Five Years Ago
July 28, 2004
According to owner Jenelle Reynolds, the mission at Serene Day Spa is to provide a healing and relaxing haven with a natural and grounding atmosphere. It has a goal to instill a consciousness of overall health, balance and well-being… The Grand opening is slated for August, but the day spa is open to cater to clientele 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday (Sunday by appointment).
Enumclaw’s Lee Holm won five gold medals and Mary Ann Dacus earned two silver medals in the 2004 Washington State Senior Games in Olympia Sunday. Both athletes were representing the Enumclaw Senior Activity Center in swimming competitions. In each event she competed in, Holm earned first place. She competed in the 90- to 94-year-old division. She won the 200-yard backstroke, 100 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle and the 500 freestyle. Dacus placed second in two events for her age group, 65- to 69-year-old.
Ten Years Ago
July 28, 1999
United States Drug Enforcement Agency agents, along with the Enumclaw Police Department, seized close to $1 million worth of black tar heroin at different locations around the Puget Sound July 19. Two kilos (4.4 pounds) of heroin were taken from a barn in Enumclaw when two DEA search warrants were executed here.
Enumclaw students who might have been expecting to take driver’s education at school this year won’t find it on the list of classes offered. Declining enrollment and increasing costs made it expendable and subject to the budget ax.
Twenty-five Years Ago
July 26, 1984
Attendance figures soared nearly as high as the mercury this year as the five-day King County Fair in Enumclaw broke previous attendance records. Some 200, 291 fairgoers made their way to the state’s oldest fair this year, breaking last year’s attendance record of 199,841 by 450.
The hot, dry weather the Pacific Northwest has been experiencing for the past three weeks has become a concern for the State Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Forest Service. While blue skies may be overhead, the forests below are becoming increasingly dry, and that means forest fire danger.
Fifty Years Ago
July 30, 1959
E.C. Wixson of Rt. 3, Enum-claw, was accorded high honors Sunday when at a picnic at Recreation Park he was awarded a plaque by the Enumclaw Chamber of Commerce for outstanding achievements in the dairy world. Officials of the South King county Dairy Federation, sponsors of the picnic, said that during the past year Wixson’s herd had placed first in both King County and the state of Washington, and third in the nation, in the matter of butterfat and volume of milk produced per cow.
The Roy Ivarson family of Route 2, Box 245, Enumclaw, was named King County Dairy Family-of-the-Year at ceremonies held in conjunction with the South King county Dairy Federation picnic at Recreation Park last Sunday. The Ivarsons and their three children Russell, 16; Julie, 14, and Donna, 3, reside on a dairy farm located two miles north of the Enumclaw Sales Pavilion in the Newaukum area.
Seventy-five Years Ago
August 3, 1934
Presenting a very baffling case, robbers entered the J.C. Penney store on Cole Street sometime during Wednesday night and robbed the strongbox of the store of nearly five hundred dollars.
Tipsoo Lake on Naches Pass is fast becoming the mecca for picnics of various statewide organizations. The next affair scheduled for the beautiful mountain retreat is the meeting of the Washington State Historical Society on August 18.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Oswald Peterson was honored with a miscellaneous shower given by Mrs. Elmer Boysen and Mrs. Herbert Brons at the George Jensen home.
