The following events are taking place in August with the Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway. Blue Zones are places in the world that the National Geographic identified as places that people commonly live to be 100. Parkland Spanaway is not one of them, in fact, we have the lowest life expectancy on an average than the…
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Aug 3 – a new Spanaway Street Fair
Saturday, August 3, 166th & Pacific Ave. Spanaway Street Fair!
Dog Days of Spanaway!
County Council July 30 at Skills Center
The In-District Council Meeting for District 3 is scheduled for Tuesday, July 30, at 6:30 p.m. at the Pierce County Skills Center located at 16117 Canyon Road East in the Frederickson area. Each year, the Pierce County Council hosts an in-district Council meeting in each of the seven Council Districts for the purpose of…
County voter pamphlets are LATE
If you are a voter, you probably have your ballot by now. But, due to a vendor error, several communities did not receive voters’ pamphlets. Pamphlets will be mailed to affected communities on July 29: Buckley, Carbonado, DuPont, Fife, Kapowsin, Key Peninsula, McKenna, Orting, South Prairie, Steilacoom, Wilkeson, and parts of Parkland, Spanaway and Midland….
Dog Days of Spanaway August 3
Summer is finally here! Spanaway is going to have a celebration and include your favorite dog! But it will not be all about dogs, because the owners matter too! Dog Days of Spanaway will be held at 166th and Pacific Avenue on the former site of Spanaway Elementary, across from Starbucks. The date is August…
Lindquist Dental – local dental care for all children regardless of ability to pay!
[Sent from Karen Lewis, Community Outreach and Engagement Manager, Lindquist Dental for Children] PAID ADVERTISEMENT Looking for affordable and compassionate dental care for your child? Look no further than Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children (LDCC)! Our team is dedicated to providing accessible and effective dental care to children (birth through 20) in the Puget Sound…
County needs to rethink sewer system
OPINION Potable water, drinking water to you and me, is critical to all life on earth. In Pierce County, that water comes from glacier melt or rain. It is taken from rivers, lakes, and aquifers underground. In Washington State there is currently not anyone desalinizing sea water for use, although Florida, Texas, and California do….
Free History Lecture: Fort Nisqually’s Final Decade
Submitted by DuPont Historical Society. Join us at DuPont Historical Museum at 6:30 p.m. on July 17 for a free lecture by author and historian Steve Anderson. Fort Nisqually was a hub of activity for many years in the Puget Sound region. It was a center of trade and a multicultural community with people from…
July 13 Seattle to Portland ride comes through Spanaway
Known as the STP, the Seattle to Portland ride has been running since 1979, except for 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic. Registration closed today, July 7, 2024. The race begins about 5 a.m. at the University of Washington’s E-18 parking lot near all the sports facilities. The first riders will begin coming though…
P/S We Need a Parade!
By Marianne Lincoln Parkland and Spanaway have been communities longer than Tacoma has been a city. Years ago, we had the Parkland Roundup which included a rodeo on Gonyea Park and the surrounding area that is now housing. (I really don’t understand why it isn’t still park land. Someone please explain.) So our sense of…
The (new) Commercial Aviation Work Group will begin meeting July 11
PIERCE COUNTY COUNCIL — The Commercial Aviation Work Group—created by the Legislature last year—will host its first public meeting beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 11, at the Capital Event Center in Tumwater. The Commercial Aviation Work Group, established by the Legislature last year, will evaluate the long-range commercial aviation and transportation needs of Washington State. This includes exploring…
Stop building cul-de-sacs in unincorporated county
EDITORIAL OPINION Years ago, when the Spanaway Community Association was starting and the Growth Management Act was in its infancy, Pierce County explained to us that the housing developments with cul-de-sacs were useful to slow crime. The county was allowing, mostly even, asking developers to build all these little pocket communities on large parcels. Each…
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