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Vol. 99, No. 49
Permanent lessons, temporary classrooms
Homes demo’ed to make way for new drugstore
Explore the pros and cons of portables, as Valley district adds more movable rooms
Several locals watched as decades-old houses met the wrecking ball in North Bend last week to make way for a new drugstore. Demolition came for five homes on the site of the future Bartell Drugs at Bendigo Boulevard and Park Street in North Bend. The drugstore, planned to open in mid2013, is a new concept store for Bartell. One thing was salvaged from the demolition: The plants. Several large, decades-old rhododendrons and other mature vegetation were saved and relocated to the Nursery at Mount Si in March.
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
It’s just a few days before the Fall City Elementary School science fair, and Betsy Sorenson’s fifth-grade classroom is full of energy, ideas, and students. Two more girls enter minutes before the end of class; they’d been working outside with S o r e n s o n’s p e r m i s s i on because they needed a quiet place to finish up their presentation. Not exactly crowded, this portable classroom installed near Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo the school playground is Students in Betsy definitely cozy. Sorenson’s class work An aquarium on assignments in is perched on the portable classtop of a fil- room’. The room is ing cabinet cozy, but also quiet. stacked with books, plant experiments line the window sills, student cubbies are full of jackets and packs, the desks are littered with papers and students are gathered in groups on the floor, at the computer, wherever there’s some space to work. As the bell sounds, another, slightly larger group of students files in to work on their science fair projects, while Sorenson’s students go next door for language arts. See PORTABLES, 2
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Security cameras captured this hooded intruder at the North Bend ACE Hardware store early on the morning of Thursday, April 18. He left on a bike, apparently without taking anything. Below, camera footage shows the suspected burglar riding away.
Shadowy visitor
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Bike-riding burglar busts into North Bend hardware store, leaves empty-handed By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Scared off by an alarm, a man breaking into the North Bend Ace Hardware store early Thursday, April 18, left the store empty-handed. Security cameras around the building captured images of the man fleeing the store on a bicycle. The man broke a window to get into the store, presumably to rob it, at 4:45 a.m. Thursday morning. As soon as he entered the building, the audible burglar alarm sounded and the man fled. It’s not clear what he was looking for in the store, because he was inside so briefly, said North Bend Police Chief Mark Toner, one of the officers on the
case. However, the alarm did its job. “All the store lost was the broken window,” said Toner, adding that he is a strong advocate of alarms, both silent and audible, for homes and businesses. “From a protection standpoint, an audible alarm is the way to go,” he said. Toner also advocates for security cameras, especially for businesses, although he points out that a home security system took the images last month of a pregnant woman breaking into a North Bend home. See SHADOW, 3
Photo by Mary Miller
One of five homes on Bendigo Boulevard are scrapped in demolition last week, making way for a standalone Bartell drugstore.
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