Have a sip of green beer next week and tip your hat to the saints. St. Anthony Hospital will celebrate its one-year anniversary on St. Patrick’s Day. It doesn’t seem that long ago when the concrete skeleton rose above the treetops and crawled with construction workers in hard hats. It seems like yesterday that laughing staff members in scrubs sprawled on the emergency room floor in front of TV news cameras in the pre-dawn hours of opening day.

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The early morning public affairs forum at Cottesmore of Life Care in Gig Harbor often focuses on a business director or local politician who presents an update or a platform.

A high bond rating coupled with a new ordinance to sell revenue bonds will save Gig Harbor and its ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, City Finance Director Dave Rodenbach said.

Dogs have always been by Kristin Baird’s side. But in the past five years, her chocolate Labradors have become her teammates. Baird plays fetch with her three labs with a competitive twist. While one is more of a pheasant tracker during hunting season, the other two have dueling strengths in the sport of dock jumping.

What’s great about technology these days is you can watch a live update of a baseball game through the Internet. If you don’t have ESPN, all you likely have to do is visit a specific Web site, like www.seattlemariners.com, in order to see what the Seattle Mariners score is.

The Peninsula Seahawks baseball team lost two of its best hitters, Chris Burk and Matt Brown, to graduation last June.

It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon and a crowd of about 20 people is squished into the small tasting room at the 7 Seas Brewery. There are no neon signs on the wall, no blaring music and no wide-screen HDTVs broadcasting a sporting event. So why are all these people here? A rectangular-shaped window looks out over Gig Harbor’s new brewery. What’s inside the tall, gleaming silver vats is why people have come: They just want a good glass of beer.

VIDEO: Travis Guterson tells us how 7 Seas brews its Royal Stout

The 26th annual Key Peninsula Citizen of the Year banquet will be held March 20 at the Key Peninsula Civic Center in Vaughn. The Key Peninsula Lions Club has sponsored the dinner since 1984. It’s a program that’s dedicated to the merits of volunteerism. The 29 candidates listed below all live, work or own property on the Key Peninsula, and they were nominated based on their service to the community. For more information or to purchase tickets to the event, call: 253-853-2721 or 253-884-3319. The KP Civic Center is located at 17010 S. Vaughn Road, KPN.

If New Yorkers are known for being cold, they had a hard time staying in character when the Key Peninsula’s “Evergreen’s Indigo Sky” was in town for the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. The big red Dogue de Bordeaux with the wrinkly face and her brother, “Evergreen’s Big Bruiser,” melted the hearts of even the staunchest Manhattanites at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

People who drive on Pioneer Way need not slam on their brakes when they see the banner that says Birdnest Gallery and Framing is going out of business.

A lot of mechanics breathe a sigh of relief when the 24-foot Snap-on mobile tool truck pulls into the parking lot.

Umpqua Holdings Corporation has acquired the banking operations of Rainier Pacific Bank in a purchase agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The City of Gig Harbor hasn’t been able to share a lot of good news lately when it comes to its financial standing. Between its mandatory furloughs and a $1.9 million budget shortfall it dealt with last year, it was about time the Maritime City got some good news. It came last week, packaged as a new Standard and Poor’s AA bond rating.

Last October, Bonneville Power Administration raised its wholesale rates for Northwest utilities, and that included Peninsula Light Company, which serves more than 25,000 members on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas. It was a fairly steep climb of 7.6 percent to start a new two-year cycle, but PenLight didn’t pass all of that on to its ratepayers.