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Jazz band rocks
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Mount Si selected for return to Ellington Trumpeter Swan deaths reported in Carnation-Fall City Page 3
By CAROL LADWIG Editor
They were just selected for one of the most prestigious youth jazz events in the country, and for a second time, but the Mount Si High School Jazz Band I is, on the Monday after spring break, all business, no celebration. A group of 15 students, assembled at 6:30 a.m., is working away
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Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Mount Si High School Jazz Band I director Matt Wenman, right, cues his students in rehearsal for the band’s upcoming “Hot Java Cool Jazz” concert performance. Last week, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced that Mount Si was chosen for a return trip to the annual Essentially Ellington festival.
Two months away
Senior Mulligan earns state wrestling champion title at Mount Si Page 10
New Snoqualmie Valley Hospital slated to open soon By ALLYCE ANDREW Staff Reporter
INDEX Opinion 4 On the Scanner 5 13 Puzzles Classifieds 16-18 19 Calendar
Vol. 101, No. 40 Allyce Andrew/Staff Photo
Snoqualmie Valley Hospital CEO, Rodger McCollum gives a quick tour of the new hospital, slated to open May 6, on Snoqualmie Ridge.
The new Snoqualmie Valley Hospital is rising at a rapid rate and doors are slated to open for patients on Wednesday, May 6. Rodger McCollum, District CEO, laid out the hospital’s vision from its inception to the freshly painted walls of its current incarnation. The staff started dreaming of renovations nearly a decade ago, but began construction after a groundbreaking ceremony in September 2013. “About seven or eight years ago, we looked at expanding the old hospital because we were too full then,” McCollum explained. “We only have 14 patient rooms in the old hospital, so it really is very small in today’s world. The board looked at a lot of different alternatives and decided that it probably made sense to start over.” SEE HOSPITAL, 3
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