Lakewood’s Promise is all about youth and those who provide them with…
Caring Adults
Safe Places
A Healthy Start
Effective Education
and Opportunities to Help Others
Here is what is happening for the week of March 8th, 2010.
ARE YOU READY TO
Registration is going on THIS WEEK! Wagons are limited! Businesses, groups, clubs and organizations are encouraged to sign up to sponsor a wagon. Imagine taking a classic RadioFlyer© wagon and turning it into a work of art. How cool is that? You can paint, decorate, weld, re-engineer, add a backdrop, craft, and redesign the wagon to your heart’s content and be part of a unique city-wide art contest. Wagons will displayed inside/outside of your business for seven weeks where numerous “wagon-critics” of all ages will informally vote on the creativity of your art work. After an awards and recognition reception in June, the wagons will be auctioned off at Lakewood’s Summer-Fest, providing another opportunity for Lakewood residents to find out more about you business, your commitment to youth, and your wagon creation.
Click HERE to find out more and register online.
Wednesday, March 10 – 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Community Collaboration Meeting
This month’s meeting at City Hall has some great guest speakers lined up.
Ben Sclair, Publisher, The Suburban Times. The Suburban Times, as it currently exists, was founded July 5, 2005. It was born from a desire to fill a news and information hole in DuPont, Fircrest, Lakewood, Steilacoom and University Place and continues as a mouthpiece for the myriad voices in our community. The publication has grown to more than 1,500 email edition subscribers and more than 10,000 monthly page views at the website.
Carl Newhouse, Outreach Program Coordinator for Army Community Service, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. His presentation will cover the Army family programs (via Army Community Service) available to Soldiers, Airmen, and theirFamilies and the merge of both bases! They are now Joint Base Lewis McChord, no longer Fort Lewis.
Wendy Freeman, Acting Director; Larry Crowley, Ada Daniels and Carletta Garraway Educational Specialists with The Evergreen State College GEAR UP program will be providing information and a PowerPoint presentation highlighting GEAR UP.
Maria Johnson, Director of the Gary and Carol Milgard Family HOPE Center and Branch Director of the Lakewood Branch Boys & Girls Club and Juan Madera, Program Director of the Lakewood Branch Boys & Girls Club will discuss the HOPE Center, focusing on the Club side of the facility.
More recurring events are posted on the Lakewood’s Promise Event Calendar. If you have a youth-related event that you wish to highlight in this weekly email, then please visit the calendar and fill out the online form.
Are you keeping Lakewood’s Promise?