ABC Day is Back! We’re incredibly excited to announce that All Bethel Community Day is back! Like past ABC Days, this year’s event will feature live music, fun and educational vendors, professional wrestling, a superhero parade, a petting zoo, great food, and a number of military vehicles! Mark your calendars: ABC Day will take place…
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Shady Acres reaches 60 years
By Marianne Lincoln On April 19, 1962, Harold LeMay, Jack Brown and William “Bill” Black filed the Shady Acres Corporation at the State of Washington Secretary of State’s Office. It started as a piece of property on 208th Street. George Brown Road (46th Ave.) ran through the middle of it diagonally. The three subdivided the…
Katherine G. Johnson Elementary Opens
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics and trajectories as a NASA employee were critical to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights. Highlights of Ms. Johnson’s career:In 2015, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.In 2016, presented with the Silver Snoopy Award and a NASA Group Achievement Award.In 2016,…
Common Enemy Doctrine, Water law
Anyone who lives along a lake, river creek or stream needs to be aware of these laws regarding waterways. Currens v. Sleek,, September 9, 1999, Case No. 66830-2, Washington State Supreme Court determined that liability exists for anyone who causes damage to another’s property by increasing surface water flow onto that other property without exercising…
March 30 Canyon Road Regional Connection Project neighborhood meeting
Dear neighbor, Please join the Pierce County Canyon Road Regional Connection Project team for a virtual neighborhood meeting on March 30! Residents of the Radiance and Saddle Creek neighborhoods will learn about plans for 70th Avenue East, including how it connects to the larger Canyon Road Regional Connection Project. You’ll also have the…
Godzilla is on the horizon or is that Baby Huey?
For those of you who love your quiet, safe, inexpensive little enclave of Spanaway, or Frederickson, or Parkland, guess what? Godzilla has reared her head again. $200,000 of state money has once again been placed in the Washington State budget by Rep. Melanie Morgan of the 29th District, for the purpose of an incorporation study…
Dire warnings on our watershed – dialogue
Several members of the Chambers Clover Watershed Council have been exchanging some very concerning emails recently. Based on their experience, credentials, and length of service in the stewardship capacity, these are worth your interest. (Cindy Beckett, Don Russell and Kurt Reidinger) Starting with a reply to Ms. Beckett’s email in the previous article, “Destruction of…
Destruction of this creek has always been illegal
A message from Cindy Beckett, EPA Watershed Manager, WSU Master Watershed Steward: I really do wish that everyone would finally understand this….. no elected “official” on the county or executive level, nor anyone on Pierce County staff, has any authority whatsoever over this creek system. I really mean this! Authority falls onto both the State…
Rep. Morgan plants $200k for incorporation study in State budget again
Rep. Melanie Morgan of the 29th Legislative district is trying again. She had a proposal to get $200,000 incorporation study money from the Washington State budget for the area Pierce County just rezoned called “Centers and Corridors.” The idea is to make it one big city. (Larger than Tacoma I might add.) You will not…
Drainage is a catch word, FRED310 needs comments from Pioneer Valley neighbors
By Marianne Lincoln The summer of 2021 was one of the driest and hottest on record in Western Washington. This Winter, we were introduced to the term, atmospheric river, a huge swath of wet clouds ready to wring themselves out on a path thousands of miles long from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Added…
FCCCC to hold meeting January 15
The Frederickson CLover Creek Community Council will be holding an in person meeting January 15, 2022 at the Christ Community Baptist Church 8016 176th St. E. Regular Monthly Membership Meeting Agenda Christ Community Baptist Church 8016 176th St. E. January 15, 2022, at 9AM Website: http://www.fcccc.us Agenda Items Welcome, Call to order,…
Aug. 30 Public Safety Meeting
PIERCE COUNTY — On Monday, August 30, 2021, 6 p.m., the Pierce County Council’s Public Safety Committee will hold its meeting in Frederickson at the new Cross Park meeting site. That is located at 4420 Military Road East. Presentations include the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management sharing about emergency management and response in Pierce…
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