By Stacee Sledge The Rotary Club of South Puget Sound-Olympia recently awarded $1,000 scholarships to eight local graduating seniors – with four more to be granted later this month. According to Chris Townley, Board member and Scholarship Committee Chair, the Rotary Club of South Puget Sound-Olympia focuses its scholarship funds on smaller area schools. [...]
By Jake Luplow Could you imagine living in a world of black and white: walking into the city and seeing skyscrapers and cars and people, all just shades of grey? A land where charcoal and soot form the backdrop of your life. Yauger Park, located in West Olympia, used to be just that: a [...]
By Stacee Sledge Downtown Olympia’s annual Girls Night Out is just around the corner, an all-day event that pulls hundreds of women shoppers downtown for deals, delights, and raffle prizes. Best of all, Girls Night Out raises money for important local causes. The Olympia Downtown Association (ODA) created Girls Night Out in 2009. This [...]
By Amy Rowley Plant a pole bean seed – it’s a classic elementary school science experiment. What kid has not watched in amazement as their bean seed sprouts and then quickly reaches to the sky? Karen Ray, School Garden Program Manager at the Thurston County Food Bank, is taking the project many, many steps [...]
I anxiously await summer vacation. I long for the ease of parenting when I don’t have to nag about bedtime rituals or cajole my daughters to rise from bed in time to catch the bus. I don’t have to remember a library book, pack lunches, or worry about whether homework is being turned in [...]
By Jake Luplow Is the idea of a food sustainable community really that absurd? If you had asked me that a week ago on one of my fast food excursions, I would have said, “Absolutely! Just the thought of a community not drooling over Big Macs, steeped in grease, is absurd.” But, in actuality, [...]
By Laurie O’Brien Theaters in the North Thurston School District will be busy over the next few weeks as all three district high schools mount spring productions. River Ridge High School will present Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Timberline High School will stage the classic Kander and Ebb musical, Chicago. And [...]
By Stacy Fisher Ballet Northwest has a tradition of presenting ballets over Mother’s Day weekend, and this year they are presenting Carnival of the Animals and Other Premiere Works. This is an ideal show for introducing ballet and orchestral music to families and young audiences. A collection of three world premiere ballets, this represents [...]
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13th. It’s not too late to grab a restaurant reservation to treat Mom to a delicious meal and then travel around town enjoying some other Mother’s Day highlights. Brunch Ideas Budd Bay Cafe – 360.357.6963 Enjoy a local favorite – award winning brunch at Budd Bay Cafe. Grab a [...]
By Stacee Sledge The 15th annual Lacey Alternative Energy Fair is May 5th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Huntamer Park in Woodland Square. The free event started in 1998, when then-mayor Graeme Sackrison hatched the idea to have an Electrathon car race to help expose Lacey to electric cars and other new types [...]
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