This year when you attend the Spanaway Lake Holiday Craft Fair, your entrance fee goes to help support the school’s Associated Student Body (ASB). Once you are inside, you will notice students with signs taped to their backs and walking around trying to sell you pizza, cinnamon rolls or other delectables. These students are in…
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Reminders, SLHS Holiday Craft Fair and setting your clocks back
Just in case you are as busy as I suppose you are, don’t forget to set your clocks back tonight. It is then end of daylight savings time. Time to “Fall back.” Also don’t forget one of the biggest events in the holiday season in the Bethel School District is today and tomorrow. It’s the…
Can you identify vandals at Cedarcrest Middle School?
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department is hoping the public can help identify those responsible for two vandalisms at Cedarcrest Middle School in Spanaway. Three children were caught on surveillance cameras twice – Oct. 14 and Sunday, Oct. 28, both times around 3 p.m. The vandals rode bicycles onto school grounds and used sticks to bust…
Pierce Prairie Post updates at 6am in your email
Than you for reading the Pierce Prairie Post. As Fire Chief Greg Cooper coined it, we are the “good news news.” From Midland to McKenna, you deserve to hear what is happening in your neighborhood, then get out there and join in the fun and activities. There are several ways to receive the Post. You…
4 day school week signs are NOT about Bethel
By Marianne Lincoln I was out of town a few days in October. When I returned, a new and different campaign sign had appeared all over the neighborhood. The signs belong to a local political candidate, but on first glance, it looks like it might have something to do with the school district. In fact, so…
Keithley Middle School PTA seeking gently used or new coat donations
Franklin Pierce School district is one of the highest in our area for free and reduced lunches. The students at Keithley Middle School need the community to help love them, believe in them and support them. Keithley Middle School’s PTSA would appreciate your help in wrapping their students in warmth with new or gently used coats. We are…
Dollar Town ribbon cutting this morning, Nov. 1
This morning, Nov. 1, the 723 Networking group held a ribbon cutting at the new Dollar Town store in Elk Plain’s Bethel Station Shopping Center. Complete with gigantic scissors, bagpipes and a gift basket to the owner for all her hard work. It is exciting to know that businesses are willing to start up new locations….
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Summit United Methodist Fall Festival and Bazaar
On Friday, November 2, 9 am – 5 pm and Saturday, November 3, 9 am – 4 pm, the Summit United Methodist Women will hold their 2012 Fall Festival and Bazaar. It’s time to catch the holiday spirit and shop early. You can have lunch or brunch, view items from many vendors, find holiday gifts and crafts, garden…
Freezing Nights Program helps Puyallup area homeless
(Editor: Note the Spanaway church involved) PUYALLUP HOMELESS COALITION — The Freezing Nights program began in 2004 with several Churches and concerned citizens. The reality that there is no emergency shelter in the City of Puyallup led these groups to organize a volunteer program that would house shelter-less individuals in local church buildings on nights…
United Methodists providing storm relief
NEW YORK (UMNS) — Want to donate to help the victims of Superstorm Sandy? Think UMCOR. The United Methodist Committee on Relief is there now and will continue to help. Every dollar you give to UMCOR goes directly to help people, none for overhead/salaries, etc. United Methodists are just beginning their response to Sandy’s wreckage in…
Clover Creek Elementary dedication Nov. 8
A special ceremony marking the completion of the Clover Creek Elementary will be held on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The district spent about $19 million dollars to build the replacement school. Renovations include a new, two-story design, courtyard, technology lab, high-tech equipment, enhanced playfields and additional parking space. The…
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