Category Archives: Self Reliance

3rd Annual Eatonville Garden Tour glistens in summer sun

  Under gorgeous summer skies, the 3rd Annual Eatonville Garden Tour displayed some of the finest flower, vegetable and landscaping gardens in the Pacific Northwest, with visitors coming from as far away as Tacoma, Lake Tapps and Olympia.

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Gardening project at Spanaway Elementary is state-of-the-art endeavor

  The new Spanaway Elementary School on Pacific Avenue currently under construction will have a unique feature – a state-of-the-art horticultural classroom and greenhouse that will support an innovative gardening curriculum for all students, K-6.

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Self-Reliant Community members share accomplishments in Graham

  The Graham Self-Reliant Community hosted a kind of “show and tell” session at their July meeting last week, revealing their steady – and diverse – growth towards self-sufficiency.

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Columnist Paula Morris – “Book Club”

* Editor’s Note:  With this article, Paula Morris – the former Newbie in Graham – becomes a regular columnist for the Mountain News.  Paula felt that since she has been in Graham for over a year she can no longer … Continue reading

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Quilters descend on the region for annual “Shop Hop”

  Thousands of quilters descended upon the region this weekend to partake in the 13th Annual Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop.

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Mother Earth News Fair in Puyallup a big success

  The Mother Earth News Fair, held at the Puyallup Fair grounds on June 4-5, was a huge success according to most vendors and attendees.

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Holiday weekend activites herald lots of summer fun

  Although the Memorial Day Weekend has its origins as a time to commemorate wartime casualties, it has also come to represent the beginning of summer.  We may not have gotten much summertime weather, but the festivals and special events, … Continue reading

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Cedar Creek Treehouse – a gem in the Ashford woods

  Peering out from the canopy of Douglas firs thickly splayed across the Nisqually River valley near Ashford perches the Cedar Creek Treehouse, a unique one-room hotel that soars fifty feet above the forest floor. The handiwork of Bill Compher … Continue reading

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Feds, state and locals conduct disaster training in Frederickson

  A combination of federal, state and county officials, along with a mix of local fire fighters and volunteer search and rescue organizations, encamped at the Randles Sand and Gravel plant in Frederickson last Saturday for a round of disaster … Continue reading

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Report from a tornado zone

  The following is a fascinating account of the mega-tornados that hit Alabama and much of the south recently.  This report comes to the Mountain News via NASA’s public information service: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/ Although tornados only appear infrequently in the Pacific Northwest, … Continue reading

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