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Hometown celebration Published as a supplement to the Snoqualmie Valley Record

Get gooey at eating contest, Page 14 Cherry pies, berry treats abound in competitions

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Full weekend schedule

Hometown party returns to Si View With Si View Park renovations complete, organizers of the annual Festival at Mount Si are bringing back the crowd favorites to the park August 9 to 11.

“We have all of our favorite events from years past,” said Festival Chairperson Jill Massengill, in a report to the North Bend City Council July 16. “The parade, fireworks, chili cook-off, art show, live music, the Rotary beer garden, arts and crafts, and the food vendors, they’ll all be back… it’s looking like it’s going to be a really great event.”

The layout of the event will be similar to last year, Massengill said, with a few changes.

Nothing will be on the main field, however, because the grass was only recently planted and is still delicate, she said, adding that she is looking forward to the field becoming available next year.

For more information, visit www.festivalatmtsi.org.

The annual Festival at Mount Si is August 9 through 11, 2013.

All events are at Si View Community Park, 400 Orchard Drive, except the grand and kiddie parade, which are held on downtown streets. Fireworks are launched from Torguson Park.

Friday, Aug. 9 • Beer garden, 5 to 10 p.m., sponsored by the Rotary Club of Snoqualmie Valley • Food booths, 6 to 9 p.m.

• Arts and crafts, 6 to 10 p.m. in the Si View gym • Kids’ Fun Zone, 6 to 8 p.m.

• Arts in Festival Hall, 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 10 • Food booths, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Arts and crafts, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Arts in Festival Hall, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Si View gym • Kiddie Parade, 10:15 a.m., sponsored by: Si View Metro Parks, Tour de Peaks and Scott’s Dairy Freeze • Grand Parade, 10:30 a.m. on North Bend Way, sponsored by Snoqualmie Casino • Kids’ Fun Zone, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Beer garden, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

• Silent Auction, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Proceeds help fund the Festival at Mount Si. • Blueberry Dessert Contest, 12:30 p.m., sponsored by Bybee Farms • Parade awards, 1:45 pm • Cherry Pie Eating Contest, 2:15 p.m. at the Kids Area Tent, sponsored by Twede’s Cafe, youth and adult competitions. Space is limited.

• Amazing Pet Contest, 4 p.m. at the Kids Area Tent.

Fireworks 25th year for Tour de Peaks ride The Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Tour de Peaks offers riders a unique opportunity to enjoy the splendors of the Snoqualmie Valley on one of the nicest weekends of the year.

Three rides are supported: • A century ride of 100 miles covering the entire Valley, North Bend to Duvall.

• A 50-mile ride on mostly country roads, North Bend to Carnation (includes Sno Falls hill) • A 25-mile ride through the upper Snoqualmie Valley.

Afterwards, enjoy the Festival at Mount Si with a plenty of food, a beer garden, a chili cook off, and the famous Duck Derby.

To commemorate the ride’s 25th anniversary, the ride organizers have teamed up with the Snoqualmie Valley Velo Club to offer a limited edition 25th Anniversary Riding Jersey.

To get involved, visit www.tourdepeaks.org.

• Fireworks, 9:45 p.m., at Torguson Park, sponsored by Wyrsch’s Towing, Mt. Si Chevron, and North Bend Shell

Sunday, Aug. 11 • 25th Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Tour de Peaks Bicycle Ride, at Shamrock Park next to Si View. Check-in is 7 to 10 a.m.

• Arts and crafts, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Arts in Festival Hall, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Food booths, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Kids’ Fun Zone, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Beer garden, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., sponsored by the Rotary Club of Snoqualmie Valley • Annual Chili Cook-off, sponsored by North Bend Bar & Grill Tasting, begins at 1 p.m.; Winners announced at 2:45 p.m.; $300 first prize

Main Stage live music Hear live tunes all weekend at the Main Stage at Si View Park

Friday, Aug. 9 • Ian McFeron, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

• Chance McKinney & Crosswire, 8 to 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 10 • Laid Back Rebels, noon to 1:30 p.m.

• Impossible Bird, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

• Mark Dufresne Band, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

• Massy Ferguson, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

• Cloverdayle, 8 to 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 11 • Hot Wired Rhythm Band, noon to 1:30 p.m.

