Valley Record SNOQUALMIE
101RS YEA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS
Creating connection Snoqualmie considers trail system project to connect city attractions By CAROL LADWIG
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Mount Si gymnasts mark final home meet, senior night Page 6
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Mason Ostheimer, top photo, left, declared the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 12th Man Tailgate Party last Friday the “best party ever.” He and his boa’ed friend, Colby Heyting, above, right entered the competitive costume contest, of course. Heyting’s comment: “Skittles everywhere!” Left: A beaming Katie, winner of the costume contest, shows off her cosMORE PHOTOS tume for an ONLINE admiring www.valleyrecord.com crowd.
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Vol. 101, No. 37
More than 1 million people visit Snoqualmie Falls each year, bringing spending money, and economic stimulation with them. They don’t necessarily visit the city of Snoqualmie, though. Changing that pattern is the goal of an extensive project, already one year in, to develop Snoqualmie itself as a tourist destination. Snoqualmie’s City Council was updated on the project Monday, Jan. 26, when planning consultant Brent Harley presented the Snoqualmie Riverwalk master plan. Broadly, the plan is to create a series of trails along and across the Snoqualmie River, connecting historic downtown and the mill pond area with traffic generated by Snoqualmie Falls. Possible features include a pedestrian bridge across the Snoqualmie River at River Street, a gateway at the Snoqualmie Parkway intersection with S.R. 202, paved and gravel trails circling Borst Lake and connecting to the Falls viewing area and passing through natural areas and downtown as they link to the Snoqualmie Valley Trail at Tokul Road and the Meadowbrook Bridge. Harley was enthusiastic about the potential for development at several sites, such as a town focal point SEE WALK, 2
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