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Valley good-doer Susan Hankins honored as Railroad Days marshal By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 16, 17 and 18
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Snoqualmie Railroad Days return for a 75th year of fun Pages 11-18
Faces meet fruit BUSINESS
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New gun shop owner defends 2nd amendment rights Page 2
Index Opinion 5 8 Obituary 10 Movie Times Classifieds 20-24 On The Scanner 27 28 Calendar
Vol. 100, No. 12
Faces sticky with filling, North Bend friends Shannon Christensen and Andrea Scott grimace after they tucked into pies in the teen-and-up Twede’s Cherry Pie Eating Contest, held Saturday afternoon, Aug. 10, as part of the Festival at Mount Si. “I wanted to shove my face in it!” says Christensen. See more Festival photos on page 3.
See CHARGE, 9
See Marshal, 7
Filling up the Summer Cupboard
Charge filed in fatal New Year’s hit and run Eight months after 57-yearold North Bend resident Lucinda Pieczatkowski was hit by a truck and killed on a dark road near Snoqualmie, King County prosectors have filed a charge against a teenage suspect. Senior deputy prosecuting attorney Amy Freedheim filed a count of felony hit and run Wednesday, Aug. 7, against Cody Joseph Eads, 19, of North Bend. An arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 21. Eads has not been arrested.
Despite her level-best efforts to avoid the spotlight, Susan Hankins of North Bend will dazzle the crowds this Saturday. As Railroad Days grand marshal, she’ll make her rounds in a Dazzling Sunset convertible, and, talking about it a week before, she was clearly hoping the car would get more attention than she would. “It’s an old, a Mitsubishi something, sports car,” Hankins said to friend Jennifer Osborn, marketing director for the Northwest Railway Museum and Railroad Days organizer. “It’s what they call Dazzling Sunset, the color is kind of this … metallic watermelon color, with matching upholstery. It is the cutest car ever!” Cute as it may be, the car is not as sweet as why Hankins will be riding in it.
Now in third year, volunteers and staff have honed their approach to fulling a seasonal hunger gap By Seth Truscott Editor
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Readying for clients at Mount Si Food Bank’s Summer Cupboard, Becky Steidle explains the rules to recruit Hector Martinez, left, of Fall City. Families can claim food for school-age children.
As her mother finishes shopping for groceries, a petite girl of 14 finds herself exploring a bin of free books. She comes away with a small trove of good reads, for both herself and her three-year-old sister. Mom, meanwhile, has collected enough food to give her daughter three good breakfasts and three square lunches for the week. She smiles in gratitude as she and the girls haul away food for body and mind. See CUPBOARD, 6
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