New Tacoma Cemeteries and Funeral Home: Dean Johnson; Tong Suk Om. Mountain View Funeral Home: Dakota Feeney; Myrtle Fredson; Kelly Hite; Kevin Kimbrough; Catherine Kozloff; Ethel Mae Price-Mitchell. Powers Funeral Home: John Frederick Seaman. Gaffney Funeral Home: Kayla Michelle Neujahr; Robert Wesley Jenkins. Scott Funeral Home: Tashylah Michelle Combs. Scanlin Cremation & Burial: Jenny Lynn […]
Get Schooled Receives $300,000 Donation from KeyBank To Improve College and Career Access for Underserved Youth
Submitted by KeyBank. TACOMA, Washington – March 22, 2024 —Get Schooled has received a $300,000 grant from KeyBank to further its outreach to first-gen-to-college youth in the Pacific Northwest. Get Schooled provides personalized support along three journeys including helping prepare them to continue their education after high school, throughout the first year of higher-ed, and […]
Letter: Another Reason To Choose Private School
Submitted by KM Hills. In 2020 Washington State passed a “Comprehensive Sexual Education Bill” which remains controversial.On March 21, 2024 KOMO News shared a story about how the State now takes it one step further and will soon mandate that LGBTQ+ history be taught in all public schools. Our local school districts will now be […]
21st annual Easter Egg Hunt serves 250+
Submitted by Eric Warn. More than 250 Lakewood underserved children and parents participated in the Caring for Kids/Lakewood First Lions Club 21st annual Easter Egg hunt at Springbrook Park near Joint Base Lewis McCord on Saturday, March 23. In addition to Easter egg buckets, the children received hot dogs and chips, drinks, crayons, pencils and coloring […]
Kilmer Introduces Legislation to End Blood Quantum Discrimination Against Native Americans in Border Law
Office of Rep. Derek Kilmer announcement. U.S. Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Russ Fulcher (ID-01) introduced the Tribal Border Crossing Parity Act to redouble America’s efforts to end a half-century-old U.S. immigration policy which requires Native Americans to carry proof of their blood quantum, documents showing that they are at least 50 percent Native American, […]
Obituary Notices – March 26, 2024
Mountain View Funeral Home: Patrick J Reed, aka “Unc”. Fir Lane Memorial Park: Marian J. Anderson. Gaffney Funeral Home: Patricia Ruth Pitsch; Sr. Mary Patricia Murphy, OP. Week’s Dryer Mortuary: Loyd James Willaford. Scott Funeral Home: Tashylah Michelle Combs.
Tall Tales from Tacoma’s Old Town
Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma announcement. Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma is happy to help advertise the launching of: Tall Tales from Tacoma’s Old Town, a series on the 4th Thursdays at Slavonian Hall, 7:00pm, 2306 N 30th Street, Tacoma. The first in the series is this Thursday, March 28th with Michael Sullivan […]
LASA’s Annual FriendRaising Breakfast
Submitted by Shannon O’Connell, LASA. Lakewood, WA: LASA (Living Access Support Alliance) would like to invite interested community members to join us for our annual FriendRaising Breakfast. There you can learn about the services – both old and new – that we offer to our neighbors in need. Find out about the completed phases of […]
Strickland Leads Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Promote Diversity in STEM
Office of Rep. Marilyn Strickland announcement. Today (March 21, 2024), U.S. Representatives Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), Shontel Brown (OH-11), and U.S. SenatorMazie K. Hirono (D-HI) led 20 of their colleagues in reintroducing the bicameral Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2024, legislation to create new federal grants for programs focused on professional development, training, mentoring, […]