As part of its ongoing efforts to raise money,the Greater Maple Valley Community Center has received a grant from the Lucky Seven Foundation, but the money is contingent on support from the community.
Executive Director Lynn Roberts said in a statement that on occasion they apply for one type of grant and “the foundation comes back to us with other ideas.”
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra presented the Grand Affair Waltz Gala Ball Feb. 5 at the Lake Wilderness Lodge.
The event was a fundraiser for the symphony, and included an Italian pasta dinner, ballroom dance performances, instructions from Pacific Ballroom Dance and music performed by the symphony.
A new rotation highlighting the calligraphy artwork of Sally Penley kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday, at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center, 23220 Maple Valley Highway Southeast.
Fine art, music and a wine tasting offered by Dave Hall of Maple Valley Shell will make up the evening while a trio of artists will offer calligraphy demonstrations. Those who attend can take home a personalized bookmark.
The Corner of Love Christian missionary organization has two groups scheduled to leave for northern Nicaragua.
The first team of 75 will leave Feb. 12 and return Feb. 20. The second team of 52 leaves Feb. 26 returning March 6.
Whatever Valentine’s Day means to you, visit the library for great new ideas, good role models, bad role models (think “Wuthering Heights” or “Fatal Attraction”), or additional perspectives on the idea of love. No matter how happy, or cynical, you are, the library is filled with resources to inspire you to new heights of creativity.
Many of us know the Lake Youngs Reservoir as a rural recreation trail that parallels a watershed perimeter fence operated by the city of Seattle. This reserve lies to the west of Maple Valley, north of the city of Covington and to the south of Petrovitsky Road near Fairwood.
What might my late parents have thought, I wonder, to know that there would one day be an occupation known as Tooth Painter? Here’s a partial job description by Day of Oakland, Calif.
Animals are incapable of reason, or so we’ve been told, but we imaginative humans keep talking to our dogs and cats as if they could do algebra. In this poem, Ann Struthers looks into the mystery of instinctive behavior.
Justin Fox, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, is scheduled to preform at 8:45 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 7…
A series of shows at Kentlake High to honor drama teacher Pam Cressey, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the fall, has raised more than $10,000 for research toward a cure for the disease.
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center presented Open Mic Night Saturday and a array of musicians preformed during the evening.
The Matsiko Children’s Choir from Uganda, East Africa will be performing twice at Covington Christian Fellowship, 26201 180th Avenue, SE, Covington.
The performance times are 7 p.m. Friday, Jan 29 and at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan 31. Free lattes will be offered to the first 25 who arrive. Donations will be accepted.
Jake O’Donnell, a ninth-grade student at Tahoma Junior High, won the 2009 Association of Washington Generals’ essay contest.
The essay contest theme for this year was the 100th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition and how important was this relationship to the history of the state of Washington?
In case you weren’t already familiar with the mission, Corner of Love is an organization made to help the people of Nicaragua. It has a family program to help them get things they need, like clothes, housing, school and many other things.
My grandfather, when in his 90s, wrote me a letter in which he listed everything he and my uncle had eaten in the past week. That was the news. I love this poem by Nancyrose Houston of Seattle for the way it plays with the character of those letters from home that many of us have received.
The Tahoma High School jazz choir and jazz band performed Friday evening at the high school commons for the jazz benefit.
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council sponsored the event and all proceeds went to the choirs and band.
Preparations have been underway for the Grand Affair Waltz Gala Ball presented by the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra.
This year’s event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5 at the Lake Wilderness Lodge.
Dance teams from Kentlake, Kentwood and Tahoma high schools participated in the “To catch a shooting star” dance and drill competition Saturday.
The poet Lyn Lifshin, who divides her time between New York and Virginia, is one of the most prolific poets among my contemporaries, and has thousands of poems in print, by my loose reckoning. I have been reading her work in literary magazines for at least thirty years. Here’s a good example of this poet at her best.
The Matsiko Children’s Choir from Uganda, East Africa will be performing 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13 at Peace Lutheran Church, 18615 S.E. 272nd St., Covington, located on Kent Kangley Road near the Home Depot.
