Mrs. Lilly Gould and her No.6 son, Steven, wish all of their friends in Tacoma a happy new year. The Goulds live in Lake City where they will celebrate the year of the ox, 4671, with friends. They've received greetings from Saigon. TNT 02/23/1973 p.8

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Betty Drost

One of the credited leaders of the Citizens Committee for School Support, Betty Drost, celebrates the passing of a $24.5 million special levy for Tacoma Public Schools with 81 percent of the vote.

More than 300 state employees rallied for women's equality in the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia.

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Nez Perce tribe member Jo Ann Kauffman, Executive Director of the Seattle Indian Health Board, poured a can of Treaty Beer into a garbage can. She appeared at a press conference condemning the new product and said the can contained "Hate and prejudice." Conference was at Indian center near Fort Lawton.
Bruce Kellman/News

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Billy Welch, a 10th grader at Clover Park District, walked with striking Clover Park High School teachers Tuesday afternoon, on what was to have been the first day of school for the district.
Kellman - Photo

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Lower Pacific Ave.
Photograph by Bruce Larson

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Row of vacant pawn shops on Pacific at 15th in Tacoma
Photo by David Yee
Inside Track

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News
Thomas Haugen, age 31, of Bonney Lake Hangs-out along Pacific Ave. in downtown Tacoma.
(Suki interviewed this guy in relation to the J&M Tavern closing)
Staff Photo by Joe Giron

Sang Hyon Nairn leaps six men, striking a target in a martial arts demonstration. The mayors of Tacoma and Gunsan City, Korea, celebrated their "sister city" status.

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Suzanne Asbury

Suzanne Asbury, a 22-year-old pilot and professional skywriter, works for Pepsi and would be performing a Fourth of July aerial display in a couple days in 1982.

Back of photo: Roosevelt Elem. Annex Demolition

Roosevelt Annex, which was used as a gymnasium and multi-purpose room, was demolished after being condemned due to safety concerns. A $100,000 playground took its place.

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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About 2300 Tacoma and Pierce County citizens packed the Foss High School gym Thursday for the first "Safe Streets" community forum to Fight Illegal Drug Use, Gangs and Violence. 150 individuals held number signs to aid in forming discussion groups of 15 people each.

Bruce Kellman/News

Note: Published photo has the number of people at 1,600.

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Port of Tacoma--Blair Waterway
Photo cutline: "Contaminated muck dredged from Blair Waterway is stored in this Tideflats pond lined with plastic."

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Mrs. Dolores Silas
Staff photo by Bob Rudsit

From Clipping in File:
Dolores Silas and Reed School Pupils

Reed Elementary School principal Dolores Silas and Reed School pupils. At the time, Silas was one of only three female administrators in the Tacoma Public School system. Silas earned a BA degree at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and did graduate work at the University of Arizona.

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Henry Sicade

Henry Sicade was part of the Puyallup Tribe and lived in the Fife area before the town existed. Sicade was active in the tribal council until his death in 1938 at the age of 72.

“Hawthorne residents protested giving up their homes for the dome.” During a public hearing, the public was divided on where to build the dome. The city council heard people arguing about placing the dome downtown or in the Hawthorne Neighborhood. Photo by staff member Bob Rudsit.

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Erick Johnson

Three people hold signs reading, "Save Historic Hawthorne" and "We won't move our homes of fifty years or more. They are paid for."

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"Damon Herd, the Tacoma Fire Dept's 1st black Fire Marshal, stands before a fire truck at the station that also is home to his office (901 Fawcett)."

Herd is 36 years old in the photo and became a firefighter in 1971. According to Herd, he was a part of the first group of minority applicants that the Tacoma Fire Department recruited in the early 1970s.

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John Spellman, left, and George Weyerhaeuser