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The 160-foot schooner Zodiac made a stop in Tacoma last weekend to provide on-dock tours and dinner cruises around Commencement Bay. The vessel was built in 1924 for the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical heirs before a succession of other owners that landed her at its current homeport of Bellingham. The vessel's visit might be over but the Foss Waterway Seaport has a new exhibit of Mike Coots photographs that runs through July 22 and is reviewed on page 22 of this edition. Then there is the 25th Maritime Fest that celebrates Tacoma's historic waterfront on July 28-29.

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Supervisor at Rainier State School guilty of attempted rape

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This week, Carter the Crater Gator found another impressive road divot to stretch out in. To be honest, we’ve had a difficult time with this critter.

He can’t get over the fact that he’ll always be second-fiddle when compared to Percival, and frankly, he’s been getting a little snarky. While we’ve let him know that his replacement could waddle through the front door of the Tacoma Weekly office at any moment, the toothy sourpuss has countered with his own threat of “pulling a Percival” and disappearing.

With this in mind, we are still in the process of trying out new pothole seeking varmints. If you’ve got any ideas, please send them to jgimse@ tacomaweekly.com.

CORRECTION: In the June 7 story “Sales tax increase for the arts could be on November ballot,” the local measure calls for an increase in the sales tax of one-10th of 1 percent, not .1 percent as was reported. Tacoma Weekly apologizes for the error.

A Pierce County Superior Court jury found Terry Wayne Shepard, 60, guilty on June 15 of one count of attempted rape in the second degree and two counts of indecent liberties in the second degree for attempting to have sex with an autistic, non-verbal adult client inside the facility.

The case was handled by Elder Abuse Team Chief Sven Nelson.

“Our Elder Abuse team is a leader in the state for protecting vulnerable adults,” said Prosecutor Mark Lindquist.

On Nov. 13, Buckley Police were dispatched to a report of a male staff member having sex with a female adult client at the Rainier State School in Buckley, a habilitation center for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Police spoke with Hunter Shear, an attendant counselor at the facility. She told police Terry Shepard is her supervisor. Shear was trying to find Shepard

to ask him if she could go on a break. Shear said she found Shepard in a client's room.

The client is M.S., 57, a non-verbal autistic adult with an estimated mental age of 8. Shear said when she arrived at M.S.'s room, she saw Shepard with his back to the door and his pants and underwear down around his knees. Shear said Shepard had M.S.'s legs pinned up to her chest and was making back and forth movements like he was having sex with her. M.S. was on the bed on her back. Shear said she startled Shepard when coming in the room and he turned around to face her with his genitals exposed.

Shepard could get life in prison. He’s expected to be sentenced July 27.

Lindquist formed his specialized Elder Abuse Unit in 2011. Three years ago, the unit won an award of nearly $400,000 from the Department of Justice for a comprehensive approach to prosecuting and preventing the abuse of vulnerable adults.

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The Tacoma Weekly has been in business for more than 30 years, and while we’ve had ups and downs, successes and failures, we have endured. It’s not easy being in the newspaper business nowadays and Tacoma, we’ll soon be a city without a daily newspaper. Our first name has always been Tacoma, and we have added many new weekly newspaper websites for communities including Gig Harbor, Fife, University Place and more. As we grow, you will see changes in content offering a wider range of coverage to meet the needs of our readers.

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I could not do this without them. When you’re in the newspaper business, it’s like no other job – it’s in your blood. Our writing staff covers events morning, noon and night, seven days a week, and without a lot of compensation. They do it for the love of the craft and their desire to make the community a better place. Our skilled production staff processes tens of thousands of words every week in both our print and web editions. However, this year has not been without some bumps in the road. Recently one of our family members left us, we guess to find herself. She departed leaving us with empty hearts and an empty space in our family. We wish her well and understand that life is short. Good luck. Our thoughts are with you.

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BULLETIN BOARD LOCAL EVENTS TO CLOSE ROADS Please note the anticipated event-related road closures expected around Tacoma through Sunday, June 24: • On Saturday, June 23, the Matador Hola Summer Block Party will close South 8th Street between Pacific Avenue and Court A from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.

• On Sunday, June 24, the Tacoma Proctor Criterium Bike Race event will close North 26th and North 27th streets between North Madison, North Proctor, North Adams and North Washington streets from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Ongoing: • The Broadway Farmers Market closes Broadway from South 9th to South 11th streets every Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Proctor Farmers Market closes North 27th from North Proctor to North Madison streets every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Closures may change as a result of weather, event alterations and other unexpected circumstances. For more information on Pierce Transit bus routes affected by event road closures, visit piercetransit.org.

To get event-related road closure updates, visit cityoftacoma.org/EventRoadClosures and use the “Click to subscribe” link. To access a map of City construction projects with potential traffic impacts visit GovMe. com and click on Large Impact Construction Projects. More information about the City’s progress toward its Tacoma2025 goals is available on the Results253 page at data.cityoftacoma.org.

WILDLIFE FEEDING, SPEEDING CARS TO GET RENEWED ATTENTION Metro Parks Tacoma has contracted with Tacoma police to boost patrols in Point Defiance Park this summer.

More law enforcement means motorists who exceed the 20 mph speed limit within the park will be ticketed.

“We believe this is necessary to ensure the safety of park visitors, particularly along Five Mile Drive,” said Phedra Redifer, Metro Parks regional parks manager. “All too often, accidents occur when drivers attempt to race through this incredible scenic drive.”

Police also will be on the lookout for people who illegally feed wildlife, such as raccoons and waterfowl.

Feeding wild animals endangers both the animals and people who encounter them. It can be costly in financial terms, too; a ticket will come with a fine.

Last summer, the additional police presence resulted in 111 citations and 219 warnings for violations involving speeding, reckless driving, failure to stop at a stop sign, seatbelts, smoking, bicycling and wildlife feeding.

Park Ranger Mary Krauszer said most of the people feeding raccoons in Point Defiance Park do so without getting out of their vehicles, which makes it difficult for her to intervene.

Initially, the police will issue warnings to people caught feeding wildlife. But after a short grace period, citations will be issued. A similar campaign in 2012 proved successful. But since then, wildlife feeding – especially of raccoons – again has become a big problem, Krauszer said.

“People may mean well, but they probably don’t realize that feeding actually does more harm than good,” Krauszer said. “The animals’ behavior changes. They stay active during the day even though raccoons are nocturnal. They learn to approach humans for food – and they can be aggressive.”

Raccoons frequently bite people who are feeding them. Raccoon bites can cause very serious injury and can lead to medical evaluation for rabies post exposure treatment. Children can pick up roundworms through exposure to raccoon feces; leptospirosis in raccoon urine contaminates water and soil where kids may play.

Add to those risks the dangers of raccoons getting too close to moving cars. Krauszer has observed the results, which often are deadly for raccoons. Krauszer also noted that the food people tend to give them – dog food, cat food and French fries – amounts to raccoon junk food.

“Wild raccoons can easily forage for themselves and stay healthier doing so,” she said. “They are not starving.”

To learn more, visit MetroParksTacoma.org/wildlife.

NORTH SHORE GOLF COURSE UNDERGOES MULTIPHASE RENOVATION North Shore Golf Course, celebrating more than 55 years in historic northeast Tacoma, is undergoing a multiphase renovation that will further enhance the guest experience and provide additional space for local community events. The renovation will result in a new golf shop, driving range shelter and clubhouse and a large event center which will complement the existing golf course, chipping green and two putting greens. The golf course will remain open throughout the summer, and course and clubhouse operations will not be affected during the process.

The first phase of the project is underway and will be completed in October 2018. During this time, a new and relocated golf shop and covered driving range will be constructed, and the existing structures will be removed. The new, 1,123-square-foot golf shop will provide expanded guest services including a golfer check-in and pro desk, as well as retail merchandise displays and a beverage counter. The shop’s new location will allow for more efficient day-to-day operations and relocated cart paths will create more convenient connections between the golf shop, driving range and No. 1 tee. An additional parking lot and the relocation of the putting green will allow for the course to remain open throughout construction.

The second phase will include the construction of a new 15,046-square-foot clubhouse, boasting beautiful Northwest architectural design elements. The clubhouse will have a grand foyer where guests can admire the expansive views of the golf course, along with a restaurant and lounge with outdoor seating and concrete fire pits for golfers to enjoy before or after a round at the course.

A new event center including a ballroom with multiple sections will provide dynamic and multi-use meetings, weddings and private event space that can accommodate groups of up to 300 people. This addition will more than double the amount of meeting and event space currently available and make North Shore Golf Course a premier venue for a variety of gatherings.

“We are looking forward to the robust, exciting changes coming to North Shore Golf Course,” said General Manager David Wetli. “Our expanded golf shop and new clubhouse will greatly enhance our guests’ experiences and provide more opportunities for connection among the golfing community. The event center will allow us to welcome even more new guests to North Shore, expanding our capabilities not only as a fun and challenging golf course, but a new event venue in Pierce County.”

The Tacoma-based team behind this renovation project consists of North Shore Golf Course owners, the Puyallup Tribe and Marine View Ventures; general contractor, Korsmo Construction; and lead architect, Helix Design Group. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2019.

FEAR NOT, GARDENERS – TAGRO WILL RETURN The city’s TAGRO facility closed for members of the public to pick up loads of the plant-loving material earlier this month because too many people were demanding it.

“Once again, demand surpassed supply,” said Biosolids Supervisor Dan Eberhardt. “We are hoping to have enough on hand to reopen the first part of July.

Part of the shortage can be attributed to our record setting weather in May… when the sun shines people love to garden.”

TAGRO, short for “Tacoma Grow,” is the city’s award-winning, environmentally friendly and EPA-approved fertilizer and plant food for landscaping, vegetables and indoor container gardens made from a blend of pasteurized wastewater byproducts and other weed-free gardening components. Specifically, TAGRO is a nutrient-rich and “soil-less” blend of Tacoma biosolids, maple sawdust and aged bark.

Vegetables and flowers grown with virtually odorfree TAGRO have earned more than 120 ribbons at the Puyallup Fair since 1992, while the city’s biosolids program has received national awards, including the Environmental Protection Agency’s first place award for the best biosolids program in the country.

COUNTY OFFERS FREE SOUNDGRO FERTILIZER For a limited time, Pierce County is offering free one-ton totes of SoundGRO fertilizer while supplies last. Orders must be placed at piercecountywa.gov/ SoundGRO and must be picked up at the Chambers Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, 10311 Chambers Creek Rd. W. in University Place. Directions SEE MORE BULLETIN BOARD ITEMS ON PAGE 11

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UPCOMING EVENTS: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, NOON TO 5 P.M.

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Foothills Trail East Puyallup Trailhead, 13810 80th St. E., Puyallup Birds are diverse – and so are birders! Join Tahoma Audubon’s equity team for a biking and birding trip on Saturday June 23, starting at noon. We'll meet at the Foothills Trail East Puyallup Trailhead and bike about 15 miles, with stops to look at birds.

The trip leaders are experienced bicyclists and birders, who are also young, friendly and people of color.

New birders are especially welcome. Binoculars provided (bring your own bike). Afterward, all are welcome to share a meal at Puerto Vallarta Restaurant.

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Hilltop Walk The Tacoma Urban League, 2550 S. Yakima Ave., Tacoma The City of Tacoma has declared June to be Walk Tacoma Month. Join Downtown On The Go at a free walk every Wednesday this month featuring a wide variety of themes. If you missed all the other walks, there is still one more chance. This walk will be happening in Hilltop and will be led by the Tacoma Urban League Director and CEO T'wina Franklin. Join us for our last Walk Tacoma Month event from noon to 12:30 p.m.  INFO: Pre-register online at downtownonthego. com/go/walking/walk-2018-pre-registration or in person prior to the event.

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Free Gardening Talks – Orchids Master Gardener Building, 2607 W. Pioneer Ave., Puyallup Gail Sklar will discuss care of orchids and how to get them to re-bloom. The WSU Master Gardener Program trains volunteers as community educators to empower citizens to incorporate sustainable horticultural practices.  INFO: county.wsu.edu/pierce/mg

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The Northwest Detention Center on the Tideflats is operated by GEO Group for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and holds people facing possible deportation. years until their case is finally decided on and resolved.

For Tacoma Weekly To address the issue, a cityformed task force convened in Tacoma’s Commission on Im2017 to come to terms with what migrant and Refugee Affairs will defined a “welcoming city” as well commence its monthly meetings as developed a list of three recevery fourth Monday at 5:30 p.m. ommendations for future steps: starting June 25 with the task of The formation of an immigration providing aid to immigrants facing commission, the creation of a legal reviews of their residency status. defense fund and the drafting of a The commission held a retreat language access policy to educate in May to find its footing as a group detainees of the immigraas it begins to figure out tion review process and how to tackle the issues their rights. at hand. The main objecIn addition to creating tives for the June meeting the commission, the city will be to elect a chair, responded by setting aside vice chair and establish a one-time $50,000 grant bylaws. from the Council’s contin“We’ve never had a gency fund as a starting commission on immipoint for a Deportation grant and refugee affairs Defense Fund, established before, so this will be to help those facing deporwhere we establish our tation get the legal assisgoals and decide what tance they might not othwe want to accomplish. erwise be able to afford.

Because we want it to be The initial plan was that driven by the residents either after three months and the people on the had passed or the original commission, we’re ask$50,000 had been matched ing for their input first,” by public donations, the explains Alison Beason, city’s Office of Equity and senior policy analyst for Human Rights would bethe Equity and Human Rights Department.

– Alison Beason, senior policy analyst for gin looking for an outside The issue came into the Equity and Human Rights Department entity to administer the contracts and offer those focus in light of President legal services.

Donald Trump’s 120-day Donations have been travel ban last year. Tacorules.

For one thing, a fair trial is slow in coming, just $6,300 in the ma had dubbed itself a “welcoming not constitutionally guaranteed to last several months.

The numbers city” in 2015, but then the new presimmigrants whose status is under are relatively low considering the idential administration added presreview should they lack the means cost of acquiring legal counsel, sure on issues concerning immiof attaining a private attorney. providing language assistance, and grants and refugees with stepped up Immigrants can be brought into navigating the multitude of steps enforcement of illegal immigrants centers such as Tacoma’s under immigrants must take to obtain citentering or living in the country. “mandatory detention,” and in izenship or avoid deportation.

Those efforts led to a call for the some cases, may be denied the Beason is hopeful for changes city to do more for residents facing chance to make their case before in the coming year “as we’re esreviews of their immigration staa judge or an adjudicator.

Even tablishing for the various departtus, specifically the fact that imif they have the opportunity for ments within the city of Tacoma migrants and refugees in Tacoma a hearing, they may wait several were not receiving legal assistance u See COMMISSION / page 12

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when facing possible deportation and criticism of the Northwest Detention Center, a 1,675-bed facility run by a private company through a contract with Immigration and Custom Enforcement, being located on Tacoma’s Tideflats.

Seemingly unknown to many people, the criminal justice system does not match the immigration justice system, causing a confusing web of reviews and

“We’ve never had a commission on immigrant and refugee affairs before, so this will be where we establish our goals and decide what we want to accomplish.”

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Hilltop Link extension preps for fall construction

BY STEVE DUNKELBERGER stevedunkel@tacomaweekly.com

Construction on the Link light rail extension from downtown Tacoma to the Hilltop neighborhood is on track to start in the fall.

“Expanding Tacoma Link to the Hilltop will provide our current residents and commuters from other areas with more ways to get to and from downtown and fuel our continuing economic growth,” said Sound Transit Boardmember and Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards. “Tacoma will continue to attract more and more people and jobs in the coming years. The expanded Tacoma Link system will improve transportation around the city and connect riders with regional light rail, Sounder trains and bus service at the Tacoma Dome.”

Utility companies are starting to relocate power, communication and gas lines along the route. The light

rail system will connect downtown to Martin Luther King Jr. Way. That work will start in the fall, but the next big announcement is expected in July, when the Sound Transit Board selects the contractor.

That then triggers another round of open houses for people to meet the contractor, which will then establish a construction timeline for street closures and detours for years to come.

“Really, until we get a contractor on board, it will be hard to say what they will be working on first,” said Sound Transit spokesman Scott Thompson.

What is known is that crews will construct the new light rail corridor in three segments along the route. Each section will include a construction zone of up to 1,000 feet, or about three blocks.

Prior to constructing the light rail track itself, the contractor will replace and install new utility connections. The final stages of construction will include over-

head span wire installation, traffic signal work and ADA ramp construction.

“It’s going to impact traffic,” Thompson said.

News of the on-time groundbreaking comes after the project received $75 million from the Federal Transit Administration Small Starts grant program. The grant award news last month marked the last piece of the funding puzzle for the 2.4-mile expansion.

“As communities in and around Tacoma continue to grow, we have an opportunity to make sure transportation options for workers, students, patients and families keep up. Expanding light rail to the ‘Medical Mile’ and Hilltop communities is a major step forward that will increase access to safe, reliable transportation and facilitate economic development in the city,” said Sen. Patty Murray at the grant announcement. “The federal government can

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Construction on the extension of Tacoma Link light rail from downtown to the Hilltop neighborhood will start in the fall and begin operations in 2022.

