Five Years Ago
November 3, 2004
Twenty years ago, in the middle of cow pastures, Sandra and Glen Hasstedt started Enumclaw’s Academy of Ballet. In 1985, attracted by the quaintness and style of the town, the Hasstedts saw Enumclaw as the place to raise their two children. To hear Glen Hasstedt explain it, it was fate. Before arriving in Enumclaw, the Hasstedts were professional dancers with the San Francisco Ballet in California. During their introductions into the community, a group of dance supporters including Enumclaw Music owner Barbara Shane and local art supporter Kay Foos, approached the young ballet dancers. Soon The Academy of Ballet sprang from the pasture land in the Krain Community Center, a one-rooom facility on the edge of town.
The battle between the top two volleyball teams in the Seamount League – the White River Hor-nets and the Fife Trojans – for the No. 1 state berth from the 3A West Centeral District conference, was not an easy one Saturday night. But for the second year in a row, the Hornets, Seamount League champs, claimed the berth and the district championship.
Ten Years Ago
November 3, 1999
Some remember the aged, burgundy, barn-like building between Stevenson Avenue and state Route 410 as the old Armour Condenser and some remember a lumber mill or a car storage. Pictures are missing and historians can’t pinpoint when the building went up, but it will be more clear that at 9 a.m. Oct. 29, the old barn was torn down to make way for the extension of Second Street and a new Texaco station.
Twenty-five Years Ago
November 1, 1984
Enumclaw will soon have a new traffic signal system at the intersection of state routes 410 and 164 near the Safeway store, according to R.E. Bockstruck of the Department of Transportation.
Photo: Joy Smith was issued the 10,000th library card at Enumclaw Library last week. She is pictured checking out books from the librarian Norah Sostrom. For receiving the 10,000 card, Smith was given a “fine-free” year at the library and a gift certificate for the Cole Street Book Company, which was donated by the Friends of the Library.
Fifty Years Ago
November 5, 1959
Roberta Darby and Jerry Steiert were chosen as king and queen to reign over the traditional Homecoming activities at Enumclaw High School Friday. Four young women and four young men who also were candidates for the titles of king and queen completed the royal household.
We might as well bring it right out in the open. Last Friday night Mayor John Condon of Puyallup accompanied his city’s football team to Enumclaw for the Homecoming game. Spying Enumclaw Mayor John R. Selland in the grandstand, Condon loudly proclaimed that he had a dollar to bet on the Vikings. Having paid out his last cent to get in to the game, our brave chief executive handed his wrist watch as security to Don Millar who sat beside him, and got the loan of a dollar to cover the Puyallup mayor’s money. As everybody knows, the Hornets mopped up the muddy field with the Vikings, thereby permitting Selland to get his watch out of hock and have a dollar bill to the good.
Seventy-five Years Ago
November 9, 1934
Five students from Enumclaw are enrolled as freshmen at Washington State College: Kathryn Johnson, Mabel Kuchenbuch, James Moergeli, John Bukus and Robert Campbell.
Enumclaw attorney Henry Kyle, elected senator from the 30th District, will represent this district at the next regular session of the Legislature in January.
A work train of the Northern Pacific was ditched near Orting Wednesday morning and rolled into the Carbon River. No one was injured, the engineer and fireman having left the cab before the engine went into the river. The engine had left Orting on its way up to the branch line and as it came along the river the engineer noticed the water was washing out a section of the road. He stopped as quickly as possible, jumped out with the fireman, and watched the waters of the river take out more ground and saw the engine topple into the river.
