Valley Record SNOQUALMIE
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 n Daily updates at www.valleyrecord.com n 75 cents
Vanishing signs
Back to polls, again, for Si View
Election season marked by candidate signs disappearing By Carol Ladwig
BE READY
SPORTS
Staff Reporter
Hunters on the line: A look at Mount Si football’s human wall Page 26
Winter section shares ways to be ready for the big wet one See inside
Index Letters Out of the Past Movie Times On The Scanner Obituary Calendar
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Vol. 100, No. 23
It’s a spooky time of year for election signs. The ubiquitous “vote for” placards posted throughout the Valley have been mysteriously disappearing in places, never to be seen again. So what dark forces snatched up most of Marci Busby’s signs from Fall City two weeks ago, or picked off her opponent David Spring’s signs within the hour they were posted in a North Bend neighborhood? We’ll probably never know, because neither Snoqualmie nor North Bend police have received many reports on the disappearances—a typical sign costs under $5, so it’s hard to think of as a theft —and if they did, they wouldn’t have much to investigate. “The police said that, since there was no eyewitness, that nothing could be done,” Spring wrote in an e-mail to the Record, referring to a report he filed, not so much for his missing sign, but to report collateral damage to a nearby street sign. See SIGNS, 7 Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
It’s a time of change for Fall City’s Fire District 27, which is going to the polls this fall for its first maintenance and operations levy. Right, Fall City firefighters and commissioners gather in front of the station’s oldest vehicle, a 23-year-old Pierce Lance engine, slated for replacement under the levy. Pictured are, at rear, firefighters Brett Krache, Joe Springer and Marcus Noble; front, commissioners Eric Hollis and Lilly Hansen.
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Royals for a day Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
David Butler and Sami Kieffer walk off the Mount Si football field with crowns and a regal bouquet, just named Homecoming king and queen of the high school. They were among 16 students named to the annual court at Mount Si High School. Read more about the royals on page 9.
In a tight economy, the Si View Metropolitan Parks District has twice successfully gone to its voters to preserve its funding. This year is no different, in that Si View has a Prop. 1 on the ballot, but in terms of what Si View returns on that investment, it’s already been a lot different. “Have we expanded? Well, we really just refined what we currently run,” says Executive Director Travis Stombaugh. “We don’t have more offerings, but we serve more people. Each program has gotten bigger and bigger.” The parks district, serving about 40,000 residents in North Bend, unincorporated Snoqualmie, Fall City and the Lower Valley, has had about 112,000 participants in one or more of its programs so far this year. See SI VIEW, 7
Holding the line Fall City floats first M&O levy after annexations take a toll By Seth Truscott Editor
You don’t just hop in a hovercraft and zoom away. “It takes a lot of training to be able to operate it,” explains firefighter Brett Krache, as he shows me the Fall City Fire District’s big fan-powered rescue craft. In some situations, like floods, it’s too dangerous to ply the Snoqualmie River with an outboard motor. So the department trains at ballfields and the river with the hovercraft. And that takes time. See FIRE LEVY, 8
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