Rivals from Gig Harbor and Peninsula high schools are working together to help sick kids.
Rivals from Gig Harbor and Peninsula high schools are working together to help sick kids.
During the two schools’ recent football game, the Fish Bowl, students from both schools sold school spirit materials to raise money for Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma.
The students are part of Students Working Wonders,. Their efforts will benefit Tree House, a residence for out-of-town families whose children undergo treatment at Mary Bridge.
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Hilltop Artists, a nonprofit glass-instruction program that works with local youth, has recently started selling student artwork at Creative Forces and Sundries at Hotel Murano. There will be an opening celebration for the new partnership from 4-6 p.m. Thursday.
A Gig Harbor man suspected of fatally injuring his 9-year-old nephew in a drunken-driving crash Saturday was booked Monday afternoon into the Pierce County Jail and was expected to be charged today.
A child was taken to the hospital Wednesday morning after a crash involving a school bus and another vehicle in Tacoma, police said.
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