Submitted by Sen. Steve O'Ban's Office Sen. Steve O’Ban, R-University Place, issued the following statement in response to the Sound Transit board’s plan to give CEO Peter Rogoff a new contract. … [Read more...]
Steilacoom Museum Holiday Store opens Nov. 17
Submitted by Marianne Bull. The Museum Holiday Shop at the Steilacoom Historical Museum will be open for shopping Saturday, November 17, and is a great place to find unique and exciting gifts. … [Read more...]
Obituary Notices – November 14
Edwards Memorial Funerals Homes, Chapels and Crematories: Lewis Richard Bish; Ogden John Douglas; David Everett Fidler; Violette Lillian Reopelle; Erma Annie Hicks; Gregory Alan McMichael; Florence Janet Combs; Jack Meyring Butcher; Kathie Faye Lipka. Mountain View Funeral Home: Winona Babbitt; Mieko Harmon; Johnny Louis McDaneld; Carrie Millner; Joan Nugent; William Stump. … [Read more...]
Dance Theatre Northwest presents “Happy Holidays” November 17
Submitted by Dance Theatre Northwest. Dance Theatre Northwest presents "Happy Holidays" ~ A FREE Community Holiday Dance Performance at the University Place Library Atrium, Saturday, November 17th at 7:00 PM. Location address is 3609 Market St. University Place, WA 98466 (Between 37th St W and Bridgeport Way W). … [Read more...]
Mary Snyder named Lakewood Rotary Educator of the Month
Mary Snyder, Steilacoom Historical School District Coordinator of Social Emotional Learning, was recognized as the Lakewood Rotary Educator of the Month. … [Read more...]
Obituary Notices – November 13
New Tacoma Cemeteries and Funeral Home: Grigoriy Gorbachuk; Evan Wilson; Bun Park. Mountain View Funeral Home: On Thi Nguyen. … [Read more...]
JBLM, Children’s Museum of Tacoma to break ground on first-of-a-kind museum on post
Joint Base Lewis-McChord leaders and Children’s Museum of Tacoma executives will break ground Nov. 14 at 4:30 p.m. on a renovation project that will convert JBLM’s old skating rink into a Children’s Museum satellite annex, the first of its kind on a military installation. … [Read more...]
Selah Airstrip at Yakima Training Center re-opens for C-17 and HIMARS operations
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -The Selah Airstrip at the Yakima Training Center will re-open to aircraft operations Nov. 15 at 11 a.m. The airstrip has not been used for fixed-wing aviation since 2003 due to pavement degradation. Renovation of the airstrip began in 2017. … [Read more...]
Fraud Prevention topic of Nov. 15 PCSRA Luncheon
Submitted by Cynthia Endicott, PCSRA Corresponding Secretary. The Pierce County School Retirees Association luncheon meeting is held at the Tacoma La Quinta Inn. We meet Thursday, November 15th at noon. $12 includes lunch buffet, beverage, desert, and gratuity. We are honored to host Bruce Carlson, Associate State Director of Communications at AARP this month. He will be educating us on fraud … [Read more...]
Ride the Bus with Metro Parks CEO to the New Eastside Community Center
Tacoma, Wash. – Tacoma is seeing many new and exciting developments through Metro Parks Tacoma, including the new Pacific Seas Aquarium that just opened in September 2018, Dune Peninsula Park and the Frank Herbert Trail that will soon connect Point Ruston to Point Defiance Park, and the Eastside Community Center that just opened on Portland Ave in the end of October. Learn about these projects and … [Read more...]