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First look at a high school upgrade
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Mount Si High School would get new buildings, 2,000 students, in latest options By Carol Ladwig
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Staff Reporter
Eight years and at least $100 million from now, Mount Si High School could well be the most-populated high school in Washington state. That’s assuming that Snoqualmie Valley School Board members decide to pursue one of the options for a high school remodel, presented at their Dec. 13 work session.
What a year it was: Remembering 2012 in photos Pages 8, 9
See options, 15
With dunks, passes, Mount Si’s basketball team plays as a true group Page 10
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Braving the snow to place signs announcing a warm weekly meal, Mike Walter, a member of North Bend Community Church, serves the needy at a special hot lunch and gift-giving event Wednesday, Dec. 19, at the church. Below, among the volunteers ensuring a merrier holiday for local homeless are Harold Erland, Cindy and John Altheide, Michelle and Michael Walter. The weekly hot lunch rotates among area churches.
Holiday for the homeless
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Churches, Salvation Army come together with food, gifts, and care
Snoqualmie man Nate Gunderson’s quest for a new heart led to a book by his wife, Genevieve Ruth.
By Seth Truscott
Snoqualmie woman pens personal story of family’s transplant experience
Editor
The snow is blowing fiercely as Mike Walter hikes down Ballarat Avenue to the main road, a sandwichboard sign in hand reading “Free hot food.” I am shivering, but this New York state native is bred to conditions much colder. In his sweatshirt, he’s plenty warm as he plops down the sign, hopefully to resist this wind as well has he does. “I have a service heart,” See CARE, 15
Finding the light By Seth Truscott Editor
‘Catchlight’ is a term of the photographer’s art: “It’s the twinkle you see in a subject’s eye,” says Genevieve Ruth. A portrait photographer by trade, and a Snoqualmie wife and mother, Ruth had to find the light in her own life when things turned dark for her family three years ago. See LIGHT, 6
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