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Fox Island gardeners showcase homes on annual tour

Published: 05/21/13 16:11:10

The Gardens of Fox Island Tour, held Saturday at five homes around the island, is small in scale. But the featured gardeners still had a chance to show their outdoor creations during the 11th annual event to nearly 200 attendees, many of whom left motivated to work with their own green thumbs.

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Sikora and visitors were all smiles during the students’ visit. ()

Kindergartners enjoy rainy day at Gentle Giant Ranch

Published: 05/14/13 21:43:22

Adrizzly day did not dampen the spirits of some 60 Discovery Elementary School kindergartners, who spent a whole day at the Gentle Giant Meadows Ranch on the Key Peninsula a few weeks ago.

Starlight Express, a 42-foot pleasure boat owned by Gig Harbor resident Randy Mueller, will be at the Tides Tavern on May 18 and 19, along with 11 other classic crafts and their skippers, for the tavern's first classic boat show. (Lee Giles IIIStaff photographer)

Classic boat show result of a longtime passion

Published: 05/08/13 09:46:32

In 2006, a childhood dream of Randy Mueller’s – one he’d held and worked toward for 50 years – was fulfilled when he launched Starlight Express, his restored 1956 Matthews Martinique Express classic cruiser. Next weekend, Mueller hopes to spread his love of historic crafts to Gig Harbor with the Tides Tavern Classic Boat Show.

Sound Exposure Photo Club members look over photos on an iPad tablet last Friday at their meeting place, Kimball Espresso Cafe. From left, Hal Pearson, Doug Sala and Jim Kenney met for a sandwich and coffee while discussing their love of photography. (Lee Giles IIIStaff photographer)

Sound Exposure brings photo enthusiasts together

Published: 04/30/13 16:02:37

As he flicked through photos on his iPad, Jim Kenney remembered the founding of the Sound Exposure Photo Club, back in the days of film and slide projectors.

Boy Scouts of America Troop 220 scouts Max Goins and Robert Quill dug this snow cave with Robert’s father, Chris. ()

KP scouts brave cold temperatures to snow camp on Mount Rainier

Published: 04/26/13 12:34:32

One of the most active of the many Boy Scouts of America troops in our area is Key Peninsula’s Troop 220, sponsored by the Key Peninsula Lions Club. A few weeks ago, members of the troop, their scoutmasters and accompanying dads braved the snow-smothered but fabulously beautiful slopes of Mount Rainier at its centerpiece, the area known as Paradise. While on the adventure, the troop hiked with snowshoes, set up camp, endured a pretty serious blizzard, ate hotdogs, dug snow caves, built igloos and survived sleeping in the latter without a single case of frostbite.

Fuller and Dan Lillie play a benefit concert for Music Giving Back at The Swiss in Tacoma. (Music Giving BackCourtesy photo)

Music Giving Back to help one of their own with benefit concert

Published: 04/16/13 15:44:02

Four childhood friends from Gig Harbor are behind Music Giving Back, a series of concerts during the past few years to benefit everything from breast cancer research to the Lakewood Police Department after four of its officers were killed in 2009.

Dale Schultz, market manager and chairman of the Gig Harbor Farmers Market's board, is a farmer himself, and offered asparagus, rhubarb and other vegetables at his booth on Saturday. (Will Livesley-O'NeillGateway photo)

Gig Harbor Farmers Market opens new season

Published: 04/08/13 20:23:31

On a gray, occasionally wet April morning, the first day of the Gig Harbor Farmers Market offered a promise of summer.

Cameron Allen and Will Beckman work to demolish the chimney in the old Demolay Clubhouse on Fox Island. The salvaged bricks were used by Scout Nathan David’s Eagle project to replace a set of rotting stairs leading down to the beach near the sandspit. ()

Five Eagle Scouts honored for projects on Fox Island

Published: 04/02/13 21:48:31

John Ohlson has restarted his old, disbanded Tacoma Boy Scout Troop 27 on Fox Island, and honored five new Eagle Scouts at a ceremony last month. The boys earned a special Centennial Edition of the Eagle Scout badge, only available to Eagles who earned their badge in the year 2012, the 100th anniversary of the Eagle Scout Award.

Stevulak and Hill examine two of the nakshi kantha tapestries they have purchased from Rahman's group of artists in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Lee Giles IIIStaff photographer)

Filmmaking couple works to tell Bangladeshi woman's story

Published: 03/27/13 14:29:31

From Canada to Bangladesh to Gig Harbor, the journey from diplomats and art aficionados to documentary filmmakers has taken Leonard Hill and Cathy Stevulak to some unexpected places.

Terry Lee, left, Vernon Young, back, and Shannon and Jason Faulkner walk the trails of McCormick Forest Park Friday afternoon. (Lee Giles IIIStaff photographer)

Trail sponsorship program kicks off at McCormick Forest Park

Published: 03/14/13 10:05:04

Spending time on the trails of Gig Harbor’s parks, trimming leaves and clearing brush, was something that Vernon Young always liked to do. Now, as president of the nonprofit organization EnviroCorps and a leader of the new Sponsor-A-Trail program at McCormick Forest Park, Young works to bring other members of the community in to help him.


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