Submitted by JayRay. JayRay Ads & PR helped their Oregon-based client, Explore Wilsonville, earn a MarCom Gold Award for its new brand identity. Explore Wilsonville’s new website showcases the updated visual identity, featuring a new logo, fonts and brand colors that align with the destination’s values and vision. JayRay, Explore Wilsonville’s marketing agency of record […]
Obituary Notices – January 20, 2024
Mountain View Funeral Home: Dana W. Cooper; Daniel Milton Fall; Edward Lacey; Love Lee Lafountaine; Lisa “Michele” Yuzamas.
Comprehensive Planning 101
Office of Jani Hitchen, Pierce County Council, District 6 announcement. I know the County and several of my peers recently shared information on the comprehensive planning process currently underway. I want to use this newsletter to share HOW to share your thoughts and WHY you should consider engaging in this important planning process. No matter […]
Obituary Notices – January 19, 2024
New Tacoma Cemeteries and Funeral Home: Setsuko Takatsuka. Mountain View Funeral Home: Leroy G. Dube Jr.; Sun Cha Stevenson; Douglas Mark White. Powers Funeral Home: Darold Wayne Hall; Natsue K Stephenson; Kenneth Warren Eilers; Thomas R Oberhofer; Robert Wilcox. Week’s Dryer Mortuary: Gaile Gene Beavers.
Black History Month Program: Always Prepared – Building the Road for Equality
Submitted by Buffalo Soldiers Museum-Tacoma. “Always Prepared” was the motto of the 24th Infantry Regiment, commissioned by Congress in 1866. The 24th Infantry was one of the four original Buffalo Soldiers regiments comprised of volunteer Black men who fought during the Civil War. Serving in the military was a way to a better life for […]
Habitat for Humanity stolen truck recovered
Habitat for Humanity announcement. Over the Christmas holiday, our off-site warehouse was broken into and a recently purchased, new-to-us box truck was stolen. Other damage included cut cables on other trucks, stolen vehicle batteries and gas cards, as well as a damaged alarm system. Thanks to widespread media coverage by local outlets, the stolen truck was spotted in […]
Obituary Notices – January 18, 2024
Edwards Memorial Funerals Homes, Chapels and Crematories: Angeline Kelly; Wanda Frances Gargurevich. Mountain View Funeral Home: Franklin Xavier Holdener; Debra Ann Smith. Powers Funeral Home: Guadalupe Cardenas Guitron; Marjorie Masako Teramura; Jeannie Darnell Livingston; Tona Chrystal Forman. Gaffney Funeral Home: Eunice Vivian Robeck.
Volunteer Work Party on the 5th St Waterway Jan 20-21
Submitted by Nancy Henderson. Come out and join your neighbors planting native shrubs along the 5th St waterway on Saturday, January 20 and Sunday, January 21 from 1 PM to 4 PM. Thanks to the good work of volunteers back in October, the site is ready for planting. We’ll have plants and shovels, but if you […]
Letter: What Can Happen When a Government Ignores its Citizen’s Input (Especially When It’s Valid)
Submitted by Eric Chandler. Be advised, 12-years ago, a 5-year-long study by Citizen Volunteers, experts one and all, resulted in a comprehensive “Waughop Lake Remedial Action Plan”. In 2012 that plan was given to the City of Lakewood, free-of-charge. And, it was ignored. Since then, the City has paid contractors almost $300,000 to have a new study, […]