Valley Record SNOQUALMIE
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 n Daily updates at www.valleyrecord.com n 75 cents
Valley singer Austin Jenckes may have ‘The Voice’
River cleanup effort grows up SPORTS
Mount Si soccer team hungry for wins, beats Rebels, 2-1 Page 9
NEWS
Fall City’s second summer trash-out shows volunteers making a dent in mess
Camera catches passing beasts at Valley man’s Uplands home. Page 2
By Valley Record Staff
Locals know he’s got talent, but television audiences nationwide will have a chance to see it, too, when Austin Jenckes appears on the NBC show “The Voice” this fall. Jenckes auditioned for the musical competition/reality show recently and expects his audition to be aired in one of the early episodes of the show. That’s pretty much all he can say about it, though.
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Like most things in Fall City, clean-up efforts on the river for the past two summers were volunteer-driven. No one was paid to pick up after the less-than-courteous floaters who left their garbage on the ground when they left town, nor to bag up and haul off the trash that did make it into the bins, or the recycling. People helped out, just because. “All of the trash collection is done by volunteers,” say Perry Wilkins and Kirk Harris, president and board member, respectively, of the Fall City Metropolitan Park District, which assumed the lead role in the program this year.
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Austin Jenckes, a 25-year-old former North Bend resident and Cedarcrest graduate, competes on the television musical competition, “The Voice,” this fall.
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Index
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Opinion 4 6 Sudoku 10 Legals On The Scanner 11 Classifieds 12-15
Snoqualmie Valley Block Party organizers Lisa Stafford, Tina Townsley, Jaymie Blatt, Jason Green, Laurie Scott and Rosie Lynch cross Center Boulevard, site of this weekend’s inaugural event, posters in hand.
Bridging community
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Volunteers Nancy and Del Moore bag up garbage along the Fall City shoreline.
New Valley Block Party is about linking locals By Seth Truscott
Jason Green has never been an emcee before. Come Saturday, he’ll step away from his chiropractic booth to run the biggest party of his life, the inaugural Snoqualmie Valley Block Party at Snoqualmie Ridge. While every Center Boulevard business signed on for the party, Green and the six other organizers from Snoqualmie, North Bend and Fall City stress that this party reaches far beyond the confines of the Ridge Marketplace. They knew that for this new event to be successful, it had to include the whole Valley.
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