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DESTINY PRIMED TO GROW AS FIRST CLASS GRADUATES

PHOTOS BY STEVE DUNKELBERGER

Destiny Middle School marked the graduation of its eighth grade class last week, with about half of the class having attended all three years since the charter school opened. The former Rogers Elementary school will also be home to the SOAR Academy, when the charter elementary school moves to the Eastside in the fall.

BY STEVE DUNKELBERGER stevedunkel@tacomaweekly.com

The handing out of 103 eighth-grade diplomas last week marked not only a milestone for the students as they head into high school but for the school itself.

More milestones are in the works for next year.

This year’s Greater Tacoma Peace Prize Laureate Melannie Denise Cunningham, who is also a Destiny board

member, served as the graduation’s keynote speaker with the message that students should set goals and follow their own paths that might not include financial wealth.

“You can’t take money to the grave with you,” she said. “But what you can create is a life you deserve. You have to dream as big as you can. … Your future is what you can design.”

She then led the graduating eighthgraders into a chant to guide them

through their future education and life after high school and college.

“It’s more than my aptitude,” she said, asking the students to repeat after her. “It is my attitude that determines my altitude.”

The commencement ceremonies marked the graduation of Destiny Middle School’s inaugural class, with about half of its eighth grade starting their middle school at the school when it was created three years ago.

Destiny opened its doors in 2015 at the former John R. Rogers Elementary School in Tacoma’s Eastside neighborhood. It underwent a $6.9 million renovation after being vacant for more than a decade. Tacoma Public School District had closed the aging school in 2002. Plans for a homeless shelter and then a private housing development fell through over the years, leading to charter school operator Green Dot Public

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SEATTLE’S MISSTEP HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR NEW APPROACH

BY DON C. BRUNELL Last week, Seattle’s City Council did an “about face” revoking the onerous corporate head tax it unanimously enacted less than one month ago.

Its city council had approved an annual $275 per full-time employee assessment to fund homeless programs and affordable housing. The tax, which would raise $237 million over five years, was the subject of an employer-led referendum to abolish it.

The handwriting was on the wall. If the council did not rescind the tax, the voters would.

Tax supporters targeted the city’s largest employers. Amazon, which is actively searching for a second corporate headquarters (HQ2) outside of Seattle, was the bull’s eye. It would have cost Amazon an estimated $11 million annually.

Tax opponents feared that, if the tax went into effect next January, Amazon would shift its focus from Seattle and put more than 40,000 jobs in jeopardy. Seattle could be left with large downtown buildings standing empty.

There is no question about the gravity of Seattle’s homelessness. A Puget Sound Business Journal study estimated that the region is spending more than $1 billion a year on homelessness. It is straining the resources of government and charitable organizations.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported that on a single night in 2017,

over a half million people were homeless in America.

There were over 21,000 people homeless in Washington last year.

In Seattle, HUD records show the unsheltered population grew by 44 percent over two years to nearly 5,500 and it is worsening.

Many cities are finding that affordable housing in urban neighborhoods is disappearing and replaced with more expensive condos and office buildings.

Higher wage earners want to locate closer to work and avoid traffic congestion.

For example, Philadelphia City Council is considering imposing a one percent tax on construction of most residential, commercial and industrial projects.

The tax would be calculated based on the costs listed on building permits and would raise $22 million a year.

Money raised from Philadelphia’s tax would be used to give qualified home buyers as much as $10,000 for a down payment and closing costs, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Some members of Philadelphia City Council preferred requiring property developers to set aside 10 percent of new projects as below-market units.

“Detroit in 2017 passed a law requiring developers that receive city subsidies or discounted land to set aside 20 percent of units for low income households, typically those making between $34,000 and $41,000 for a family of four,” WSJ reporter Scott Calvert wrote.

Along with looking at project “set-asides” for af-

fordable housing, government officials need to look at ways to reduce regulatory costs.

Nationwide, regulations imposed by all levels of government account for nearly 25 percent of the sales price of a new single-family home, according to a 2016 study by the National Association of Home Builders. It found that regulatory costs in an average home built for sale went from $65,224 to $84,671 between 2011 and 2016.

Regulatory costs impact rentals as well, particularly in West Coast cities. RentJungle.com reports a two-bedroom apartment in Seattle rents for $2,700 a month on average compared with $1,450 in Pittsburgh. Rent in Austin is 20 percent lower and consumer prices are 30 percent below Seattle. (Both cities are attempting to lure Amazon’s HQ2.)

Homelessness is a universal issue in which cities vying for Amazon’s HQ2 face. So is the availability of affordable homes and apartments to rent or buy.

Hopefully, the faux pas in Seattle will lead to a new and more cooperative direction. This problem has moved far beyond just one in which elected officials can address. It now requires business involvement.

Don Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He recently retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, and now lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at TheBrunells@msn.com.

THE GREAT WAKING UP

BY ROBERT C. KOEHLER I don’t blame all of the planet’s ills on the Republican Party, but I find hope in the possibility that it’s on the verge of collapse.

I’m not talking politics here. I’m talking deep vision of humanity: a sense of who we are and how we impact Planet Earth and all its occupants. A smallness of mind has a chokehold on American political power and awareness. Maybe what I mean is that it has control over the money.

“The money just isn’t there” – to provide universal healthcare, to create environmental sustainability . . . to ensure that everyone has clean drinking water. I could name dozens more “nice ideas” that are financial impossibilities, relegated to the trash bin of wishful thinking.

We all could.

But “the money,” whatever that actually is, remains quietly, unquestionably present to maintain a suicidal status quo of expanding war, prisons, border “protection” and, of course, environmental exploitation.

Is it simply human stupidity that’s at the center of such irony?

A couple days ago, NBC News published an intriguing story: “California’s GOP is collapsing. Is that a sign for Republicans nationwide?”

The article, with typical mainstream superficiality, described the Republican problem as a “demographic” one: You know, America isn’t as “white” as it used to be, but the Republicans, with Donald Trump as their poster boy, have focused on “doubling-down on their white base...instead of trying to expand it.” The quiet implication is that white voters simply have a set of values that aren’t shared by those across the demographic divide, but the values themselves are media-neutral. Furthermore, politics itself is simply a matter of manipulating voters – enticing them to buy your product – as opposed, heaven forbid, to standing for a coherent, plainly stated worldview.

This is the context in which the article points out that

Republicans are now the number-three voting bloc in California, behind not just the Democrats but independents as well. And apparently, as California goes, so goes America, eventually.

The article points out some of the GOP initiatives from the old days, a quarter century ago, when the party ruled the Golden State, which now, apparently, have a stench to the voting majority: declaring English the state’s official language, outlawing affirmative action, and banning undocumented immigrants from access to public health care and even education.

My thought, as I read this, was that maybe what’s going on here is some kind of great waking up – not Democrat over Republican or even non-white over white, but democratic penetration into the default setting of American values. That is to say, the initiatives the article cites aren’t problematic because they’re Republican but because they’re racist. And because they quietly maintain a value system that divides the planet into winners and losers – with the “winners” on endless alert to protect, and add to, their holdings.

What if that’s what is under assault by uncorralled – i.e., independent – voters in California: the force that controls the money?

Maybe I’m kidding myself. Maybe it’s not possible . . . that the force of democracy, the “will of the people,” could actually begin to reshape social values and social spending, that it could penetrate, for instance, the keepout zone of military spending, one of those areas where the phrase “the money just isn’t there” never applies.

“Did you know,” writes William Astore at TomDispatch, “the U.S. Air Force is working on a new stealth bomber? Don’t blame yourself if you didn’t, since the project is so secret that most members of Congress aren’t privy to the details.”

Astore proceeds to tell us about the B-21 Raider, which would carry both conventional and thermonuclear bombs, and comes in at a cost of $550 million per plane (“before the inevitable cost overruns even kick in”).

The Air Force plans to buy 200 of them from Northrop Grumman, at cost of, oh heck, something over a hundred billion dollars. Is that such a big deal?

“Here’s the nightmarish reality,” he writes, “of actually bringing such weapons systems online: when the U.S. military develops a capability, it seeks to use it, even in cases where it’s wildly inappropriate. . . . Fielding a new strategic bomber for global strike, including potential thermonuclear attacks, will not so much enhance national security as potentially embolden future presidents to strike whenever and wherever they want in a fashion devastating to human life. The B-21 isn’t a force-multiplier. It’s an Armageddon-enabler.”

Let’s just sit with this for a moment. Indeed, let’s sit with the future of this planet, which we hold in our hands. The reality is that the human race has managed to embed itself in a social system that includes a murderous and suicidal militarism, which is minimally checked and unquestioned except at the margins of politics and the media. Given this – and given everything else going on in the military keep-out zones across the planet – I think we’d be better off in a state of total anarchy, with no political organization whatsoever.

But that’s a surrender to cynicism and no more realistic than any other form of wishful thinking. We’re stuck, at least here in the USA, with a pseudo-democracy partially but not completely controlled by certain special interests. We possess a fair amount of freedom of thought and action. Maybe it’s not enough to dislodge the entrenched, money-blessed military-industrialism that is our ruling god – but maybe it is, if we can foment a great waking up and start undoing the harm we have been inflicting on ourselves for so long now.

The collapse of the Republican Party may signal that change is underway. So is the message from a few millennia back: Love thy enemy as thyself.

Robert Koehler, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor.

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Efforts continue on soil cleanup

BY JOHN LARSON jlarson@tacomaweekly.com

Some of Tacoma’s oldest and youngest residents will benefit this year from efforts to clean up the toxic legacy of the Asarco copper smelter. The industrial facility operated in Ruston from 1891 to 1986. The smelting process generated contaminants, which were dispersed widely from the smokestack. Among the materials was arsenic and lead, which can cause a host of health problems. The state Department of Ecology is spending the majority of a $96 million settlement from Asarco to clean up residential yards in Pierce and King counties. Tacoma City Council received an update on June 19.

Amy Hargrove, remediation manager with the Department of Ecology, said the agency encountered a problem in 2017 because the Legislature had not approved the capital budget. As a result, it was only able to clean up 17 properties. With passage of the budget, full funding has been restored. “It is still a slow process to get back to full speed,” she remarked.

Ecology partners with Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department to sample yards in Tacoma. Since 2013, 3,019 yards have been sampled and 417 qualified for cleanup.

In 2018 the agencies plan for 39 yard cleanups in the city. The Environmental Protection Agency is funding some of this. Three active cleanups are at Narrows Ridge, a housing development, and at the Narrows Glen and Franke Tobey Jones senior living complexes.

Legislation passed in 2005 funds testing and cleanup of

soil in areas where children play. This year soil will be replaced at three daycare centers in the Tacoma area.

Property development presents an opportunity to clean up soil contamination. Ecology works with city planners to inform permit applicants about this. Last year a developer cleaned two acres for a project on Orchard Street. Another five acres was cleaned at the site of the Kindred/CHI Rehabilitation Hospital. South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group also cleaned up an acre in Titlow Park as part of a habitat restoration project.

Councilmember Lillian Hunter recalled when she lived near the intersection of North 46th and Pearl streets and nothing would grow in her garden because of the contaminated soil. She commended the agencies for their efforts.

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The copper smelter that operated for almost a century along Commencement Bay before closing in 1986 continues to impact the communities around Puget Sound.

10,000-PLUS LAWYER MOMS AND ALLIES ACROSS U.S. JOIN FORCES Lawyer Moms of America to visit members of Congress to demand immediate halt to illegal and inhumane separation of families in a day of action June 29

More than 10,000 lawyer moms and allies have announced that they will gather at federal legislators’ offices throughout the U.S. for the Lawyer Moms of America Day of Action on June 29 to demand an end to the current federal policy of separating migrant children from their parents attempting to enter the U.S. Since April, more than 2,000 children have been removed from their parents and placed into separate holding centers as a result of this policy, an inhumane violation of these families’ most basic human rights.

“As a lawyer and a mother, I cannot stand silent in the face of this gross injustice,” said Tovah Kopan, a lawyer from New Jersey and co-organizer of the Lawyer Moms of America group that is organizing the Day of Action.

“Each of us lawyer moms would do anything to keep our children safe. Each of us swore an oath to defend the Constitution. We will not let this unconscionable practice stand on our watch.”

Every day, undocumented parents, many of whom are seeking asylum, are separated from their children by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which

forcibly removes children from their parents and places the children in government holding centers or foster care. While this policy of separating families has been supported by the Trump administration as a deterrent to keep asylum seekers and other migrants from attempting to enter the U.S., according to the Washington Post, data actually shows an increase in illegal border crossing attempts since March and year-over-year since 2017.

“It’s an unconscionable act that doesn’t even accomplish the goal of deterring illegal entry,” said Tahmina Watson, an immigration lawyer from Washington and co-organizer of Lawyer Moms of America. “Stepping away from established asylum policies, this is a violation of basic human rights that the United Nations condemns. Therefore, it is imperative that Congress steps in

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immediately to halt such a barbaric practice. This is not the America we know.”

Local representatives of the Lawyer Moms of America will visit U.S. senators and members of Congress in all 50 states on June 29 to present an open letter demanding an end to this policy immediately. Lawyer Moms of America is supported in this effort by non-lawyers, non-parents, and others who fundamentally believe that human rights for parents and children should not stop at our borders.

Lawyer Moms for America is a non-partisan group of more than 10,000 lawyer moms and supporters across the U.S. who have banded together to stand up for the rights of parents and children seeking entry into the U.S. Membership spans all political parties and affiliations and all 50 states.

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Senate candidate holds rally against LNG

PHOTO BY DOUG BARNES

Candidate Steve Hoffman (third from left) stands with his campaign volunteers and activists fighting the LNG plant to encourage more alliances with tribes to end climate change.

On Friday, June 15, Tacoma activists, U.S. Senate candidate Steve Hoffman (Freedom Socialist Party) and volunteers with his campaign came together to speak out against the Puget Sound Energy liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal being built on Commencement Bay. Rallying at the Puyallup Tribe’s Chinook Landing Marina, they warned of the dangers posed by the LNG facility. These include its siting on contaminated landfill and the “blast zone” threat it poses to populated areas in the case of an explosion.

Moreover, the massive plant, designed to produce up to 500,000 gallons of LNG per day and to store up to eight million gallons, is taking shape adjacent to tribal land. The decision-making and planning process ignored the Puyallup Tribe’s treaty right to be consulted.

Indian fishing rights, which rely on clean water, were

similarly disregarded.

Candidate Hoffman pointed out that incumbent Senator Maria Cantwell is on the Indian Affairs Committee and should be protecting the sovereign rights of the Puyallup Tribe. “Her silence telegraphs environmental racism and a defense of energy industry interests over the needs of our planet and its inhabitants,” he said.

Hoffman remembered his youth spent on Lake Erie in Ohio. “I grew up hunting and fishing,” he said. “I was really heartened when government regulations began to clean up the water. And I really don’t want to allow environmental protections to be dragged backward.”

Activist Tracy Wiegman described Puget Sound Energy as a problem utility. “They are a private-owned operation that’s coming in here stomping all over Puyallup tribal treaty rights, and they are just going to add

to the degradation of the environment that’s already happening,” she said.

Doug Barnes shared the history of tribal activism near where the group was gathered. “In the 1960s and ’70s they beat people at the river landing, right over there,” recalled Barnes, who is the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) national organizer. “In 1970 tribal members took a stand because they were being harassed so much.

They were shot at and over 60 were arrested. This is part of the legacy of the tribe’s fight for their fishing rights and defense of the salmon. FSP stood with the tribe then and we are still part of the fight now.”

Seattle Radical Women organizer Gina Petry, who spent time in November 2016 supporting the Sioux water protectors in North Dakota, remarked on the leadership u See LNG / page 12

Council briefed on bus rapid transit project

BY JOHN LARSON jlarson@tacomaweekly.com

Bus rapid transit is an option some public transportation agencies are utilizing. It has a number of features meant to speed up the process of using a bus.

These include having passengers pay their fare prior to boarding, taking bicycles on board instead of being attached to a rack in front of the bus and a flat platform that speeds boarding for those with strollers or in wheelchairs. Traffic signals can be notified of the approach of a bus and adjust lights accordingly. And this system generally has three stops per mile, far less than what the current route 1 has along Pacific Avenue.

That route currently connects Tacoma

Community College with downtown and Spanaway. A proposal under consideration would have bus rapid transit replace the part of the route between downtown and Spanaway. Alexandra Mather, government and community relations officer with Pierce Transit, and Ryan Wheaton, executive director of planning and community development, provided an update to Tacoma City Council on June 19.

The route under consideration would shift from Pacific Avenue to Market Street in downtown. It would also head over to Tacoma Dome Station. The remainder of the route would stay as it is along Pacific south to the Wal-Mart store on Mountain Highway in Spanaway.

Bus rapid transit can have stops along the curb, or down the median, such as

the light rail stop on Pacific Avenue at the University of Washington-Tacoma campus. The curbside alternative calls for 10.2 miles in mixed traffic, at a cost of $5.1 million per mile. Another 4.2 miles would be in a lane for busses, with cars allowed in to make right turns. This would cost $14 million per mile.

The median alternative has 8.8 miles in mixed traffic at $6.6 million per mile.

A 1.6-mile segment would be for busses and turning cars, at $14 million per mile.

