This year marked the 12th year and 13th international group that Yvonne Jackson taught for Culture Homestay International. Twelve children and an adult escort from Okinawa, Japan, spent four weeks visiting the Peninsula area, living with host families and sharing a bit of their culture with local residents.
The Key Peninsula Lions Club will sponsor bi-monthly public speaker forums at its general meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
The Commencement has had many lives. For 70 years, it made the waters around Washington and Alaska its home, navigated and worked by Croatian fishermen.
The annual Old Timers’ Day celebration last Saturday at the Longbranch Improvement Club entertained visitors from an array of locations, including London, England. Vendors, associations, clubs and others manned booths as fundraiser activities and for the edification of those interested.
Gig Harbor’s “Amazing Grace” will sail from Gig Harbor to San Diego this fall.
Each year, hundreds of dogs and cats are put to sleep by humane societies nationwide. Their crime? Not being able to find a home.
Come one, come all to the longest running festival-type event on the Key Peninsula. The 24th Old Timers’ Day will take place Saturday at the Longbranch Improvement Club.
Folksy floats, marchers, horseback riders and many others participated in the Krazy Key Parade and Summer Family Fun Day last Saturday in Key Center.
A nine-month road closure began Monday on South Vaughn Road on the Key Peninsula to allow Pierce County to demolish the Vaughn Bay bridge and build a new one in its place.
A sizzling sun didn’t detract from the enjoyment that personified the third annual Beyond the Borders musical performances last Saturday at the Longbranch Improvement Club.
Key Pen Parks will add a new dimension to its Cinema Under the Stars series this year. Before each film, projected on a huge outdoor screen at Volunteer Park, an activity is planned for the audience that will tie into the theme of the planned movie.
Volunteers will conduct Junior Ranger programs at Penrose Point and Kopachuck state parks this month.
Agroup of laughing children gather around a kneeling adult, pelting him with shaving cream. As the camp counselor and others like him become slathered with the foaming white liquid, the children scream with delight.
It’s hot and I’m cranky. My 5-year-old, Abby, is crankier. Her red, sweaty, sullen face is evidence that, one, we do not have an air conditioner, and, two, the five fans in our house just blow hot air around.
The bay in front of the Harbor History Museum is filled with bright green kayaks. The kayakers seem to be partaking in a strange ritual, flinging their paddles in the water, then stroking through the water with their hands to retrieve them.
