5 Years Ago
June 29, 2005
Enumclaw’s Audrey Mueller is all smiles Friday night during the American Cancer Society’s Enumclaw Relay For Life fund-raising walk. Mueller was one of 95 survivors to make the opening celebration lap around Goodwill Park in front of the Enumclaw Public Library. This year’s event raised close o $139,000 and organizers say donations are still trickling in.
Dagen Bendixen and Joanne Templeman defended their first-place finishes Saturday at the White River High cross country team’s 5K run before the Buckley Log Show. According to race organizer Jim Boyce, 160 runners and walkers turned out – the largest to date.
10 Years Ago
June 28, 2000
It looks like Shelly Thiel is leaving Enumclaw High School after 35 years. The Enumclaw School Board announced the longtime teacher, coach and athletic director was retiring last week. “Shelly has done some magnificent work at the state level,” said Superintendent Art Jarvis. “ I just hate to see him go.”
Quinton Josie wants to make the rodeo lifestyle his lifestyle. And the 15-year-old Enumclaw resident is well on his way to becoming a professional cowboy competing on the big circuit. “Rodeo is what I am going to do the rest of my life,” Josie said. “My goal is never to have a job, ever.” Josie already is an old hand at picking up paychecks at rodeos. The soon-to-be sophomore at Enumclaw High School took home $2,200 over Memorial Day Weekend for his work in Wenatchee rodeo.
25 Years Ago
June 27, 1985
On The Corner: Steve Zydek happy with a new job at Armstrong’s… Rex Amburgey hurring across Griffin and ducking traffic… A well tanned Vic Graham home from a winter in Arizona… And David Berner an early arrival at his Cole Street offices.
Photo: T.R. Bryden, who helped Enumclaw win a state title, is now helping the Edmonton Trappers of the Pacific Coast League win games. Bryden is one of two Enumclaw athletes in pro ball. The other is Glen Walker. Bryden makes his permanent home in Clarkston, Wash., with his wife Joan.
50 Years Ago
June 30, 1960
How it feels to face a flaming and searing death while pinned under an overturned farm tractor was related to a Courier-Herald reporter last week by William O’Grady, 57, of Enumclaw. O’Grady, employed by J.J. Okeson, dairy farmer living two miles west of Enumclaw, was operating the crawler-type tractor which was being used for compacting chopped silage in Ikeson’s bunker silo on the afternoon of June 22. O’Grady said he was driving the machine back and forth for the purpose of packing the silage when he neared one end of the bunker silo and the tractor suddenly tipped over and dropped about eight feet to the ground. The tractor fell in its side, pinning him against a large post, O’Grady said.
The first phase of a project that promises to solve in part the playground needs of Enumclaw youngsters was completed this week by the Enumclaw Lions Club with the installation of a baseball backstop and other appurtenances on the northwest corner of city-owned Montgomery Park. Even as workmen put the finishing touches to the all-steel backstop and as bulldozers were smoothing the infield, a small army of boys, mixed with a goodly sprinkling of girls, was impatiently waiting to get a game under way.
75 Years Ago
June 28, 1935
With the new Lafrombois building being erected at the corner of Wells Street and Griffin Avenue nearing completion, the formal celebration open house is set for next week end. The Owl Confectionery will be doing buisness today, the Shurfine Grocery will be open Monday, Mr. Swain announcing that Carl Geertson will be in charge with James Early handling the meat department, and Stewart’s Café will open as soon as booths and tables are installed.
Fourteen Enumclaw girls attended the state Rainbow convention at Spokane, including Mrs. Z.H. Maddux and Mrs. A.C. Johansen, advisors; Kay Randles, Betty Jean Maddux, Louise and Anna Johansen, Alice Neilsen, Lillian Yerxa, Virginia Goin, Dora Mae Johnson, Thelma Fulton, Edna Lou Benskin, Faye Johnson and Kathleen Caldwell.
