8/31: Guilded Lilly, Caboose-Shaking Music Makers

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 By rebecca No comments

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Nancy, Rob, and KC of the bluesy-funk-rock band Guilded Lilly share their musical journeys, the story of their name, and messages of musical merriment. Interview begins at 9:43.

STATE

The Washington Emergency Management Division is hosting an emergency preparedness webinar on Thursday, September 3rd from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
The webinar will focus on emotional and mental resiliency, and prepping emergency kits.
See the Emergency Management Division’s facebook page for details, or go to bit.ly/re-prepare1 to access the webinar, where participants will be able to ask questions anonymously.
You can also go to mil.wa.gov and click on “Emergency Management.”

PIERCE COUNTY

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday, September 2nd, at 3pm.
- Public comments may be submitted by emailing Director@tpchd.org any time before the Board of Health meeting adjourns, but if you make public comments before noon on the day of the Board meeting, Board members will receive them prior to the meeting.
- Call (253) 798-2899 for information on how to listen to the meeting, or go to tpchd.org

TACOMA

Metro Parks Tacoma will be holding distance learning day camps to support working families starting September 14th in partnership with Tacoma Public Schools.
- Camps offer a supervised environment for children grades kindergarden through five to engage in their distance learning in small, isolated groups.
- MetroParks also has openings for preschool at the Tacoma Nature Center.
- More information is available at MetroParksTacoma.org.
Tacoma City Council will hold its weekly meeting virutally tomorrow, September 1st at 6pm
- It will air on TV Tacoma and will be livestreamed on TVTacoma.com and on the city’s Facebook live.
The directors of the Washington State History Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Glass, the Foss Waterway Seaport, the Children’s Museum of Tacoma, and the LeMay America’s Car Museum, have chosen to keep buildings closed while they monitor COVID-19 infection rates in our region, even though cultural institutions may open at limited capacity in Phases 2 and 3.
- All museums have staff who are working remotely to provide online presentations and activities and downloadable learning materials.

TESTING SITES

There are numerous free testing sites in our region:
- For Seattle locations, visit Seattle.gov or call 206-477-3977.
- For other King County locations visit KingCounty.gov.
- A new south King County site opens tomorrow, September 1st, at 2701 C Street SW in Auburn at the east side of the General Services Administration building. Hours are 9:30am-4:30pm Monday through Saturday.
For Pierce County locations, visit TPCHD.org/covidtest.
This week’s mobile testing events in Pierce County include:
- Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 1st, at PLU in Parkland and Dacca Park in Fife
- Wednesday, September 2nd at Catholic Community Services at 5050 South Tacoma Way, and at the Pierce County Library at 3005 112th Street E
- Thursday, September 3rd at the Key Peninsula Civic Center, and at Ft. Steilacoom Park
- Friday, September 4th at Trinity Church Food Program at 1615 6th Ave, and at Pierce County Aids Foundation at 3009 S 40th St, both in Tacoma.
- No ID is required, and tests are free and open to anyone.
Patients can also call their health providers for tests.