• The Love Jacks, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Silent auction raises funds for festival The Festival at Mount Si is funded solely through donations and run by an allvolunteer committee.

One of its biggest fundraisers is the annual festival silent auction. Many local and regional businesses and merchants donate quality items for auction, which runs 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the festival grounds.

Hundreds of items are donated, from gifts at local fitness gyms, restaurants and coffee stands, and the North Bend Theater, to big regional businesses such as Ivar’s restaurant, the Seattle Underground Tour and Woodland Park Zoo. Once bidding closes at 6 p.m., items go to the highest bidder by 7 p.m. If the first bidder can’t be found, the next-highest gets to take home the goods. Items have a minimum bid, and the minimum raise is $1. There is also a buyout amount.

To donate an item to the auction, download the donation form at www.festivalatmtsi.org.

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Above, Mount Si cheerleaders leap during the Festival at Mount Si parade. Below, a youth contestant in the Berry Pie Eating contest. Bottom, Sallal Grange’s musical parade float rolls down North Bend Way.

While you’re in North Bend, trip over to the library for some new, used reads.

The Friends of the North Bend Library’s annual book sale will take place during regular library hours, starting Friday, August 9, and running though August 18. Find gently used hardcover books, paperbacks, children’s books, DVDs, CDs, priced from 25 cents to a dollar. Genres cover sports, spirituality, cookbooks, fiction, biography, literature, hobbies, business, health and wellbeing. Proceeds support free youth and adult programs at the North Bend Library.

Lions’ Health Screening Unit to visit Festival The Mount Si Lion’s Club is sponsoring the Lion’s Health Screening Unit at the Festival at Mount Si, offering free health screenings for blood pressure, glaucoma, diabetes, sight and hearing.

The Lion’s Mobile Health Screening Unit is a 62-foot-long mobile medical clinic and is medically equipped to do health screening. The Lions screening unit travels throughout Washington and Northern Idaho to give free health screenings at schools, fairs and other public events. The unit screens for glaucoma, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sight and hearing loss.It will be in action in North Bend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9 to 11.

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The rescuers

Valley’s search and rescue volunteers honored as 2013 parade marshals

By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter

Bree Loewen sees things pretty clearly, and acts accordingly. When she and her husband, Russell Anschell, found themselves in the mountains every weekend, they decided to move to North Bend. Since they are “heavy back-country users,” she said it only made sense for them to volunteer with Seattle Mountain Rescue. Because they have a 5-year-old daughter, she is a stay-at-home mom, and they avoid working on the same missions, to minimize their risks.

It all sounds logical enough, but that’s not all there is to Loewen’s commitment.

“It really comes down to ‘this is our community,’” she says. “We’ve been doing this for such a long time and I think people have really come to rely on us.”

Loewen, a volunteer with King County Search and Rescue since she was 15, will represent the organization as grand marshal of the Festival at Mount Si parade Saturday.

Festival volunteer Tina Brandon, who chose the 490-member organization for the honor, said by e-mail that she always tries to choose a grand marshal with “a real connection to the community—that will bring a smile or maybe a tear to the crowd.”

Brandon, who’s lived near the Mount Si trailhead for 15 years and seen a lot of search and rescue efforts in that time, described how some of the recent incidents on the mountain — the 2012 plane crash and a missing skydiver earlier this year, as well as the overwhelming response from SAR volunteers —moved her to tears.

“I can’t think of anyone more deserving than (they) all are. Or anyone more likely to get a great response from the crowd,” she said.

Loewen, meanwhile, feels that she gets as much from her volunteer work as she gives. First, she says, “This is a beautiful place. There’s a reason we all live out here.”

A lifelong climber, she says “This is my user group, and these people are my friends.”

These people include her community, and the 51-member Seattle Mountain Rescue branch of Search and Rescue, in which she is the training chairperson.

SMR is one of eight branches in King County, and as the technical mountaineering experts of the organization, they are often in the North Bend area, where, she says, more than 90 percent of all Search and Rescue missions take place, “between Snoqualmie Pass and North Bend.”

“We come out on almost all of the missions that happen in King County,” she continued.

