5 Years Ago
March 9, 2005
Applebee’s is scheduled to open March 28. Located on state Route 410 E. in Bonney Lake’s Target shopping center, the family restaurant will offer a variety of menu items priced between $7 and $14, including steaks, sandwiches, hamburgers, ribs and Weight Watchers selections. Applebee’s will also provide carside service where customers can call an order in and it will be delivered to their car.
The basketball tournament generates its own set of hopes and dreams. The first goal is simply to earn a place in the state tourney, becoming one of just 16 teams from across the state so honored. Then, the goal is to win a state game, avoid the dreaded “two and out” scenario. And finally, everyone dreams of playing Saturday with a guarantee of hauling home a trophy. The girls of White River High School considered it “mission accomplished.” They walked away with a seventh-place trophy.
10 Years Ago
March 8, 2000
The Enumclaw Post Office was on a tight deadline last week. On Friday night it moved its mail-sorting equipment to the new annex on Railroad Street and Marshall Avenue to be ready for business on Saturday. The new carrier annex provides post officer workers a larger space to sort and distribute mail, and a larger parking lot for employees. It’s not open to the public, but it has a drive-through lane for mail boxes, replacing the two on Marshall Avenue.
The White River girls left the Seattle Center Saturday afternoon proud of placing higher at the Class 3A state basketball championships than any other Hornet team in school history.
25 Years Ago
March 7, 1985
The traffic control system is still planned for the intersection of Griffin Avenue at Highway 410 near the Safeway store and should be constructed sometime this year, but no one seems to know when. A spokesman at city hall said plans are still to have the new system installed by mid-year. But no one at the State Department of Transportation, supervisors of the job, could confirm that.
Jake Thomas, principal of Southwood Elementary, got quite a few surprises for his 50th birthday Monday, courtesy of the staff and students at the Enumclaw school. Posters and banners wishing Thomas a “cheerful” celebration adorned the school, while teachers and staff wore shirts silk-screened with his likeness. The principal, however, really knew it was his birthday when a hearse arrived to drive he and his wife, June, to lunch.
50 Years Ago
March 10, 1960
The heavy floods that smashed work in progress at Howard A. Hanson Dam last November will prevent completion of the vast flood control project on the Green River during 1960. H.E. Christman scotched rumors that the entire project would be closed down for the rest of the current year and said that “as soon as weather permits, Kaiser-Raymond will resume operations on a schedule that should see completion of the dam by the fall of 1961.”
75 Years Ago
March 8, 1935
Fisher Brothers announces the opening of their newly remodeled store with a storewide sale, the largest ever attempted by the local institution.
The mean temperature for February showed an average of 43.
Winnifred Davis Whit-more entertained her junior pupils at a musical party Wednesday in her studio in the Trommald Building. Those present included June Welling, Rose Manahan, Peggy Bruhn, Aleta Shelton, Maxine Bullis, Melvin Strom, Jay Omsted, Dick Person, Betty Hawks, Dick Adams, Mary Jane McCloskey, Dick Adams, Mary Jane McCloskey, Dick Bruce, Doris Pagh, Gerald Smith, Nadine Moergeli, Dorothy Alsgaard and Bobby Alsgaard.
