The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and Community Choir have joined talents once again to present their third annual concert entitled “Paris On Broadway.”
The MVYSO will also accompany Michael French, a trombone soloist, on Morceau Symphonique by A. Guilmant. French is a junior at Tahoma High.
If you close your eyes and listen to 3rd Attempt you would never guess three of the members of the quartet aren’t even old enough to get a driver’s license.
But, this group of teenage guys rock out like seasoned arena veterans.
The group got together at Dace’s Rock ‘N’ More Music Academy in Maple Valley a little over a year ago.
Tanya Amador has been leading Christian missions through her organization Corner of Love to San Ramon, Nicaragua for a decade, but her most recent trip was one of the most memorable.
Tanya and her husband, Nelson Amador, are the founders of the Maple Valley-based Corner of Love and act as executive directors of the nonprofit organization.
Nelson Amador was raised in northern Nicaragua and his father Alberto Amador, was the mayor of San Ramon where Corner of Love is based.
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council presented another in a series of popular open mic session Saturday at the arts center.
Wendy Videlock lives in western Colorado, where a person can stop to study what an owl has left behind without being run over by a taxi.
Bear Metal, the Tahoma Robotics team, competed in the 2010 Microsoft Seattle Regional FIRST Robotics Competition at Key Arena March 27-28.
The team won the Industrial Design Award with its robot during the competition.
Kentlake Drama Club presents Rogers and Hammerstein “South Pacific.” Times are 7 p.m. for evening performances and 2 p.m. Saturday…
Music lessons, well, maybe 80 out of every 100 of us had them, once, and a few of us went on to play our chosen instruments all our lives. But the rest of us? I still own a set of red John Thompson piano books that haven’t been opened since about 1950. Here Jill Bialosky, who lives in New York City, captures the atmosphere of one of those lessons.
A large group of children participated in the 14 annual The Greater Maple Valley Community Center egg hunt Saturday, April 2, at Lake Wilderness Park.
More than 50 kids and adults attended the Pacific Martial Arts Academy Kick-a-thon March 27 at Lake Wilderness Park.
The fundraiser benefited the Maple Valley Food Bank.
Owner and master instructor John Robinson led the group past the goal of 21,100 kicks, raising more than $1,400 in food and money for the Maple Valley Food Bank.
I attended the Mariner’s final game of 2009. With all of the hoopla following the end of the ninth inning, one would think that they had just won the final game of the World Series. Instead, they had won the right to call themselves a team whom the fans deeply loved and believed in. So ended the season of 2009.
When we hear news of a flood, that news is mostly about the living, about the survivors. But at the edges of floods are the dead, too. Here Michael Chitwood, of North Carolina, looks at what’s floating out there on the margins.
Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy presented the Rockcital Friday at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center.
Bands from the academy performed at the center and Saturday at the El Corazon in Seattle.
The year is 1927 and a new family has arrived on the Suise Creek Plateau east of Kent. Utilizing his experiences working for Malmo Nursery of the Ernst-Malmo fame in Seattle, and his natural Scandinavian spirit, Aage Foss purchased a failing grocery story from J.W. Richardson. Built in 1919 and known as the Meridian Heights Grocery, it served as a business and early residence for the Foss family. The 40-feet wide by 32 feet living quarters soon became too small, and with dedication, and a family of four boys to help, the new enterprise began to prosper. Soon chicken houses and feed barns were built at the site and the new truck purchased in 1927 became instrumental in one of the first home delivery services of food, feed and eggs on the plateau. This service was provided to customers as far as Black Diamond to the south, Ballard to the north, Selleck to the east and west into the White River Valley.
The Tahoma music faculty performed March 19 at the Tahoma Middle School auditorium during the Tahoma Music Faculty Concert sponsored by the school district and the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council. The concert was dedicated to the memory of Mary Lou Harting, a Rock Creek Elementary teacher who died from breast cancer. Proceeds from the concert went to the Mary Lou Harting Scholarship Fund for graduating Tahoma High music students.
This quarter, bands from Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy will show off their chops at two shows, one in Maple Valley on Friday, and a second show in Seattle on Saturday.
All over this country, marriage counselors and therapists are right now speaking to couples about unspoken things. In this poem,…
Rainier Youth Choirs will present their spring choral concert at the Kent United Methodist Church Saturday, March 27.
The church is located at 11010 S.E. 248th St., and the performance will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12/$10 purchased in advance and $15/$12 at the door.
The Tahoma Drama Club’s production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, featuring red and white casts, completed the performances Saturday.
Ginger “Mama” Passarelli taught the third in her series of soup classes at her restaurant on March 13.
About a dozen eager students looked on in the kitchen as Passarelli made four different beef soups: roastbeef and horseradish, beef and barley, beef stroganoff and beef stew.
