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.
If writers are both skilled and lucky, they may write something that will carry their words into the future, past…
A bike skills rodeo has been scheduled by the Black Diamond Cub Scouts Pack 581 and is sponsored by the Black Diamond Community Center and the Cascade Bicycle Club.
The Ensemble Ballet Theatre has scheduled auditions for dancers Sunday, May 16.
An informational meeting will be held at noon for parents and dancers.
Junior registration for ages 9-11 will be at 12:30 p.m. and auditions from 1-2:30 p.m.
Kentwood High School drama students are one stage with their production of “The Wizard of Oz.”
Here’s a poem by Susan Meyers, of South Carolina, about the most ordinary of activities, washing the dishes, but in this instance remembering this ordinary routine provides an opportunity for speculation about the private pleasures of a lost parent.
Kentlake High drama students have been on the stage at the Performing Arts Center presenting “South Pacific” since April 28.
The performances continue May 5 through May 8. Times are 7 p.m. for evening performances and a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee.
A vine maple tree found a new home at Jenkins Creek Park Friday, April 30, during an Arbor Day event.
Scott Thomas, parks and recreation director for Covington, organized a tree planting party Friday afternoon at the park to commemorate the day.
I don’t believe in natural talent.
Show me someone who you think has natural talent and I’ll show you someone who spends an inordinate amount of time doing that thing which you think he or she has the natural talent.
Travel Day – Feb. 12
It was highly uneventful. I woke up 18 minutes late, at 4:18 a.m., and took exactly 12 minutes to get ready because we were supposed to leave for the airport at 4:30, but we didn’t wind up leaving until 4:45.We got to the airport and checked our luggage, two bins full of mission supplies.
The Tahoma High School Drama Department presents “Once on this Island” running April 30, May 1, 6-8 at the Tahoma Middle School Theatre, 24425 SE 216th Way, Maple Valley.
All performances are at 7 p.m. except for a matinee Saturday, May 1 at 2 p.m.
Vicki Lewis will be presenting her first solo art show beginning Friday at the Maple Valley Arts Center, 23220 Maple Valley Highway, Suite 15.
The show is sponsored by the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council and is titled “Motherhood.”
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and Community Choir were in concert Saturday at the Shepherd of the Valley Church. The orchestra and choir presented “Paris on Broadway!”
Photographer Carole Johnston captured all the action, weather, fishing and fun at the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce fishing derby Saturday, April 24.
Despite rain and chilly temperatures families and fishermen came out to Lake Wilderness on Saturday for the opening day of trout fishing.
Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce put on the Fishing Derby in celebration of opening day in partnership with Maple Valley Rotary and the city of Maple Valley.
Tell a whiny child that she sounds like a broken record, and she’s likely to say, “What’s a record?” Jeff Daniel Marion, a Tennessee poet, tells us not only what 78 rpm records were, but what they meant to the people who played them, and to those who remember the people who played them.
Yasaman Azodi and Sarah Harvey are this year’s one-two punch from Kentwood High School as the Washington State delegate and alternate-delegate to the National Youth Science Camp held near Bartow in the eastern mountains of West Virginia’s Potomac Highlands.
Tricia Grove-Johnson told her sister to go find a cure for cancer.
So, in 2002, Elizabeth Lanning took the suggestion literally and came up with a fundraiser called Dance for a Cure that is now in its eighth year with the event slated for 7 p.m., May 1 at the Bagley Wright Theater in Seattle.
The owner of a photography studio near Seattle is the winner of the third Cheerios New Author Contest for children’s books.
Laurie Isop, 39, of Renton, Wash., won the contest with her story, “How Do You Hug a Porcupine?”
