The Tahoma High class of 2010 walked across the stage at the White River Amphitheatre during commencement ceremonies and into their futures.
A recently formed rock band, Lead Rose, highlights the best young talent Maple Valley has to offer and will perform at Arts Festival 2010 at noon, Sunday, June 13 at the Lake Wilderness Lodge.
Guitarist Brooks Carlston, 14, was influence by the early years of Green Day, which later morphed to Slash and Velvet Revolver.
Trish Adams was struggling to find a purpose two years ago in the deaths of two women to whom she was closest.
For business owner Julie Foster the question is never paper or plastic, for her, the answer is always plastic. Foster, owns a boutique business called Bag to Bags. The business recycles plastic bags and various fabrics and reconstruct them into custom made bags of different shapes and sizes.
Whether we like it or not, we live with the awareness that death is always close at hand, and in this poem by Don Thompson, a Californian, a dead blackbird can’t be pushed out of the awareness of the speaker, nor can it escape the ants, who have their own yard work to do.
I imagine that if I was going to build a house I would want more tools than just a hammer and nails. I’m sure that with the right wood, it could be done, but just think of the time it would take. With my music school, my kids, my band, and my other time-consuming stuff in which I’m involved I just don’t have the time to put in, so I don’t think I’ll try that.
The Cedar Valley Elementary School presented the PTA multicultural celebration Friday June 4.
The Kentlake band, orchestra and choir traveled to British Columbia for a weekend of musical activities May 22 and 23.
Saturday, May 22, the choir and orchestra performed at the park in downtown Victoria and the jazz band performed during late afternoon on the Quey in front of a large crowd.
Summer dreaming meets today’s challenges for parents…at the library
Remember those carefree days of summer, when you were a kid, and had nothing better to do than count clouds, go fishin’ in the creek, or pluck dandelions? Neither do I. But somehow that’s the sort of summer many of us imagine for our kids. Then we wake up and realize that we’ll need to find something for them to do all summer, in addition to all our regular to-do list items.
Author Erik Korhel, who grew up in Covington, has published his first children’s book, “My Tooth Fell in My Soup.” Korhel expanded his understanding of the rich variety of literature that wasn’t available to him in high school by using libraries.
A large crowd gathered at Tahoma National Cemetery for the Memorial Day program.
Rain fell heavily at times during the ceremony commemorating those who lost their lives while serving in the military.
Barnyard chickens, which are little more than reptiles with feathers, can be counted on to kill those among them who are malformed or diseased, but we humans, advanced animals that we think we are, are far more likely to just turn away from people who bear the scars of misfortune. Here’s a poem by Ned Balbo, who lives and teaches in Maryland.
Dace Anderson wanted to stretch his wings creatively when he formed Sealth with students from his music school, Dace’s Rock ‘N’ More in Maple Valley.
We are sometimes amazed by how well the visually impaired navigate the world, but like the rest of us, they have found a way to do what interests them. Here Jan Mordenski of Michigan describes her mother, absorbed in crocheting.
The Greater Maple Valley Community Center’s Amazing Race took off Saturday.
Teams were busy early digging through bags of leaves for hidden items and sucking jello through a straw.
In many ways, one of Maple Valley’s PONY Shetland baseball teams is just like all the others – a dozen or so boys and girls that are playing team baseball for the first time in their lives, learning to learn from the coach and trying to remain focused on the game while there are so many interests besides the game that need immediate inspection like bugs, dirt, flowers or the soccer game next door.
It was an easy decision for Emilie Hard to live in Maple Valley and teach in the Tahoma School District but it was a much harder one for her to choose to leave to pursue a new opportunity.
Hard, who has served as the principal at Glacier Park Elementary for 10 years, will leave after 18 years in Tahoma schools to server as the executive director of teaching and learning with the Issaquah School District.
It is enough for me as a reader that a poem take from life a single moment and hold it up for me to look at. There need not be anything sensational or unusual or peculiar about that moment, but somehow, by directing my attention to it, our attention to it, the poet bathes it in the light of the remarkable. Here is a poem like this by Carolyn Miller, who lives in San Francisco.
Being human is pretty cool. I’m able to make and use tools, I’ve got opposable thumbs, and I’m able to contemplate my own existence. Although being human is totally awesome most of the time, there are some drawbacks. One of which is that I can only concentrate on one thing at a time. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know that the concentration thing is great for taking math tests and escaping from 500 pound gorillas, but when I first started trying to play guitar and sing at the same time, I’ll be darned if it didn’t take away a bit of the magic.
What began as a way to constructively deal with an energetic 4 year old became a journey for a Maple Valley family that spanned more than five years and ended in all four earning black belts in tae kwon do.
Billy Woodcock was enrolled in martial arts by his parents, Bill and Christine Woodcock, at the tender age of 4 because “my family wanted to teach me discipline,” the now 10 year old explained.
