Stories for Community Service
A Community Collaboration
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The City of Lakewood held its monthly Community Collaboration in Council Chambers on Wednesday. One of the presenters was Carl Newhouse, Outreach Program Coordinator for Army Community Service at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. His presentation covered the Army family programs available to Soldiers, Airmen, and their families. As a part of his presentation, he showed a 7-slide Power Point to highlight some of the many services they offer, and contact information for those services. Download that file (in PDF format) here.
40th Annual Sportsman’s Dinner & Auction
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It started out 40 years ago as a wild game dinner with members of the Rotary Club of Lakewood preparing wild game they had caught during the previous year and getting together for an evening of fun, frivolity and some raffles and door prizes.
Over the years the event has morphed into one of Lakewood’s major community activities attracting more than 400 individuals for an evening that includes wild game, a silent and oral auction and resulting in a major fundraiser that has helped the 125-member club to raise and distribute approximately 2 million dollars to local community organizations, schools, YMCA, Boys & Girls Club and much, much more.
The 40th annual Lakewood Rotary Club Sportsman’s Dinner & Auction is slated for March 20 at the McGavick Center at Clover Park Technical College. The doors open at 5 pm. Read More→
Letter: Playground by the Sound Update
Posted by | CommentsThings are still moving along in the steering committee for the Playground by the Sound. we are sill in need of support via donations as well as for people in our community to sign up to volunteer. People can access information about the playground, sign up to volunteer, as well as donate toward the building costs by logging on to the Chambers Creek Properties website at http://www.chamberscreekfoundation.org/. If you have any questions or would like additional information please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your support of the project and have a great week.
Sincerely,
Misty S. Villarreal
Black Tie & Blue Jeans Ball raises $35,000
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Henry Krebs (left) and Greg Anderson, managers at Lakewood Ford, hold their $2,000 contribution to the effort.
The 3rd annual Black Tie & Blue Jeans Ball raised about $35,000 to help pay for a permanent restroom to be installed next to the Playground @ Ft. Steilacoom Park, according to Charlie Maxwell, spokesman for Partners for Parks.
Held at the Clover Park Technical College’s McGavick Center, more than 150 people representing just about every community service organization and other groups showed up to support the parks project, particularly to raise the funds to buy and install a new restroom.
In addition to a “raise the paddle” offering, auctioning of desserts, some beverage sales, guests ponied up for the chance to win a variety of items. For more pictures from the Ball, see below or click here to see a slideshow.
CISL newsletter available
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The March 2010 newsletter for Communities in Schools Lakewood is available. Click here to download.
CIS earns Presidential accolade
Posted by | CommentsEditor’s Note: Following is a letter from the CEO of Communities In Schools (CIS), Daniel Cardinali, regarding Barak Obama’s recent recognition of CIS.
Dear Colleagues,
It was my great pleasure to represent you at a gathering of national education leaders with President Barack Obama at a White House event yesterday. While I was quite pleased to hear the President’s commitment to reducing the dropout rate and to helping young people graduate from high school prepared for success I was especially gratified to hear him recognize the work of Communities In Schools by name.
That recognition, with some of the lead-in from President Obama’s speech to give it context, went as follows:
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Relay for Life gaining momentum
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RELAY FOR LIFE OF LAKEWOOD had a successful Relay Rally, February 23, held at Harborstone Credit Union, 6019 Lake Grove St SW in Lakewood.
With 20 various teams present, discussion on how to develop and expand teams and make them more meaningful to the members took place. The teams role played, learned to talk to strangers about Relay for Life of Lakewood and found more meaning in the pledge to stop cancer. Join today as Relay for Life honors survivors, remember those less fortunate and fight back against this dreaded disease. Contact teamdev@lakewoodrelay.org and learn how you can help make a difference.
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Celebration Recovery
Posted by | CommentsCelebration Recovery, a Christian based Alcoholics Anonymous program, will meet at Set Free Ministries & Chapel, 4102 110th St SW, Suite #E, Lakewood, WA 98499 on March 6 at 5:30 pm. We help you to walk in your spiritual growth as well as in your sobriety. The truth is we are all addicted to something, drugs, alcohol, sex, shopping, food, gambling… you name it and we can get addicted to it. So it isn’t for just any one thing. It truly is an awesome program. Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous are to just hopefully keep you clean and sober, where as Celebration Recovery wants to take it further and help you grow in the Lord too.
Jessie Dyslin Ranch looking for volunteers
Posted by | CommentsThe Jessie Dyslin Ranch wants to invite you to A Bite To Eat, A Tour of its Facilities and a Discussion about its Farm To Market Project at the on Saturday, March 6, 2010 from noon – 2 p.m. Download this flyer for more information.
Spiritual Care – Hope and Healing in American Samoa
Posted by | CommentsRed Cross volunteer, Tim Serban, will talk (Thursday, March 4 from 6-7:30 pm at the Tacoma Public Library – Downtown Branch) about his disaster relief work in American Samoa following the devastating earthquake and tsunami which struck the region. During his assignment, Tim worked with many American Samoan families who had relatives living the Tacoma-Pierce County community. He hopes to connect with members of the Samoan community and local residents to share his experiences and give a first-hand account of the Red Cross response and relief work. We hope you will be able to attend this engaging and informative Red Cross presentation. Seating is limited, so please RSVP by calling (253) 441-7625 or e-mail web@rainier-redcross.org. Read More→
Mayor Klosowski’s UPdate – February 26
Posted by | CommentsNow that we’ve got a full City Council with the appointment of Caroline Belleci, we’re ready to tackle the opportunities and challenges awaiting us this year!
Like many other municipalities, our City is keeping a close eye on our budget situation. We have a balanced budget and continue to monitor our financial situation.
Last December, we made the decision to reduce all services to core levels and cut back on expenses. We laid off 12 staff members, had three retirements and reduced hours for several other staff. Despite our greatly reduced staff, we remain committed to providing the best service we can for our community.
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Dr. Adam Poyfair – Making a Difference
Posted by | CommentsDr. Adam Poyfair, a new dentist in our community, has volunteered for the Medical Teams International Dental Van. This beautiful new van is a mobile dental unit that goes directly to the schools and other sites to meet the needs of many of our students with moderate to severe dental needs. This effort is in partnership with Caring for Kids. The van services the kids at Tyee Park, Southgate and Dower, and will do a special day at Clover Park High School. The biggest problem we face is a volunteer dentist for the one day commitments. So we want to thank Dr. Adam Poyfair for making a difference in our community! Call and thank Dr. Poyfair, Light Dental Studio, 471-2222. If you are a dentist or you know a dentist who would volunteer for a day please call Diane Formoso at 253-279-9777.
