Five Years Ago
June 30, 2004
Enumclaw Cub Scout’s Tommy Crews, Jimmy Schweter, Collin Perry and Mathew Rigg were among the 18,000 Scouts to attend the “Hands Across The Border” celebration June 12 and 13 at the International Peace Arch in Blaine, Wash., near the Canadian border.
Tim Gary won the 31st Annual Buckley Log Show all-around logger award for the sixth time Sunday afternoon, earning 47 points in the two-day event… This year’s Sportsmanship Award went to Wes Bruhn. Kevin Hill won the Most Effort Award.
Enumclaw brothers Jake and Connor Treat rode to the senior and junior boys all-around championships Sunday afternoon at the Enumclaw Junior Rodeo.
Ten Years Ago
June 30, 1999
A pilot project to give Enumclaw High School seniors open campus privileges for lunchtime was so successful this past year school officials are expanding it in the fall to include juniors.
When Father Gary Zender performs Mass today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, he will be saying goodbye to the parishioners who instantly made him feel welcome here when he arrived six years ago. Zender, 41, starts his new job Thursday at the helm of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Renton.
Twenty-five Years Ago
June 28, 1984
While the world outside slowly awakens each weekday morning, Lee Holm can be found in a world all her own. And while it may not seem glamorous, it certainly has been important to her life. Mrs. Holm’s other world is the Enumclaw swimming pool, where every day beginning at 6:30 a.m., she puts in lap after lap. Her workouts, which are far from being just recreational, range from 1,800 to 2,600 yards a day. But then again, long-distance swimming is the specialty of this 69-year-old masters Swimmer.
Dolly Newumann of Enumclaw took home the Judges Award and the Outstanding Ceramic Achievement Award (OCCA) at the Washington State Ceramics Association Show in Monroe June 15, 16, and 17. Newmann’s winning piece took about a year to put together, “It’s carved out of many different pieces,” she said. “But the pop can and Nestle’s Crunch bar, the grass and mushrooms are all done by hand.”
Fifty Years Ago
July 2, 1959
Joe Mehelich, manager of the Enumclaw golf course, gives special instruction to seven of the more than 35 youngsters who came out for free golf lessons last week. Joe was so enthusiastic about the unexpectedly large turnout of the younger set that he gave an additional day’s instruction, and reports that, “We’ll see some real golfers develop from that bunch.”
They didn’t drive a golden spike to mark the event, but when the blunt nose of Number 26, eastbound for the Twin Cities and Chicago, pushed through a narrow ribbon Sunday afternoon, a dream of 25 years reached its culmination. The occasion marked the opening of the new Northern Pacific railroad relocation along the Green River in the vicinity of Kanaskat. The fourteen miles of new mainline has been under construction for the past three years as the major cost item in the Howard A. Hanson dam project.
Seventy-five Years Ago
July 6, 1934
Congratulations from Little America, how does that sound? Quite thrilling isn’t it? That was the thrill experienced by Mr. and Mrs. G.N. Allman, (Miss Mable Hodges) shortly after their marriage last month. The telegram was from O. Blackburn, college chum of Mr. Allman, who is a geologist with the Byrd expedition and the receipt marks long distance records for congratulations!
H.J. Gilbert, well-known local automobile mechanic, has bought the Union Oil Company station at the corner of Porter and Washington.
It will be Hizzoner Herman Belander of Cole Street against Clarence Lafromboise, likewise, of the principal thoroughfare for the city golf championship next Sunday.
