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Hidden in flowers
New mural to introduce Fall City’s hidden cultures BY CAROL LADWIG
Parade winners and highlights of ‘epic’ Festival at Mount Si Page 2
Snoqualmie’s Railroad Days brings steam power Page 9
INDEX Opinion 5 7 Puzzles 7 Obituary 22 Calendar On the Scanner 23 Classifieds 17-20
Vol. 101, No. 12
Each spring and summer, a group of Valley farmers works diligently at the land, bringing up gorgeous crops of dahlias and lilies, tulips and irises. Then they go out and sell them, at roadside stands and in farmers markets from here to Pike’s Place. The farmers are easily overlooked amid their lavish bouquets. “They really have a pretty big presence, but a lot of people living here
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A proposed mural in Fall City will feature flowers grown by local Hmong farmers, part of the Fall City Arts project to highlight hidden communities in the area. Actually, those communities are here, but they’re nearly invisible to other cultures, so Fall City Arts decided to center a project on one
of three, the Snoqualmie Tribe, the Hispanic culture or the Hmong
Night Out: Where police work meets families Snoqualmie Police hosted their second annual National Night Out, Tuesday, Aug. 5. The event helped police and local families make connections for safety. Children also thrilled to the all-terrain vehicles, fire engines and a real police dog. “We wanted it to be a real family-oriented event,” said Snoqualmie officer James Sherwood, who helped organize the event. “We wanted to bring the community to the police department, for them to meet us, take a tour of the department.” “It’s nice to give something back, and bring them closer to us. We’re not just doing police work, but also events with the community,” Sherwood added.
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Henry Jones, 3, gets to handle specialized equipment nearly as big as he is, with help from Snoqualmie crew member Randall. Henry loves firefighters, says his mom, and dresses up like one most days.
Voters in the Aug. 5 primary election put many incumbents on the November general election ballot, along with a few local contenders. As of Tuesday, Aug. 12, in the U.S. Representatives race, Congressional District 8 Rep. Dave Reichert (R) received 36,085 votes, or 59 percent of the total. His challenger in November will be Jason Ritchie (D) of Issaquah, who received 19,555 votes, 32 percent. For the Representative seats in the State Legislature, Jay Rodne (R) of Snoqualmie will defend his Position SEE PRIMARY, 7
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don’t know anything about them,” said Arika Rapson, the chairperson of a Fall City Arts project intending to change that fact. They are Hmong farmers, mostly immigrants from Laos, Rapson said, and there are about 30 flower farms in and around Fall City. That’s more than enough to make them a community, and one that Fall City Arts wants to shine a light on. With the goal of covering the city’s increasing amounts of racist and obscene graffiti, the organization pursued and received grant funding from 4Culture’s Interagency Collaborative Projects fund. The grant called for a multicultural project, which was almost a challenge. Arts member Sharlet Driggs remembered early conversations around the idea that “We don’t have any ethnic communities in this area — which was surprising and disturbing at the same time.”