Five Years Ago
October 6, 2004
The newly minted recording deal with a Nashville powerhouse label and two of the top managers in the business on board, Blaine Larsen is heading to the big time. Film crews were out and about Buckley this weekend checking out Larsen’s hometown and building a biography about him to help promote the talented, young and rising country star.
The White River High School girls soccer team finished the first half of Seamount League Pierce Division pal in first place, but it’s not just the Hornets’ perfect 6-0 record that’s turning heads. What really gets noticed is the dominant fashion in which the team has catapulted to the top.
Ten Years Ago
October 6, 1999
Firefighters stopped traffic in downtown Enumclaw Saturday to ask for donations, eventually collecting more than $4,000 for the Northwest Burn Foundation, which works to prevent burns, help burn survivors and send burn-injured children to summer camp.
Construction for the new 48,000 square-foot Enumclaw Chrysler, Plymouth, Jeep and Dodge dealership begins this week with a planned opening in January. The new dealership is renovating the old Jayhawks building on SR-410.
Twenty-five Years Ago
October 4, 1984
The Enumclaw Planning Commission has approved a conditional use permit which will allow Art Gamblin Motors to move its auto sales operation from its current location on Griffin Avenue and Railroad Street to a site just east of the Mazatlan Restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue. Action came Thursday night at city hall.
Shirley Fuller and her husband Chuck were honored Friday at a retirement party at First National Bank of Enumclaw. Chuck retired from First National as a loan officer. He had spent 35 years in banking including the last four with First National. He and his wife will do some traveling during retirement.
Fifty Years Ago
October 8, 1959
That The Courier-Herald’s new policy of publishing the names of juvenile and adult law-violators is actually paying off in dollars and cents was confirmed in a statement this week by Herbert V. Sorensen of J.A. Sorensen and Son, insurance brokers. Sorensen said that since the curfew law has been enforced and particularly in the past six months during which time the names of law-breakers have appeared in The Courier-Herald from week to week, claims against the insurance companies which he represents have tapered off to almost nothing.
Photo: Give Me The Keys! It seems that Jim Pedersen, a 15-year-veteran at Weyerhaeuser’s White River branch, is telling Bob Denison, Paulson’s sales manager, to “give me those keys.” And, Bob is doing it with understandable pride for it is the third time Pedersen has purchased a new Chevrolet, from the Enumclaw dealer.
Seventy-five Years Ago
October 5, 1934
Enumclaw again scored heavily at the Puyallup Fair in the dairy exhibits. Outstanding among the honors won by local cattle and dairies was the Gold Medal Award to the Good Hope Dairy for their pasteurized milk. Owners are Louie and Arthur Moeller, who share congratulations.
D.C. Southard of Lebanon, Oregon, has been appointed manager of the local J.C. Penney store to succeed Lewis Livingston who will move to the Bremerton store.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Larum formerly of Enumclaw and now of Standwood are the proud parents of a baby girl born in Seattle on Tuesday of this week.
Misses Agnes and Frances Remitz, Anne and Angelina Millarich, Helen Halkjar and Myrtle Weston of Osceola spent Sunday afternoon with Frances Mae Harrin.
