5 Years Ago
June 15, 2005
Thursday was a big day for Buckley and Plateau baseball. Two White River High School players – one a senior, the other a former Hornet – were selected in the Major League Baseball draft. Selected were senior right-handed pitcher/shortstop Jason Erickson and 2003 graduate, A.J. Huttenlocker, a left-handed pitcher.
Jake Treat and Shawn Segerman aren’t ones to toot their own horn, but the pair of local rodeo kids have qualified for the National High School Rodeo Association finals July 18-24 in Gillette, Wyo. For the second year in a row, the 17-year-old Treat, from Enumclaw, has captured the Washington Stat High School Rodeo Association steer wrestling title. Segerman, 18, a senior at White River High, qualified at the state contest with top performances in breakaway roping and goat tying.
10 Years Ago
June 14, 2000
Barney Brady’s love affair with the woods goes back a long way. Back to 1939 to be exact. For the bulk of the last 61 years, Brady has made his living in the woods surrounding the Plateau in most every phase in the industry, and he will let anybody within listening distance know just that fact. “You know loggers are second to politicians at being able to talk,” the Burnett resident said. Brady will be honored at the 26th annual Buckly Log Show June 24-25 at the 2000 Bull of the Woods.
The 68th annual meeting of the Enumclaw Young Men’s Business club met recently at the Four Seasons restaurant. The group has been meeting since 1932. Members who made it to the 2000 gathering were from left, Lee Pawson, Harold Blessing, John Hunter, David Gregory, Art Petersen, Walt Yonker and Art Loney. Harold Kinkade remains a member but couldn’t make the meeting.
25 Years Ago
June 13, 1985
Mayor Robert Denison proclaimed Wednesday, June 5, Deryl Sleigh Day after the retiring Westwood elementary school principal at a tea in Sleigh’s honor last Wednesday. More than 100 teachers, colleagues and friends turned out for the reception at Westwood, where Sleigh has served as principle for the past 16 years.
EHS graduating senior Kevin Knutson will take part in the East-West All-State Football Game scheduled Saturday, August 3, in Evertett Memorial Stadium.
50 Years Ago
June 16, 1960
First time in the history of Enumclaw’s municipal government a woman took her assigned seat at the council table Tuesday night at the regular session of the city’s lawmaking body was convened by incoming Mayor William Burns. Mrs. Helene Allen, wife of Milton Allen, landscape gardener, threaded her way through the packed auditorium of the chamber and with a becoming smile quietly took her place and then displayed a keen interest throughout the proceedings.
75 Years Ago
June 14, 1935
Apparently headed for its most successful meeting since the legalization of horse racing in Washington, the third season for Longacres oval at Renton Junction is prepared to receive a crowd in excess of fifteen thousand.
Picturing the advance toward power by the Communistic Party and its many subsidiaries in this country as a very real present day menace. The Auburn Kiwanis Club presented an entertaining and highly instructive address to the Enumclaw club this week.
According to local mine experts, one of the most valuable coal veins ever to be opened up in this region has been recently uncovered at Bayne by Jim Bolde, operator of the Carbon Fuel Company mines.