“We do all the technical rescue and anything in mountaineering, anything that’s difficult to access. We also provide a lot of field leadership.”

Last year, rescue organizations in King County were sent on 128 missions, and SMR was on 99 of them. The most common call? Ankle injuries.

“We probably get maybe 15 or 20 broken ankles a year between Rattlesnake, Mount Si, Tiger Mountain — those are the big three — and Mailbox,” she says. “Those have the largest numbers of users, so it’s just statistical, it’s going to happen there.”

Loewen has volunteered and worked for Search and Rescue agencies in other places in the past, she said, but has never found the level of teamwork and professionalism she has here.

“It’s kind of unparalleled,” she says, thinking about past missions. “Just the number of people it takes to carry out someone with a sprained ankle … It takes 30 people, because after you carry someone for a few minutes, your arms burn up.”

Also, because the volunteers Bree Loewen are all recreational mountain users themselves, “There’s a feeling, whenever we go to get someone, that we’re getting one of our own.”

Last year, Loewen went on 33 missions, some of them multiple days. She says she has “a great setup” for childcare when she’s on a mission, with both her parents and in-laws nearby, but she is also aware of the risks she’s running every time she goes on a mission, especially with her husband, a construction worker, doing the same volunteer work.

“We definitely made some conscious decisions not to be on the same team at the same time,” she said, and family members understand.

“It’s rare to go a year without rescuing someone that I know,” Loewen said, and “I think my family has come to recognize that I’m giving back to a group that will probably come get me one day!”

“There’s a feeling, whenever we go to get someone, that we’re getting one of our own.”

Above, Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo | Left, courtesy photo

Above: Bree Loewen, a volunteer with Seattle Mountain Rescue, will represent King County Search and Rescue in the Festival at Mount Si parade Saturday. The 490-member volunteer organization was chosen for grand marshal honors in recognition of their dedicated volunteer efforts in the area.

Left: SMR members train for a river rescue last January.

Giving back is a challenge at times, requiring “an enormous amount of training,” and a minimum number of missions each year. Then there are the missions themselves.

“Usually these things tend to start in the middle of the night — I don’t know why that is,” Loewen said on a recent Monday morning.

“Whenever it’s least convenient, 2 a.m. Monday morning is very popular, and there was one that actually started at 5 a.m. this morning…”

Rescuers keep their gear packed and ready to go, so they can respond quickly, she says, then “we’ll meet in base and discuss the overall big picture ... go through an incident action plan, then head into the field and take care of it.”

Sounds simple enough, and it is. “We do feel like we’re part of the community,” she said. “We don’t judge and we don’t charge.”

Because she has a daughter interested in climbing and back-country skiing, she wants to keep things that simple.

“There’s always the desire, as a parent, to have your child take up table-tennis,” she admits, but “You want to live life, doing what you want to do, and I want that for her, too. I’ll just teach her to do everything right, and make her read Accidents in North American Mountainering!”

Loewen will probably keep her close to home, too, because she says, laughing, “This is a great place to get injured!”

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Home of Arts

The Arts in Festival Hall schedule Come inside the Si View Community Center’s historic wood gymnasium to see local artists and performers in action.

Live entertainment is sponsored by Mount Si Artist Guild.

Friday, Aug. 9 • 5 p.m., Cascade Dance Company performance

Saturday, Aug. 10 • 1:45 p.m., Little Bollywood • 2:30 p.m., IGNITE Dance and Yoga • 3:30 p.m., Veils of the Nile belly dance company

Sunday, Aug. 11 • 2 p.m., Mount Si Gymnastics Featured demonstrations, all weekend long: • Mount Si Artists Guild, painting demonstrations • Richard Buchmiller, embroidery • Hilde Gettinger, weaving • Jeff Griswold, pottery thrown on the wheel • John Mullen, Snoqualmie Tribe master carver • Jeff Waters, watercolor master class The Festival committee and city of North Bend hope that the Arts in Festival Hall will inspire a new emphasis on the arts in Snoqualmie Valley.

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Above, dollmaker Susan Yotz displays her creations in the 2012 Festival hall

embers of the Mount Si Artist Guild are eager to get you into art.

