The membership is invited to attend an informal question and answer session about WRA’s water system.
Members may attend and learn about on-going maintenance plans and challenges that WRA faces in providing high quality water to Wilderness Rim residents.
Hundreds of Wilderness Rim homes had beautiful lights this year! Thank you to everyone who shared some cheer this season with their neighbors. The grand prize was awarded to 17436 426th Ave SE:
Other honorable mentions are below:
If you haven’t already, take a drive around the Rim to see the excellent displays!
Washington is EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY!
On Thursday at 10:15 a.m., millions around the world will be practicing their earthquake safety actions along with WRA! Participants in the Great Washington ShakeOut include over 1 million, out of more than 40 million worldwide.
Learn how to Drop, Cover, and Hold on various situations with Recommended Earthquake Safety Actions Guide and the Earthquake Safety Video Series.
More resources available online: http://mil.wa.gov/uploads/pdf/Publications/earthquake%20country%20brochure.pdf
The 2015 WRA Photo Contest was a great success! Here are the winners:
First Place: “Moody Rattlesnake” – Danielle Decker
Second Place: “Cascade Park Path” – Lesley Webb-Henry
Third Place: “Brewster Lake” – Hannah Marie Schmale
Winners have been notified via email and may pick up their prizes in the WRA Office. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated! Other entries are shown below and on the WRA Facebook page. Do you have any great pictures of the Rim, past or present? Another contest will be coming in 2016!
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ELIGIBILITY
Any member of Wilderness Rim
SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD
Get your picture in before November 14th 2015, because we are picking the winner sometime after 5PM on that day!
PICTURE SUBMISSION
Send your picture (JPG format, 2mb size limit) as an attachment to an email to to the WRA Office (office@wildernessrim.org) along with a caption. It will be filed with your name, and then be posted to a “2015 Photo Contest” album on WRA’s Facebook page. That will keep folks from knowing who posted which picture. Larger pictures will be resized to 2048 pixels on the longest edge prior to being posted to the Facebook album. Then share your picture with your friends and family on Facebook to get more “likes”!
PICTURE CONTENT
***ALL PICTURES MUST BE ‘FAMILY’ APPROPRIATE*** Pictures not suitable for public display among children will be returned or discarded. A reason will be sent to the entrant explaining why the picture was not included in the contest.
Picture must be taken from within Wilderness Rim. Please provide the approximate location of the picture upon submission.
Pictures may contain people, but permission to post the picture must be expressly given to WRA by the individuals in the picture, or the parents of any minors in the picture.
WINNER SELECTION
The picture with the most likes in the “2015 Photo Contest” album will be deemed the winner
PRIZES
1st Prize – $30 Amazon Card
2nd Prize – $20 Amazon Card
3rd Prize – $10 Amazon Card
Plus, the winning pictures will be featured on the WRA Official Website, and winners will be announced in the Newsletter.
IMPORTANT STUFF
This contest is sponsored by the Wilderness Rim Association.
By entering the WRA Photo Contest, the entrant agrees to allow the WRA to use the photo.
WRA and this contest are not affiliated with Facebook in any way.
Low precipitation in May and even lower precipitation this summer equals a very dry Wilderness Rim and an extremely high fire danger.
The WRA Board of Trustees has banned fireworks and open fires on Wilderness Rim common property (Cascade Park and Greenbelt areas).
All of us have a responsibility to help keep Wilderness Rim green and safe.
http://www.northbendweather.com/wxrainsummary.php
We had another successful Wilderness Rim Run/Walk in our community on Saturday, May 16th. No rain and not too hot – perfect for running and walking outdoors. The trail additions to the courses on the 5K and the park run for the kid’s 1K received rave reviews! Also new this year was the water station was supplied with our local cub scouts and volunteer firefighters, complete with aid car.
There were some repeats from last year’s races in the winners circle as well as some newcomers.
