Scandinavian Festival

Soon the Scandinavian Festival will happen at the fairgrounds, during Oktoberfest.

Tacoma Mobility Master Plan has workshops scheduled to discuss transportation.

A few notes from the Paulhamus Arena bleachers last Friday: How I fortunately went to the store for a can of food for the food bank before I went in – the draft horses of the parade were still passing along Meridian, and chaperones or parents from the Daffodil Festival, on foot behind one carriage pulled by horses. The crowd's walk back was packed and slow. At Hobby Hall I found out the nine-one-one tribute by Puyallup Seventh Day Adventists will not be until seven o'clock. There were cowboy horses and a championship in the arena before the draft horse demo. These were wonderful horses, one with a short brown mane braided with small pony beads the tail crinkly from braiding. Crumpled up my scone wrapper into my quarters envelope from the bank, there were still two quarters in there later.

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Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that's right for you.

Work by Laura Jensen appears at the new issue of Salt River Review, just out now.

Wilder Books Colorized

According to Christianbook.com "the special collectors editions of the Little House on the Prairie Series features Garth Williams interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover." On its (Christianbooks) website one can view one or two small interior illustrations at the table of contents, a little lamp on a table now colorized. Somehow it seems so fitting, like the colorization on old postcards or on old photographs - however unnecessary this feature can seem to those who have always admired the beautiful charcoal-texture drawings, these beautifully enhanced editions seem quite lovely. I was at Borders books leaving the media section after looking up a cd on the computer and noticed these on their shelves. This certainly made this morning interesting.

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journey of repentance

Here is a blog to view - about the peace delegation to japan at journey of repentance, people from Tacoma are members of this visit to Japan. The blog highlights the preparations and the stages of the visit. Included is Father William Bichsel, who has campaigned for peace and justice for many years and has served time in prison for demonstating for peace.