Tacoma Mama

Photo uploading works again!  (Finally)  To add a picture to your post or calendar entry, just click on the button next to “Upload/Insert.”

Don’t forget to click on “Insert Into Post” when you have selected your image.

As much fun as those monster icons are, I imagine that many of you may want to change your user picture to something a little more personal.

Tacomamama uses “Gravatars.” Gravatars are globally recognized avatars associated with your email address. Go to Gravatar.com and sign up. Follow the instructions there to upload your new user picture. Provided you use the same email address as your Tacomamama account, your Gravatar with automatically show up here.

Anyone know where I might purchase a birthday cake in the shape of a butterfly?

The Tacoma Public Schools Food Services will provide a breakfast and sack lunch food program for children at various schools throughout the district. Go to the district newsroom on the Web site at www.tacomaschools.org for a list of locations and meal times. This schedule is subject to change.

Please contact Paul Scott, manager of Food Services, at 253.571.3370 if you have any questions.

Goodwill will hold a grand opening June 18 of a new North Tacoma Store, 5401 Sixth Ave., Suite 600, in the former Longs Drug building between Les Schwab and the Sears Outlet stores. The store opens at 9 a.m. During the grand opening weekend, June 18-21, shoppers will have the opportunity to win a DVD player, iPod nano and $50 gas cards daily throughout the event. Donors of gently used clothes, shoes, household items and e-cycling during the grand opening weekend will receive a 50 percent-off drink coupon to nearby Cutters Point coffee.

The store hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. The store can be reached by calling 253.759.3701.

The store will be the 22^nd for Tacoma Goodwill and marks the fifth store within the city of Tacoma and the eighth in Pierce County. Tacoma Goodwill provides job training and placement services in 15 counties, including most of the Olympic Peninsula, Pierce, Thurston and South King counties and east to Yakima and Ellensburg. For more information, go online to www.tacomagoodwill.org.