1K Winners:
First Place – Jeremiah Besso
Second Place – Rowan Hardy
Third Place – Reggie Danshita
5K Winners:
First Place Female – Julene McDonald, 22:05
Second Place Female – Emily Rourke, 24:24
Third Place Female – Kristina Platt, 26:08
First Place Male – Tyler McDonald, 25:36
Second Place Male – Taylor Schulte, 26:23
Third Place Male – Jeremiah Moore, 28:02
Thank you to President Steve McDonald for the passion and vision for making this event happen! Thank you also to the following volunteers:
Will Thomas – course set up, food prep, race rabbit, photography
Matt Rourke – course marshaling, food prep, water station setup, cleanup
Fernando Platin – course marshaling
Robert Beeler – course marshaling, photography
David Morrison – setup, course marshaling
Lenny Stoltman – course marshaling, water station
Joyce Jansen – planning
Jim and Jessica Besso – set up, timer, finish line, photography, cleanup
Wil Chromey – trail maintenance and the bright yellow gate
John Greer – course route
Leslie Kreher – course route
Doug Greathouse – greenbelt trail maintenance and park preparation
Dan Covey – cub scout coordination, fire station coordination, water station
Cub scouts – water station
Sean Sundwall of www.runsnoqualmie.com – safety vests and signs
North Bend Public Works – traffic cones
Want to be part of more great events like this in our neighborhood? Contact events@wildernessrim.org and see you at the next WRA special event!
Wildfire prevention is something Smokey the Bear has taught for decades. Did you see him at Cascade Park on Saturday, April 4? Neighbors young and old watched and participated in a variety of fun educational activities put on by the WRA Firewise Committee.
King County DNRP Project Program Manager, Linda Vane, spoke about vegetation and strategies for maintaining the areas around your home. She also brought materials (available in the WRA Office or online) for neighbors to see more examples of what the true dangers of living in a “Moderate Hazard” for wildfire neighborhood and what to do about it on your property.
Doug Greathouse, WRA Park Co-Chair, gave us all a demo of how quickly simple needles and leaves can burst into flames.
Matt Rourke, Chair of the FIrewise Committee and current WRA Trustee, is a forestry expert. He demonstrated techniques with tools and discussed how to keep your trees healthy as well as safety for your property.
Evergreen Tree Care, Inc. came out with a chipper truck and climbing crew. Watching the skill of removing some of the dangerous branches over the WRA Office was fascinating! Thank you to the teams for demonstrating ways we can keep our homes safe.
Fun times were had by all who attended this year’s Easter Egg Hunt and Peep Roast!
THANK YOU to those who volunteered by stuffing eggs, making signs, inviting friends, stoking the fire, hiding the goodies, cleaning up, and the many other details to make this event happen! Living in a neighborhood with such fun, caring people is amazing.
Would you like to be part of more events like this? Email events@wildernessrim.org or office@wildernessrim.org with your ideas or skills that you would like to use to serve your community.
Over 200 homes had lights on them this year! Thank you to everyone who shared some cheer this season with their neighbors, and thank you to our sponsors:
Eleven adults and nine kids helped judge the winners based on curb appeal, use of color, content, and volume of lights. The competition was fierce, but here are the homes that won gift certificates to Boxleys or Ace (and the grand prize winner gets to ride in the fire truck next week!):
1st Place: 17007 426th Ave SE
2nd Place: 17403 SE Cedar Falls Rd
3rd Place: 17436 426th Ave SE
4th Place: 17404 426th Ave SE
Also honorable mentions:
If you haven’t already, take a drive around the Rim to see the excellent displays before Christmas!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with all the lights going up around the Rim. If you would like to be a part of the fun, here are the details:
If you have lights up, you are automatically entered!
Judges will meet Thursday, December 18th at the Chalet @ 6:30 PM. They will drive around the neighborhood with maps and clipboards to record their votes, and then will meet up back at the Chalet for hot cocoa and vote counting.
PRIZES:
First Place: $50 gift certificate to Boxley’s Restaurant in North Bend AND a ride in our very own Station 88 Fire Engine!
Second and Third Places: $25 gift certificates to Boxley’s Restaurant
Also donated by Ace Hardware: $25 gift certificate
A HUGE THANK YOU to Boxley’s and ACE for sponsoring the event and to our volunteer fire fighters who serve our community. Merry Christmas!
