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Miners memorial unveiled in Black Diamond By Dennis Box
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fter years of planning and hard work the Black Diamond Coal Miners Memorial was unveiled Saturday during the city’s Miners Day celebration. The honor garden memorial includes a 13-foot bronze statue sculpted by Ellensburg artist Paul Crites and a 28-foot granite wall, engraved with the names of miners who have died in mines throughout Washington state. Engraved bricks are at the base of the statue and wall. Surrounding the memorial and historical museum is a landscaped garden. According to Black Diamond
Historical Society President Keith Watson, the idea for the memorial began years ago, but started in earnest about two years ago when he and former Black Diamond Mayor Howard Botts and their wives made a trip to Roslyn, Wash. They saw a Roslyn coal miners memorial and that was the inspiration. “That is what we wanted to do but we wanted it to cover the entire state,” Watson said. Watson said a large donation in the beginning and volunteers
from around the region brought the vision to life, “It’s amazing how everything fit together,” Watson said. “The number of volunteers that stepped up to the plate, it was amazing.” Watson gave an example of a Black Diamond woman, 94-year-old Katherine Daniels, who did the flower gardens for the memorial and donated a deer statue. “She is probably there today,” Watson said Monday.
Former Mayor Gomer Evans Jr., a lifelong Black Diamond resident, was another of the guiding forces behind the project. Evans’ father was a fire boss in the mines. At the unveiling ceremony Evans told the story of how his parents met, married and raised a family of nine children in Black Diamond. His father came to America from Wales in 1910. The senior Evans was promoted to fire boss when he was 18. The fire boss was the first worker to enter the mines at the beginning of the shift and ensure it was safe. Evans said his parents met and married in 1916. His father was living in a “single men hotel, the
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King County Fair at the Expo Center
Weather The forecast today, Wednesday, calls for mostly sunny skies with a high to 76 and overnight lows 54. Partly sunny skies continue Thursday and Friday with highs to 71 and lows to 53. Saturday’s forecast is for mostly cloudy weather and Sunday mostly sunny with highs to 79.
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Independence Day Parade
Enumclaw’s Stars and Stripes Parade took to Cole Street at noon Thursday. The parade featured dozens of kids on bikes, entries by local businesses, high school musicians, scout troops and much more. The holiday started with a city Walk of Fame induction and came to a rousing close with a fireworks display. Photo by Kevin Hanson
The King County Fair takes over the Enumclaw Expo Center grounds this week, starting its four-day run at noon Thursday. The fair will again be operated by Universal Fairs, the Tennessee-based organization that breathed new life into a floundering enterprise. After King County systematically diminished the fair and finally sliced funding altogether, the city of Enumclaw made a oneyear stab at offering a summer attraction. Universal Fairs offers its Enumclaw attraction for the third year. As usual, the fair will feature carnival rides and a midway, plenty of food vendors, a commercial building filled with vendors hawking everything from
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