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Vol. 101, No. 17
Carnation going to the polls for more police coverage
Initial counts show pupil population rising in unexpected ways
40-cent measure gets drug house surveillance, extra night patrols
BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
Student enrollment is up, but not in the ways that Snoqualmie Valley School District staff were expecting this school year. Comparing start-ofyear enrollment numbers with the 2013-14 official count taken in October, staff reported that the number of student fulltime equivalents, or FTEs, has increased, and most significantly at the high school. Assistant co-Superintendent Ryan Stokes presented the preliminary enrollment information to the Snoqualmie Valley School Board at its Sept. 11 meeting, as part of the board's bond-planning process. He added that official projections would come from the district's professional demographer in October. Initial counts taken in the first week of school showed there were 54, or 3.2 percent more FTEs at the high school, 27 more in middle school (1.8 percent) and 75 more at the elementary schools (2.5 percent). Overall, the growth rate was 2.6 percent, slightly higher than the district's typical growth.
BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Congregations come together, above, as, from left, Anne Neilson, Colin Schneider, Diane Lindstrand, and Sandra Guthrie sing in a joint service between St. Clare’s Episcopal and Snoqualmie United Methodist churches. Snoqualmie Methodist celebrates its 125 anniversary this weekend. Below, Pastor Paul Mitchell fills goblets of juice for communion at Riverview Park. Bottom, the Methodist church when it was newly rebuilt in 1939.
Heritage of faith 125 years for Snoqualmie’s United Methodist Church BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor
“There’s age here,” says Marcia Reinert. “There’s wonder in these walls.” Reinert, a congregation member at Snoqualmie United Methodist Church, is right. The walls of the old downtown church do tell a tale. In the dining hall, Reinert points up to a ceiling beam that dates from the original 1926 structure, surviving a catastrophic fire. Upstairs, the bride’s room has launched uncounted weddings.
SEE SCHOOLS, 2
SEE 125 YEARS, 3
This time, Carnation may have gotten it right. Although a small majority of city voters have historically rejected any proposed tax increases for police services—the ‘no’ votes outnumbered the ‘yes’ by as few as 23 in the last three ballot measures—they could be the minority in November. Carnation’s Proposition 1 on the general election ballot is still a tax increase for police, but for increased coverage only. So, if voters approve the ballot measure in November, the city will have $70,000 to spend on things like extra night and weekend patrols and drug house surveillance, but not on the standard cost of the city’s service contract with the King County Sheriff ’s Office. “This would be for expanded coverage,” said Carnation City Manager Ken Carter, “not for normal inflation … the levy money cannot supplant existing general fund dollars.” SEE POLICE, 6
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