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Tuyet Mazziotta feeds her 14-month-old daughter during a visit to the Luner New Year Festival celebration in the Kingdome Saturday. This is the beginning of the year of the horse. It's two days of food, music, booths, and combines many groups of differing Asian backgrounds including Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, Thai et cetera. The traditional dragon dance can still be seen tomorrow afternoon after 4 pm in Chinatown in S. Seattle.
Tacoma School News High School Seniors Look Ahead
Part of Charles Carson Papers
Part of American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) Records
Tacoma News Tribune clipping, "Black activisim arrived in 1893"
Part of Clipping and Reference Files
HALLOWEEN (HOLIDAY) 1980 thru - 3
Mary Brown, receptionist at Tacoma's Mary Bridge Hospital, seems immune to the bevy of jolly-faced jack-o-lanterns on her desk and frets away during a few moments this afternoon. The woman usually sports a smile popular with staff and visitor alike. (Photo by Geff Hinds)
Part of Charles Carson Papers
"City Stars in New Film", City Scape clipping
Part of Clipping and Reference Files
A clipping from the May 1989 City Scape Magazine, a City of Tacoma publication.
Back of photo: McIlvaigh Middle School students march down Portland Ave. 3/10/89 after a noon rally urging the kids to say no to drugs and alcohol. NEWS BILL HUNTER PHOTO
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Trang Nguyen (16), Thuy Le (14) who both attend Stadium H.S. and have been in the US for only 3 months and Betty Thach (16) who attends Clover Park H.S. and has been here for 2 and a half years, are all Amerasian children, they watch the city skyline pass by as the Sea Explorer boat Charles Curtis, a 80 foot wooden hull boat built in 1931 slips out of city waterway. Tacoma has been designated as one of about 50 cluster sites across the US. A program has been scheduled to welcome the Amerasian youth and their families, after lunch a boat cruise of Commencement Bay, courtesy of the Sea Explorers, a branch of the Boy Scouts of America.
Garbage and Garbage Disposal--Tacoma (Tacoma--Garbage) - 5
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Laurie Nelson belts out a tune to "Trash Toad" during a performance at Roosevelt Elem. School a key element in Tacoma's solid waste/recycling program is an assembly the city puts on at various elementary schools. It's a multi-media show that includes Laurie dancing and singing and a guy dressed up in a "Trash Toad" costume.
Photo by Russ Carmack
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News
A happy trio make their way up Broadway and towards Volunteer Park during todays Gay Pride parade in Downtown Seattle.
Geff Hinds Photo
Three people participating in a demonstration walk with their arms around each other. One holds a sign reading, "United Against Nazis! Radical Women."
East Side Tacoma Neighborhood - 1
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A crowd of neighbors listens intently to speakers trying to stop the Tacoma Rescue Mission from moving to a site across from Puget Sound Hospital.
Bill Hunter/Photo
Education and Schools--Tacoma--District - 5
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BROADCASTING LIVE from the Puyallup Fair. Homework Hotline set up in the Education Building on the Puyallup Fairgrounds.
Photo by Russ Carmack
Education and Schools--Tacoma--Students - 18
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A compliment of her writing skills from her new 1st grade teacher prompts an embarrassed giggle from Angel Cantu during the first day of school at Mann elementary. Her teacher, Ruby Folden, commented on her mastery of the letter "A", in writing class and noted that she be good at A's as it is the first letter of her name.
News/Nelson
Bill Hunter/Photo
Restaurants and Nightclubs (Taverns)(Bars)(Nightclubs) - 4
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Ben Erhart, owner of Barnacle Bill's, is concerned what might happen to business if the Blair Bridge is closed.
Photo by David Brandt
Gillie/biz
Safe Streets Program (Fighting Drugs and Gangs) - 4
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Safe Streets kicked off its "take-back-the-streets" blitz with a community mobilization meeting Monday afternoon at the county-City Building in downtown Tacoma. Police chiefs from all over Pierce County attended to discuss drugs and violence in the community.
Karen Stallwood
Safe Streets Program (Fighting Drugs and Gangs) - 8
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As the beginning of an expansive church effort to address the drug problems in the community, Brad Beeman speaks to a small audience (about 25) at the United Methodist Church in Lakewood. Over 24 Lakewood churches with combined congregations of over 3,600 people participated in Safe Streets Sunday.
David Brandt
Transit Systems--King County (Metro) - 7
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Off-duty Burien police officer Dennis Russell, center, talks with a Metro bus driver as partner (and fellow off-duty cop) Glen Jackson, right, casts a wary glance at the busload of passengers at a bus stop in a Burien shopping center. The two spend one night each week moonlighting with the Metro as security officers.
Geff Hinds/Photo
Porterfield