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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS
What counts Relay for Life Snoqualmie Valley is bigger than a numbers game By CAROL LADWIG
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Numbers are important in the Relay for Life Snoqualmie Valley, held over the weekend. The 14th annual fundraiser featured 43 teams, and six of them were allyouth teams. More than 300 people participated in teams ranging in size from two to 20-plus. The event raised $62,000 and counting. Yet for the people who actually walked in the 18-hour marathon event, it’s not about numbers at all. For David and Paula Fielder, walking in their first Relay in their first year in North Bend, it’s about family. Paula’s brother, a red-haired firefighter who inspired the team name, Team Fireball, has been fighting two forms of cancer since the fall. And in the last two weeks, too late to get her name added to the team’s T-shirts, Paula’s sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since she wasn’t on the T-shirt,
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Relay for Life committee member Deanna Haverfield leads a line of purple-shirted cancer survivors in the first lap of the Relay for Life Snoqualmie Valley, held Saturday and Sunday at North Bend’s Torguson Park. Paula wore a feather boa — pink Just a team of two, the couple was ing friends from their motorcycle for breast cancer awareness — in already planning to expand their club. her honor. presence in the 2016 Relay, recruit-
More repairs for trail bridge
Recently opened bridge on Snoqualmie Valley Trail to close July 20 to 31 for bridge work A safety project to replace rotted portions of the Meadowbrook Bridge along King County Parks’ Snoqualmie Valley Trail will require a two week closure of the trail, July 20-31. The repairs were identified this spring, when county staff replaced a wooden staircase that had
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been damaged in a May 27, 2014 arson incident, but were not related to the damage from the fire. The fire most significantly affected the north staircase, which was closed until repairs were completed this spring. “It was very bad, we removed every bit of it,” said Jason Rich, construction project manager with King County Parks. The bridge remained accessible from the south side in the past year. When repairs start next week, the southern access to the bridge will be cut off, and the bridge will be closed. However, Rich said, the north staircase will still be accessible. People can walk up to the bridge, but not onto it, during the repairs.
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A blaze that damaged the pedestrian bridge over the Snoqualmie River occurred May 27, 2014.
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