Another four miles would be a lane exclusively for the bus, at $11.8 million per mile.

There is $60 million available from a voter approved Sound Transit measure. Another $15 million is saved for this project. Together, these would cover about half of the cost. More money could

come from a Small Starts Grant from the Federal Transit Administration. An application for that grant will be submitted in September.

Councilmember Catherine Ushka said some of her constituents have claimed this new system would result in existing buildings being torn down to make way for new stops. Wheaton said this is not the case. “I will continue to clarify that message,” she remarked.

Councilmember Ryan Mello asked about having stops in the median versus curbside. Wheaton noted the difference in costs. He added that stops in the median could be better at spurring new development.

The Pierce Transit Board is scheduled to vote on an alternative on July 9.

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Made at the treatment plant, SoundGRO is an award-winning product that meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rigorous Class A “Exceptional Quality” standards for biosolids safety.

Visit piercecountywa.gov/SoundGRO to learn more about SoundGRO. BATES STUDENT WINS LEADERSHIP AWARD Bates Technical College student Sophia Tran received the Dennis Seinfeld Emerging Leader award at a City Club of Tacoma dinner meeting on June 6.

The annual award recognizes an individual who demonstrates the qualities and values of leadership, but Sophia Tran is not yet recognized as an established leader in the community. Tran, a student in the college’s computer networking systems technician program, demonstrated her leadership skills as an active member of the community and Associated Student Government.

Manager of Student Activities Juliette Kern wrote in her nomination form that Tran is an “exemplary student, passionate leader, eager to step up for her community, and is not afraid to tell her story. She is highly intelligent, and goes above and beyond in terms of what is expected.”

A single mother and a full-time student, Tran joined a college council in an effort to advocate for her fellow students when she saw a need in her classroom that was affecting her peers. “The council created a taskforce to address the need, and Sophia volunteered to co-lead the taskforce,” said Kern.

In addition to exercising her leadership skills at college, the 4.0 GPA student has a long list of volunteer activities. Tran volunteered at the YMCA; served as president of her high school DECA chapter and of the Bremerton Junior High Multicultural Club; participated in a planning committee for a human rights rally; initiated a community newsletter; and volunteered at the non-profit organization Washington Very Special Arts, which provides arts and education opportunities for people with disabilities.

Tran will add the City Club of Tacoma award to her collection, which includes the U.S. President’s Education

Award for Academic Excellence, the City of Bremerton’s Student of the Month award, and a Project Hope Boys and Girls Club award. She was a nominee for the Northwest Asian Weekly’s Diversity Makes a Difference award.

The Dennis Seinfeld Emerging Leader award originated in memory of the late civic-minded Tacoma attorney, who was a founding City Club of Tacoma member and the club’s second president.

To learn more about City Club of Tacoma, go to cityclubtacoma.org. To learn more about Bates Technical College, go to bates.ctc.edu, or call (253) 680-7000.

LOCAL STUDENTS RANK NATIONALLY IN SPANISH EXAM Steilacoom High School students ranked nationally in the National Spanish Exam, administered by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Students who ranked nationally were recognized for their Honorable Mention, Bronze, Silver, or Gold performances on this national exam.

The National Spanish Examinations are standards-based assessments that evaluate both content and performance over various levels of secondary instruction.

Steilacoom High Schools students who ranked nationally are: Honorable Mention recipients in Spanish 2: Franco Begonia, Sean Craine, Lindzie-Noelani Credo, Payson Danielson, Louise Gado, Isabella Harris, Alaina LeCompte, Aaron Mitchell, Joshua Reyes, Rosa Rosales, Connor Shoup; Spanish 3: Connor Beane, Andrew Cherry, Miranda Corey, Ruben Gabriel, Leila-Rizelle Gonzalez, Serenity Hammons, Samuel Klingbeil, Cassandra Locke, Janae Long, Inayah Raheem, and Sydney Sherwood. Spanish 4: Noah Burlingame, Virginia Davidson, Victoria Shepard, Rose Williamson, and Yamile Gonzalez.

Bronze Medal recipients are Spanish 2: Allison Stevens and Spanish 3: Halley Sherwood Silver Medalists are Spanish 3: Michaela Stabnow and Spanish 4: Olivia Woo Gold Medalist in Spanish 2: Jace Snedecor All are students of Loriann Williams.

HOMESPUN HAPPY HOUR TAKES DIY BACK IN TIME Join Fort Nisqually this summer for three evenings of “make and take” 19th century crafts alongside beer, wine and cocktails.

Homespun Happy Hour – at 6 p.m. on June 29, July 27 and Aug. 24 only – is a chance to try your hand at scrimshaw, candle making, leatherwork, tinsmithing, felting, and more. There will be a cash bar, food truck, and live music to set the mood.

“We wanted to give folks an opportunity to spend time in this unique space and learn our history by doing,” said event coordinator Allison Campbell. “We hope people will bring some friends, enjoy a beverage, explore the museum’s historic buildings, and make something cool to take home.”

Different crafts will be offered at each event, and people are encouraged to attend all three. The cash bar will feature beer by ENine, cider from Nashi Orchards, wine and a cocktail collaboration between Chamber’s Bay Distillery and Bona Fide Potents. All exhibits at the museum will be open, and interpreters in period clothes

NEWS | 11 will be present to answer questions and demonstrate skills like blacksmithing and rope making, and cooks in the fort’s kitchen will offer samples of 19th century goodies baked on an 1850s cast iron stove.

Homespun Happy Hour is sponsored by Columbia Bank. Proceeds from these events support the education mission of Fort Nisqually Living History Museum.

The museum is located at 5400 N. Pearl St., inside Point Defiance Park. Admission to Homespun Happy Hour is $20 (includes “make and take” crafts), ages 21+ only. To purchase online, go to eventbrite.com/e/homespun-happy-hour-tickets-45488340852.

HUMANE SOCIETY NAMES NEW CEO Following an extensive search, the Board of Directors of The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County (THS) is proud to announce Stuart Earley as the new CEO beginning June 18. Earley is an exceptionally talented and renowned animal welfare leader, who is eager to address the extraordinary opportunities and exciting challenges of this 130-year-old organization.

Earley has achieved significant results in rescuing and rehoming animals for more than 20 years and is recognized as a leader/shaper among peer organizations throughout the UK. He has a shining record of advancing animal welfare, which has been documented by major international and established trade media such as BBC News, The Herald, The Independent, and more. “The Board of Directors is excited to partner with Mr. Earley as we articulate and refine our strategic direction for programming and future accomplishments” Amanda Loewen, Board President.

Prior to taking the leadership position with THS, Earley served the (SSPCA) for 13 years, improving operational performance over 150 percent, raising more money than the previous 167 years the charity existed and led 360 staff operating from 14 shelters with a fleet of over 140 animal ambulances.

“Stuart was an exceptional candidate, head and shoulders above the rest. With Stuarts skills and talent in organizational structure, financial sustainability, passion for animals and broad vision, he made our organization a success story,” said SSPCA Board Chairman Alistair Lawrie.

HUMANE SOCIETY HAS TOO MANY KITTIES The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County is celebrating Adopt-A-Cat Month this June.

This month marks the height of “kitten season,” when almost 2,000 young kittens are brought into the Society.

This feline population increase has filled the Society with cats and kittens who need a forever home.

In the spirit of Adopt a Cat Month and to make room for these kittens, all adult cats are 50 percent off through Saturday, June 30. You can come in and get your own “fat” cat for half the “pounds!”

The Society is located at 2608 Center St, Tacoma. Call (253) 383-2733.

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PHOTO BY STEVE DUNKELBERGER

Part of the Tacoma Link light rail expansion from downtown to the Hilltop will include the relocation of the current terminus on Commerce to a new location closer to Old City Hall.

t Link From page 5 and should be a good partner to local communities and support transportation solutions – like the Hilltop Tacoma Link – and I will continue working with my colleagues in Congress to strengthen investments that help make these solutions a reality in our communities.”

The $217 million rail extension will run tracks north along Commerce Street and run along Stadium Way to the Hilltop District, with six new stations and a relocation of the Commerce station to be closer to Old City Hall. The project will provide additional access to Tacoma’s downtown corridor, with several new housing, retail and commercial developments already planned along the new route. It will also provide an uninterrupted rail route between the

Hilltop and current tracks that run to the Tacoma Dome.

Funding for the project includes the voter-approved Sound Transit 2, the City of Tacoma and federal and state grants. A future voter-approved extension of Tacoma Link will extend the line even further, all the way out to Tacoma Community College. But that won’t start operations until 2039.

Another project on the other side of the tracks will come sooner than the TCC route, however. A 9.7-mile rail line that will connect the Tacoma Dome to South King County and provide direct access to SeaTac Airport and then to downtown Seattle, with stations in East Tacoma, Fife and Federal Way, is set to start in 2030. The Dome station will serve as a multi-modal transit hub, with transfer options to and from Sounder service and Tacoma Link as well as for Pierce Transit and Sound Transit buses as part of the Sound Transit 3 plan.

of women, especially Native women, in working to stop the LNG plant and educating the public about its effects. Said Petry, “It’s the same as what I saw at Standing Rock. Women are on the frontlines of the struggle to stop the destruction of the earth.”

Kathy Lawhon, a journalist, described why she’s working to stop the LNG facility. “It’s one of the largest, most complex in the world,” she noted. “It’s highly dangerous. It’s never supposed to be this close to urban populations

t Destiny From page 7 School to eye the building for a Tacoma location.

The 111-year-old building, which was originally designed by noted architect Fredrick Heath, is now home to 250 sixth- through eighth-grade students.

More students are set to join them in the fall as SOAR Academy prepares to leave its Hilltop location and move its kindergarten to eighth-grade students into the former Rogers building alongside Destiny. Both schools opened three years ago, following the creation of the state’s charter school system.

The schools will remain independent of each other and simply share space in the building.

“It will be kind of two schools who are collocated,” said Green Dot Public Schools Executive Director Bree Dusseault.

The move comes because 165 students at SOAR’s kindergarten-to-fifth grades have outgrown the school’s Hilltop location, and Destiny had unused space in the 53,000-square-foot school.

“We are moving out of necessity,”

t Commission From page 4 that maybe we can advocate for this type of funding to continue until we establish some kind of fluidity with the community and the city.”

With this funding, she hopes it would be possible to create more awareness through outreach where

and a busy port,” she stated. “It could be catastrophic.” Living in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, Lawhon noted that she herself is in the blast zone.

The protesters shared photos of their signs asking “Are you in the blast zone?” on social media and chanted “Hell no, no LNG!” “When it comes to standing up to the fossil fuel corporations and standing for Mother Earth, the tribes are kicking it,” said Hoffman. “Indigenous people throughout the Americas are leading the fight against climate change. I think that other environmentalists and the labor movement should join with them, just as many Tacomans have united to fight this terminal.”

SOAR Board Chairwoman Thelma Jackson said. “It’s a win-win for everybody.

It is a beautiful building but underutilized.”

The Eastside school will also have a new playground that will be added to the campus thanks to the work of some 200 volunteers who will construct the equipment on Aug. 25.

“It will be great for the students and great for the community,” Jackson said.

Charter schools are publicly funded, independent schools that receive taxpayer dollars and operated by nonprofits instead of traditional, public school districts. Each charter school functions through a state charter, or performance agreement, with the Washington State Charter School Commission, an independent state agency, to provide more learning options for children much like private schools, but without the tuition.

Charter schools are annually reviewed as well as receive on-going oversight by the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Green Dot is a not-for-profit network of 28 charter schools that operate in California, Tennessee and Washington, including Destiny, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy in Seattle and Excel Public Charter School in Kent.

community participation could be enhanced through partnerships.

Recently, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project picked up the contract to administer the funds. Beason explains that building a conversation with NIRP is a sign that things are moving in the right direction. “They have money from Seattle also and from other entities, so I feel like they have a better history and understanding of what the community needs and how to serve them.”

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Tacoma third baseman Seth Mejias-Brean looks like he's ready for business. The 27-year old is currently batting a solid .270 for the Rainiers, with six home runs, three doubles and 18 runs batted in.

BY JUSTIN GIMSE jgimse@tacomaweekly.com

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fter half a season, the Tacoma Rainiers appear to have found their mojo. Following a successful road trip to Memphis and Nashville, the hometown boys returned to Cheney Stadium on Wednesday, June 13, to begin a seven-game home stand against the Omaha Storm Chasers and the Iowa Cubs. If the Rainiers were going to make the most out of their home field advantage this season, this was going to be a good starting point.

Once the dust settled and the seven-game stretch was complete, Tacoma had run their record to a season-best four-games over .500 at 38-34. With eight victories spanning the last 10 games, the Rainiers have been doing everything in their power to stay within striking distance of first place in the Pacific Coast League’s Pacific Northern Division.

While the recent string of wins has helped maintain Tacoma’s second-place position in the standings, the first-place club hasn’t been doing the Rainiers any favors. The Fresno Grizzlies not only lead the division, but they also own the best record in the PCL with a 44-27 re-

cord. The Oklahoma City Dodgers own the second-best record at 41-26, with the Memphis Redbirds (43-29) and Salt Lake Bees (41-31) all owning the top spot in their respective divisions.

Tacoma trails the Grizzlies by 6.5 games. The Reno Aces (33-39) and the Sacramento River Cats (33-39) are currently tied at the bottom of the division standings, trailing the Grizzlies by 11.5 games.

The Rainiers will now head south to face the firstplace Bees for a four-game series beginning on Thursday, June 21. Following a matinee game to close-out the series, Tacoma will fly back home to begin a four-game series with the Las Vegas 51s beginning on Monday, June 25. The Rainiers will then host the Reno Aces for a five-game set beginning on Friday, June 29. The Reno series will feature not one, but two fireworks shows within five days.

Tacoma’s recent home stand began with a 5-3 victory over the Storm Chasers on Wednesday, June 13.

A three-run sixth inning put Tacoma ahead 3-2, but Omaha answered in the top of the eighth inning with a game-tying run. The Rainiers pushed two across the plate in the bottom of the inning to take the lead. Reliever Ryan Garton took the mound in the top of the ninth

and put Omaha down in order for his second save of the season. Andrew Aplin hit two doubles, with Mike Marjama and Danny Muno each adding one as well.

Omaha exacted a little revenge the following night, dropping the Rainiers by the same score of 5-3. The home town boys were only able to muster six hits, with Muno delivering two doubles, and Ian Miller adding his own. Reliever Ashton Goudeau was saddled with the loss, despite pitching just one inning, and surrendering a single run.

A big crowd of 6,195 fans came out to see the Rainiers knock off Omaha by a score of 5-2 on Friday, June 15. Starting pitcher Casey Lawrence was masterful on the mound. The right-hander pitched 7.1 innings, giving up just a single earned run, while striking out six Storm Chasers. Reliever Tyler Higgins would bid Omaha a fond farewell in the ninth inning, sending all three Storm Chaser batters down in order. Marjama would crush his fifth home run of the season in the fifth inning, while Daniel Vogelbach added a double. Tacoma would need just four hits on the night to create their five runs.

The fans came out in force the following night as u See RAINIERS / page 17

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National title on line for David Moses

BY JUSTIN GIMSE jgimse@tacomaweekly.com

When it comes to strong men with speed to burn, much of the competition has been finding it difficult to keep up with the Puyallup Tribe’s own David Moses. A veteran of lumberjack sports competition since 1991, Moses turned professional in 2005 and has been working toward a national championship ever since.

After capturing the STIHL Western Professional Qualifer Championship on Saturday, June 2, Moses will make his sixth trip to the STIHL U.S. Professional Championships in Milwaukee, beginning on Friday, July 27. The event will run for three days during the famous German Fest at Henry Maier Festival Park.

David Moses is the son of David Moses, Sr., a famous timber sports competitor who began putting his name on the map all the way back in 1972. At that time, “Junior” was just 7 years old.

Timber sports has taken Moses to locales that he might not have visited otherwise. The lumberjack has competed throughout the United States and Canada, and has taken him as far away as New Zealand and Australia. His recent outing was only as far as Shelton, for the Mason County Forest Festival, but winning the overall qualifier and earning a ticket to Wisconsin is just another step on a journey that hopefully takes him all the way to the STIHL Timbersports World Championship in Liverpool, England, beginning on Oct. 18.

Moses earned the STIHL Western Championship by scoring 42 points

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Puyallup Tribal member David Moses (left) goes to work in the springboard chop competition. Moses has been competing in lumberjack sport since 1991 and has twice captured the STIHL Western Qualifier Championship. Next up for Moses is a trip to the STIHL United States Professional Championships in Milwaukee, beginning on Thursday, July 27. Moses will be trying to improve on his fourth-place finish at the nationals in 2013. throughout the six skillsets that make up the all-around sport. This was the second STIHL regional championship of his career, having previously earned the title in 2012 with 44 points. That year, a rough outing in the preliminaries left him out of the finals.

The following year, after finishing third at the regional qualifier, Moses

would crash the party at the national event, finishing in a surprising fourth place overall in 2013. There have been three additional visits to the national competition since, but Moses has yet to match that lofty mark.

After an exceptionally strong showing in Shelton, the Emerald Queen Casino-sponsored strong man is looking in prime form to make his mark on the STIHL leaderboard.

