Ruth Kees - A Treasured Natural Resource (issaquahhistorymuseums.com) The woman whose namesake tree and civic award embody Issaquah’s community spirit of environmental activism and commitment to a better natural world than the one she inherited.
The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.