Snoqualmie Valley Record, July 24, 2013

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VALLEY RECORD SNOQUALMIE

From holes to new homes It’s developer vs. farmers at planned 18-house Tall Chief project

Lots of photos of cuddly fun at North Bend Block Party Page 7

BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter

SPORTS

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

Little Leagues give fields new life with help from Chaplins Pages 10, 11

Don Baunsgard squeezes into a filled Eastside Self Storage locker overflowing with furniture, antiques and other yard sale goods. The North Bend resident and world traveler is on a mission to help Ugandan families and has organized an all-Valley yard sale this coming weekend.

Bargain hunting to save lives

Trip inspires Don Baunsgard of North Bend; giant sale to help people a half a world away

INDEX LETTERS 4 6 CALENDAR 13 OBITUARY ON THE SCANNER 13 14 LEGAL NOTICES 15-18 CLASSIFIEDS

Vol. 100, No. 9

BY KIRA CLARK SVR Staff Intern

Most Valley families do not worry about whether their water is safe. That’s not the case for many families in the African nation of Uganda. North Bend resident Don Baunsgard realized this firsthand when he travelled to Kasitu, Uganda, on a mission trip with Snoqualmie Valley Alliance church six years ago. During a torrential downpour, he saw a mother collecting rainwater off of a tin roof—it was the purest water she could provide to her children, apart from boiled water from a nearby stream. According to the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF,

some 2,000 children die every day due to contaminated rainwater, worldwide. In Uganda, runoff is often contaminated, causing disease and illness. For Baunsgard, who met the family of a child he sponsors, and was given the honor of naming their new baby after his own daughter, the statistics weren't just numbers anymore. Moved to action, he wants to do more. In Uganda, he saw starving children with bloated stomachs caused by protein deficiency, and witnessed the blank expression of an orphan girl sitting on the steps of an empty mud hut. “She was all shriveled up, like she wanted to die,” said Baunsgard. “I wanted to make a difference.” Baunsgard's best friend, Puyallup resident and former Valleyite Todd VanCise, says that when Don returned from Uganda he was full of emotion and fired up. SEE YARD SALE, 6

In the Snoqualmie Valley, it’s tough to find a development proposal that doesn’t raise objections among farmers. Everything from clearing the land to building the roads and infrastructure to support a new neighborhood can increase the flooding downstream. Knowing all that, though, the team behind a proposed 18-home neighborhood near Fall City really thought they had a winner. “We’re only altering 22 acres of 200 acres of these lots,” for home construction, said Peter Hayes, consultant on a new housing and farming development on the former Tall Chief Golf Course. The project, as put forth by owner John Tomlinson, would support farming by returning some 43 acres of land to King County’s Agriculture Production District, as well as attracting people interested in agriculture, possibly igniting new interest in the old industry. SEE TALL CHIEF, 5

The former Tall Chief Golf Course is the site of a proposed 18-home development to attract new farmers to the Valley.

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