Timber sports encompasses a total of six disciplines. If a competitor is lacking in one or more of these skills, the chances of he or she getting anywhere near a trophy are slim to none. What on earth are these disciplines? Let’s take a look at them straight from the folks at STIHL. The hot saw is a discipline where the competitor uses a customized chainsaw with a modified engine. As modifica-

tions go, how would you feel grabbing hold of a chainsaw that is powered by a watercraft or snowmobile engine? This is what Moses does exceptionally well.

The single buck is a discipline where the competitor makes cuts through 19 inches of white pine, using a single-man, cross-cut saw. The competitor may have a helper wedge his cut into the log to prevent the saw teeth from sticking. This is another event that Moses crushes the competition in.

The standing block chop is a discipline that is as cut-and-dry as they come.

The competitor mimicks the felling of a tree, racing to chop through 12 to 14 inches of vertical white pine.

The stock saw is a discipline that is the true test of operator ability. The competitor uses an MS 660 STIHL Magnum u See TIMBER / page 17

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SPORTSWATCH BANNER YEAR FOR LUTES IN THE CLASSROOM The Pacific Lutheran University Athletic Department continued to excel on the field, in the classroom, and in the community during the 2018-2019 academic year.

The Lutes captured six Northwest Conference titles, volunteered more than 3,200 hours in the community, while all 19 programs maintained a grade point average above a 3.00.

“We have amazing student-athletes that embrace the holistic experience,” said Athletic Director Laurie Turner. “Academic excellence is one of our core values and our academic success demonstrates our student first approach and the priority our students, coaches, and staff place on academic success.”

In the classroom, the Lutes boasted a department-wide cumulative grade point average of 3.29, including a 3.33 GPA department-wide for the 2018 spring semester. 75 percent of Lute student-athletes earned a GPA of 3.0 or better, including 39 percent boasting a GPA of 3.50 or higher. Six programs had a team GPA above a 3.50 with the NWC champion volleyball team leading the way with a 3.71 GPA. Women’s basketball was close behind with a 3.70 while the women’s tennis program finished with a 3.61 GPA for the spring. Additionally 29 Lutes tallied a perfect 4.0 GPA in the spring.

In the community, all 19 programs participated in some form of community service, racking up 3,200 hours of volunteer work in the Tacoma area. Of the 3,200 hours around 800 came with the opportunities associated with PLU’s partnership with Special Olympics.

In addition to classroom success and community involvement, the Lutes had a banner year on the field of play. Pacific Lutheran hoisted conference titles in six sports (baseball, men’s golf, women’s rowing, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, and volleyball) while placing second in the NWC all-sports trophy standings. The Lutes had 134 All-Northwest Conference honorees in 2017-2018 and boasted one national champion with Machaela Graddy winning the javelin at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in May. The Lutes kick off the 2018-2019 seasons on Aug. 31 with men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball opening up their competitive seasons.

PLU SWIMMING PROGRAMS RECEIVE NATIONAL HONORS The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recognized programs around the nation committed to academic success with the Pacific Lutheran University men’s and women’s swimming programs both receiving the CSCAA’s Scholar All-American Award.

The PLU men claim the honor after finishing the spring semester with a 3.15 grade point average. The Lutes were one of five Northwest Conference squads to land the honor on the men’s side. The Lute women boasted a 3.58 GPA, the 29th best GPA in all of NCAA Division III and the best GPA among the six NWC institutions receiving the accolade. Whitworth University was the next closest NWC school with a 3.45 team GPA. The Scholar All-American Team Award is awarded by the CSCAA to programs achieving a 3.0 grade point average or higher during the spring 2018 semester. A total of 476 institutions from across the NCAA, NAIA, and junior college ranks were honored.

The Lute women finished runner-up at the 2018 NWC Championships this winter with Kaycee Simpson going on to represent the Lutes at the NCAA Division III Championships.

The PLU men finished fourth at the NWC Championships.

PLU FOOTBALL TEAM VISITS SPRINGBROOK ELEMENTARY By connections through Pacific Lutheran University Athletics, members from the Lute football team helped Springbrook Elementary School students understand that character is as important as athletic ability when it comes to being a student-athlete.

Lauren Richards, wife of PLU assistant baseball coach Scott Richards, was experiencing a dilemma in her first-grade classroom. One of her students wants to be a football player when they grow up. However, the student was struggling with listening to directions, being respectful, and getting work done. Knowing the character of PLU football players, Richards reached out to head football coach Brant McAdams to see if his players could lend a hand.

McAdams, along with Adam McShane and Hajriz Aliu made their way to Springbrook Elementary in Kent. The trio talked to the first graders about the problems Richards was experiencing. Following the conversation, the group participated in physical education activities.

“It was an awesome opportunity to give back to the community,” Aliu said. “After the visit, I quickly realized that I

learned a lot more from them than they learned from me. Answering all of the students questions about why I play football in the first place reminded why I started playing football when I was the same age.”

While the group may have spent a short time at Springbrook Elementary, their effort made a lasting impact on the children in attendance and their parents at home.

“My students had an absolute blast,” Richards said. “So many of these students need positive role models in their lives and I really think that these students will always remember this day of first grade. The guys were so great with the kids and were so well spoken. It was so awesome for these kids to hear how we all make mistakes and how things aren’t always going to be easy, but it’s how to react to that and what we do to be better in the future. I have already had several parents message me saying that it was such a cool experience for their kids.”

After a visit from a few PLU football team members, the first graders at Springbrook Elementary will remember it takes physical abilities and character to be a student-athlete.

The Lutes will kickoff the 2018 season on Sept. 8, heading to Thousnad Oaks, Calif. for a game against California Lutheran University. - by Christian Bond, PLU Sports.

PUGET SOUND NAMES JAMES NEW ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Puget Sound Director of Athletics Amy Hackett is pleased to welcome Jenee James as the Loggers’ new assistant athletic director. James will have primarily responsibilities for athletics facilities, game management, and assist with the department’s marketing efforts.

James brings with her a wealth of experience in athletic administration, as well as coaching and teaching, in the greater Tacoma area. She recently served as the athletics and activities director at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, and was the commissioner of the North Puget Sound 4A softball league. James also held a previous appointment as the athletic director at Clover Park High School in Lakewood. She has been active in committee service at the state and district levels.

In addition to coaching high school basketball and softball, James has experience at the collegiate level. She coached basketball at both Pierce College and Tacoma Community College. James has also spent several years working as part of the Seattle Sounders’ and Seattle Seahawks’ game day operations and fan development staff.

James earned her bachelor’s of science from Central Washington, where she double-majored in administrative management and information technology, with a minor in communications/public relations. She is a four-year letter winner in softball for the Wildcats. James will receive her M.S. from Concordia University at Irvine in 2019. She is studying athletic administration and coaching.

James is a member of the Washington State Coaches Association.

FIVE LOGGERS HEAD TO ITALY FOR BASKETBALL EXHIBITIONS Puget Sound women’s basketball head coach Casey Kushiyama and four of his student-athletes departed for Italy, Wednesday, June 20, for international contests and a unique opportunity for experiential learning.

Puget Sound is working with Beyond Sports for the adventure.

Elizabeth Prewitt and Meghan Hamel will both play for a U.S. team coached by Jeff Hans (Thomas More). Cassidy Daugherty and Jamie Lange are teammates on another U.S. squad, coached by Adrienne Shibles (Bowdoin College).

Kushiyama is an assistant coach for both U.S. teams.

“Exploring foreign countries, playing basketball overseas, and creating lifelong memories with coaches and teammates is what being a student-athlete at Puget Sound is all about,” said Kushiyama, who has previous experience coaching U.S. teams through Beyond Sports. “I’m excited to be participating in another foreign tour with Beyond Sports. I’d like to thank Josh Erickson and his staff for inviting me back and allowing me this incredible opportunity.”

In addition to playing four games against local club teams, the five Loggers will enjoy several tours on land and on water.

Games will be played in Rome, Florence, and Milan. The U.S. teams will return home June 29.

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Tacoma’s Hot Tickets JUNE 23 - JULY 26 SATURDAY, JUNE 23 - SCOTS Tacoma Highland Games Frontier Park - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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TUESDAY, JULY 3 - SOCCER Portland Timbers U23 vs. Sounders U23 Sunset Stadium, Sumner - 7:30 p.m.

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FRIDAY, JULY 6 - SOCCER Victoria vs. Sounders U23 Sunset Stadium, Sumner - 7:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON WELCOMES SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETES

PHOTOS BY JOSEPH WALSH

(Left) Part of Andrew Fowler's day was spent signing autographs and chatting with fans. (Right) Staff from both Special Olympics Washington and Comcast gathered to support Fowler and fellow Games competitor, Aaron Cozzie.

BY CARLI RICKER Tacoma Weekly Correspondent

On any given day Andrew Fowler can be spotted at work bagging groceries at the Gig Harbor Fred Meyer.

But after work, Andrew can be found training for his upcoming track and field competition: The Special Olympics USA Games. From July 1-6 Seattle will host the Games where more than 4,000 athletes from across the country will gather to compete in individual and team events.

Andrew was born three months premature and

today lives with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and emphysema. With emphysema, the lung tissue and air sacs are gradually damaged, which forms COPD, making it difficult to breathe. Yet Andrew doesn’t let this hold him back as he enjoys not only competing in track and field but flag football and basketball. He also enjoys cooking and spending time with his friends and family.

In the upcoming Games, Andrew will participate in the 50 and 100-meter speed walking race and standing long jump. When asked how he’s feeling about the Games Andrew said, “I’m excited...It took me a long time to get here and I’ve made it all the way.” He’s also looking forward to learning more about how to best compete and the chance to meet new people. While Andrew trains for the gold his ultimate goal is to go and compete in the Special Olympics World Games, which will be held in Abu Dhabi in 2019.

As the Games draw closer one of its sponsors, Comcast, has hosted events across the state to honor the athletes competing and give fans a chance to meet them. On Saturday, June 16, Andrew and Aaron Cozzie, a swimmer competing in the Games, were the stars of one of these events held in Tacoma. At the event, they greeted and talked with fans, signed autographs, took photos, and showed off their medals.

“With 4,000 athletes coming from across the nation, and 250 of them being from Washington state, it’s a really great opportunity for us to highlight our athletes’ abilities and what the program has to offer for people with and without disabilities.”

– Mary Do, vice president of development for Special Olympics Washington With the Special Olympics USA Games being held in Washington, the event will help to raise awareness not just for local athletes but for the organization of Special Olympics as a whole. “With 4,000 athletes coming from across the nation, and 250 of them being from Washington state, it’s a really great opportunity for us to u See OLYMPICS / page 17

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UPCOMING TACOMA GAMES AT CHENEY STADIUM Monday, June 25 - 6:05 p.m. vs. Las Vegas 51s Tuesday, June 26 - 6:05 p.m. vs. Las Vegas 51s Wednesday, June 27 - 11:35 p.m. vs. Las Vegas 51s Thursday, June 28 - 7:05 p.m. vs. Las Vegas 51s Friday, June 29 - 7:05 p.m. vs. Reno Aces (Fireworks Show) Saturday, June 30 - 5:05 p.m. vs. Reno Aces Sunday, July 1 - 1:35 p.m. vs. Reno Aces Monday, July 2 - 7:05 p.m. vs. Reno Aces Tuesday, July 3 - 7:05 p.m. vs. Reno Aces (Fireworks Show)

t Rainiers From page 13 7,156 folks made their way into Cheney Stadium. It would be a comeback win for Tacoma on this night, as the Rainiers would put three runs on the board in the bottom of the eighth inning to edge the Iowa Cubs by a score of 5-4. Starting pitcher Christian Bergman was solid in six innings of work, but was stung by three home runs. Anthony McIver would earn the win with an inning of work in the eighth, while Shawn Armstrong would earn his second save of the season in the ninth.

The Rainiers were powered by doubles from Chris Hermann, John Andreoli and Zach Vincej.

From page 14 chainsaw and begins with both hands on the log and the chainsaw is idling on the deck. This is another of Moses’ strong events.

The underhand chop is a discipline where the competitor stands with feet apart on a 12 to 14-inch white pine log. At the signal, he begins to chop through the log with his racing axe.

The springboard chop is a discipline based on the need for old-time loggers to establish a cutting platform above the massive root bases of old growth trees. The competitor uses an axe to chop pockets into a nine-foot poplar pole, and then places six-inch wide springboard platforms into the pockets.

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highlight our athletes’ abilities and what the program has to offer for people with and without disabilities,” said Mary Do, vice president of development for Special Olympics Washington. “The USA Games are a great opportunity for anyone to come down...to check out how incredible inclusion can be.” While Do believes the sports component of Special Olympics is essential, it also serves as a foundation for athletes to gain skills which can be used both in competition and everyday life.

One of the Special Olympics main themes is inclusivity and celebrating people’s unique abilities. Speaking with Comcast’s director of community investment and external affairs for Washington, Diem Ly, for Comcast to be an official sponsor

of the Special Olympics USA Games was a must. Ly explains how similar to the Games, Comcast also strongly supports the inclusion and respect of all people.

“That culture of respecting and accepting and including people of all abilities... that’s something that we also want to amplify and exude externally too.” Comcast also recognizes how important and necessary it is for individuals, like Andrew and Aaron, to be supported and to show them respect through events where they can be recognized for their athletic abilities. Ly is proud to have Comcast as a sponsor for the Special Olympics and is excited for the Games to showcase the message of inclusivity and acceptance. "To have anything that supports people of all backgrounds, of all abilities on this scale...is really inspirational."

The Special Olympics USA Games will take place in Seattle from July 1-6. For tickets and more information go to www. specialolympicsusagames.org.

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The series concluded on Tuesday, June 19, with Tacoma bringing out the broom on the Cubs. The home town boys would need just seven hits to take a 5-4 win over Iowa and secure the four-game sweep. Tacoma would send a total of eight pitchers to the mound throughout the evening, and they were able to get the job done. Reliever Matt Tenuta would be credited with the win, while Armstrong earned his fourth save of the season. Andreoli and Muno each recorded doubles at the plate.

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All events are timed, with the lowest times earning the most points.

First place earns eight points, while second place earns seven, and so forth. In case of a disqualification, the competitor is awarded no points, but is still able to compete in whatever events are still to follow.

STIHL’s version of the sport has been in play since 1985. The series is seen by more than 20 million viewers annually in more than 62 countries around the world on television networks such as ABC, Eurosport, The Outdoor Channel and the various ESPN networks. On ESPN, timber sports are the second-longest running show behind only SportsCenter.

We wish Moses the best of luck as he heads east in July. Here’s hoping he chops up the competition and brings a national championship back to his people.

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Another big crowd showed up for the afternoon game on Sunday, June 17, and the Rainiers gave the fans their money’s worth. Tacoma would score 12 runs on 12 hits, as they hung a 12-3 drubbing on the Cubs. Tacoma reliever Lindsey Caughel would earn the win with two innings of work. Aplin would smash his first home run of the season in the first inning, while Andreoli added a triple, and Vincej added a double.

The win by Caughel wasn’t enough for him to keep his job, as he was released from his player contract the following day.

It would be another solid outing for Tacoma on Monday, June 18, as the Rainiers topped the Cubs by a score of 5-2. Starting pitcher Ross Detwiler earned the win after pitching 6.1 strong innings. Detwiler gave up just two earned runs, while striking out three Cubs.

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FREEDOM FAIR Tacoma’s annual Independence Day celebration is at hand

BY DAVE R. DAVISON dave@tacomaweekly.com

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reedom Fair, the South Sound’s Fourth of July national birthday bash, is right around the corner. It is back again to delight those who stroll the Ruston Way waterfront or who rope their boats to the buoys and floats, to the log booms and the docks to spend a lazy day adrift while the festivities unfold all around them.

Remarkably, this iconic Tacoma event has been taking place for nearly 40 years.

For those who meander along the length of the two miles of waterfront, there are plenty of chances of a respite from food vendors offering cuisine of almost any type imaginable. There are beer gardens and makers of all manner of mixed drinks and cold juices as well as ice cream sellers who wander about with portable freezers to keep their wares nice and chill. Merchants selling hats, airy garments, crafts, jewelry, sunglasses, toys and all manner of other goods are intermingled with the food stands.

Freedom Fair boasts no fewer than seven strategically placed stages where musical groups and other entertainment can be enjoyed throughout the course of the day. Additionally, there will be an air show, a car show, pole vaulters, kids entertainment (like bounce houses, face painting and bubble blowing) and hot dog eating contests.

A visit to Freedom Fair means that one becomes a participant in a parade of Tacoma’s diverse population. People-watching is one of my own interests when I make the annual Independence Day saunter along the waterfront.

The early birds like to bring their blankets and lawn chairs and coolers and beach umbrellas and stake out a parcel of prime territory from which they may best enjoy the spectacle to come as the light begins to drain — at last — from the long summer’s day. Darkness is needed to fully dramatize the brilliant display of orchestrated fireworks that boom and sizzle and sparkle and roar in a great climax that hearkens back to therevolution of a cluster of colonies against the might of the global empire of the British.

Hot rodders and automobile aficionados will enjoy the car show that will be held in the Lobster Shop parking lot.

