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Vol. 101, No. 18
A public meeting and presentation on Snoqualmie Valley Hospital’s possible affiliation and sale to Overlake Medical Center of Bellevue happens next week. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, at Snoqualmie City Hall, with a presentation by the district on the affiliation plan, and an update on new hospital construction. At 6:30 p.m., a public forum and community discussion follow. The district’s normal meeting will be held after the conclusion of the forum. This summer, the Valley’s King County Public Hospital District 4 announced it was in the midst of negotiations with Overlake for a sale of the new hospital. The district’s fivemember board of commissioners approved a letter of intent to pursue the sale on July 3. CEO Rodger McCollum told the Record in July that the sale is sought so that Valley health care can compete and survive, as part of a larger entity. The board must make a decision on the sale by a Monday, Oct. 6, deadline. City Hall is located at 38624 S.E. River St., downtown Snoqualmie.
Finally, a new school secretary contract Union, District 410 ink deal a year after old one expires BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
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Fall City artist Don Fels, foreground, and Kenneth Gregory Watson, in the far distance, adjust Fels’ new art installation, the Mary Louie Project, at Meadowbrook Farm—a curving row of poles that echo the changing seasons. The work honors Mary Louie, an influential Snoqualmie elder who lived nearly a century ago, who is portrayed at the site, below.
Sense of the season Meadowbrook art honors Snoqualmie Tribe member Marie Louie’s legacy BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
They started another school year without a valid employment contract, but the Snoqualmie Valley School District secretaries soon got one, with a unanimous vote. All 38 members of the Snoqualmie Valley Administrative Secretaries Association, or SVASA, voted Wednesday, Sept. 10, to accept a four-year contract with the district, union president Karen Seiser reported at the Sept. 11 school board meeting. SEE SECRETARIES, 8
Child rape charges filed against former Valley couple
It was intended as a short-term creation— and it will be, in the grand scheme—but the art work to be dedicated at 10 a.m., at Meadowbrook Farm Saturday, Sept. 27, is too timeless to be temporary. Begun as a site-specific installation funded by King County’s 4Culture, the Mary Louie Project, with its interplay of local history and culture and natural beauty, held such appeal for the Meadowbrook Farm board, artist Don Fels said, that board members asked him to make it permanent. “It was just supposed to be up for a couple weekends,” said Fels, who created the piece with former North Bend museum curator Kenneth G. Watson and Sammamish arts advocate Barbara Jirsa.
King County prosecutors have filed charges against a Fall City man and a Maple Valley woman for raping and molesting a young child over a nearly two-year period. Prosecutors filed charges Monday, Sept. 8, against Richard Stuart Trombley, 27, of Fall City, and Makayla Elaine Everson, 26, for rape of a child in the first degree.
SEE SEASON, 7
SEE CHARGES, 8
Fall City man accused of more than a year of abuse
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