Mountain View Fire and Rescue/ Black Diamond Fire Department Report July 5-11
Stefan S. Olpinski was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army Dental Corps at a ceremony held in Manhattan, KS on July 8.
The seventh annual Miners Day celebration at Black Diamond Saturday drew a large crowd for music, food and fun.
Saturday, July 9, is Outdoor Quilt Day at the Maple Valley Farmers’ Market.
The Market is pleased to welcome Covington Quilt Guild, who will share their love of quilting with a large booth of hug quilts (charity quilts), a magnificent raffle quilt, and a number of prized quilts.
The city of Black Diamond will celebrate Miner’s Day from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the museum, 32627 Railroad Ave.
The seventh annual celebration pays respect to the town’s rich mining heritage with a day of family friendly activities and community events.This year, Miner’s Day will also celebrate the culmination of a community effort to renovate a historic coal mining train.
The Timberlane Home Owners Association will be hosting a Trash N’ Bash cleanup Saturday July 9.
Maple Valley Fire and Safety Report June 27-July 3
The YWCA celebrated the grand opening of Passage Point, Thursday, July 7.
At the turn of the century in Black Diamond the sport of boxing was a popular form of entertainment.
As a coal mining town, where all of the men worked long hours performing manual labor, it was capable of producing more than a few big, muscular men who could knock someone out with a single punch.
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church is offering Vacation Bible School from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 8 for children preschool up through students who will enter sixth grade this fall.
South County Cats received a grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA, the nation’s oldest animal welfare organization, for its companion cat spay and neuter voucher program.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety personnel responded to a home on fire 26900 block of 232nd Avenue Southeast about 10:25 this morning, according to Fire Marshal Scott Webster.
MultiCare Covington Breast Health Center will offer a mammogram screening event for low income residents in South King from 1-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 12 at the MultiCare Covington Clinic, 17700 SE 272nd St.
It’s a small world for a pair of Kentlake High graduates.
Periodically sailors find themselves having moments that make them say, “It’s a small Navy.”
F.A.S.T., a nonprofit group of local urban and rural residents, has scheduled a pancake breakfast 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Black Diamond Eagles Hall.
Fans of the annual Covington Days festival, a Seafair sanctioned event, will notice quite a few changes for the event which runs Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17.
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra performed during the Fourth of July activities at Lake Wilderness Monday.
Maple Valley celebrated the Fourth of July at Lake Wilderness Park Monday with an array of activities for the kids, live music, a pie baking contest, entertainment by the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and a firework display.
Police blotter for Covington and Maple Valley from June 21 to July 3.
Family Circle magazine has selected Maple Valley for its annual top 10 best towns and cities in the country for families.
The city will be featured in an article that hits news stands today, Tuesday, July 5.