There will be everything from groovy Corvettes to customized rat rods. The car show will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This year, organizers are starting a place for pets. The pet zone on the west end will be a great place to meet other pet owners and those in the pet industry.

In an area designated as Camp Patriot, where the service of military veterans

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Freedom Fair, Tacoma’s Fourth of July celebration along the Ruston Way waterfront, offers food, fun and fireworks for the whole family. and active duty military personnel are celebrated, there will be an event called Armed Forces Icon, which runs from 8-10 p.m. The show is a vocal competition where 10 active military and military veterans will compete against each other in a singing competition complete with a panel of judges. Camp Patriot is located next to the Lobster Shop restaurant.

Stages at Dickman Park, The Ram, Katie Downs, Les Davis Pier and the East End Park will feature groups playing music of many types.

The air show features the lofty antics of daring men and women in their flying machines: stunt pilots, synchronized flying groups, helicopter ballet “dancers” and a jet or two. You can watch Don Keating dart about in his McDonald Douglas Skylark and enjoy the vintage beauty of Dan Vance’s P-51 Mustang named “Speedball Alice.”

At 10 p.m., the skies over Commencement Bay will become alive with the fireworks show, which will be visible to

more than 125,000 spectators. Called the Stan Naccarato Memorial Fireworks Extravaganza, the show honors one of Freedom Fair’s staunchest supporters.

For those who don’t want to fight the traffic or deal with parking, then opt to take the bus. This year the bus system will drop passengers at both ends of the Freedom Fair, which is conducive to the new layout of the event with the center of the event now being the Les Davis Pier.

You can catch busses from free parking areas at Tacoma Community College or

the Tacoma Dome Park and Ride. Busses will run every half hour. Visit www.FreedomFair.com for a complete schedule of activities and transportation routes.

Freedom Fair is presented by a community-based, volunteer-driven, non-profit 501 C (3) organization called the Tacoma Events Commission. It is independent of the City of Tacoma. Commission members volunteer and work all year to prepare for the annual event.

For more on Freedom Fair visit www. freedomfair.com.

GIG HARBOR WINGS AND WHEELS Back again for the eighth year, the Gig Harbor Wings and Wheels Air Show and Car Show will be back at the Tacoma Narrows Airport on June 30 and July 1. This event will feature many different aspects including — multiple live aerobatic performances and fly-overs, dozens of planes on static display, a 200+ count car show on Sunday only, vendors, delicious food, a beer garden and activities for the kids.

The event will run from 4-9 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

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ART NEWS ROUNDUP

CALL FOR ENTRIES TO LATIN ARTS FESTIVAL JURIED ART SHOW Artists are invited to submit work for entry in the 2018 Latin Arts Festival Juried Art Show, which will take place Aug. 12 –25 at Centro Latino Community Center, 1208 S.10th St., Tacoma. Entries are due by Aug. 1.

The 2018 Latin Arts Juried Art Show is sponsored

by Centro Latino and the City of Tacoma Arts Commission. The theme of the 2018 Latin Arts Juried Art Show is: “Connectivity in Motion: Ancient but not Forgotten.” This theme is an acknowledgement of the historic to present-day survival hardships associated with migration and the unremitting resilience to keep one’s family and community united.

Juried Art Show entry fee and instructions: For full time artists, the application fee is $25 (non-refundable, due upon submission of application). If an entered artist is interested in selling their artworks during the Aug. 25 Hilltop Street Fair the vendor art row space (10 feet x 10 feet) is $50. Booth registration form can be downloaded www.latinartsfestival.com, click Vendor tab.

For student artists, the application fee is $15. Reserving an art row vendor booth is optional for student artists who wish to sell their art images during the Hilltop Street Fair.

Juried Art application categories: • Drawings: refers to works created using dry media including chalk, charcoal, pastels, pencil, wax, crayon etc. or from the fluid medium of inks and washes applied by pen or brush.

• Paintings: works created in oils, acrylics, watercolor, etc.

• Print making: printed works for which the artists hand manipulated the plates, stones, paper or screens and which have been properly signed and numbered as a limited edition.

• Watercolor: works created in watercolor.

The Latin Arts Festival Juried Art Show is a juried exhibition. A panel of jurors from the Tacoma Art

‘1918: A YEAR OF DESTINY’ Tacoma Historical Society opens new exhibit

Museum, Tacoma Arts Commission and Washington State Arts Commission will review all submissions.

The juror panel will select the strongest work based on originality, quality of support materials, consistency of ideas and design.

All artists will receive a notification of status electronically two to three days after application submission. The final date for application submission is: Aug. 1.

Due to support received from the Tacoma Arts Commission $1,000 will be awarded to the top four juried place holders.

For more information and to apply: latinartsfestival.com/art-show or call (253) 572-7717.

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1120 Downtown has five affordable studios available to lease immediately. Artists or artist groups, creative small businesses, and even non-profits can benefit from renting space in this beautiful downtown space.

You could neighbor and collaborate with musicians, videographers, fashion designers, 2D artists and others. Schedule a tour to see if it’s the choice for you.

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FILM SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT FOR THE HILLTOP STREET FAIR FILM COMPETITION Hilltop Films is excited to bring to you another year of the Hilltop Street Fair Film Competition on Saturday, Aug. 26 from 12-4 p.m. The film competition will be held at the Community Health Care Hilltop clinic in the Community Room (1202 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma).

Hilltop Films are now accepting films. Take a look at the submission form by following the link below.

The Hilltop Film Competition, held during the Hilltop Street Fair, is open to all ages focusing on “unity or “diversity” content. Films of 12 minutes or less are preferred. The event is free.

The Hilltop Street Fair Film Competition is sponsored by the Hilltop Action Coalition, the 2018 Hilltop Street Fair and the Tacoma Arts Commission.

Categories for family friendly submission include: documentaries, drama, comedies and more.

An award ceremony starts at 3 p.m. on Aug. 25,

Join the Tacoma Historical Society Thursday, June 28, 5-7 p.m. to celebrate the opening of its latest exhibit: “1918: A Year of Destiny” at the Tacoma Historical Society Museum, 919 Pacific Ave., Tacoma.

Events of 1918 left a legacy that impacts Tacoma a century later – from Camp Lewis to shipbuilding, from the creation of the Port Commission to the opening of the Pantages and Rialto theaters, and many more events, milestones, and stories. The exhibit continues through Dec. 1.

Tacoma Historical Society presents rotating exhibits at its Tacoma History Museum in the Provident Building. Tacoma Historical Society works to forge connections between past and present generations, fostering an appreciation of the past and a sense of place within our community’s history.

The Tacoma Historical Society museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment.

This exhibit is sponsored by a City of Tacoma Heritage Project Grant, admission is free.

For information call (253) 472-3738 or visit tacomahistory.org.

the day of the screening.

Filmmakers will have a chance to compete in award categories. Submissions will determine award categories.

To submit, send a video link to: HilltopFilmCompetiton@gmail.com. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/hilltopfilmcompetition.

CALL FOR ARTISTS AT PIERCE COLLEGE PUYALLUP GALLERY Pierce College Puyallup is entering into the final summer stretch at its art gallery. Gallery Director John T. Smith is searching for interested artists who are looking for solo exhibitions to fill upcoming vacant quarter slots.

Pierce College Gallery Puyallup tries to operate at least one year out on its schedule to juggle all of its events together.

A few notes about the gallery: It is a small to medium space with around 40 feet of wall. Sales are allowed on work exhibited at the gallery. The gallery takes no commission, but you will have to coordinate the sale with an interested buyer. Gallery shows typically run between six to eight weeks. The gallery will supply beverages and light snacks for your reception. It will also provide the graphic design of the show collateral as well as mailings. It can add your mailing list to its own to reach a wider net.

What Pierce College Gallery Puyallup is looking for going forward: art. Whether it is traditional, sculpture, installations (think Spaceworks), the gallery is looking for artists with interesting ideas and artwork to share with the students, staff and public on campus.

Send show inquiries and proposals to johns082415@gmail.com.

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Nite Wave brings 80s music to Jazzbones The crazy 80s band Nite Wave played at Tacoma’s Jazzbones Saturday, June 16. Tacoma Weekly photographer Bill Bungard was on the scene to bring the visual spectacle of the show to you. Visit tacomaweekly.com to see more of Bungard’s work.

PHOTOS BY BILL BUNGARD

t Freedom Fair From page 19 Saturday, June 30 is Bike Night. Come to Wings and Wheels on your bike and get discounted entry prices plus free flight line parking. Why hassle with paid parking, parking on the street or parking off site and taking the shuttle in, park at show center. Bring your motorcycle, bicycle, unicycle, tricycle, it doesn’t matter what kind of cycle, come as early as 3 p.m. and park show center. Motorcycles can come in from 3 until 4:15 p.m., bicycle riders should bring a lock and leave your bike near the front entry to the event. If you are a bike club and want to host a bike check, contact us right away and we can get that set up.

End your bike ride at Tacoma Narrows Airport and spend a warm summer night at the airport enjoying the air show, live musical performances, great beer and

tasty food.

Onsite parking for the Gig Harbor Wings and Wheels event is $10 per car.

This will give you the opportunity to park on the north end of the tarmac and be close to the air show, car show, and events throughout the day. Parking is limited to the first 300 who purchase their ticket. While there may be some onsite parking still available on the day of the event, we highly suggest using the free offsite parking.

The event will have free shuttle buses running all day to and from the St. Anthony’s Medical Clinic (4700 Pt. Fosdick Dr. NW, Gig Harbor). Park at the allotted parking areas at St. Anthony’s for free and take a free shuttle bus to and from the event. The buses will run every 15-30 minutes with the first bus leaving to the airport around 10:45 a.m. and the last bus leaving the airport at 4:30 p.m.

The list of performers for the air show is impressive. For information visit www. freedomfair.com/wings-and-wheels/

PHOTOS COURTESY OF FREEDOM FAIR

(above) Dan Vance’s P-51 “Speedball Alice” and (right) the jet powered car “Smoke n’ Thunder” will be part of the Wings and Wheels show at Tacoma Narrows Airport June 30 and July 1.

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UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER FEELS SENSE OF ‘DEEP RESPONSIBILITY’ FOR SHARKS, DESPITE LOSS OF LIMB

BY LISA KINOSHITA In 1998, Mike Coots was living in Kauai, just out of high school, when he experienced a waking nightmare. He was bodyboarding in 30 feet of water when a huge tiger shark rose out of the depths under his board, clenched his legs in its powerful jaws, and began to thrash. As a cloud of blood blossomed around him, he reached into the maw of serrated teeth, trying to free his legs. He instinctively punched the shark in the nose, and it let go. Looking at his hand, he saw white bone and loose tissue. He began racing frantically after a companion toward shore when, “My right leg started doing this spasm; I thought it was the shark trying to finish me off. Then I looked over my shoulder and it wasn’t that; it was my leg perfectly amputated off.” He awoke in the hospital the next morning — with no inkling that his future would forever be intertwined with that of sharks.

Coots recounts this story in “Mike Coots: Shark-Bite Survivor and Shark Advocate,” a video produced by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI). One month after the harrowing attack, he was back in the ocean. In the 20 years since the attack, he has become a world-renowned advocate for sharks, an ocean conservationist, a competitive surfer and an undersea photographer of uncanny originality. Now 38, he creates images of sharks that communicate

PHOTO BY MIKE COOTS

This dynamic image of a hammerhead shark is part of the Mike Coots photography exhibit, which will be on view at Foss Waterway Seaport through July 22. an almost eerie intimacy with the apex (top-of-the-food-chain) predator that once nearly took his life — but is now in dire need of human protection.

An exhibit of Coots’ photographs is currently on display at the Foss Waterway Seaport. “Kuleana,” the title of this exhibit, is a Hawaiian word meaning “deep responsibility,” not only to oneself but to one’s community. For the Hawaii native, “community” extends to endangered species that live beneath the ocean’s surface.

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after his attack, when a fellow shark-bite survivor, in Florida, asked him to get involved. Then, his eyes were opened to the abhorrent practice of shark-finning, which currently kills up to 73 million sharks per year, mainly for the Asian market. “In China, shark-fin soup is a delicacy, like steak or lobster in America or Australia,” he told surfing writer Chris Binns. “[It] offers little nutritional value, but has become a status symbol and is driving the fin trade. Because sharks are apex predators the rest of the flesh is full of mercury and basically inedible. Longline fishermen catch sharks, cut their dorsal fins off, dump the body back into the water and the shark swims around for a couple of days, rudderless basically, dying a slow death. If we can create more awareness of this in Asia then

hopefully the demand will drop, and the killing will stop.” It is estimated that the world’s shark population has declined by 90 percent in recent decades, and up to 100 million sharks are killed every year by commercial fisheries. Decimation of this apex predator threatens ocean diversity.

Coots’ advocacy helped pass legislation that made Hawaii the first state in the country to ban the sale and possession of shark fins. His photographic images of sharks, and his status as a survivor, give him a unique platform to be a defender of sharks. “In the water, that’s where I feel completely at home,” he says in the PADI video. “I know that strong visual storytelling can change people.

That’s the beauty of photography. I wanted to change people’s perception of sharks, and make a difference. I wanted to prove that the tiger shark that attacked me wasn’t a monster, but instead was worth protecting.”

In the beginning, he was nervous about diving with sharks, but photography helped develop his sense of ease and confidence around them because the camera gave him something to do with his hands — a way of providing a fractional, psychological distance between him and his underwater subject.

At college in Santa Barbara, Calif., he studied portraiture photography, a skill that translates startlingly well to sharks: “The eyes are the soul of the creature,” he said in an interview with journalist Shelby Stanger. Documenting eye-toeye the species that almost killed him, he saw that “these guys are intelligent,

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‘In the Spirit Contemporary Native Arts Exhibition’ opens June 30 What is happening in the Indigenous art world in our region? Find out at the 13th annual “In the Spirit Contemporary Native Arts Exhibition,” where you can see 29 works from 21 Native artists. The exhibition opens Saturday, June 30 at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma and will be on view through Sunday, Aug. 12. There will be three opportunities for visitors to meet some of the artists as well: the awards ceremony on July 1, 3 p.m.; gallery talks on Third Thursday evening July 19, 5:30 p.m.; and the Northwest Native Festival on August 11, noon to 7 p.m.

“In the Spirit” connects the Washington State Historical Society’s (WSHS) Native collections with the vibrant contemporary arts scene. Visitors will see mixed media, paintings, beadwork, textiles, sculpture, carving, and basketry. Many of the artists live in Washington but others hail from Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, and even as far as Vermont and Virginia. Art collectors will be interested to know that most of the works in the show are available for purchase.

Artist RYAN! Feddersen spoke about the connection that “In the Spirit” provides. “As a mixed-heritage Native artist living in an urban area, contemporary Indigenous arts is one of the ways I connect to my culture. ‘In the Spirit’ provides an annual opportunity to bring together native artists to share work and create cultural dialogue. Receiving the Honoring Innovation award for my work in the 2017 exhibition made me feel recognized and supported. I look forward to engaging with this exhibition as it continues to grow and acknowledge the thriving contemporary Indigenous arts field.”

Each spring, Native artists from many states and Canada submit work for consideration by a jury of local artists and curators. The 2018 jury included artist Alex McCarty, Makah, a graduate of Evergreen State College; curator and artist Asia Tail, Cherokee, a graduate of Cooper Union School of Art in New York; and Lynette Miller, head of collections at WSHS. “The jurying is blind, meaning we don’t know the artists’ names until we have selected the pieces to be exhibited,” said Miller. “I enjoy being surprised when an artist creates something that’s completely different from the work they submitted in earlier years. I love seeing the creative spirit at work!”

The Washington State Historical Society typically adds one work from each annual exhibition to its collection, and the selection is announced at the artist awards ceremony (in 2017, RYAN! Feddersen’s mixed media sculpture “Micro Spill” was chosen). The 2018 artist awards will include Best in Show, Honoring Innovation, Honoring the Northwest, and Honoring Tradition, along with the purchase prize. During the run of the exhibition, visitors can cast votes for the People’s Choice first and secondplace awards. Ballots are available in the gallery, and People’s Choice winners are revealed at the culminating festival.

The free “In the Spirit” Northwest Native Festival is an indoor/outdoor celebration on Saturday, August 11, co-hosted by the History Museum and Tacoma Art Museum. Celebrate the diverse cul-

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

(Clockwise from top) Charles W. Bloomfield, Pyramid Lake Paiute, "Manifest Deathstiny," 2018, digital collage, 24×34 inches; RYAN! Feddersen, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, "Coyote Bones," 2017, archival digital print and cast Crayon, 6×5 inches; Patti Puhn, Squaxin Island, cedar bark bowler/cloche hat, 2018, red and yellow cedar bark, artificial sinew, feathers, 8×12 inches; Denise Emerson, Navajo and Skokomish, "Generations," 2018, digital collage, 17×17 inches. tures of the Northwest with a Native arts market, dance, song, music, food and a designer runway fashion show. The day will end with a performance by special guests Khu.éex’ (pronounced koo-eex), a band co-founded by artist and musician Preston Singletary. Khu.éex’ translates to “Potlatch” in the Tlingit language. The Seattle Times (Paul de Barros) described Khu.éex’ as “...mixing Native American song and spoken word with atmospheric, visionary jazz improvisation in a way that recalls the ecstatic ’70s jazz-funk work of groups like Weather Report or Carlos Santana.” The History Museum and Tacoma Art Museum are excited to bring this immersive festival experience to the community.