That’s why the Arts in Festival Hall expo, which returns for a fifth year at the Festival at Mount Si this year, continues the emphasis on master classes by Valley artists and artisans.

Artists at work include Jeff Waters, who will share techniques of watercolor painting, and Snoqualmie artist Patricia Tamburini hosts a class on acrylic painting.

Portrait pro Mary Miller offers tips on photography, Richard Buchmiller will showcase basic cross-stitching and Hilde Gettinger will urge passersby to try a hand on her loom. Showing off his pottery technique, Jeff Griswold will be on his wheel.

For the younger set, a children’s corner where children can work on their own, interactive projects is also planned.

With one of the biggest festivals in the Valley, it’s a great opportunity to involve people in the local arts community, explains Alraune Chowdhury, a member of Mount Si Artist Guild.

“We want to showcase art as a big part of what we do in the Valley. It’s a part of our cultural fabric. We have a very robust community of artists,” she says.

Live shows Arts in Festival Hall uses the Si View Community Center’s wood-framed indoor stage as a venue for live arts.

On the slate: Dancers from Cascade Dance Academy, IGNITE Dance and Yoga, a local Zumba group, student dancers from Big Star Studios in Snoqualmie, a group of Irish-style dancers, and the Veils of the Nile, the Valley-based belly dancing troupe.

Audiences are encouraged to come into the hall during the festival and see these performers, of all ages, showcasing their talents.

Environment and community plays a role in how a painter, a dancer, potter or weaver creates.

“It’s important for us to be there, be present, and the hall to be alive, being the center of arts in the middle of the festival,” says Chowdhury.

Learn more about Mount Si Artist Guild at www.mtsiartistguild.org/msag.

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Lighting up the night

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Festival at Mount Si’s annual fireworks gala is a gift to the community from Wyrsch family

By Seth Truscott

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orth Bend gas station owner George Wyrsch, Sr., always loved the thrill of things that go boom in the night.

An avid Lions Club member, he staffed the charity fireworks stand in town. Every Fourth of July, the elder Wyrsch took his family to Carnation to watch the show.

“He was always a bit of a pyro,” recalled his grandson, Bryan Wyrsch. “He loved fireworks.”

It’s been more than three decades since Wyrsch took over sponsorship duties for what is today’s Festival at Mount Si show, a rare late-summer display that draws onlookers to North Bend on Saturday.

George, Sr., died in 2010. His son, George Jr., and grandson have continued as owners and operators of the local Chevron and Shell stations, and Wyrsch Towing.

“I like fireworks as much as the next guy,” says Bryan Wyrsch, son of George, Jr., who splits the cost of the show, about $15,000, with his dad. “It’s a neat thing to do for the town. It’s a way we can say thank you for everybody being customers and supporting us.”

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Fireworks maker cians are usually several feet away, the launch is near simultaneous. They wear helmets with visors for protection, and use flashlights and the light from the flares to see what they’re doing.

Finales are fired off electronically. A big show of North Bend’s size launches about 1,000 shells of all sizes.

Shells launched at community fireworks shows are surprisingly big. An eight-inch shell weighs 20 pounds. A 12-inch shell, some of which are featured in North Bend, is so heavy that it’s lowered into its steel mortar by a rope. The biggest shells make a sphere of fire 600 feet across, which means their charge has to lob them 1,200 feet up.

Most fireworks have names: The ones that shriek and spin are called “fox howls.” A “peony” is a common effect with a starlike explosion that turns into a bulging circle of stars. A “crossette” spits stars that explode into smaller, crisscrossing stars.

Hoyle’s favorite is all noise: the shells called Salutes.

“They just go up and go boom!” he said. “If they’re good ones, they make the windows rattle.”

Pyrotechnics can be an exciting thrill, even for the people on the business end of a mortar.

“All the young guys, they want to light the show,” says Hoyle. “I want the crowd to be happy and pleased, and nobody to get hurt.”

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“It’s unmistakeable. Eagle colors are more brilliant,” says Hoyle. “That really sells the show. People want Eagle fireworks because they are the best.”

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North Bend’s show is the second largest one that Eagle Fireworks Co. of Chehalis puts on yearly, and is its longest running display.

Eagle’s legacy goes back decades. It’s the oldest pyrotechnics contractor in Washington.

