Bennish Brown, the new CEO of the Tacoma Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau will be the guest speaker at this Thursday morning (3/28/13) at “723 networking – building business PRIDE in GREATER Spanaway” I asked Bennish to talk about the areas ability to participate, capture tourist attention, before he becomes “emotionally attached” to the community….
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Spanaway Lions to Host Easter Egg Hunt for Special Needs Children
On Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., the Spanaway Lions Club will host and Easter Egg Hunt for special needs children at the Spanaway Prairie House Museum, 924 176th Street East, Spanaway. This is a friendly and accessible Egg Hunt for kids with disabilities and special needs and their siblings (age 5-12). The ground…
Altrusa Wine, Dine and Tour brought history alive at Marymount
Saturday, March 23 the Altrusa Club of South Pierce County held its 9th annual Wine, Dine and Tour Event at the Marymount Event Center. This event helps the Altrusa Foundation fund scholarships in the Bethel and Franklin Pierce School Districts. Tickets for the event were sold out in advance as people were excited to have the private…
JBLM Road Construction Project Closes Perimeter Road to Civilian Vehicle Traffic
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – A major road construction project on Perimeter Road, the road which bisects JBLM Lewis-Main and McChord Field, will begin April 1 and last through May. The construction will close access to civilian commuter and commercial vehicle traffic that uses Perimeter Road and 150th Street Southwest as a thoroughfare to commute between Spanaway…
Inboard Hydros Summer Nationals on Spanaway Lake Sept 7-8
Inboard Hydroplane Racing will hold their Summer Nationals at Spanaway Lake this year on September 7-8, 2013. http://inboardhydroplanes.com/index.html Here’s a link that shows how Pontiac, Michigan gets into this event. http://www.quakeonthelake.org/ We need to rally local businesses and non-profits groups around this event and rock out Spanaway Lake for our own Spanaway version of “Seafair.”…
Pierce Transit proposes more cuts
Monday, March 18, an open house was held by Pierce Transit at the Parkland Spanaway Library to reveal to the local public the proposed service cuts for later this year. The vast majority of Pierce Transit funding comes from a portion of the sales tax. With the economy still down and the failure of a…
Behind the song and donation cup, a man searching for the spiritual connection
By Marianne Lincoln I was sitting in my car waiting for a friend to finish shopping at the Spanaway Wal-Mart today, I heard singing. As I looked around, all I could see was a man at a table in front of the store and another offering a Tacoma newspapers to passers-by. I emerged from my…
Spanaway wacky eye catchers morf
Saturday, on the corner of 208th Street and the Mountain Highway, there was a fence post with an afro wig and green scarf and a T-shirt that said “I Stay Fly.” Sunday, in its place are two survey stakes nailed in a cross that say, “RIP I Stay Fly” and “Long Live Britt.” In place of…
Pierce Prairie Post seeking office space and a better camera
Your local online news, the Pierce Prairie Post has been glad to serve you for the past seven months. We have gone from 573 views in the first week to almost 16,000. But there are 128,000 of you out there in the Post-sphere. Please let your friends and family know they can see more about…
WSDOT engineer to speak on the Cross Base Highway to 723 Networking group
Next Thursday morning, March 14th, 2013, at “723 Networking – building business PRIDE in GREATER Spanaway” meeting will have the project engineer from the Washington State Department of Transportation, John Wynands, give a presentation on the “Cross Base Highway” also known as SR704. The Cross Base highway was envisioned around 1982 to relive congestion in the…
Prairie House Museum – Kids Day April 3
SPANAWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — On Wednesday, April 3rd, come spend the afternoon with us at the Prairie House Museum. This will be our 23rd Kids’ Day. Enjoy life at the turn of the century. Tour our 1890’s farm house and outbuildings. Make butter, pop popcorn, see farm animals. We have lots of new displays including a…
Proposal in legislature for Spanaway Lake Management Plan
Below is a communication between the Chambers/Clover Creek Watershed Council, Pierce County Surface Water Management and the Washington Department of Ecology regarding a grant that was not attained. But somewhere in the middle, this paragraph caught the attention of the Post: “On the brighter side, thanks to the great visionary thinking of 29th District Rep…
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