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4 weeks ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
The city of North Bend has put out a request for proposal, soliciting bids for future policing services within the city. North Bend put out the request for proposal on March 14, “seeking proposals from qualified entities to provide local policing services,” according to the request for proposal document. Interested parties have until 5 p.m. March 31 to submit a written proposal and will be required to give a presentation to North Bend City Council at a work study April 8.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
March 22Duvall Holi Celebration, 1-4 p.m.: The city of Duvall is hosting its first celebration of Holi, a Hindu festival known as the Festival of Colors. The afternoon at Depot Park will include music, dance, cultural performances, food and play with color. All are welcome. Daddy-daughter disco dance, 6-8 p.m.: Si View Metro Parks is hosting a daddy-daughter disco fever dance at the Si View Park Community Center. The evening will include a live DJ, disco decor, dancing, food and a photobooth.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
Christina Lathrop has dedicated her life to the legacy of animals — first, as a veterinary technician, and now, as a photographer who documents the bond between people and their pets. Lathrop owns Beyond the Stables, a photography business she runs on her farm in Fall City. Lathrop has been building up her photography skills for several years and officially opened her business two years ago.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
The creators behind North Bend Art & Industry are now creating a multi-disciplinary maker space unlike anything the Snoqualmie Valley has seen. Art & Industry, a 501(c)(3) founded in 2018, has moved into and is renovating its new Center for Creativity at 1533 Bendigo Blvd. N. The 13-person board of directors hopes to provide access to as many arts as possible, from writing to woodworking, sewing and cooking.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
A new Snoqualmie organization has a goal of fostering well-rounded living by providing mental, physical and spiritual care — to name a few. The Snoqualmie Valley Healing Center had a ribbon-cutting ceremony March 12 at its new home in downtown Snoqualmie. Chaplain Patti Yetneberk and five other board members operate the Snoqualmie Valley Healing Center out of a rental house on SE Park Street.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
Feral Woman FarmOn a typical day, Lulu Redder can be found in the fields beneath Mount Si, tending to her flock of animals with her toddler daughter, Rosie, by her side. Redder raises, processes and sells pasture-raised pork and chicken through her business, Feral Woman Farm. She leases six acres at the Tollgate Farm Park, a 410-acre historic property in North Bend that functions as a community park and a working farmstead. Here, Redder cares for chickens, pigs, goats, bunnies, ducks and alpacas.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
March 14Cascade Enrichment ribbon cutting, 1:45-3:45 p.m.: Cascade Enrichment, a tutoring center, is having a ribbon cutting for its new location, 35314 SE Center St., in Snoqualmie Ridge with the SnoValley Chamber of Commerce. The event will be Pi Day themed and include light refreshments, as well as activities. All are welcome. Trad night at Saints and Scholars, 6:30-9:30 p.m.: As part of its 2025 Irish Week, Saints and Scholars Irish Pub in Snoqualmie Ridge (7726 Center Blvd.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
Tucked away under mossy trees in the hills above Carnation lives a village where it’s been the year 1376 since 1981. At Camlann Medieval Village, a nonprofit and living history museum, volunteer interpreters don character personalities as though they are in 14th Century rural England. Each interpreter has a skill — like carpentry or wool dying or pottery — which guests will see them carrying out in character. The property is scattered with cottages, a village inn and other authentic structures.
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1 month ago | 
valleyrecord.com | Grace Gorenflo
In the early hours of March 16, 2020, pastor Jeff Hansen awoke to the sound of pounding fists on his front door. Duvall Police had come to tell him that his church was fully engulfed in flames. Within an hour, the 107-year-old building and home of Adventure Church was gone. Almost five years to the day later, on March 17, 2025, construction will begin on a new church at the corner of NE Stella Street and Broadway Avenue NE.
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1 month ago | 
kirklandreporter.com | Grace Gorenflo
Avian influenza is not unusual in North America, but its recent staying power is. The current outbreak of avian influenza (H5N1), also known as bird flu, began in 2022 and is different from other outbreaks, said Katherine Haman, wildlife veterinarian for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). Historically, she said, bird flu outbreaks were primarily concentrated in domestic poultry, which allowed agricultural departments to take action to end the outbreak.
