Valley Record SNOQUALMIE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS
Bond appetite School district survey to assess community support for facilities bond BY CAROL LADWIG
We will not forget them: Valley Memorial Day in photos Page 8
District champs! NEWS
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Families give North Bend’s Torguson Park a good makeover Page 10
INDEX Opinion 4 On the Scanner 6 11 Obituaries Classifieds 12-14 15 Movie Times 15 Calendar
Vol. 101, No. 1
Mount Si fastpitch players Rachel Picchena and Britney Stevens, foreground, leave the field following their 10-0 round-two win at the SeaKing District softball tournament, Wednesday, May 21, at Seattle’s Lower Woodland Park. Mount Si beat three contenders, Eastside Catholic, Bainbridge and Juanita, to claim the team’s district title. Now, it’s on to state. Mount Si plays Friday and Saturday at Lacey’s Regional Athletic Complex. The Mount Si girls have gone to state three times in four years. See more photos on page 9.
A long-awaited community survey on school facilities starts May 28 in the Snoqualmie Valley School District. The telephone survey is intended to gauge local taxpayers’ feelings on a complex $224 million bond proposal, to give the school board its marching orders on facilities planning. “I think we have to make this decision before school gets out this year… “ said board member Carolyn Simpson at the May 15 board meeting, and when the board receives the survey results, “I want us to be able… to say ‘go’ or ‘no go.’” The subject of the decision is Option A, an eight-year plan that would build a new elementary school by 2016-17, renovate Mount Si High School with the potential to bring the freshmen class back to the main campus by 2018, and make various updates and repairs to each of the other school buildings within the district. SEE BOND, 3
Essentially amazing Mount Si Jazz Band brings home honors and inspiration from New York jazz festival BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
Only jazz mattered for the hundreds of high school students who went to Essentially Ellington this year—jazz, and the people who played it. “Everybody’s there for the music,” said JT Hartman, one of the 20 Mount Si Jazz Band members who recently returned from the prestigious event this year. “The whole thing was a really great experience.” Inspiring, too. “It just made me want to do more,” said Mount Si bass player Christian Henriksen, “I want to listen to more jazz, and keep playing it, to get better…. once we left, I was ready to go back!” SEE JAZZ BAND, 5
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Back home after their New York City trip, Mount Si High School jazz musicians ready for their Jazz at the Club fundraiser.
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