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Carnation police deal hits a bump
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By Seth Truscott and Carol Ladwig Valley Record Staff
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Carnation officials were notified last Friday, June 28, that their contract for police services with Duvall might be ending this year. The Duvall City Council voted unanimously Thursday, June 27, to drop the current contract, a reduced version of the agreement that’s connected the two cities for nine years.
Ken Carter Carnation City Manager
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A bunker jacket covered in signatures of Snoqualmie firefighters and city employees is a going-away souvenir for Todd Reynolds, assistant chief and training officer for new volunteers at the department from 2007 to 2013. Reynolds, who lives in North Bend, wound down a 34-year firefighting career last week. Next for him is a church mission trip to the Ukraine.
Mentor’s new journey North Bend’s Todd Reynolds ends fire career, readies for international church mission By Seth Truscott Editor
Among the mementoes waiting to be packed, the coat stood out. The heavy bunker jacket was special, signed by dozens of firefighters and volunteers, all wishing Todd Reynolds the best in his next adventure. With two days until retirement, Reynolds, 56, Snoqualmie Fire Department’s assistant chief and training officer, was boxing up the memories
from his second fire career. It was April 2007 when Reynolds arrived in Snoqualmie from arid Pendleton, Ore. He had recently retired after 28 years as a fire captain with that city of 16,000 people. But Reynolds wasn’t quite ready for the retired life. “I just wanted to do something a little different,” he said. When his church pastor’s family found him a more challenging job in a new place, right here in Snoqualmie, Reynolds pondered the big change. “I don’t know if I have the horsepower for that job,” he wondered. See menTor, 6
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