Live music, a barbecue and games were part of Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship’s Community Backyard Block Party and Festival last Saturday.
Fellowship and food will be on the menu when Covington Community Church hosts a free breakfast at 8:30 a.m. next Tuesday.
The Covington Days Parade, a centerpiece of the community festival, will start at 11 a.m. today. Here’s the route: Start at Southeast 271st Street and 168th Place Southeast, head east to the MultiCare clinic at 17700 Southeast 272nd Street.
Well, school is out and my kids are already bored. How about yours?
Fairs/festivals
Golfers can help Vine Maple Place continue its mission to help homeless families by plahing in a fund-raising golf tournament Sept. 19 at Lake Wilderness Golf Course.
More than 100 the from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Maple Valley Stake converged on June 26 for their annual Youth Conference in Maple Valley – and got going on a welcome FUSS.
Casting everyone from professional actors to local drama lovers, community theater group Icon Theatre really brings people together.
That’s what makes community theater so important, said Rebecca Lloyd, Icon’s director.
“Icon Theatre has been a gateway for people to be able to connect and get to know each other, and that is really amazing,” Lloyd said. “When you do theater, every one of your senses is wide open and you get to know everyone on such a deep level. It’s something you never forget.”
I’m planning to write one of those self-help, motivational books one of these days. That is, if I can get up for it. I almost got around to it yesterday, but I got invited to a chili feed at the last moment.
Metro Transit has a solution for rising gas prices: Vanpools.
When John Joseph Springer wanted a wife, he handed out a personal card. His picture to the right, his name across the top, his home and cell phone numbers across the bottom, eight of his interests in between. Fellowship, movies, laughs, crying, walks, dancing, sharing, healing.
Lake Wilderness Park will be the scene of the city of Maple Valley’s annual Kids Festival this Saturday.
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Nathan Chance, playing country music with a rock/blues edge, will perform July 24 in the next concert in the Music…
Black Forest draft horses won’t always be on the fringe of the animal kingdom if Ursula and Vic Sivitilli have their way.
The couple hope to make their farm in Black Diamond a mecca for the majestic animals. Already, it’s the only importer/breeder in the United States for the rare horses that have become an endangered breed.
Compared to other living things, we humans are peculiar in lots of ways.
This brilliant insight occurred to me the other night while I was watching a creepy movie on TV. I was alone in the house, and the movie was phenomenally scary. Suddenly, our family cat leapt onto my back. My scream was so loud that even the characters in the movie stopped what they were doing to look at me.
Two young Maple Valley men are preparing to serve as missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – one in Ukraine and one in Mexico.
Maple Valley Parks and Recreation Department’s “Music in the Park” starts tomorrow with the first of five concerts this summer featuring local, regional and national-caliber bands in the Lake Wilderness Park amphitheater.
A look at what’s going on events-wise in the Covington area.