Valley Record SNOQUALMIE
Wildcats, Red Wolves winter team previews, schedules Pages 9-12
Get loose: Si students stage the story of a town that couldn’t dance Page 7
INDEX Letters 4 7 Movie Times 7 Puzzles 19 Calendar 14 Obituary Classifieds 16-18
Vol. 101, No. 29
Alpine Lakes bill almost there
Remodel in the cards for Si View North Bend’s community center adding classrooms, safety and storage fixes
North Bend river protection bill proceeds to Senate
BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
By Valley Record Staff
The U.S. Senate will vote this week on a bill to, among other things, protect 22,000 acres of forest land on the Snoqualmie Middle Fork, and 40 miles of rivers. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which included these protections, named the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Addition, the Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act, and the Illabot Creek Wild and Scenic River Act. “We are elated to see the Alpine Lakes and Illabot proposals for new Wilderness and Wild and Scenic River protections pass the full House,” said Tom Uniack, Conservation Director for Washington Wild. He was especially pleased with the timing, in the 50th anniversary year of the Wilderness Act. SEE LAKES BILL, 5
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Holding pieces made from cans and wire, Diane and Phil Garding show off a small portion of the hundreds of nativity sets they’ve collected over the past 25 years. The North Bend couple have more than 300 nativities, from dozens of countries, selecting handmade crafts with stories to tell, such as an African nativity (pictured below) made from recycled bullet casings. They show 90 of their finds at the Bellevue Festival of the Nativity.
Heart of the nativity
hardly cute. This one is not exactly Diane Garding’s favorite. But she’s bringing it, as she does every year, to the Bellevue Festival of the Nativity, along with 89 other nativity sets she’s collected from around the world.
North Bend couple share 90 of their 300-plus collection of nativity scenes with Eastside
SEE NATIVITY, 3
BY SETH TRUSCOTT Editor
It’s not your typical nativity set. Brightly colored strips of aluminum— former Fanta, Coke and fruit juice cans—coalesce into a wiry-haired Mary, Joseph, Jesus, wise men and a crocodile. As nativity scenes go, it’s metallic, and
Si View Community Center staff is planning a remodel that will increase not only the lifespan of the 76-year-old landmark building, but also the amount of useable space inside it. The project goals include replacing the flooring in the gym and lobby, adding storage and classroom space, and many safety improvements, but no changes to the building’s current footprint. Instead, the existing space will be reconfigured, interior walls moved, and room dividers added in the gym and stage areas to allow the already-full building some flexibility in its programming. “We’re busting the seams,” says Si View Director Travis Stombaugh, but that’s nothing new. The district has already expanded into Meadowbrook Farm, the Mount Si Senior Center and area schools with some programming—they run both adult and youth recreation programs, including basketball, dance, and after-school activities—and recently signed a contract with North Bend for management and program use of the North Bend Railroad Depot. With only three classrooms in the building, the district is always looking for more room, Stombaugh said, and after the remodel, “we’re really gaining two full programming spaces.” SEE SI VIEW, 13
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