TO THE HEARING EXAMINER Please, protect the water at the heart of our community—The Spanaway Marsh may mean little to some, but not to us. It is our arterial blood,our breath, our home. We are done with the hundred-year destructionof filled-in wetlands, re-routed streams,toxic human pollution and buildings too closeto these arteries of life. We are done with…
Category: Ecology
Saturday walk at Spanaway Marsh
By Marianne Lincoln Spanaway Concerned Citizens is raising money to fight a Pierce County Executive’s project to build a village of tiny homes to house homeless individuals with drug, alcohol and mental health problems. These are the hardest people to bring into a stable housing situation. There is a plan. (You can see it at…
Historical road from Nisqually to Spanueh Station
Historical information on Spanaway, Spanueh Station of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, and native uses of the area Testimony for the Hearings Examiner on Pierce County Village, April 29, 2024 To local Indians, the area was referred to as “spáduwe” – “where [camas or fern] roots are plentiful”.[1] Multiple tribes used the area for hunting…
Village deadline for written comments April 22
Regarding the April 29 hearings on the Tiny Home Village, Pierce County Village, or whatever they are calling it this week…. All written comments & concerns should be submitted in writing to the Hearings Examiner by Monday April 22nd, for his review to: pchearingexaminer@piercecountywa.gov If you have no idea what I am talking about, read…
Advanced Air Mobility for new eVTOL craft
The era of George Jetson is beginning to arrive. The Federal Aviation Administration is starting discussion with states and local communities about how to safely bring these vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) to our communities. We need to consider where they will land, a new invention called the Vertiport will need locations. Advance…
April 20, 9am, Clover Creek cleanup
And they meant it when they said, boots on the ground. The Clover Creek Restoration Action Alliance (aka The Clover Creek Council) will hold its first creek cleanup this year. The Saturday before Earth Day, April 20, they will meet at 9 a.m. at Yakima Ave and Tule Lake Road, the Parkland Prairie Nature Preserve…
Lakewood, what have you wrought?
Don Anderson (Mayor/City Council), followed by Steve O’Ban (State Senator), both attorneys and officials from Lakewood, worked on County Executive Bruce Dammeier’s proposal to put a community of tiny homes in the watershed above Spanaway Lake. The city recently voted to contribute $1,000,000 to the effort. On the other side of the military base, lake…
April 13 – South Sound Sustainability Expo
For anyone who has interest in ways to save energy, money and resources, this may be an very interesting event to attend. The South Sound Sustainability Expo is being held in Tacoma at the University of Washington Tacoma Campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. One of the participants is the Craft Supply Swap, hosted…
Free Trees for Parkland-Spanaway March 23
Green Blocks: Parkland — Tacoma Tree Foundation We are bringing trees to Parkland-Spanaway March 2024 with the support of Pierce County and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Residents of the Parkland and Spanaway designated census area can sign up to receive free trees for their property, as well as resources on tree planting and care. Our goal is to distribute hundreds of trees to homes in Parkland and…
Caring for Clover Creek, March 7, 6:30pm
Clover Creek, from Steilacoom Lake to Frederickson, is a mess. It’s dry much of the year from the asphalt ditch in Parkland to Waller Road. It is also sadly, full of trash, weeds and other debris. It is subject to contaminants from the military base and other businesses and roadways around it. If you live…
It’s About Our Water
Co-Authored by Kirk Kirkland & Al Schmauder. [Republished from the Suburban Times] In the face of escalating urbanization in Pierce County, a concerning lack of oversight exists in monitoring drinking water usage and assessing evolving trends. The repercussions are evident, with increasing water pollution, diminishing well levels, and the cessation of winter flow in Clover…
Mistakes were made, a water battle looms
By Marianne Lincoln In 1931, Pierce County Drainage District 20 built a ditch. This ditch drained the farms to the west of 47th Avenue between 128th Street and 112th Street. At the time, the really wasn’t a 47th Avenue, but the LaForge Farm was there since 1915 along with the Andre Farm to the North…
Pierce Prairie Post 