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Hotel project to start moving dirt PHOTOS
Clearing of 8-acre site in North Bend is prelude to construction Railroad Days: History keeps rolling during Snoqualmie’s summer party Page 7
A proposed development project along Bendigo Boulevard is scheduled to start this week. The eight-acre site will be cleared and graded in preparation for construction next year. The developer has obtained all local, state and federal permits and can proceed with clearing, grading and drainage system work, but has not submitted an application specifying the intended use of the property. Possible uses for the property include a hotel, restaurant and retail complex on about four of the acres. The remaining property will be open space. The project site is the southeast corner of the intersection of Bendigo Boulevard South and South Fork Avenue, downtown.
Valley’s Miss Washington Teen competes at nationals Page 9
INDEX Letters 4 5 Obituary 5 Calendar 8 Movie Times On the Scanner 11 Classifieds 11-14
Vol. 101, No. 13
Snoqualmie Police honor 6-year-old child living with chronic illness Six-year-old Nikos Cox, who lives with severe hemophilia, will be police chief for one very special day. Snoqualmie Police are taking part in “Chief For a Day,” an event that celebrates the lives of children who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening chronic illness. Valley cops will join 31 other law enforcement agencies this Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Washington NIKOS COX State Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien, in sponsoring a young “chief” or “sheriff.” SEE LITTLE CHIEF, 3
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Wine maker Steve Bailey of Snoqualmie’s Sigillo Cellars looks into a wine tank, just emptied as the winery had its 2012 vintage bottled via mobile bottling truck.
Meadowbrook vintages What’s inside Sigillo Cellars’ growing downtown Snoqualmie winery BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
About a dozen people spent a day in Snoqualmie last month bottling, labeling, packing and stacking roughly half of Sigillo Cellars’
output for the year. They worked steadily in the brilliant sunshine, condensing what used to be the work of days into an early morning and a long afternoon. It could almost have been a scene from the olden days, or maybe the Old World, where small family-run wineries called in all their friends and relations to help put up the vintage. SEE WINERY, 15
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