Snoqualmie Valley Record, December 30, 2015

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Valley Record SNOQUALMIE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2015 n DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.VALLEYRECORD.COM n 75 CENTS

1021 S YEAR

From fires to flooding

REVIEW

PHOTOS

New buildings, wildland fires and Valley flooding dominate 2015 headlines

News-making photos from throughout the year Pages 2-3, 6-7

Editorial cartoons sum up the year 2015 Page 4

The year 2015 brought a new hospital, a bond for new schools, a raft of awards, and a slate of new city officials to the Valley. It also brought visitors from Snoqualmie’s sister cities in Korea and Peru, new parks, an improved Si View Community Center and a new irrigation district to help farmers deal with too-much or too-little water. The new things weren’t always good, though, such as the Tokul Roundabout construction and consequent protests, the condemnation process the school district started to pursue a remodeled high school, or the record-setting drought and wildland fire season that followed, affecting the entire state. As the year comes to a close, we took a look back at its happenings, and invite you to do the same in the following pages. Jan. 7: Taking care of people North Bend resident Amy Biggs was named the 2014 North

Allyce Andrew/Staff Photo

Scott Fleming, Fall City Fire, cuts into a log during a fire-protection training drill held this summer in Carnation. Bend Citizen of the Year. Biggs, the director of Snoqualmie Valley Transportation, was recognized for her work on the on-demand shuttle service between North Bend, Snoqualmie and Fall City. Mayor Ken Hearing described her as some-

one you can count on to go above and beyond the call of duty. Jan. 14: Parks pioneer Mary Norton was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the city of Snoqualmie for her decades of work preserving and managing

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Annual Hour Students teach students computer skills in annual program

INDEX Puzzles Letters Schools Classifieds Calendar

parks in the Upper Valley. Norton helped secure funding to buy Meadowbrook Farm in 1996 and she helped the city develop its first parks comprehensive plan.

By EVAN PAPPAS

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Staff Reporter

Vol. 102, No. 32 Evan Pappas/Staff Photo

Teacher Kyle Warren assists Kaylee Reynolds with an Hour of Code exercise.

Children in the Snoqualmie Valley School district got a lesson in tech the week of Dec. 10, when Mount Si High School’s Hour of Code student helpers made their way out to elementary and middle schools in the Snoqualmie Valley. High schoolers gave lessons and demos to introduce children to the world of computer science. Kyle Warren, computer science and robotics teacher at Mount Si High School, led the program with a group of his students as they went from school to school, teaching programming to children. Warren said the program was started three years ago by code.org, a non-profit based in Seattle. SEE HOUR, 8

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