5 Years Ago
March 30, 2005
For four women Saturday night’s NCAA Division II women’s basketball championship game in Arkansas was the highlight of a long basketball career that started in Enumclaw and Buckley. Seattle Pacific University may not have been able to muster enough offense at the wire to beat Washburn, but the trek to the finals will be hard to forget for Enumclaw High graduates Jenny Poe, Beth Christensen and Jesse Christenson and White River’s Trisha Hermanson, all members of the Falcons’ roster.
10 Years Ago
March 29, 2000
Don’t try to tell the Enumclaw High School Knowledge Bowl team anything. Those guys already know it all. Well, that could be a slight overstatement, but the Hornets did know enough to win the state championship Saturday in Camas. The team of Royce Petschauer, Jacob Spangler, Luke Petschauer, Remy Murphy and Jeremy Fisher outsmarted 17 other state qualifiers in the 4A round-robin tournament to bring home the big trophy.
King Feed has a new home and a new owner. The feed store has moved into the former Darigold Feed Co. building a 23417 S.E. 436th Ave., giving it room to expand its inventory and carry more gardening and horse tack. The move comes not long after the store’s purchase by Elenbaas, a local, family-owned feed company. That sale took place Feb. 1. The King Feed name will remain on the sign, but the company is now called, King Feed – A Division of Elenbaas Company Inc. As the familiar name remains, so too, do the original owners, Bill Meiser and Wally Strickland, who have stayed on to run the store.
25 Years Ago
March 28, 1985
Forty-three-and-a-half years ago Cy Williams started at the bottom at the First National Bank in Enumclaw. He worked as a teller, a bookkeeper and ran the safe deposit box section. This week he will retire as the bank’s president. Cy’s rise to the top rung of the ladder began back in 1941. Back then, many high school graduates did not always go to college.
Photo: Pygmy goats giving birth to four pygmy kids is a rarity, but that happened on the Enumclaw Plateau March 16 when “Mz. Grey” gave birth to quadruplets.
50 Years Ago
March 31, 1960
Martin Strom, director of activities at the King County Recreation Park one mile east of the city on the Chinook Pass highway, announced this week that he is resigning from his position as of April 1, 1960. Director of activities at the popular recreation center for two and one-half years, Strom has initiated a program of recreation that has not only drawn highly favorable comment from the citizenry of Enumclaw and surrounding area, but also from Strom’s superiors in the King County Parks Department.
75 Years Ago
March 25, 1935
This week the Krain Ballroom will be the scene of another of their popular dances featuring Walter Melhart and his Admirals of Music which made such a big hit with the dancing public here three weeks ago.
Gene Groesbeck, manager of the Avalon Theatre, wishes to call the attention of theatergoers to the earlier starting time of the famous picture “David Copperfield.” The first show will start at 6:45 sharp and the second at 9:15.
