The fun, games and food at the Black Diamond Labor Day celebration Monday was photographed by Ron Olness.
Ron Olness photographed the Black Diamond Labor Day parade Sept. 6
Photographer Ron Olness photographed the Black Diamond Labor Day celebration activities Sunday in this slide show.
I’ve had a library card for as long as I can remember. I can still picture the library in the city I grew up in; it was an old brick building set at the edge of a park in the middle of the city.
Each morning I awake
To a golden presence
Beckoning to me
The Labor Day parade in Black Diamond featured kids, cars and floats as people lined the street for the festivities.
The Doggie Days event at the Black Diamond Labor Day Celebration brought out the dogs and fun Saturday.
In our busy times, the briefest pause to express a little interest in the natural world is praiseworthy. Most of us spend our time thinking about other people, and scarcely any time thinking about other creatures. I recently co-edited an anthology of poems about birds, and we looked through lots of books and magazines, but here is a fine poem we missed, by Tara Bray, who lives in Richmond, Virginia.
If you’re like most of us, back-to-school time is a mix of excitement, stress, questions and a wee shadow of…
This is the busiest time of the year for us at Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy. All the kids go back to school and want to start up music lessons. Of all the questions regarding beginning music lessons that we get asked at Rock ‘n’ More, the following are some of the most frequent. I hope this helps you get started.
It’s been a busy summer for musicians at Dace’s Rock ‘N’ More Music Academy and it all culminated in an epic party and fundraiser Aug. 28 on Lake Sawyer.
This year the non-profit music school celebrated a milestone at the event, dubbed the Rock ‘N’ Roll Five Year Anniversary and Summer Throwdown.
Everybody loves the Soup Ladies.
And Christy Todd, city attorney for Maple Valley, suggested people would love to support the Soup Ladies.
Started in 2003 by Ginger Passarelli Senecal, known affectionately as ‘Mama,’ the Soup Ladies has grown both in number of volunteers and its reach as a non-profit.
Tori Whitten, 13, sang at the Maple Valley Farmers Market Saturday.
She is from Enumclaw.
It was all fun and serious pie eating at the Maple Valley Farmers Market pie baking contest Saturday.
Councilwoman and market manager Victoria Laise Jonas organized the contest.
Luxuriant beauty, wild
Amorous at heart
Undiminished
Ravishing
Embezzling my heart
Life doesn’t get any less complicated for a survivor of domestic violence after leaving the abuser.
Once away safely, a survivor will look around and ask, “What now?”
After finding a place to live, a way to get around, a job and perhaps child care or a new school, the next step is to figure out how to build a life that doesn’t repeat the patterns the survivor just escaped.
Tina McDonough kissed the street sweeper for good luck on a warm, sunny Friday afternoon in Ravensdale.
The sweeper was about to be loaded up on a truck bound for Los Angeles, Calif., where it is scheduled to be auctioned off by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra presented its summer music camp concert titled Epic.
The orchestra performed a variety of movie theme selections including “Over the Rainbow,” “The Fellowship of the Ring,” “Hedgewig’s Theme” and pieces from Star Wars.
The concert was Friday, Aug. 20 at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church.
I’ve read dozens of poems written about the events of September 11, 2001, but this one by Tony Gloeggler of New York City is the only one I’ve seen that addresses the good fortune of a survivor.
It was a day of celebration for 10-year-old Preston Bradbury from Black Diamond and all who participated in the 2010 Chief for a Day event Wednesday, Aug. 18.
