Snoqualmie Valley Record, June 24, 2015

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Trail closed

Project work on Snoqualmie Valley Trail will last through October By CAROL LADWIG

Fun and sun at Fall City’s annual festival Page 3

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Part of the Snoqualmie Valley Trail north of Carnation is officially closed this week, and will be through October. It has to be closed, because right now, a small stretch of it doesn’t actually exist. The trail, along with trees and brush nearly to the shoulder of State Route 203, disappeared last Friday as contractors and heavy machines set to work on the 150-foot sliver of property encompassing riverbank, trail, state highway and hillside, between Stillwater and Northeast 124th Street. Their goal is to tear out a failing bank reinforcement, or revetment, and replace it with a steel structure.

Because of the narrow area, Chase Barton, the King County engineer managing the project said there was no feasible way to only partially close the trail. “They’ll actually have to dig out part of the embankment,” he said. The new revetment, anchored with 131 33-inchdiameter steel piles, 40 to 60 feet long and faced with thick sheet metal, won’t look much like the old one, although the main material used will be the same. According to photos from the Eastside Heritage Center collection, a project to support the riverbank in 1955 used old car bodies as building material. The bodies were inserted along the river across from the

Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo

King County staffer Robert Nunnenkamp discusses the Sinnema Quaale construction project that has closed the Snoqualmie Valley Trail between Stillwater and Duvall, and the challenges of working in such a narrow area, between a river and state highway. Sinnema and Quaale farms and secured with cables anchored into the hillside. Huge old tree stumps were also used, Barton said, as he led a group on a tour

of the project in early June. “One of the things you can say about farmers is they’re resourceful,” said King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, on the tour.

King County has owned the trail, an old railroad bed stretching from Duvall to the Iron Horse State Park trail, since 1977. SEE TRAIL, 2

From students to seniors

Bob Newhart brings his class act to Snoqualmie Casino Page 9

Kingsbury-Comeau adds her skills to Mount Si Senior Center toolbox

INDEX Opinion 5 On the Scanner 6 19 Puzzles Classifieds 21-24 26-27 Calendar

By ALLYCE ANDREW Staff Reporter

Vol. 102, No. 5 Allyce Andrew/Staff Photo

Susan Kingsbury-Comeau poses for a photo outside the front doors of the Mount Si Senior Center.

Mount Si Senior Center recently welcomed a new executive director, Susan Kingsbury-Comeau. “A large part of what I will be doing is fundraising for the senior center, which is really something new in the executive director role,” Kingsbury-Comeau explained over the din of seniors on the center’s Wii bowling team, playing outside her new office. “What’s great is

that I’ve been a fundraiser with the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation.” Kingsbury is finishing up her two-year run as volunteer president of the foundation this month, and has spent the last seven years administering grants and scholarships for the Bellevue College Foundation. She said her fundraising experience was a skill the senior center intentionally searched for in candidates for the position. The center plans to raise money for renovations to “spruce up” the interior and, ultimately, construct a new building for the thrift store to free up some room in its current space. SEE DIRECTOR, 8

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