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Hometown heritage
120 North Bend residents answer phone questions, say they’re satisfied but want savings
Friday, Saturday and Sunday August 17, 18 and 19, 2012 Historic Downtown Snoqualmie
FESTIVAL SCHOOLS
PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE VALLEY RECORD
Special section: Railroad Days returns with plenty of fun Pages 9-16
Future Mount Si freshman could be golf team’s secret weapon Page 7
Index Opinion 5 On the Scanner 8 16 Calendar 17 Obituaries Classifieds 19-20 Back to School 23
Vol. 99, No. 12
And the police survey says By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Summer refresher Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Young people frolic in the rainbow-tinted spray from a North Bend fire truck at the close of the Festival at Mount Si grand parade, Saturday, Aug. 11. Floats, youth clubs and bands, political candidates and local businesspeople marched, and thousands watched from the sidelines. See more Festival photos on page 2, or visit www.valleyrecord.com for a full slideshow.
Deeply connected
See SURVEY, 4
Busy night for vandals Teens arrested in theft, fire-setting rampage
Valley’s Jim and Lisa Schaffer are RR Days honorees
Two boys from North Bend, ages 14 and 17, were arrested Tuesday, Aug. 7, in connection with an early-morning spree of vandalism across several city blocks. North Bend Police Chief Toner describes the two-hour rampage as one of the worse cases of vandalism he’s seen in the Valley.
By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
After nine years as Snoqualmie’s police chief and 23 in the department, Jim Schaffer still remembers vividly the advice he got as a new chief from then-Mayor Randy “Fuzzy” Fletcher. “Keep your mouth shut, your head down, and your nose to the grindstone!” Schaffer says, laughing. See SCHAFFERS, 6
People in North Bend are extremely satisfied with their existing police service, according to a recent telephone survey. A majority of them would support the switch to another department, according to the same survey. Aren’t these contradictory findings? “I don’t think they are,” said North Bend City Administrator Londi Lindell. “Oftentimes, people can be very happy with what they have,” she continued, but something new could trigger their willingness to change, such as money, in this case.
JIM AND LISA SCHAFFER
See RAMPAGE, 21
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