Current owner Steve Thornton bought the company about 20 years ago.

Thornton “takes the most pride in that show,” relates Chris Hoyle, an Eagle employee and pyrotechnic assistant. Coincidentally, it falls right around Thornton’s birthday, so it gets extra love.

Eagle’s team is hopping in the summer. Part of the reason is that, by law, they can’t transport or set up shells until 72 hours before the show. That means North Bend’s show is set up the afternoon and evening of the event.

It’s all action on the launching ground. North Bend’s show is mostly lit by hand with flares. The fuse burns at 55 feet per second, and the pyrotechni-

• Fireworks were invented in China, more than 2,000 years ago. The first mention of them comes from 7th century A.D. China.

• China makes and exports most of the fireworks in the world—90 percent of all fireworks come from China.

• The first Fourth of July fireworks display was in 1776, in the then-U.S. capitol city of Philadelphia.

• Dreaming about fireworks means that you like to be the centre of attention and are showing off to others. It also symbolizes enthusiasm and exhilaration.

• Fireworks are not fun for animals. Always keep dogs and cats inside the house when fireworks are being let off. Stay calm and make sure they have somewhere to hide.

• The word for firework in Japanese is ‘hanabi’, which actually means “fire-flower”.

• A sparkler burns at a temperature over 15 times the boiling point of water. Three sparklers burning together generate the same heat as a blowtorch. When your sparkler goes out, put it in a bucket of water.

• France uses fireworks to celebrate Bastille Day and the storming of the prison of the Bastille.

• Static electricity in synthetic clothing can set off firecrackers. People making firecrackers wear only cotton clothing.

• At first fireworks were only orange and white. In the Middle Ages new colours were achieved by adding different salts. The hardest colour to create is blue.

• Sparklers can be used to make funny pictures. All you need is a totally dark setting, a sparkler to draw with and a camera recording a long exposure.

The world’s largest firework display to date was when 77,282 firework projectiles were launched in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Kuwait’s constitution, on November 10, 2012.

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Sweet stuff

Spicy stuff

What’s Cookin’ Chili Cookoff brings a taste of community flavors

The Festival at Mount Si lets you indulge your sweet tooth in some berry-licious activities.

Juicy events at this year’s event again include the Burstin’ with Blueberries cooking contest, at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, and the cherry pie eating contest, 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.

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Pie contest In this competition, hungry competitors attempt to eat as many pies as possible in five minutes. The winner usually eats close to two whole pies, berries, crust and all.

Entrants will be divided into two age groups; ages 5 to 12, and 13 and above. Winners will take home a mini-pig trophy and bragging rights.

Twede’s Cafe, which has sponsored the event since its inception, supplies the fresh-baked, homemade pie.

Participants devise creative stage names to represent themselves, and spectators cheer for their favorites by ‘name’ as competitors pig-out on pie.

Those interested in competing are encouraged to register at 1 p.m. at the information booth on Saturday, as there will only be enough pie for a limited number of adults and children. Then it’s just a matter of working up an appetite and scarfing down as many pies as possible. The event draws upwards of 300 spectators and creates quite a bit of noise.

Contestants need to be at the second stage by 1:45 p.m., and all eaters must fill out a waiver form. Children under 18 must have their parents sign; you must be at least 5 to take part.

The contest has made good use of the staple cherry pies at Twede’s Cafe. The pastries got a shot of fame from the Twin Peaks cult mystery series; Café owner Kyle Twede says he goes through about 70 pies a week.

Twede advises contestants to stretch their stomachs prior to the contest. Another tip: Be hungry.

Blueberries galore Lower on the mess scale, but just as heavy in food and fun, is the Burstin’ with Blueberries Dessert Contest.

Lifelong foodie and host Jan Marie Johnson started the blueberry dessert contest for cooks throughout the Valley to show what they can do.

Participants whip up their favorite home-made, blueberrythemed desserts to present to the contest judges. You can enter as many dishes as you wish.

“I like to promote the local businesses and berry heritage of the Valley,” Johnson said. “It’s a great time to celebrate the season and what is home grown.”

First, second and third prize winners will each receive a trophy. The top contestant will also take home $25 cash and five pounds of blueberries from the Bybee family farm.

