Rainier Youth Choirs will be performing at the Kent United Methodist Church Saturday, May 21 at 2 p.m.
I opened my extra freezer the other day and there was a dinosaur frozen in time. I’m not referring to any sort of historical discovery where I would need to call in a paleontologist. I’m also not referring to my lack of housekeeping skills and food left frozen so long it became dinosaur-like. I am talking about a small plastic dinosaur, frozen in a plastic container of water.
I love poems that take pains to observe people at their tasks, and here’s a fine one by Christopher Todd Matthews, who lives in Virginia.
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra is finishing up its fourth regular season and is celebrating with a concert.
Hold on to your hats, quilters, a new quilt shop is coming to historic downtown Kent. According to Alice Marshall, owner, Running Stitch Fabrics is slated to open May 3.
The Kentlake High School production of “The Phantom of the Opera” runs April 14-16, 21-23 and 28-30.
The production will be presented at the schools preforming arts center, 21401 SE Falcon Way, Kent.
Northern Departure plays accoustic, bluegrass and folk music. Performance starts at 7 p.m. with sign up for open mic starting at 6:30. Open mic will follow Northern Departure’s performance.
The city of Maple Valley announced a ground breaking ceremony is planned for the Maple Valley Town Square project, which is anchored by Fred Meyer.
There’s that saying, “It takes a village to raise a child,” and as Paige Dunn found out, having a village around you is just as important for the mom.
Dunn, who had worked as an actress before having her son Hayden in August 2009, lives with her husband Reagan — who is a King County councilman who represents the Ninth District which includes Covington and Maple Valley — just outside of Maple Valley these days.
The Tahoma High School Wind Ensemble participated in the Green River Music Educator’s Regional Wind Ensemble Festival March 23 and scored three superior ratings.
The band, conducted by Matthew Cole, the district’s newest band director, played “Signature” by Jan van der Roost,” Song for Lyndsay” by Andrew Boysen and “Jericho” by Bert Appermont.
Shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, TigAIR Blood debuted on the corner of Southeast Wax Road and Maple Valley Highway.
An air band made up of Dace Anderson, Arielle Young and Kassidy Ulmer, the group rocked out as commuters made their way home, with drivers honking and even a few not so friendly gestures.
We who teach creative writing have been known to tell our students that there is no subject so common and ordinary that it can’t be addressed in a poem, and this one, by Michael McFee, who lives in North Carolina, is a good example of that.
Parents and even grandparents of children who ride in car seats should take note of new safety recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
With potentially life-saving implications, the new policy, published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics, says toddlers should ride in rear-facing car seats until age 2 or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their seat.
Maybe you have to be a poet to get away with sniffing the paws of a dog, and I have sniffed the paws of all of mine, which almost always smell like hayfields in sunlight. Here Jane Varley, who lives in Ohio, offers us a touching last moment with a dear friend.
Renton Technical College culinary student Krista Nakamura has been awarded Washington State Junior Chef of the Year by the Washington State Chef’s Association.
The 19-year-old from Maple Valley won the silver medal at the junior chef competition put on by the association in August 2010. Just recently they presented her formally with the medal at the Columbia Tower in Seattle in an American Culinary Federation meeting.
Since the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) has lowered the minimum weight requirements for gastric Lap-Band surgery, which made many…
The Tahoma Junior High Drama Club presented “My Son Pinocchio” March 11-19 at the Tahoma Middle School Theartre.
The play was directed by Earlene DeLeon, produced by Ronda DenHerder with musical direction by Carrie Sleeper-Bowers.
As I’m sitting here writing this, I’m looking out the window at the sky and the trees. This is significant because I wasn’t looking out at the sky and trees last week. I was looking at a wall. The computer/craft/guest room is actually our garage. We had it enclosed 10 years ago for my mother to live with us after my father passed away. She lived with us a couple years then opted to move back to her nice quiet mobile home in the woods. Go figure. It has actually been a blessing to have this extra space as the kids have gotten older. They are housed in our former guest and computer rooms; their bedrooms. So it’s been handy to spill over into the garage as our house was only 1100 square feet to begin with.
Go for a walk and part of whatever you walk through rides back on your socks. Here Peter Everwine, a…
Want to eat better? Add a bit of color.
That doesn’t, however, mean reaching for a bag of Skittles or adding a lime to your beer.
Brightly colored fruits and vegetables are a key component of a healthful diet, but too often our meals are monochromatic. Turns out Mom was right: Eat your fruits and veggies.
