Although a chilling wind blew through the empty lots across from Bethel Junior High, the hearts of over a hundred community leaders, students and their families were warmed greatly as they witnessed Monday’s “ground-breaking” ceremony for the first community center in our area, a facility officially known as the Bethel Learning Center. Continue reading
Besides announcing a slew of social and recreational programs for its residents – in particular a Spaghetti Feed fundraiser for Cross Park scheduled for April 29 – last Saturday’s Frederickson-Clover Creek Community Council meeting heard an appeal from Bethel School District for support of electronic readerboards, and Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist discussed several of his prosecutorial successes of the past year. Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This letter, by an unknown author, comes to The Mountain News via our contributing writer Judy Spiers, and she has received it through her involvement in an online faith-based discussion group. Continue reading
Editor’s Note:
This is the second installment in an on-going series by a “newbie” to Graham, Paula Morris.
Tall cedars, wooded land, open space, rural setting….quiet and tranquil, no busy highway noise, Mt. Rainier in the distance; were these the reasons I moved to Graham WA? No. Continue reading
A worker was rescued Monday, March 21, after sliding 3,000 feet down a sewer pipe at the Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, according to a press release issued to the Mountain News by the county’s Department of Public Works today, which follows below: Continue reading
The following two letters come from a pair of Baptist missionaries stationed in Japan who traveled north to the stricken areas near Sendai. They are part of an on-going exchange of information and prayers within this faith community, of which Graham resident Carol Wright is a member. Continue reading
By Paula Morris
From a quiet suburb in Illinois I moved to what I thought was a tranquil, rural area in Graham WA for my retirement, never thinking that an area where one could raise chickens and goats could be dangerous. Continue reading
A modest but modern house in a Spanaway sub-division has become an unlikely magnet for teens and young adults seeking a religious community. Continue reading
The new Pierce County Skills Center, a regional vocational-technical high school administered by the Bethel School District, is off to a grand start in its inaugural year, particularly in its brand-new campus located in Frederickson. Continue reading
by Judy Spiers
I am so grateful to know, dear Father, that – despite the fact that we aren’t always fully able to grasp your entire goodness – you are omnipotent, supreme, a very present help in trouble. Continue reading
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