Kirby relax on the porch of the house that they recently restored to its original 1914 look. Dick lived in the house as a teenager, when it was known as “The Dog House.”
It was late in the day last September when Mark Wood answered the phone. The caller was a mother. Her son was unconscious, and she needed help. Wood, an emergency dispatcher, was the first, life-saving voice she heard. While emergency medical technicians rushed to the woman’s Eastside home, Wood, a dispatcher at North East King County Regional Public Safety Communications Agency, or NORCOM, calmly walked her through the steps of CPR. See Dispatcher, 2
Home, again Snoqualmie transplants Dick and Kris Kirby add a new chapter to century-old Carnation home By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Next year, Dick and Kris Kirby’s Carnation home will reach the century mark. To the uneducated eye, it doesn’t look like a 100-year-old house, but the truth is, the house now looks more than ever like it did when it was new.
The three-bedroom, one-and-a-halfstory Craftsman that Dick lived in as a teen and inherited a few years ago, was restored last fall to its original look. It was a six-month process that unveiled the original fir flooring from under three layers of linoleum and glue, swapped standard double-hung windows for the custom high-sash style from the year the house was built and replaced the box gutters with halfrounds, plus a concession on materials, metal instead of wood. See HOME, 3
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Though he never comes to the scene of emergencies, North Bend’s Mark Wood is present through his calm instructions. He is an Emergency Medical Dispatcher of the Year.
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