Making a Difference Foundation announcement. Making A Difference Foundation (MADF) has been awarded a grant in the amount of $5,000 from The Big Lots Foundation for its Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank. Funds will be used to purchase fresh and culturally relevant food items not normally donated to food banks and then be given to […]
New Insurance Agent in Lakewood
Submitted by Ty Cordova. State Farm is pleased to welcome new agent Kao Xiong to its family of Good Neighbor Agents in Washington. The Xiong agency, located at 8811 South Tacoma Way, Suite 203 in Lakewood, is now open for business. Kao and team are dedicated to empowering customers with the knowledge to make educated […]
Pierce County COVID-19 data update: Cases, hospitalizations and deaths
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department press release. Our COVID-19 case rate rose this week and our hospitalization rate fell. Pierce County’s COVID-19 community level remains low. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists us as medium because of data processing issues. We are working with State Department of Health to ensure CDC gets the latest data. You […]
Obituary Notices – May 11, 2022
Fir Lane Memorial Park: Collin Anthony McLaren; Jennie Virginia Wheeler. Powers Funeral Home: Andrew Knute Powloski; Robert Michael Hoffman. Hill Funeral Home: Ray Anderson Midkiff. Gaffney Funeral Home: Barbara Rose Kennedy-Ott; Gerald Eugene Coons; Gladys Benjamin.
Maintenance work brings daytime ramp closure at South Sprague Avenue in Tacoma
Washington State Department of Transportation announcement. TACOMA – Daytime travelers who use the westbound State Route 16 exit 1A to South Sprague Avenue from South 38th Street or northbound Interstate 5 will want to plan for extra travel time. On Wednesday, May 11, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Washington State Department of Transportation maintenance […]
Special Lakewood United Meeting: Impending Closure of Lakewood Public Libraries
Submitted by Tink Kinney, Lakewood United. Attention: The Lakewood United meeting previously scheduled for May 11 has been canceled and rescheduled for Thursday, May 19, 2022 at Bur’s Restaurant. Doors open at 7am and the meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 am. Topics: Libraries provide an array of essential services to the community. Information will be shared concerning: The possible closure […]
Beloved polar bear Blizzard humanely euthanized at Point Defiance Zoo
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium announcement. TACOMA, Wash. – Blizzard, a beloved polar bear who inspired generations of guests from across the Puget Sound region and around the world to care about his species, was humanely euthanized at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Sunday morning after a rapid decline in his health. The elderly bear […]
Sovereignty and Violence Against Native Women Past and Present – Play Review
If you are a viewer of the video series of Longmire and Yellowstone, then actor Kenneth Ruthardt should be very familiar to you. Ruthardt, at 6’4″, is the world’s tallest Apache. This Mescalero Apache only discovered acting seven years ago, but since then has been involved in 15 plays, nine TV shows, and four movies. […]
1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) soldier dies during vehicle collision
Joint Base Lewis-McChord announcement. A soldier assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) died May, 8, 2022, during a vehicular collision in Tacoma. Specialist Christofer A. Wheeler was born on June 27, 2002, in Columbia, S.C. He attended Ridge View High School, graduating in 2020. Spc. Wheeler played several sports in high school […]