Snoqualmie Valley Record, October 07, 2015

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Snoqualmie’s new Fisher Creek Park got design input from the experts By EVAN PAPPAS

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The children of Snoqualmie now have a brand new place to play as the Fisher Creek Park had its official grand opening and ribbon cutting on Friday, Oct. 2. The event featured live music, free food provided by the Snoqualmie Police and Fire Departments, a fire engine showcase, and of course, kids’ play time on the brand new playground equipment. Lizzy Billington, events and economic development consultant for Snoqualmie, explained that the park was put together based on suggestions from the children who would be using the park. “This park was only a rock climbing wall for a very long time and the city came in and they brought in the Girl Scouts and asked them what they want in a park,” Billington said. “So they picked out all these different things. There are

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Parker Jones, 10, rides the zip line at the newly opened Fisher Creek Park. The zip line was a limited success, since the ends were incorrectly installed at equal heights. Mayor Matt Larson said before the ribbon cutting that the zip lines will be fixed. See more photos of the park opening on our website, www.valleyrecord.com. eight slides, there’s a spider ball, there’s a merry-go-round, there are 100-foot-long dual zip lines.” The park is also themed in blue and green, the colors of the Seahawks. Billington said they

Small plane crashes in Fall City

A plane crashed early Friday evening in Fall City, near the S.R. 202/203 roundabout, in a field behind the Fall City Bistro. The pilot, a 39-year-old Fall City man, was transported to a hospital with significant, but not life-threatening injuries. “He was conscious, alert, talking to us,” said Lt. Jake Koehnen, the Fall City Fire Department spokesperson and incident commander for the response on Saturday. “He had been pulled out by bystanders,” Koehnen added. Fall City Fire responded to the crash site at about 6:30 p.m. Friday, Koehnen said, along with several King County Sheriff ’s

brought in those colors for fun and to show a bit of team spirit. Among the many parents and children in attendance were Mayor Matt Larson, Parks and Public Works Director Dan Marcinko,

deputies, who were there to control traffic in the area. A representative from the National Traffic Safety Board was on site as well, investigating the crash. “With any place crash, the NTSB investigates,” Koehnen explained, so the large response from King County was not unusual. “They need to make sure the scene is controlled.” Koehnen added that luckily, one of the deputies was a pilot, who knew how to shut off the plane’s power system. “There was some haste to get him out of there, because there was quite a bit of fuel on the ground,” Koehnen said. No fire started, and no cause of the crash has been determined; Koehnen said the plane had “cartwheeled a little bit” during the crash. Officials confirmed the pilot was the only person in the plane.

Police Chief Steve McCulley, and Fire Chief Mark Correira. The main event was a speech from the mayor, thanking everyone for their support and a cutting of the ribbon to officially open the park.

Candidate forum is tonight at North Bend Theater Candidates for North Bend City Council will answer questions on important city issues at the candidate forum tonight, starting at 6 p.m. at North Bend Theater. The forum is free to attend. Five city positions will be on the November ballot, mayor, and city council positions 1, 3, 5 and 7. Candidates for mayor are incumbent Ken Hearing and write-in candidate Mary Miller. Jonathan Rosen is unnopposed for position 1. Trevor Kostanich is running against incumbent Dee Wayne Williamson for position 3. Brenden Elwood opposes incumbent David Cook for position 5. Judy Bilanko and Martin Volken are both running for position 7.

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