It’s not July 4th without a parade! The City of Roy has just such a parade with local people and organizations dressed up in red, white and blue and usually throwing candy for the kids. All participating in the 4th of July Parade please meet at the Roy Rodeo grounds before 11:30am, the parade starts…
June 30 – FP Performing Arts Center County Council Meeting
June 30 at 6:00 p.m. the Pierce County Council will hold and In-District Council meeting on District #5 at the new Franklin Pierce Performing Arts Center, 11002 18th Avenue E Tacoma, WA 98445. The building in next to Franklin Pierce High School. The Pierce County Council is set to hold its annual in-district meeting for…
Bethel Summer Meal Program
Free breakfasts and lunches will be available at no charge to children 18 years of age and younger. Meals will be available from June 23 through July 25, Monday through Friday, with no service on July 4. Breakfast will be from 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. and lunch will be served from 11:00 a.m. to…
June 29, Puyallup Tribe’s Safe Summer Kickoff
June 29, is the Puyallup Tribe’s Safe Summer Kickoff. from 1 to 5 p.m. at 3509 72nd St E, Tacoma, WA 98443. For 4 hours of fun, activities and community connection. Everyone is invited. Sunday, June 291:00 PM – 5:00 PM3509 72nd St E, Tacoma, WA 98443 Enjoy youth activities, a Ninja Nation course (ages…
Dupont, my testimony to everyone who disturbs an historic place
By Marianne Lincoln The following is the full written testimony I submitted to the Hearing’s Examiner for the City of Dupont as it considers the Pioneer Aggregates South Parcel Expansion Project. With 68 years of knowing Dupont and its history, I had several options of how to approach this topic. Don Russell, 96, left me…
June 28 Pipeline Trail Grand Opening
Pierce County Parks invites the public to celebrate the grand opening of the Pipeline Trail on Saturday, June 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held at the Pipeline Trailhead at Orangegate Park off 84th Street East. This exciting milestone marks the completion of the newest segment of the Pipeline Trail,…
Rotary Golf Tournament July 26
The Parkland Spanaway Rotary Club Annual Golf Tournament to benefit ALVGC and Rotary is coming up July 26, 2025. Thank you to those already registered and sponsors committed! Thank you Dan Stewart for offering to provide the tasty barbeque! Please review the attachments and go to www.psrotaryclub.org and go to the bottom of the banner to “click…
JBLM’s Freedom Fest June 28
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Freedom Fest celebration will be held June 28 from 1–11 p.m. at Cowan and Memorial Stadiums on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Main. The headlining act, Grammy-nominated artist Hunter Hayes, will perform on the main stage at 8:30 p.m. The groundbreaking drone show will begin at 10 p.m. at…
Killing Sequalitchew, a watershed in danger
By Marianne Lincoln Sequalitchew Creek runs from Sequalitchew Lake, through Edmund Marsh, to Puget Sound’s Nisqually Reach, through the City of Dupont, Washington. This is the same Dupont where the Nisqually Indians lived and later welcomed and worked for the Hudson Bay Company at Fort Nisqually. The Fort had two sites above the Sequalitchew. The…
June 28 Community Resource Fair
Spanaway Middle School will be the location of a community resource fair, on June 28. Cheri Coleman, is Founder and Executive Director of On the Road with PartnerCafe. They are a team of human and social service providers, representatives, and government agencies. They host and facilitate community resource fairs, bringing information, resources, and direct services to underserved…
Juneteenth – Celebrate Resilience and Progress
Today is a Holiday. Although it is new as a holiday, many have celebrated it for 160 years. It was the real end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth, I recall, was especially celebrated in Texas, where the last of slavery finally ended two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. News was slow 160 years…
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