“In the Spirit” Contemporary Native Arts and Northwest Native Festival are sponsored by the Bamford Foundation, the Tacoma Arts Commission and the Tulalip Tribe.

For more information, see www.inthespiritarts.org.

Washington State Historical Society partners with our communities to explore how history connects us all. The Society’s most visible activity, the Washington State History Museum (WSHM) is located in Tacoma’s thriving downtown corridor along Pacific Avenue. WSHM is one of six museums in the Tacoma Museum District, and within blocks of the recently renovated Marriott Courtyard and boutique Hotel Murano.

Washington State History Museum address: 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402 Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Third Thursday of each month.

Admission: Free for members; $14 for adults, $11 for seniors, students, and active duty and retired military (with ID), $40 per family (up to two adults and up to four children under age 18), free for children under 5. Patrons with a Washington Quest card or with a Washington Foster Parent license (and ID), $1 per person or $2 per family. Admission is free for all from 3-8 p.m. on the Third Thursday of each month, generously sponsored by Columbia Bank.

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UPCOMING ON THE COMMUNITY THEATER CIRCUIT:

Underwater photographer, activist Annie Crawley exhibits at Foss Waterway Seaport

FRIDAY, JUNE 29 AT 7 P.M. AND SATURDAY, JUNE 30 AT 3 P.M.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Ober Park, 17130 Vashon Hwy. SW, Vashon Vashon Center for the Arts’ Shakeskids presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

William Shakespeare’s famous comedy is reimagined by teacher/director Aimee Nicole Lewis van Roekel and performed outdoors at Ober Park by VCA students ages 8 to 16.

Free admission.

 INFO: vashoncenterforthearts.org/event/a-midsummer-nights

PHOTO CREDIT: ANNIE CRAWLEY

“Play,” by underwater photographer and oceans advocate Annie Crawley, is an image of a pair of sea lions playing with a chain of salps near the Channel lslands off the California coast.

BY DAVE R. DAVISON

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FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 8-10 P.M.

“Muh Grog Zoo - Improvised One Act Plays” Tacoma Little Theatre, 210 N. I St., Tacoma If you’ve never been to a Muh Grog Zoo show before, come check out what all the fuss is about. If you have, come on back.

Either way, you’ll see something you’ve never seen before and will never have a chance to see again.

They’re back at it! Local favorites Muh Grog Zoo will be partnering yet again with Tacoma Little Theatre.

Muh Grog Zoo will perform two entire improvised one-act plays. We’ll be getting our 147th and 148th words this night to inspire both of these separate improvised worlds.

Tickets online at https://tinyurl.com/y8kgg8fx or, you can leave it up to chance and get one at the door. For mature minded persons.

 INFO: www.muhgrogzoo.com SUNDAY, JULY 1, 7 P.M.

Behind the Curtain With the Cast of “Beauty and the Beast” Tacoma Musical Playhouse, 7116 6th Ave., Tacoma Go behind the curtain for a sneak peek of an entertaining, informative and free preview presentation of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Get a behind-the-scenes look at how TMP’s costumes, makeup, set, music and rehearsal hours all come together to create its newest production.

This preview also serves to assist parents in educating their children about an upcoming theater-going experience as a whole. This is a free event.

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In addition to Mike Coots’ shark and surfing photos (see story on previous page), the Foss Waterway Seaport is also exhibiting a small selection of enlarged photographs by underwater photographer and ocean journalist Annie Crawley. Both Coots’ and Crawley’s pictures went up as part of Ocean Fest, which took place at the seaport on June 10.

These exhibits, however, will remain on view to museum visitors through July 22.

Crawley’s exhibit is called “Our Oceans and You.” Many of Crawley’s photos are an activist’s documentation of stories from various trouble spots in the world’s oceans. “Refuse Single Use Plastic,” for example shows two small children on a beach that is littered with plastic bottles and other plastic trash, calling the viewer’s attention to the problem of plastics in the world’s oceans. Visitors are encouraged to take a “30-day challenge” to refuse single use plastic for a month.

“Team Work” shows members of the Lummi Nation helping to clean up a spill of Atlantic salmon that escaped from a fish farm and threaten the native wild fish population.

Two images taken off the Maldives show a healthy coral reef and a dead coral reef, the latter being the result of coral bleaching caused by the warming of the ocean.

Intermingled with these sobering images are more poetic scenes like a pair of sea lions at play under water, or a school of fish that have formed a cosmic, spherical shape. A magnificent mother humpback whale and her calf swim through rays of sub-aquatic light.

Perhaps the most informative thing about the exhibit is that it gives an address to Crawley’s voluminous and informative website. Originally from Chicago and trained as a photo and broadcast journalist, Crawley spent the past two decades living and working around the world. After learning to scuba dive and sail, she became a scuba diving Instructor. She specializes in the underwater realm as an underwater photographer, filmmaker, educator and ocean advocate.

The Foss Waterway Seaport is both the best and the worst venue for such an exhibit. Because of its dedication to Tacoma’s maritime history, the seaport is the perfect place for an exhibit that

PHOTO CREDIT: ANNIE CRAWLEY

Annie Crawley documents the plight of the oceans.

However, there is so much to see in the museum that Crawley’s modest exhibit gets lost. The photos come across with the slickness of advertising material and are apt to be overlooked in lieu of more interesting things that call for attention. I had gone to the seaport with the express intention of viewing the photographs, but I ended up spending more time simply wandering about and admiring the beauty of the old wooden boats that are on display. Their graceful lines and the details of their construction are endlessly fascinating.

There is also a whale skull whose size makes one fully cognizant of the size of these magnificent beings. Compared to the wonders inside the museum, Crawley’s pictures barely make a blip on the radar. They are somehow more impactful via Crawley’s website or in book form, when the viewer has time to sit and ruminate over them and their importance. Since the time of Jacques Cousteau, we have been so exposed to images of the rich strangeness of life in the sea that such images have lost the power to fascinate. The exhibit would be more powerful if Crawley edited out her virtuoso photos of the beauty of the sea and showed us the ugliness and the horror of the threats of ocean warming, acidification, exhaustion of fisheries, the dangers of contamination of native species and the problem of plastics and micro plastics.

So, by all means go to the Foss Waterway Seaport. It is one of Tacoma’s lesser-known treasures. Have a look at Crawley’s images and take a card for later. Don’t expect to be bowled over by the Crawley exhibit, but do expect to be amazed by everything else inside the museum.

For more information, visit www.anniecrawley.com. For more on the Foss Waterway Seaport, visit www.fosswaterwayseaport.org.

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AREA FARMERS MARKETS LAUNCH FOR THE SEASON Farmers markets in and around Tacoma are now up and running (or will be within a week or two.) On just about any day of the week, there is one or another of these venues where you can buy fresh produce, artisan food goods, arts and crafts items and the like. Many of the farmers markets are also a place where music and entertainment can be enjoyed. Take up your shopping bag and go support local agriculture and businesses.

The Tacoma Farmers Market has a rich history. It was founded in 1990 by community activists Marcia Moe and Norma Honeysett with a noble goal of downtown revitalization. Moe and Honeysett sought to create a walkable downtown through the sharing of wholesome, locally grown foods.

It was successful on that first spring day and has flourished with the community ever since. In fact, Tacoma residents still say that spring officially arrives on opening day of the Broadway market.

As the market enters its third decade of service to the community, it has become one of the oldest continually operating markets in the South Puget Sound and an iconic Tacoma event. In 2008 the Tacoma Farmers Market began expanding its services throughout Tacoma and currently operates neighborhood farmers markets in East Tacoma, Point Ruston and in the Rose Garden of Tacoma General Hospital.

The South Tacoma Farmers Market, that had been held at STAR Center, has been suspended for 2018. In recent years, sales have been unstable and unsustainable for many of the vendors, leaving both vendors and customers unhappy with the lack of sales and product diversity.

At this point, community input about the market that represents the wide diversity of shoppers seen in South Tacoma is needed. The goal for the next year is to work with community members, organizations, and businesses, vendors and staff to help define the location, time and day for a thriving market in South Tacoma.

Since its humble beginnings the Tacoma Farmers Market has expanded its mission and services to the community. Currently the TFM acts as a small business incubator and supports numerous community wellness efforts such as offering healthy food options to lower income families and educating Tacoma area youth and community about the benefits of sustainable agriculture and choosing more healthy eating options. Currently the TFM is proud to say it supports and accepts EBT, WIC and Senior Vouchers.

TFM is also becoming a leader in renewable and sustainable lifestyle options and a champion of keeping local dollars in our community by advocating whenever possible that we consider purchasing from locally owned and operated businesses. TFM is an organization that is committed to fostering a wholesome family friendly environment that builds a foundation of community vitality, farm preservation and healthy living.

Tacoma Farmers Markets:

The Broadway Farmers Market Broadway downtown Tacoma, between 9th and 11th streets THURSDAYS 10 A.M. TO 3 P.M., MAY 3 through AUG. 30 THURSDAYS 10 A.M. TO 2 P.M., SEPT. 6 through OCT. 25 Now in its 28th year, this vibrant downtown marketplace hosts more than 80 vendors who provide the highest quality fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, honey, specialty foods and artisan crafts. Located in the shadow of the historic Pantages Theater, the market also offers a wide selection of hot food vendors and café seating. You’ll find something for everyone, from farm fresh produce, to kids activities, chef’s demos, gardening advice and more.

This market proudly accepts EBT, WIC/SFMNP and offers the Fresh Bucks EBT matching and Apple-a-Day programs.  INFO: tacomafarmersmarket.com

Eastside Farmers Market Tacoma Christian Center parking lot, 3500 McKinley Ave. E., Tacoma TUESDAYS, 3-7 P.M., JUNE 5 through AUG. 28 After three years inside of the Salishan community, the Eastside Farmers Market is moving to 3500 McKinley Ave. E., utilizing the Tacoma Christian Center’s parking lot in the heart of the McKinley Business District just a few doors down from the Top of Tacoma.

This location will provide more visibility, be on a bus line, provide better ADA accessibility and be more centrally located in East Tacoma to attract more shoppers and vendors. TFM will be working very hard to ensure that Salishan shoppers have access to this market.

You will find an abundant selection of local fruits, vegetables, flowers, honey and mushrooms.

Enjoy weekly music, and kids’ activities, cooking demos and so much more.

This market proudly accepts EBT, WIC/SFMNP and offers the Fresh Bucks EBT matching and Apple-a-Day programs.

 INFO: tacomafarmersmarket.com

Point Ruston Farmers Market Point Ruston, 5005 Ruston Way, Tacoma SUNDAYS, 10 A.M. TO 3 P.M., JUNE 3 through SEPT. 30 You won’t find a more beautiful setting for a farmers market than Point Ruston. Centered in the heart of the Grand Plaza, market vendors are surrounded by the beauty of Commencement Bay, miles of walking trails, and a diversity of shops. You’ll find a variety of fresh produce, flowers, locally processed foods like pickles, pasta, baked goods, sauces and so much more. Bring the family to enjoy all Point Ruston has to offer. You won’t be disappointed.

This market proudly accepts EBT, WIC/SFMNP and offers the Fresh Bucks EBT matching and Apple-a-Day programs.

 INFO: tacomafarmersmarket.com

Tacoma General Farmers Market Rose Garden at MultiCare Tacoma General, 315 M.L.K. Jr. Way, Tacoma FRIDAYS, 11 A.M. TO 2 P.M., AUG. 3-31 This small, thriving marketplace is tucked into the Tacoma General Campus Rose Garden on Martin Luther King Way between 5th and Division. MultiCare staff, patients, visitors and the surrounding neighborhoods have access to the freshest fruits and vegetables Pierce County has to offer, as well as tasty hot food, beautiful flowers and delicious baked goods. Don’t miss this gem in the heart of our healthcare corridor.

 INFO: tacomafarmersmarket.com

Proctor Farmers Market N. 27th and Proctor St., Tacoma The Proctor Farmers Market is a year-round market: Regular season: SATURDAYS, 9 A.M. TO 2 P.M., MAR. 24-DEC. 15 Winter season: 2ND SATURDAYS: JAN. 12, FEB. 9, MAR. 9, 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M. In 2018 the Proctor Farmers Market will celebrate its 24th year providing the community with fresh, locally grown farm products while providing area growers with a venue for their crops and products.

As Pierce County’s only four-season market, it is open on Saturdays, 42 weeks a year, and second Saturdays in January, February and early March.

Please go to www.proctorfarmersmarket.com for more info, and sign up to receive the weekly newsletter. Every Thursday you’ll receive a week-to-week list of vendors attending the market, and all the latest information and updates on market happenings and events.

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The Things We Like UPCOMING EVENTS: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1-4 P.M.

PROCTOR ART GALLERY SALE Proctor Art Gallery, 3811 N. 26th St., Tacoma Proctor Art Gallery’s once-a-year customer appreciation sale is just around the corner. Discounts on selected artists’ work will be available, and many of the gallery’s artist members will be in attendance to share their work and to say “thank you” to the customers and community members who make Proctor Art Gallery special.

 INFO: proctorart.com TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 7-8:30 P.M.

FREE IMPROV WORKSHOP FOR TEENS Tacoma Arts Community Center, 1102 S. 11th St., Tacoma Unexpected Productions Improv is excited to announce a free improv class in Tacoma. Join the Pacific Northwest’s most respected and established improv school at the Tacoma Arts Community Center in the Hilltop neighborhood. Why improv for teens? In Youthprov, students learn the fundamentals of good improvisation through games and exercises. The games are fun and entertaining but they are also a creative process that encourages support, active listening, being present and intelligent risk-taking on and off the stage.

Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/tacoma-free-teen-improv-class-ages-12-registration-44043840312.  To learn more about Unexpected Productions, visit http://unexpectedproductions.org or www.facebook.com/events/1779051598812852.

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 7 P.M.

TRIPOD SLIDE SHOW Venue to be announced, Tacoma Three people each present a 15-minute slide show.

The slide shows take place the last Friday of each month. On June 29, presentations will be given by Ann Meersman on Kuwait; Marse Lear on Burkina Faso; Ann Darling on Malta. Organized by Lynn Di Nino, Tripod Slide Shows are held monthly on the third Friday from 7-8:30 p.m. They are not really ‘slides,’ but are images shown on a digital projector.

 INFO: www.facebook.com/TripodSlideshows FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 7-10 P.M.

LETTUCE PART 10 Union Club, 539 Broadway, Tacoma Experience three artists creating work live. All pieces are raffled off at the end of the night. There will be food, drinks, music, arts, crafts as well as genuine conversations and sparks of connection. Artists: Asia Tail, painting and jewelry making, www.asiatail. com; Robin McQuay, painting, Instagram: @robin_mcquay, Facebook: Art of Robin McQuay; Lucien Vedego, painting through sound, Facebook — Axi-Ohm, SoundCloud — www.soundcloud.com/axi-ohm, Instagram: @lucien_vedego.

 INFO: www.facebook.com/events/140018166852211 JULY 9-12, 7-9 P.M.

ADULT GLASS CAMP Brian Brenno Studio, 9850 SW 148th, Vashon Fascinated by glassblowing? Experience the wonders of glass in this camp for adults! Projects include sculpted glass hearts and flowers, blown glass ornaments, drinking cups made from pop and beer bottles, glass bead making and mosaics. Bring comfortable clothing, no open toed shoes, long pants and short sleeves suggested.

Tuition: $100 member, $115 general + $40 materials. Instructors: Brian and Tara Brenno.

 INFO: vashoncenterforthearts.org

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Friday, June 22, 2018 • www.tacomaweekly.com • TACOMA WEEKLY NEWS

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2018 AT POINT RUSTON RETURNS

Night Life TW PICK OF THE WEEK: The Valley Pub at 1206 Puyallup Ave., Tacoma begins a series of summer jazz jams that will take place on the fourth Sunday of each month in June, July and August. The jazzy jam sessions will be hosted by Peter Tietjen, the Valley’s live sound engineer and a drummer in his own right. The first of the summer jazz jams takes place on June 24 starting at 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/thevalleytacoma.

UPCOMING SHOWS:

Friday, June 22

AIRPORT TAVERN: Darby Picnic, Denny Porter, Etchings (rock, pop) 9 p.m.

ALEGRE BAKERY AND GELATO: Emily McVicker (singer/songwriter) 8 p.m.

BLEU NOTE LOUNGE: Norma Owens (jazz) 7 p.m.

EMERALD QUEEN CASINO I-5 SHOWROOM: Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds (R&B), 8:30 p.m.

EMERALD QUEEN BRIDGE NIGHTCLUB: Sway (dance tunes), 9 p.m.

JAZZBONES: The Ill-Legitimates, The Supervillains (reggae, alt, rock, punk, ska) 9 p.m.

LOUIE G’S: Limberlost, Strangely Alright (rock) 7 p.m.

PANTAGES THEATER: Indigo Girls (pop, singer/ songwriter) 7:30 p.m.

