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Tillicum Centennial
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Finishing a cute, pink balloon turtle
The Tillicum Centennial was held Saturday, August 14 at Harry Todd Park in Tillicum. Above is one a more than two dozen images on Tillicum’s social site.
Photo: The rest of the sunset story
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There were undoubtedly a lot of views of the “red sun” of August 1st sent (no exception here, attached is one from our deck). What a lot of your readers may lack is patience. After the sunset, like Aug 1st’s, many people pack up and leave Saltars’ Point beach but the show is just beginning. The second attachment is a while after the sun went down on Aug 1st.
Tom Kurtz
Steilacoom
Clover Park Rotary International Project
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By Alan Billingsley
This year Clover Park Rotary raised money to purchase stoves for an entire village in the jungles of Guatemala. Families there cook on the dirt floors of their very modest dwellings as they have for hundreds of years. Living and breathing the smoke from their cooking all their lives.
The village of Nuevo Santiago could not be any more remote. It takes 14 hours over the worst roads in the world to get to this village high in the mountains. The homes there are about 15’ X 20’ dirt floor; maybe a few wood logs or stools and a few cooking pots with a fire on the floor in the house. Of the 80 families in the village, we were able to give and install each with a new metal stove designed to vent outside the house and consume 10% of the fire wood used in the traditional 3 stone cooking fire.
Lingerie at Steilacoom museum
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A Victoria’s Secret retail store in Steilacoom? No…just the latest featured display in the Steilacoom Historical Museum at the corner of Main and Rainier Streets. Curator Joan Curtis and Jenny Hollister created the display of lady’s lingerie from times past using items from the Museum’s sizable historic clothing collection. In addition to those in the photo, other items of historic lingerie are in display cases on the top floor of the Museum. Buzz Brake assisted the ladies by building stanchions for the display, and, according to him, that is the ONLY thing that inspired him to take the photo and write this article! The lingerie will be on display through September during normal Museum hours (noon – 4:00, Sat and Sun) or otherwise by appointment (253 584-4133).
Photo: Desperate Times
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Desperate Times: “I need to make some money... However, I don’t have enough to let you buy these chairs... So, I’ll rent them to you for a little while. I know that they don’t make up a full set. You’ll just have to have that fourth person sit on the floor - BUT! I’ll give you a good deal!! As long as you bring them back when you are done!”
This photo, titled “Desperate Times” is from personal website of Christina Klas. A resident of Tillicum, Christina posts (almost daily) photos from her hometown.
Steilacoom Sunset from Sunday
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Sunset from the deck of Steilacoom’s Mary Lou and Dave Sclair taken Sunday, June 27.
New coat of paint for water tower
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The huge water storage tower just off Bridgeport on the north side is getting a coat of paint. The painting crew is using high rising cherry pickets to get all the way to the top.
PR: CPSD students receive Business Student of the Year scholarships
Posted by | CommentsLAKEWOOD- The 2010 Business Student of the Year scholarships have been announced by the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce. Lakes High School’s, Cameron Boyd, Sangbin Kwak from Clover Park High School and Ashok Chandwaney from Harrison Preparatory School received the scholarships at a reception on June 3. Each scholarship is worth $500. The students were selected based on their commitment to the spirit of free enterprise and their entrepreneurial goals and plans. Clover Park Technical College’s Joshua Gibson and TaNay Peters from Pierce College were also recipients of the scholarship. Read More→
Steilacoom Sunset
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A Steilacoom sunset. Taken last week by Connie Aboubakr.
Steilacoom Grade School, 1926 7th and 8th Grades
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By Buzz Brake
Continuing with Steilacoom Historical Museum Association’s (SHMA) historical photo of the week series, this photo shows the Steilacoom Grade School 1926 7th and 8th grade classes. This and many other school photos are available for viewing and downloading (for free) at www.steilacoomhistoricalphotos.com. School photos can be viewed in full size and downloaded free at that web site.
Pictured here are (left to right): front row, James Jack, Raymond Dailey, Russell Wells, William Petrie, Lind Rennord, Cornelius Karman; second row, Ruth Bacon, Edith Curran, Viola Adams, Jewell Morris, Juanita Andrews, Grace Hubbard, Emily Fitch, Margaret Hatcher, and; back row, Beatrice Hatcher, Mary Taylor, Alice Chapman, and Katherine St. Clair.
If you have comments or suggestions concerning the school photos shown here or previously in Suburban Times, or any other SHMA historical photos, please contact the historical photo site webmaster.
Firing range construction
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Anyone driving the DuPont – Steilacoom road has to have noticed the construction going on at the firing range. The firing position shelters are being torn down and a lot of the hillside appears to be being excavated. The sign at the site declares the small arms range is being repaired – recovery. Does that mean the excavated soil will be sifted and lead from bullets recovered?
Steilacoom Grade School, 1892 – 1916
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By Buzz Brake
The Steilacoom Historical Museum Association (SHMA) historical photo this week is of the Steilacoom Grade School built in 1892, the first substantial school built specifically for that purpose in Steilacoom. Prior classes had met in the courthouse, and before that, in a small one-room structure. In 1916, a new school was built adjacent to the 1892 school. That school building is still in use and is now called Pioneer School.
Visit www.steilacoomhistoricalphotos.com to see other views of the 1892 school, its 1916 replacement, and many more historical photos and documents of interest to Steilacoom and regional citizens. If you have comments or suggestions concerning the school photos or any other SHMA historical photos, please contact the webmaster.
Lakewood Fire Dispatcher Honored at Daughter’s School
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Lakewood firefighters and dispatchers gather with Guy’s wife, Wendy (center, in black) and Char Bair (far left)
Lakewood, Wash. – On Thursday, May 27, 2010, Olympic View Elementary students, PTA members, North Thurston School District employees, Lakewood Fire Department firefighters and Fire Comm dispatchers gathered together for one reason: to honor Guy Ploegman.
Guy Ploegman worked at the Lakewood Fire Department as a volunteer firefighter from 1972-1983 and then became a Fire Comm dispatcher in 1983 until he retired as a dispatch supervisor in 2007. Guy retired to spend time with his family; his wife, Wendy, and daughter Amanda. Sadly, Guy’s time was cut short with his girls, as he passed away from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) on December 7, 2009. Guy has been greatly missed, not only by his family, but his Lakewood Fire family and all who knew him. Read More→
