Native American Center Grounded in Reverence for Mother Earth
05-05-2002 - Portland, OR
I am very glad to have been able to attend the official groundbreaking ceremony at Portland State University for the Native American Student and Community Center on May 5th. The event included all of the expected political speeches from dignitaries, but it also was intermingled with much reverent traditional ceremony. This "ground breaking" was like none I had ever seen before.
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Quarter Century-Long Dream Becoming Reality for Korean Catholic Congregation
09-10-2001 - Fife, WA
 Four Korean families’s hope twenty-five years ago to create a community center has become a passionate endeavor for five hundred families. Projected to be completed by 2004, the St. Paul Chong Hasang Korean Catholic Community Center will include a church, school, community center and senior housing on seven acres off of 62nd Ave E in Fife. Now that the City of Fife has approved an amendment to the industrial zoning code, the only obstacle for the church is to raise the $3 million needed for the project.
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Volunteer Salmon Watchers Sought for Stream Team to Help Save Endangered Species
09-05-2001 - Pierce County, WA
 “Hey, I saw a Chinook in the creek” was music to Carla Milesi’s ears. Last year a local community volunteer Salmon Watcher documented the first siting of the endangered Chinook Salmon in Hylebos Creek in five years. This discovery helped The Friends of the Hylebos Wetlands secure funding for future projects aimed at protecting and preserving the Hylebos Creek Watershed and to help ensure sustained growth of salmon.
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Grand Opening of the Port of Tacoma Road Overpass
08-16-2001 - Tacoma, WA
 The Port of Tacoma Road Overpass opened to the public Thursday, August 16 in a ceremony attended by state and federal legislators, Port of Tacoma representatives and local dignitaries. Governor Gary Locke said it is the first of 15 FAST Corridor projects he hopes will continue along the I-5 corridor “in spite of the impasse in Olympia.”
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Play gives Japanese internment victims a voice
10-18-1999 - Lakewood, WA
Her expertly timed dialog made it easy to forget she was the only person talking. As part of pre-WWII week activities, Naaho Shioya of Living Voices gave a preview performance of her one-act play, “Within the Silence,” to a group of journalism students at Pierce College on Monday.
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Remembering those who fell
11-03-1999 - Lakewood, WA
Joe Newton believes he left his finger prints on the back of his pilot’s seat when his Air Combat crew’s plane crashed into the Libyan desert in 1944.
Newton, a former English and Geography instructor at Pierce College, shared his experience of the North African desert campaign of World War II with his audience in the Performance Lounge Thursday.
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The end of the world as we know it?
12-01-1999 - Lakewood, WA
A time bomb ticks away set to go off at midnight on December 31, 1999. Only one thing is certain. In less than a month, the truth about the Y2K computer date change situation will begin to be revealed to everyone on the planet.
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Millennium Cults Gain New Popularity as the Year 2000 Approaches
The turn-of-the-century has always been a fascinating event, but as the end
of the twentieth century becomes near, an increasing number of Americans
have become interested in exploring millennium prophecy. Groups of people
have re-discovered many lines of millennium prophecy, both religious and
non-religious, all of which predict something extraordinary is going to
happen to the world around the year 2000.
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