THE PLAID PIG: Guilty Smoke, Fifteen Stitches, Eljun, Corrosive Company (rock) 9 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, BOWL STAGE: John Stephan Band, Sweet T and Justice, 1984, Everson Pines, The Every Leaf Band, Midnight Radio Revival, Daddy’s Gotta Girlfriend, Jake Marsh Trio, America’s First Corps Rock Band (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 8:40 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, ROSE GARDEN STAGE: Lisa Mitts Music, Luke Walstead Trio, PBJ & M, Indigo Jazz Band, Blue Mountain Spanish Sound (Taste of Tacoma) 1-8 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, POND STAGE: Good Quiver, Maile Mae, Abigail Neilson, Gypsy Temple, Perfect by Tomorrow, The Far Field, Mr. Groovy G, Northwest Chill, Emerald City 5 (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 8:40 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, FAMILY FUN STAGE: Aidan Rufer, Lianna Walters, Ainsley Costello (Taste of Tacoma) 1-7:30 p.m.

THE SWISS: Tiffany Wilson, Lacario, Jamelia Boney, Medarius Dixson, Caution (spoken word, singer/songwriter) 9 p.m.

TACOMA COMEDY CLUB: John Roy (comedy) 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

UNCLE SAM’S: The Remedy (rock) 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 23

AIRPORT TAVERN: Sol Seed (reggae fusion) 8 p.m.

DOYLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE: Jordani (singer/ songwriter) 9 p.m.

EMERALD QUEEN BRIDGE NIGHTCLUB: Sway (dance tunes), 9 p.m.

LOUIE G’S: Heartbreaker, Storm Rider (tribute rock) 8 p.m.

THE PLAID PIG: Seven Da Pantha, J. Esco aka Alpha Beatz, Josh Rizeberg, Jennie Nuvo Hobert (Nuvo the 1), Tazz Jones, Jay King, Jhantu Randall ( JT the Poet), George Cain (George Kush), Manch Malevolent, Isaac Thomas Tietje (T.h.o.m.a.s.t.i.e.), ThaArtist Kali, Scott Elkins w/ Onasis, Filthy Music & Untamed Fam (hip hop, R&B, spoken word) 9 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, BOWL STAGE: Washed in Black, Marina and the Dreamboats, Rural Route 3, Graceland Manila, Wicked Garden, Mas Tequila, Groovin’ Higher, 2112, Wasted on the Way (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 8:40 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, POND STAGE: The Pioneer Squares, E. Pruitt and Brandon Willis, Unified Culture, Rockaroake, Sonic Funk Orchestra, One Step from Everywhere, American Vinyl, The Groove Nation, Michele D’Amour and the Love Dealers (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 8:40 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, ROSE GARDEN STAGE: Chris Baron, Paul Richardson Band, Acoustic Transitions with Sydney Day and Pat Timmons, John Hoover and the Mighty Quinns, Marcia Kester, Scott Lindenmuth Trio (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 8:30 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, FAMILY FUN STAGE: Gracelyn, Harbor Voice, Ava Adams, Timeless D4YOU, A Total Fiasco, Tweenland, Ainsley Costello (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 7:30 p.m.

POINT RUSTON: Bryson Foster Band, (indie, roots) 5 p.m.

ROCK THE DOCK: Mad Hatters (rock) 8 p.m.

THE SAFE HOUSE: Down n Out, Zero Harbor (punk) 6 p.m.

THE SPAR: Seth Freeman (rock) 8 p.m.

TACOMA COMEDY CLUB: John Roy (comedy) 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

UNCLE SAM’S: The Remedy Jam (rock) 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 24

JAZZBONES: Carbon Trap, Jodie Watts, The Whole Bolivian Army (rock) 6 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, BOWL STAGE: Tumbling Dice, Green Floyd, Megs Mclean and Band, The Diamond Experience, Stacy Jones and the Stacy Jones Band, Heart Breaker, Miller Campbell (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 7:40 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, POND STAGE: 20/20, Darren Matamedy, Bleeding Tree, PO Boxx, Harmonious Funk, Blondetourage, Alex Rivera Y La Sabrosona, Readymade Family (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 7:40 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, ROSE GARDEN STAGE: Steve Itterly, Debi and Steve, Michael Powers, Geoffrey Castle, Stickshift Annie with Kimball and the Fugitives (Taste of Tacoma) noon to 7 p.m.

POINT DEFIANCE PARK, FAMILY FUN STAGE: Freedom Dancers, Brandon Paul, Ava Adams, Timeless D4YOU, Aidan Rufer (Taste of Tacoma) 12:30-7 p.m.

STONEGATE: Country Music Jam (jam) 5 p.m.

TACOMA COMEDY CLUB: Steve Gillespie (comedy) 8 p.m.

THE SWISS: Kareem Kandi World Orchestra (jazz) 5 p.m.

UNCLE SAM’S: Final Notice with Bob Evans (country, rock, bluegrass) 7 p.m.

THE VALLEY: Summer Jazz Jam (jazz) 5 p.m.

Monday, June 25

ODD OTTER: Champagne Sunday (singer/ songwriter) 7 p.m.

THE SWISS: Open Mic Night (open mic) 7 p.m.

UNCLE SAM’S: Bartlett on bass (jam) 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 26

AIRPORT TAVERN: Donald Glaude, Double Shot, Omrvls, Grunt, F’n Wizard (DJ) 9 p.m.

METRONOME: Open Mic (open mic) 7 p.m.

STONEGATE: Blues Jam with Roger Williamson (blues) 8 p.m.

TACOMA COMEDY CLUB: New Talent Tuesday (comedy) 8 p.m.

UNCLE SAM’S: SOB Band (jam) 7 p.m., NC

Wednesday, June 27

OLD TOWN PARK: The Happy Sinners (jazz, blues) 6:30 p.m.

STONEGATE: Open Mic with Justin McDonald (open mic) 9 p.m.

TACOMA COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic (comedy) 8 p.m., NC UNCLE SAM’S: Subvinyl Jukebox (jam) 7 p.m., NC

Thursday, June 28

BLEU NOTE LOUNGE: Lady Vee (R&B, soul) 6 p.m.

ROCK THE DOCK: Open Mic with Dustin (rock) 8 p.m.

STONEGATE: Power Rock Jam (rock jam) 8 p.m.

TACOMA COMEDY CLUB: Jose Balanos (comedy) 8 p.m.

UNCLE SAM’S: Jerry Miller (rock, blues) 7 p.m.

PHOTO BY KEVIN DINGMAN

The Randy Oxford Band will play the June 30 edition of the Point Ruston Summer Concerts. Behold Oxford’s wild trombone wizardry at the show.

Point Ruston will be bringing its live music summer concert series back starting Saturday, June 23 from 5-7 p.m., with the Bryson Foster Band. The family-friendly series will continue in the Grand Plaza at Point Ruston each Saturday (and one Sunday) on the plaza with various genres of music, and is offered free to the public.

While at Point Ruston, visitors are invited to experience dining, shopping, recreation, entertainment and full waterfront experience. This waterfront resort-inspired village features the best in Pacific Northwest living and panoramic views of the South Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountains and Mount Rainier.

Summer concert series schedule June 23: Bryson Foster Band (indie roots)

A pop-soul, blues band that is passionate about cultivating the already-beautiful works and people in Tacoma.

June 30: Randy Oxford Band (blues)

Randy Oxford Band is a multi-piece, horn driven, rhythm and blues, Americana, eclectic band, featuring multiple vocalists and soloists. The group is based in the Puget Sound region but tours in the U.S., Canada and Central America.

July 7: Miller Campbell (country)

Seattle country artist (you read that right) Miller Campbell has boldly de-

clared her intent to claim a prominent place in the canon of western music. It would serve us all well to take Campbell at her word. Armed with a voice that turns clear and bright as high mountain air and round, warm, and rough in all the right places, Campbell sings with a natural assuredness usually only found in artists with decades of experience. She gets it honest, but almost never got here at all.

July 14: Longstride Music (reggae)

Longstride plays reggae-rock-groove with real melodies and amazing execution with a high energy, crowd moving stage show. Longstride has emerged with a unique and distinctively lyrical reggaerock-groove identity. The band is described as “upbeat traditional reggae, but with harder rock and some surf thrown into the mix. This four-piece includes a singer with a sweet, gravelly tone who can croon with the best of them.”

July 21: South Sound Blues Association featuring Mark Hurwitz and Gin Creek, Mark Riley, (blues)

Mark Hurwitz and Gin Creek is a nominee for best band by the Washington Blues Society for 2018, but their music includes much more than blues in a variety of styles. They also play roots rock, old school R&B, funk, and jazz, all with a strong rhythmic feel that keeps the

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t Sharks

Bring it to Barb

From page 22 not indiscriminate.” His portraits of sharks are awe-inspiring, capturing their mystery, majesty, the potential energy barely contained in the bullet-shaped anatomy, and their utter dominance of the undersea world — as well as individually distinct personalities. Our dread of sharks is misguided, he says, emanating from a primal fear of the deep, dark void.

The photographer and conservationist is a surfing icon in Kauai, where he lives. A sponsor in Iceland creates a custom carbon foot for him, which he wears when competing as a top-flight adaptive athlete. A body boarder before the tiger shark took his leg, he took up longboard surfing afterward, and even designed his first prosthetic limb for surfing (experimenting with prosthetic feet he bought on eBay, 10 for $300). He gives his time to clinics for new amputees, including children who have lost limbs, to share the knowledge that they can still enjoy full athleticism in and on the water. Surfing is “an amazing sport for amputees,” he told Stanger.

“I had a lot of questions when I first lost my limb, and I know all new amputees do, so I always try to help them find a sense of peace, and let them know that losing a limb isn’t the end of the world, you can still do anything an able-bodied person can do,” he said. As for advocating for a species still regarded by many as a man-killer, he said, “It’s kind of a no-brainer. If you have the oppor-

t Farmers From page 22

Lakewood Farmers Market City Hall, 6000 Main St. SW, Lakewood TUESDAYS 10 A.M. TO 3 P.M., JUNE 5 through SEPT. 11.

The market creates and celebrates Lakewood’s strong sense of community while providing healthy food options for visitors. The market features fresh food, organic produce, arts, gluten-free items, sweet treats, crafts, live entertainment and music, chef demonstrations and a Master Gardener speaker series.

 INFO: www.cityoflakewood.us/parks-and-recreation/ farmer-s-market

BY BARB ROCK

Answering your questions on mental health, relationships and life issues

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Dear Barb, What exactly is E coli and how can I eat healthy spinach and lettuce when there is a risk of this happening so often?

Signed, Healthy and Happy and Afraid PHOTO BY MIKE COOTS

Photographer and surfer Mike Coots lost a leg to a shark attack, but has become an advocate for shark preservation. tunity to raise awareness about a species on the brink of extinction, then you should probably make the most of it and see if you can’t create something good out of something bad.” For Coots, all of the world is his element.

Coots’ photos will be on view through July 22 at the Foss Waterway Seaport at 705 Dock St., Tacoma. For more information, visit www.fosswaterwayseaport.org or www. facebook.com/Mike-Coots-page-299959580381679.

 INFO: www.townofsteilacoom.com/267/ Farmers-Market

Puyallup Farmers Market Pioneer Park Pavilion, 300 S. Meridian, Puyallup SATURDAYS 9 A.M. TO 2 P.M., JUNE 23 through OCT. 13 Featuring your favorite farmers bringing their best hanging baskets, veggie and fruit starts, flowers and more – all grown right here in Washington. Add in a variety of artisan crafters, specialty food vendors, unique and respected non-profits plus top notch entertainment and you’ll see why the Puyallup Farmers Market is a premier regional experience you don’t want to miss.

 INFO: www.puyallupmainstreet.com/events/ puyallup-farmers-market

Steilacoom Farmers Market

Gig Harbor Farmers Market

Downtown Steilacoom on the corner of LaFayette and Wilkes streets, Steilacoom WEDNESDAYS, 3-7 P.M., JUNE 20 through AUG. 31 Local farmers, foragers, bakers, artists and specialty merchants showcase their best for you in the historic Town of Steilacoom. Shop for fresh produce, handcrafted creations, tasty treats, and enjoy mingling with this community.

 INFO: www.waterfrontfarmersmarket.org

t Concert series From page 26 dance floor packed.

July 28: Real Life Click (hip hop)

Real Life Click is an Olympia-based hip hop group.

Skansie Brothers Park, 3207 Harborview Dr., Gig Harbor THURSDAYS 1-7 P.M., JUNE 7 through AUG. 30 The Gig Harbor Downtown Waterfront Alliance is pleased to announce the Waterfront Farmers Market returned June 7, 1-7 p.m. at Skansie Brothers Park on the downtown Gig Harbor waterfront.

Aug. 18: Lady A (hi-energy soul)

Lady A is known as the hardest working woman in blues, soul and funk in the Pacific Northwest.

Aug. 25: KNKX Public Radio (jazz)

Ranked as one of the top public radio stations in the nation, KNKX has been connecting you to jazz, blues and NPR news since 1966.

Aug. 4: Champagne Sunday (indie pop)

Sept. 1: Soul Revue (live soul show)

Powerful, honest, edgy and refreshingly original, Champagne Sunday attacks the stage with a show that is heartfelt, engaging and performed with a desperate enthusiasm and chemistry seldom seen in today’s bands. Champagne Sunday transcends genres enough to create their own, coalescing the multi-genre tastes of today’s fickle audiences into a catalog that defies traditional definition.

The Soul Revue is a nine-piece from Seattle, laying down some soulful sound.

Aug. 11: Stephanie Anne Johnson and the Highdogs (soulful pop)

Stephanie Johnson is an award-winning Northwest singer and songwriter who appeared on “The Voice.” Her rich sound has jazz, blues, folk and soul roots.

Dear Healthy and Happy and Afraid, Brace yourself: it’s gross! E. coli is typically spread through tiny amounts of feces, either human or animal, that have gotten into your food. According to the CDC, this happens more often than you’d guess — you’re probably eating invisible bits of poop all the time without realizing it. They just don’t always make you sick.

What exactly is Escherichia coli (abbreviated as E. coli)? It is made up of bacteria found in the environment, foods and intestines of people and animals.

It is no longer enough to take precautions only with ground beef and hamburgers. It is very difficult to remove bacteria from leafy greens because bacteria have the ability to adhere to the surface of the leaves, and to get stuck in microscopic crevices. E. coli bacteria can even find its way into the interior of your produce.

Washing lettuce in water (or water combined with baking soda) may help remove pesticide residue, surface dirt and debris from produce, but washing has not been proven an effective way to remove E. coli and related bacteria. And if you’re thinking that buying organic romaine will keep you safe, think again. There is little evidence that organic produce is less vulnerable to E. coli outbreaks than conventional produce.

Be sure to clean and sanitize all imported and domestic fruits or vegetables. All can be carriers of disease. If possible, fruits should be skinned, or at least vigorously scrubbed and/or washed.

You can opt for cooked greens since the heat kills E. coli and other types of bacteria that can make you sick. My favorite is red chard, just boiled with the stem and it tastes better than spinach.

Another idea is to wash fruits and vegetables to remove any dirt or other material, then soaked in chlorinated water (1 teaspoon of household bleach in one quart of water, soaked for at least 15 minutes). They can then be rinsed in clean water. This will remove most, but not all, bacteria.

Be very mindful of the surfaces (especially cutting boards) and the utensils used during meal preparation that have come in contact with uncooked beef and other meats. This even means that utensils used to transport raw meat to the cooking surfaces should not be the same that are later used to remove the cooked meat (or other foodstuffs) from the cooking surfaces.

E. coli has the ability to survive for periods of time outside the body, which means they can easily be passed along in contaminated food supplies or on surfaces that we come in contact with.

Wash your hands often. Make a conscious habit to wash your hands after returning home from the grocery store before even putting away food (those grocery carts are germ magnets).

Don’t store meat near produce in the refrigerator — if you do, you risk the raw meat leaking onto your fruits and veggies.

Healthy eating comes with the personal responsibility of doing our part to protect ourselves, or others, by good habits. The CDC is doing their part to keep regulations strict and watching from the growing to the production process.

Sept. 2: Ethan Tucker (Americana roots)

Ethan Tucker’s trademark sound of acoustic roots and layered electric guitars combined with an unmistakable soulful and bluesy vocal, is a recipe which has garnered attention from some of his most popular contemporaries, as well as bona fide legends.

For more information, visit www.pointruston.com/ summer-concert-series-2018-at-point-ruston-returns.

Barb Rock is a mental health counselor for the House of Matthew Homeward Bound program in Tacoma, and the published author of “Run Your Own Race: Happiness after 50.” Send any questions related to mental health, relationships or life issues to her at BarbRockrocks@yahoo.com.

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Coming Events

Promote your community event, class, meeting, concert, art exhibit or theater production by e-mailing calendar@tacomaweekly.com or calling (253) 922-5317. meal, conversation and entertainment. Price: Free. Info: (253) 7225691; lcsnw.org/tacoma/pdf/MemoryCafes.pdf

GOOSE RIDGE WINE TASTING Thursday, June 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Stink – Cheese & Meat, 628 St Helens Ave., Tacoma

UKULELE CIRCLE Wed., June 27, 3-4 p.m.

