The Pacific West Quilt Show is scheduled for Aug. 24-26 at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. Last year’s show, convention officials said, drew more than 6,000 people.
The Pacific West Quilt Show is scheduled for Aug. 24-26 at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. Last year’s show, convention officials said, drew more than 6,000 people.
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Wilson High School opened in the fall of 1958, and the old sections are a crazy quilt of patches and fixes. The Tacoma School District estimates it would take $40 million to complete its reconstruction. What the school hopes to gain, should Tacoma voters approve a $500 million bond request Feb. 12, is equity for the entire campus, and equity with the district’s other comprehensive high schools. The bond would rebuild or remodel 14 Tacoma schools, half of them built in the 1920s or earlier.
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