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Monday July 6, 2009 - Tacoma, WA

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Creating a legacy of kindness

Published July 6th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The day after Faaluaiana “Lua” Pritchard resigned as executive director of the Korean Women’s Association, she sent only two dozen e-mails to her interim successor, Jeannie Darneille.

Forget fireworks, atone for pyrotechnic transgression with these alternatives

Published July 4th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Life was more fun when we didn’t know what was good for us.

Esplanade a little too quiet

Published July 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM

Want to alarm a resident at The Esplanade?

Despite ‘brutal year’ for many people, work is under way to get them assistance

Published June 29th, 2009 - 12:05AM

It’s been a brutal year,” Tacoma Community College President Pamela Transue told a room full of people who knew it all too well.

On 52nd Street, they’re learning how to bloom

Published June 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Someone was doing right by the petunias, dusty miller and pansies at Pacific Avenue and South 52nd Street.

Children hold car wash to pay for mom's funeral

Published June 24th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The sad news came by e-mail: Yolanda Ramos, a former community mobilization specialist for the Safe Streets organization, had died June 16, at only 43 years old.

Eye diagnosis changes perspective for teen

Published June 17th, 2009 - 12:05AM

In her junior year at Fife High School, Jen Croak was legally blind. In her senior year, she wasn’t.

Gang prevention needs to start at an early age

Published June 15th, 2009 - 12:05AM

That it’s been such a rotten year for gang killings would, in a reasonable world, make no sense.

After careful deliberation, after-school program accepts computer lab donation

Published June 13th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The outfit calls itself Families Unlimited Network, FUN for short.

Boys & Girls Club says goodbye to old South End building

Published June 10th, 2009 - 12:05AM

The cinderblock gem of the South End is bound for dust.

Gangsters don’t care about their own lives – or yours – but we do

Published June 8th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Every murder is dreadful. Let’s stipulate to that.

Imagination got these students going; persistence got them the top prize

Published June 6th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Imagine showing up every Friday to teach a class of middle schoolers that environmental change starts with them. Imagine winning Tacoma’s City of Destiny Award for that effort. Imagine building it into a project so compelling that it places first on a statewide field of 93 teams. Imagine each of the five members of your team accepting a check for $5,000, plus one for your school.

For 25 years, these helping hands have worked to end homelessness, a family at a time

Published June 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM

In a perfect world, 4,618 families would show up for this month’s 25th anniversary of Helping Hand House.

Clerical error sent military widow, American heroine’s life spinning

Published June 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM

Floyd Holden died sure of two things: He and his wife, Bea, had honored their country with lives of service. And Bea would be provided for with his life insurance policy from the U.S. Army.

Urban shepherds let goats and sheep do the work of clearing First Creek ravine

Published May 30th, 2009 - 12:05AM

Buddy and his 89 pals, in their first hour on the job, ate their way to two laundry baskets, three box springs and enough junk to fill a dumpster.

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