Parkland/Spanaway Library, 13718 Pacific Ave. S. Bring your ukulele. Play, sing and have fun. Don’t have a ukulele? Come anyway. Try it out. Sing-alongs. Some ukuleles will be provided. Ages: Teen.

Price: Free. Info: (253) 548-3304; readthissummer.pcls.us

Join us at Stink and El Tufo and go local for the month of June. Celebrate 20 years of wine-making with Goose Ridge Estate Winery. Located in the Columbia Valley, this family operated estate offers single varietals of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, syrah, chardonnay, pinot gris and riesling. Taylor Monson will be our local field guide, tasting us through one of our state’s finest wineries right here in Tacoma. Price: $8 for five tastings, reservations recommended. Info: www.stinktacoma.com or www.facebook.com/events/221183172005364

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ Fri., June 22, 8 p.m.

Sat., June 23, 8 p.m.

Sun., June 24, 2 p.m. CLOSING PERFORMANCE Lakewood Playhouse, 5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd., Lakewood “A simple love story of a boy, a girl and a man-eating plant!” The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names “Audrey II” after his co-worker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it – blood. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s out-of-this-world origins and intent towards global domination.

A Lakewood Playhouse premiere!

Plays through June 24. Parental advisory: This musical comedy is very true to the original film's macabre sense of humor. The plant will devour many people... and did we mention there is a very, very sadistic dentist? Because he’s a monster, too!

Prices: $30 general admission; $28 military and seniors; $25 students/ educators Info: (253) 588-0042; www.lakewoodplayhouse.org BLUE STAR MUSEUMS Fri., June 22, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Children’s Museum of Tacoma, 1501 Pacific Ave. Whether you want to blast off at a science museum, take a walk through nature, encounter animals at the aquarium or meet your heroes at a historic site, Blue Star Museums can help you create memories. Ages: birth-12 years old. Price: Pay as you will. Info: (253) 627-6031; www.playtacoma.org ‘THE MUSIC MAN’ Fri., June 22, 7-9 p.m.

Our Savior Lutheran Church, 4519 112th St. E. Trouble, oh we got trouble, right here in River City. With a capital “T” that rhymes with “P” and that stands for Pool. Join OSLC Mustard Seed Theater and our cast of 40+ as we present Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” directed by Kaarin Vail.

Price: $10 adults; $5 students; under 12 free. Info: (253) 531-2112; go.oslc. com/musicman PLAYDATES: TOYS FROM THE WSHS COLLECTION Fri., June 22, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave. PlayDates celebrates some of the most popular toys in America through a look into the collections of the Washington State Historical Society. Decades of fun are represented through playsets, games and things that "go." Ages: All ages . Price: $14 adult; $11 seniors/youth/student/ military (with ID); children 0-5 free; WSHS members always free. Info:

(253) 272-3500; www.washingtonhistory.org NANCY STEWART Sat., June 23, 1-2 p.m.

Parkland/Spanaway Library, 13718 Pacific Ave. S. Join local singer-songwriter Nancy Stewart for this interactive,multicultural musical journey around the world. You’ll sing traditional and original songs and play rhythm instruments made of kelp, gourds and even goat toenails. Price: Free.

Info: (253) 548-3302; readthissummer.pcls.us OLD TOWN HISTORY WALK: RUSTON WAY WATERFRONT Sat., June 23, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Old Town Dock, 2200 N. Ruston Way This Saturday, we’ll stroll down Ruston Way to find out more about Tacoma’s first working waterfront.

We will meet at Old Town Dock. Price: Free. Info: (253) 627-5405; www.jobcarrmuseum.org/cabin-events/#4 READ-A-THON SUMMER KICK-OFF Sat., June 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Parkland/Spanaway Library, 13718 Pacific Ave. S. Start your summer with a visit to your local library on June 23 and participate in the all ages Read-A-Thon. For every hour read, your branch will earn a new book. Price: Free. Info: (253) 5483302; readthissummer.pcls.us BLUES VESPERS: TOO SLIM AND THE TAILDRAGGERS Sun., June 24, 5-6:30 p.m.

Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 901 N. J St. This is a rare treat to hear a national touring blues band in a great space. Great music, poetry and maybe a surprise or two. Price: Free.

Info: (253) 627-8371; ipctacoma.org IRA GLASS Sun., June 24, 3 p.m.

Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway Ira Glass is the producer and host of Public Radio's Peabody Award-winning, "This American Life." Glass will tell stories about his enduring program, a combination of memoirs, monologues and documentary stories that first aired in 1995.

Price: $29-$85. Info: 800-291-7593; tickets.broadwaycenter.org MASS FOR NIGHTOWLS Sun., June 24, 7 p.m.

Saint Patrick Catholic Church, 1001 N. J St. Not a morning person? Gone all weekend at a soccer tournament?

Are you a late night prayer? Celebrate Mass at 7 p.m. with your fellow night-owls. Price: Free. Info: (253) 383-2783; saintpats.org “GREASE” SING-A-LONG Mon., June 25, 3-5 p.m.

Summit Library, 5107 112th St. E.

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the movie “Grease” with a 1950s costume contest, trivia and singalong to the songs while enjoying the film. Light refreshments will be served. Ages: Adults. Price: Free.

Info: (253) 548-3304; readthissummer.pcls.us ADULT POTTERY CLASS Mon., June 25, 6-8:30 p.m.

Throwing Mud Gallery, 2210-2212 N. 30th St. Classes are adjusted to your learning needs. If you are a beginner, you can learn at your own pace.

You’ll get an introduction to making pottery on the wheel and also do some hand building projects. Ages: 18+. Price: $220 + cost of basic tool kit. Info: (253) 254-7961; throwingmudgallery.com/pottery-classes/ PROP YOUR PRACTICE Mon., June 25, 6-7 p.m.

Tacoma Nature Center, 1919 S. Tyler St. This three-week series focuses on the fundamentals of yoga through the use of props. Props allow students to access the benefits of yoga postures regardless of physical condition, age, or experience. Ages: 18 and up. Price: $30 supporter; $25 sustainer; $20 community. Info: (253) 501-6780; www.metroparkstacoma.org/tacomanaturecenter FRIENDS OF SUMMIT LIBRARY MEETING Tues., June 26, 6 p.m.

Summit Library, 5107 112th St. E. Find fun, friends and fulfillment volunteering with Friends of the Summit Library. Price: Free. Info: (253) 548-3321; www.piercecountylibrary.org/calendar GRIT CITY FLOW – TUESDAYS Tues., June 26, 6-7 p.m.

Wapato Park, 6500 S. Sheridan Ave. Grit involves strength of character, resolve, and a firmness of mind and spirit. Grit is a skill that can be cultivated just like strength or flexibility in a yoga pose. Ages: 18 and up. Price: $60 supporter; $50 sustainer; $40 community. Info: (253) 501-6780 ARGENTINE TANGO ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS CLASS Tues., June 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Backstreet Tango, 3505 S. 14th St. You will learn the basic elements for this wonderful dance by certified professional instructors. Dancers can start on any Sunday; no need to wait for the start of another series. Ages: 16 years of age and up with guardian. Price: $40 for your first eight classes, first class is complimentary. Info: (253) 304-8296; backstreettango.com COMMUNION AND REFLECTION Wed., June 27, 12 p.m.

HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE Thurs., June 28, 7-8:15 p.m.

Meditate in Tacoma, 1501 Pacific Ave. South, Ste. #301 Our life is in a constant state of change. We are always growing as people, one way or another. In this series, inspired by the teachings of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, we will look at how to direct our growth in the most meaningful ways. Ages: All ages. Price: $10; Reduced pricing for members, seniors, unemployed and students. Info: (360) 754-7787; meditateinolympia.org /how-totransform-your-life-tac-thur-2018/

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 7410 S. 12th St. Communion service, all are welcome, with brief spiritual reflection on faith and daily living. About 1/2 hour. Price: Free. Info: (253) 5644402; www.saintandrewstacoma.org THE MEMORY (ALZHEIMER'S) CAFE Wed., June 27, 3-4:30 p.m.

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ABANDONED VEHICLE SALE Northwest Towing, at 2025 S 341st Pl, Federal Way on 6/26/2018.

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TO: Shellyne Squally Case Name: S J, L Case Number: PUY-G-JV 2018-0015 Nature of Case: Guardianship of a Minor Child SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition has been filed asking the Court to appoint the above-named Petitioner(s) to be guardian(s) for S J, L, a minor child under PTC 7.12 (Guardianship of Minors Code).

YOU ARE SUMMONED to appear at a guardianship hearing in this Court on the Puyallup Indian Reservation at: DAY: Monday TIME: 10:30 AM

DATE: August 13th 2018

LOCATION: 14451 EAST 31st ST., TACOMA, WA 98404 The guardianship hearing is private and closed.

Only those persons the Court finds to have a legitimate interest in the proceedings may attend.

The Court will hear testimony to determine whether guardianship is in the best interest of the child and the Tribal community. The Court will consider all guardianship reports submitted for review. All parties shall be given the opportunity to contest the factual contents and conclusions of the guardianship reports.

Any party may file recommendations regarding the guardianship with the Court at least 10 calendar days before the hearing.

You also have the following rights before the Court: The right to be present before the Court; The right to present written and oral testimony; The right to subpoena witnesses; The right to submit relevant evidence to the Court for consideration; The right to counsel at your own expense and effort: the Court has a list of attorneys who are admitted to practice before the Puyallup Tribe; and The right to appeal a final decision in this matter.

If you do not appear at the hearing or file a written response to the petition within 20 days from the date of this notice, the Court may enter an order in your absence.

NOTICE PURSUANT TO PTC 4.08.250 – DEFAULT JUDGMENT WHEN A PARTY AGAINST WHOM A JUDGMENT IS SOUGHT FAILS TO APPEAR, PLEAD, OR OTHERWISE DEFEND WITHING THE TIME ALLOWED, AND THAT IS SHOWN TO THE COURT BY A MOTION AND AFFIDAVIT OR TESTIMONY, THE COURT MAY ENTER AN ORDER OF DEFAULT AND, WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE TO THE PARTY IN DEFAULT, ENTER A JUDGMENT GRANTING THE RELIEF SOUGHT IN THE COMPLAINT. Copies of the Petition and this Summons are available at the Court Clerk’s Office located at 1451 E. 31st St., Tacoma, WA 98404.

If you have any questions, please contact the Court Clerk’s Office at (253) 680-5585.

Notice and Summons by Publication (Dependency) (SMPB) (Optional Use) Dependency of: TARYN LEE D.O.B.: 02/03/2004 To: ANGELINA LEE, Mother A Dependency Petition was filed on March 12, 2018; A Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: June 22, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. at Thurston County Family and Juvenile Court, 2801 32nd Avenue SW, Tumwater, Washington 98501. You should be present at this hearing.

The hearing will determine if your child is dependent as defined in RCW 13.34.050(5). This begins a judicial process which could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter a dependency order in your absence.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Dependency Petition, call DSHS at 360-725-6700 or 1-888-822-3541. To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to HYPERLINK “http://www.atg. wa.gov/DPY.aspx” www.atg.wa.gov/DPY.aspx.

Dated: __________________, by Linda Myhre Enlow, Thurston County Clerk.

Superior Court of Washington County of Pierce In re: Marriage | domestic partnership Petitioner EDWARD HINDS NO: 18-3-01349-5 Summons Served by Publication And Respondent YOLANDA RAYNETTE HINDS Summons Served by Publication To Yolanda Raynette Hinds- the other party has asked the Court to End your Marriage or domestic partnership.

Name Change Change the name of the Respondent You must respond in writing if you want the court to consider your side Deadline! Your Response must be filed and served within 60 days of the date this summons is published. If you do not file and serve your Response or a Notice of Appearance by the Deadline: *No one has to notify you about other hearings in this case, and * The court may approve the request in the Petition without hearing your side (called a default judgment).

Follow these steps: Read the Petition and any other documents that were filed at court with this summons. Those documents explain what the other party is asking for.

Fill out a Response on this form FL Divorce 211, Response to Petition about a Marriage.

Serve (give) a copy of your Response to the person who filed this Summons at the address below, and to any other parties. You use certified mail with return receipt requested. For more information on how to serve, read Superior Court Civil Rule 5.

File your original Response with the court clerk at this address: Superior Court Clerk, Pierce County 930 Tacoma Ave S. Tacoma WA 98402 Lawyer not required: It is a good idea to talk to a lawyer, but you may file and serve your Response without one.

Person filing this summons or his/her lawyer fills out below EDWARD HINDS April 5, 2018 The following address 34414 28th Place SW Federal Way WA 98023 Superior Court of Washington, County of Pierce

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tion please call 253 798-3789 or Email Kgavron@co.pierce. wa.us. Or visit www. co.pierce.wa.us/index.aspx?NID=1302 Wanted: Volunteers for groceries.

The Empowerment Center currently has a limited number of openings for volunteers in our food bank. These positions will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Come volunteer and receive free groceries!

El Shaddai Christian Ministries/The Empowerment Center, 4340 Pacific Ave., Tacoma WA 98148.

For more information contact us at 253677-7740.

City of Fife Needs You! We are looking for passionate applicants for open positions on our volunteer Boards and Commissions.

Openings are on the Arts Commission, Parks Board, Tree Board and Youth Commission.

Applications are accepted year round, but first review will be 3/24/17. Online Application: www. cityoffife.org/getinvolved.

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION: VOLUNTEER MORE, TWEET LESS CHI Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care has some great ways for you to serve the community and make meaningful connections.

Those near the end of life need help with living. If you have 1-4 hours a week to read to someone, listen to their stories, run errands, make phone calls, or welcome people to our hospice facility, then we have several opportunities for you.

Join us in the new

seekiNg Woodland artist, semi-retired. Health conscious omnivore. Good humored, free thinking man seeks trim, thrifty, child free, non-smoking lady of any ethnicity. Secluded, peaceful, off grid bohemian lifestyle. Here is a streamside forest retreat – not a farm. Muse, invent, create, learn, love. If you value contentment over materialism write me why.

John, Box 651, Randle, WA. 98377

VoluNteers year for trainings scheduled in January and March. Log onto www.chifranciscan.org and click “hospice and palliative care” in the “our services” tab to learn more. Or call James Bentley at 253-5384649 #PROJECTFEEDTACOMA There are about 2,000 homeless in Tacoma and about 1.000 beds. Many are families with children. Please help #PROJECTFEEDTACOMA to provide some basic necessities. All items donated will go directly to people on the street.

PROJECT FEED TACOMA is 100% volunteer. This is a true grass roots organization and they really need your help.

For more information and to find more go to www.projectfeedtacoma.org.

Can you help with some urgent needs as winter approaches?

Here are some suggestions and a huge THANK YOU! Needed: Warm Socks for Men, Women and Children; Warm Hats; Gloves; Peanut Butter and Jam/ Jelly; Crackers, Chips and non-perishable snacks; Individually wrapped granola bars or protein bars; cookies; lotion; lip balm; tampons and sanitary napkins; wipes; soap, shampoo and conditioner; gallon sized freezer bags.

A BIG THANKS TO THE COPPER DOOR FOR ALLOWING PROJECT FEED TACOMA TO COLLECT DONATIONS THERE. Help hard-working families by volunteering with VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance)! Provide free income tax preparation to low and moderate income households. Locations throughout Pierce County. Day, evening and weekend hours available (February to April 2017).

Volunteers can serve as tax preparers, quality reviewers, greeters, or interpreters (for non-English speaking or hearing-impaired tax payers).

Free training provided. Learn more and apply online at www.

VolunteerTaxHelp. org.

Volunteer meals on Wheels Driver Seeking a volunteer Meals on Wheels Driver. Delivers frozen meals once a week in the Pierce County area, mileage reimbursement.

Must have a clean background check, WA driver’s license, car insurance and

food handlers card.

Call front desk for more info: 253-2728433 Food Bank Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank on the Eastside of Tacoma, WA is powered strictly by volunteers.

We provide much needed food and other basic household items to people in need on a weekly basis. Being a volunteer driven organization we are always looking for good people who are interested in donating a few hours of their lives helping make the lives of someone else a little better.

Donate as much or as little of your time you want for a wide variety of tasks, there is always plenty to do. If you are looking for a way to be part of something bigger and give a little much needed help to the local community then contact us and we’ll get you started. Please join us in helping to spread a little holiday cheer. Contact 253212-2778.

Help furnish hope to those in need!

NW Furniture Bank Volunteers needed.

“NWFB helps restore hope, dignity and stability in our community by recycling donated furniture to people in need.”

Tuesday-Saturday Truck Volunteers Needed- 9:00 am2:00 pm. Truck volunteers ride along in the truck, deliver furniture to clients and make residential and corporate pickups; they are an essential part of the NWFB Team. To volunteer contact us at info@ nwfurniturebank. org or call 253-3023868.

South Sound Outreach is offering free tax preparation for those who make $50,000 or less. To schedule an appointment call 253.593.2111 or visit our website at www.southsound outreach.org.

Make a difference in the life of a child!

The Northwest Youth Sports Alliance is looking for coaches for our developmental youth sports program. Sports vary by season. Coaches are provided general training and go through a national background check clearance process.

For more information, visit www.metroparkstacoma. org/nysa or contact Roy Fletcher, Youth Sports Coordinator, royf@tacomaparks.com or 253.305.1025.

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