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Sno council likes its parks boss Snoqualmie council shoots down merged public worksparks department By Seth Truscott
Mount Si girls pass to win in phsyical match with Totems Page 15
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Lee, a seven-year Preston resident, points out some of the decay in the sign that he and his wife Dawn recently restored. He could poke right through some parts of the wooden loggers atop the sign. Below, the restored sign’s colors greet travelers at the intersection of State Route 202 and the Upper Preston Road.
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New life for Preston’s wooden men Haunted Valley harvest: Creepy fun and where to find it locally Page 9
Index Letters 4-5 Out of the Past 4 9 Movie Times 11 Calendar On The Scanner 13 Classifieds 17-21
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Valley couple restores longneglected logger sign, hopes community uses it again By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
When a pumpkin disappeared from a Preston couple’s back deck earlier this month, they noticed its absence right away. Dawn, who prefers to keep her last name to herself, asked husband Lee, “Where’s my pumpkin?” They found it, when they reviewed their security camera footage and saw a bear cub stroll up to their house, help himself to the pumpkin, and roll it around on the ground for a while before disappearing with it behind a building. He was back a few minutes later, looking for more. The missing pumpkin probably didn’t fare as well as another
absence that both Lee and Dawn noted in their community. “It’s been there forever,” Lee said, of the wooden Preston sign posted at the intersection of State Route 202 and the Upper Preston Road. The sign features two loggers holding a real crosscut saw above the name of the community and a few tiles list-
ing some of its businesses, all long since gone. What was missing from the sign, at first, was maintenance. “Just driving by, you couldn’t really see how deteriorated the men were getting. Then one day, their blade fell,” Lee said. See PRESTON MEN, 6
Snoqualmie City Council voted 4-3 on Monday, Oct. 14, against a merger of the city’s public works and parks departments. Council members Maria Henriksen, Bob Jeans, Charles Peterson and Jeff MacNichols voted against agenda bill 213, with members Bryan Holloway, Kingston Wall and Kathi Prewitt for the merger. City administration had proposed merging the jobs and adding a utilities manager, necessary to meet state codes and, possibly, an events coordinator. See DIRECTOR, 6
Classified workers request mediation Contract negotiations are not going well for the Upper Valley’s Public School Employees union. After two picketing sessions before and mass attendance at two meetings of the Snoqualmie Valley School Board, PSE members officially requested a mediator’s help last week. A Public Employee Relations Commission mediator, Robin Romeo, has been assigned to the negotiations between the district and the nearly 200 transportation, food service, custodial, maintenance and warehouse employees and various instructional assistants. See CLASSIFIED, 23
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