Submitted by Tacoma Youth Chorus. Tacoma Youth Chorus is welcoming rising K-1 students to attend a free Music Makers Adventure Day. This is a free preview of our popular music and movement classes, which are full of music education wrapped in lots of fun. Our Adventure Day participants will get to explore singing, movement, and […]
Annual Garden Tour is this Saturday and Sunday
City of University Place announcement. Don’t forget to get your tickets to the U.P. Historical Society’s Annual Garden Tour that will be held this weekend, May 20 and 21. Tickets are $25 and are available at Willow Tree Gardens & Interiors as well as Chirp and Company, Morrison House Realty, Rosedale Gardens and Gardensphere. This […]
Clover Park School Board to Host Board Meeting on May 22
Clover Park School District announcement. LAKEWOOD, Wash. — The Clover Park School District (CPSD) Board of Directors will hold a regular meeting/workshop on Monday, May 22, at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be held virtually and live-streamed on Zoom and YouTube. Individuals can attend online by visiting the meeting Zoom webinar link or the district YouTube channel. Attendees will […]
Community Workday at South Sound Wildlife, May 20
Rotary Club of Clover Park announcement. On Saturday, May 20, join Clover Park Rotary and all of Lakewood’s service clubs at the South Sound Wildlife area from 9 am-1 pm for the Spring Cleanup day. Located on Phillips Road just across from Hudtloff middle school, this 100-acre area is open to the public for hiking, […]
New Art Exhibition by Lorra Jackson Opens Friday at Lakewold Gardens
Lakewold Gardens announcement. A Bright Uncertainty seeks to explore motherhood through the personal paintings of Lorra Jackson. The artist explores the legacy of her biracial identity that straddles her Korean and African American heritage through a selection of articulate portraits and figurative works and metaphorical imagined realities, all beautifully rendered in oil. The portraits are intimate […]
Mayor Victoria Woodards statement on Tacoma Police Department’s Mid-Year Analysis of Violent Crime Reduction Plan
City of Tacoma announcement. “We have made historic investments in community safety. Although we have much work ahead of us, we continue to see crime trending down overall. Although we are at 15 homicides so far in 2023 – which is still deeply troubling – we see that violent crime has dropped by 18.1 percent […]
Across the Fence: Altbier and Kölsch
I grew up in a German city with a number of big breweries. Their names mean nothing over here, and one got torn down when I was in my early twenties. I don’t remember what happened. It seems they merged with a brewery downtown. A specific area always also had that peculiar smell that goes […]
Home in Tacoma Phase 2 Engagement Continues with 6 Events
City of Tacoma announcement. The City of Tacoma is hosting six open house events between May 22 and June 14 for the Home in Tacoma Project—a multi-year effort to update Tacoma’s residential zoning to increase housing supply, choice and affordability. Tacoma City Council members will host meetings in their districts. There will also be a […]
CPSD Staff Spotlight: Theressa Prather
A Clover Park School District story. Our Clover Park School District Staff Spotlight this week features Custer Elementary School fourth grade teacher Theressa Prather. This is Theressa’s fourth year with CPSD. She started teaching in 1989 and has previously been an elementary school principal. She joined Custer as a fourth grade teacher to return to her […]