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Tacoma Museum District Announces Museum District Pass

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The Tacoma Museum District announced recently the availability of the Tacoma Museum District Pass beginning Saturday. The pass allows visitors to enjoy Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum and Washington State History Museum. Available at each museum and online at www.tacomamuseumdistrict.com passes are priced at $25 for adults and $20 for seniors (65 and up), students (age 6 and up) and military. Each pass is valid for seven days from first redemption.

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Free meal program for children returns this summer to fill a need

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Summer Food Program

The Simplified Summer Food Program for children, sponsored by Metro Parks Tacoma in partnership with the USDA, will serve meals at no charge to attending children 18 years of age and younger. All meals are available without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.  

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Tacoma Get Ready for Fun In the Sun…It’s Opening Weekend for Metro Park’s Spraygrounds!

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Enjoy countless hours of free water-play from 10am-8pm at 8 Metro Parks Tacoma spraygrounds this weekend.

 

Forecasts calling for sun-filled days on Saturday and Sunday couldn’t have come at a better time.  Due to the projected high temperatures, Metro Parks has been working to open two new spraygrounds, at Franklin Park and Titlow Park, ahead of their planned Grand Opening community celebrations this summer, to provide weekend service at all eight spraygrounds.

 

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Winning entries in the City's annual Earth Day art contest announced

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More than 150 Tacoma students entered this year’s EnviroChallenger/EnviroKids Earth Day art contest. Elementary students illustrated ways they practice earth-friendly activities at home, outside, at the park or while playing/watching sports and other positive environmental behavior that they’ve learned from the City’s EnviroChallenger educators. View the winning works of art at www.envirochallenger.com.

Earth Day art contest winners
Grades K-1 Division

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Lucas Smiraldo selected as Tacoma's 2013-2015 poet laureate

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The Tacoma Arts Commission has announced the selection of Lucas Smiraldo as Tacoma's 2013-2015 poet laureate.

Over the next two years, Smiraldo will participate in and host public poetry readings, workshops and other community events. He will also participate in Art at Work: Tacoma Arts Month each November, and will help produce the 2015 Tacoma Poet Laureate Ceremony to announce the next poet laureate.

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I-5 Southbound 38th Street Closure for Three Months

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On Saturday, April 20, crews will close the southbound I-5 exit to South 38th Street in Tacoma. The ramp will remain closed for three months through July. During the closure, crews will demolish the existing ramp and build approaches for a new ramp. 

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Poetry Month Celebration: Anis Mojgani, Kye Alfred Hillig, Special Guests

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April 18, 2013 - 6:30pm

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a nationally-acclaimed poet and local special guests.

$10 advance tickets, $15 at the door: http://tacomaanismojgani.brownpapertickets.com/

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School Board buys three months to consider becoming a charter school authorizer

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The Tacoma School Board voted 4-1 Thursday to file a letter of intent to become a charter school authorizer” with the State Board of Education before the April 1 deadline.

The decision does not commit Tacoma Public Schools or the School Board to becoming an authorizer of charter schools in Tacoma. However, it buys the board several more months to consider it as an option. If the board failed to file a letter of intent, it could not later decide to become an authorizer of charter schools.

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