Those interested in entering one of their original creations can register at the information booth at 11:45 a.m. Judging begins at 12:30 p.m. and the winners will be announced at 1:15 p.m.

To learn more, contact Cynthia Golpe of My Cakes at cynthia@mycakes.biz.

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bubbling, well-seasoned pot of chicken chili won a major award. And brought mom and daughter a little bit closer together.

In 2012, the Old Hens, a mother-daughter team of Deanna and Brittany Morauski, took home the people’s choice award in the Festival at Mount Si Chili Cookoff for their Chick Chick Chili.

Deanna, who runs the Old Hen Bed and Breakfast in North Bend, has every year fun cooking with her daughter, and enjoys the hearty competition at the Festival cooking challenge, which is judged by a local panel and by the people.

With Brittany, a Mount Si graduate who took part in the culinary program, Deanna explores how Murphy’s Law affects the art of the chili pot.

“I try to get her to watch me deal with mistakes or catastrophes, as well as positives,” Deanna said. “We laugh our way through. It makes for wonderful memories.”

One year, the stove wouldn’t work. Deanna had to convince a competitor teammate to help, which he did, after humorously refusing.

Competition is real, but lighthearted. Deanna remembers how, one year, opposing teams handed one team a sympathy card for failing to win—even before the judging took place.

“We were kind of poking fun under that tent,” she said.

“There’s a lot of fun and silliness.”

As ever, the battle rages on between the chili purists, who prefer their stew without beans, and folks who grew up with bean-filled chili con carne.

Above, soup cooks stir the pot in the annual Chili Cookoff.

“I actually prefer no beans,” says Deanna, who refines her chili recipes annually, says there’s a lot of memories tied to the recipes. Deanna was honored to be chosen tops by the audience.

With all chili cooked from scratch, the day of the event, you’ve got to have your soup skills sharp.

Expect Deanna, teams from Sallal Grange and plenty of other locals to grab their chili spoons and return to the What’s Cookin’ Chili Cook-off, sponsored by the North Bend Bar & Grill, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, on the festival grounds at Si View Park.

There are two contests, a judge’s choice and the people’s trophy. Judges are local restaurateurs, movers and shakers. The people’s choice is made by festival-goers, who pay $5 for a chance to taste chili. Proceeds are donated to the festival.

The community sampling begins at 1 p.m. Awards are announced at 2:15 p.m.

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Animal amazement

Festival at Mount Si history

Festival at Mount Si pet pageant, trick contest promises a wagging good time

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Photos courtesy Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum

Top, girls pack a North Bend parade float in July of 1910.

Above, a North Bend band rehearsal, 1949.

Right, the Hill’s Hardware’s Frigidaire truck on main street in 1949.

Bottom, the crowd checks out a logger’s old-growth haul in the 1987 parade.

Ethan Robinson hangs out with ‘dog brother’ Avalanche in the dog lookalike contest; the Amazing Pet Contest returns Saturday, 4 p.m.

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“It’s very casual, you just bring your pet. There’s no pre-registration, no fee, it’s just a fun time,” says pet contest coordinator and event emcee Kathy Paulus.

Pets, and their owners, can compete in two categories, Best Trick and Best Costume, so almost any pet can enter.

A panel of judges will award trophies to the firstplace winner of each category, and second and thirdplace winners will receive ribbons. Prizes include gift baskets from dog-bone-bakery Paws-a-licious.

Paulus is a longtime volunteer, and volunteer coordinator, with the festival, but new to the pet contest. She decided to run it after a mix-up last year that almost cancelled the contest permanently.

“We were thinking of dropping it,” she explained, “but to me it’s a family event, so I asked how hard could it be?” Then she laughed heartily, adding “I’m a delegator!”

Paulus praised the many people who have helped her put the event together, especially the teens who will serve as judges for the event, saying “I like to bring teenagers into doing some fun things for the festival.”

Everyone will share in the fun Saturday, whether or not their tricks or costumes succeed, because Paulus says, “It has to be absolutely positive the entire time. And you have to appreciate what effort everybody has put into their trick or their costume … you have to make it fun and positive, so they’re happy to be there.”

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