5 Years Ago
July 6, 2005
The Enumclaw Hornets Junior American Legion team continued to hold a slim lead in the division race after winning two of the three games last week.
Plateau Kasey Kahne fans can look forward to catching their favorite NASCAR Nextel Cup driver in a new series of national advertisements extolling the benefits of being “in good hands” with insurance company Allstate.
State gymnastics champion Brianna Schwartz displayed her remarkable ability at the national level last week in the Senior National Gymnastics Championship in Orlando, Fla. Competing for the Washington Senior national team, Schwartz was named all-around champion and the team finished third.
10 Years Ago
July 5, 2000
The Wilkeson Arch is historic – officially. The sandstone arch that welcomes travelers on Highway 165 to the small town of Wilkeson has been added to the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington Heritage Register.
Photo: Members of the John Wayne Pioneer Wagons and Riders group made a 446-mile Millennium Wagon Train Trek on horses and in wagons from Tekoa to Tumwater for the Fourth of July Parade. They passed through Enumclaw June 27 and spent the next day resting in Buckley.
In sports, statistical milestones are a measure of greatness. Hank Aaron’s 755 home runs, Joe Dimaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game attest to that. In those terms, Enumclaw resident Ton Evans will reach immortal status, at least by Plateau standards, Friday. That’s when the 74-year-old Evans is scheduled to climb popular Mount Peak for the 1,000th time in 12 years. That’s about 2,000 miles of hiking. Up. And down.
25 Years Ago
July 4, 1985
The first time Columbia Gattavara saw Enumclaw there were no sidewalks, no restaurants and no stores to speak of in the tiny hamlet. The year was 1900. Columbia, now 102 years old, remembers when the State Bank of Enumclaw and the Griffin and Davis Store were two of the only establishments in town. The State Bank was on the corner of Cole Street and Griffin Avenue, where Sunrise Pharmacy now is, and Griffin and Davis was on the corner of Cole and Griffin where the KENU Radio station now is, she recalled.
Enumclaw’s Mary Elayn Harvey has written everything from songs to novels but the short story seems to be her favorite medium. Harvey’s “Wind from the East” won the recent Enumclaw Arts Commission creative writing contest. The topic of the story is the plateau’s Christmas Eve storm of 1983.
50 Years Ago
July 7, 1960
Opening day at Enumclaw’s newest ladies ready to wear shop, Beryl’s Mode O’Day, found customers cramming the aisles to take advantage of opening day bargains. Door prizes, free balloons and coffee marked the July 1 opening. Mrs. Beryl Warren is owner of the new shop located at 1639 Cole Street.
Four of Enumclaw’s rising young crop of golfers finished a round at the ninth green of the popular course of the Enumclaw Golf and Country Club one bright summer morning last week. Brude Olson, Greg Parkinson, Ron Miller and Larry Williams all have completed a series of free golf lessons given again this year by Joe Mihelich, club manager and pro. Mihelich’s instruction has added greatly to the interest in golf among Enumclaw’s younger golfing fraternity.
75 Years Ago
July 5, 1935
Converting drainage ditches into natural game fish rearing ponds, the Enumclaw Sportsmen’s Club has innovated an idea hailed enthusiastically by Washington State game department. Ditches are ideal for the plan, and in the ditches are several thousand trout fry secured from the game department. Apparatus installed in the ditches prevent the growing trout from escape.
Results of the school election to determine whether or not the Mud Mountain school district should consolidate with Enumclaw was passed in both districts by substantial margins.
Alvin Weston of Osceola returned Tuesday from Juneau, Alaska, where he had been for the past two months.
