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Crime concerns: Good news and bad Standing-room crowd discusses fears of crime, drugs and homeless at community meeting By Carol Ladwig
Clutch win sends Mount Si baseball on road to state Page 9
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Above, Photo by Mary Miller/Below, Seth Truscott
Murder mystery game show is a benefit for Center Stage Page 6
Locals form the shape of a heart for Mary Miller’s “Heart of the Valley” community photo, Sunday, May 19, at Snoqualmie’s Centennial Fields. In the center, three engaged couples kiss: Nicole Hautsreit and Kyle Rotha, Mark Lowe and Heidi Houser, and Phyllis Nieman Rasco and her boyfriend Larry.
With whimsy, pride, Heart of the Valley all-town photo draws a big crowd By Seth Truscott Editor
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It was, briefly, an exercise in patience. And a test of how close Valley residents really are.
“Lady with the purple shirt. What’s your name?” called out Mary Miller. “Nice to meet you.” Miller was 60 feet up on an EFR ladder truck, painstakingly moving participants in her second annual “Heart of the Valley” community photo into place, one local at a time. See HEART, 2
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He was in a minority of two in a community safety meeting Thursday night, but Dave Black offered the roughly 200 people there some good news. It was regarding a drug dealer that he’d previously complained to the North Bend City Council and police about, a drug dealer who was now gone. “He did it,” Black said, pointing to North Bend’s Police Chief Mark Toner. He “got them out of there” in a few weeks’ time, Black said, but not alone. “You have to work as a team,” Black told the audience, nearly all of whom were tense after a recent series of break-ins and last Monday’s home invasion and homicide just outside the city. “Don’t be afraid, Photo by Mary Miller write plates down, call North Bend Police Chief Mark him, tell him—we are a Toner speaks to about 200 resi- community and a team— dents Thursday about crime if you don’t, you are part trends. of the problem.” See CONCERNS, 3
Election 2013: Lots of races, board members vs. members A four-way race for a school board seat and a race for Snoqualmie City Council have developed at the close of the candidate filing period at King County Elections. Four candidates, two of them incumbents, have filed for District 4 on the Snoqualmie Valley School Board. Both Marci Busby and Scott Hodgins were located in director district 4 after the school district redrew its director district boundary lines last summer. Prior to the U.S. Census and the redistricting that resulted from it, Hodgins had been in director district 1. Two North Bend men, Stephen Kangas and David Spring have also filed to run for District 4. See FILING, 3
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