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SoCoCulture Strategic Plan 2022-2024
SOCOCULTURE STRATEGIC PLAN – 2022-2024 In the 21st Century, South King County has become one of the most diverse centers of humanity anywhere in the world – we are home to people whose ancestors have lived in this region since time immemorial, to brand-new arrivals...
Be a Champion for Preservation of Historic Sites in South King County
Members of the public are warmly welcomed to join in the following three urgent efforts to preserve these treasured historic sites in South King County: Seattle Pet Cemetery Patrons, family and friends of patrons, and residents neighboring the historic Seattle Pet...
RACIAL EQUITY MATTERS Resource List
This list is provided in conjunction with SoCoCulture's September 16, 2020 membership meeting on Racial Equity Matters. Browse through and follow up on the programs, activities and readings that are of most interest to you. SoCo members can use these materials as the...
Made in Kent – Lunar Rovers now designated historic landmarks
At its Kent-based Space Center, The Boeing Company designed, tested and built the four-wheeler vehicles used by NASA during Apollo Missions 15, 16, and 17 in 1971 and 1972. The Rovers made possible the most ambitious scientific missions of the Apollo Program, enabling...
Historic buildings tell the story of early Kent
It turns out that walls DO talk, after all! In an effort spearheaded by Kent Landmarks Commissioner Nancy Simpson and supported by the Greater Kent Historical Society and the Kent Downtown Partnership, with technical assistance supplied by Industry Sign & Graphics...
Trekker “captures” Soos Creek Botanical Garden
by Dianna Marshall Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. Street View was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States and has since expanded...
What Works – South King County Public Art Symposium
Artists, city electeds and staff, and developers from around South King County gathered in Federal Way at The Greenline (former Weyerhaeuser headquarters) on September 22 to share ideas about how to encourage more public art projects in South King County, and how to...
Tahoma School District builds for the future
Thanks to the will of the voters throughout the Southeast King County communities of Taylor, Hobart and Maple Valley, high school students in the Tahoma School District in September, 2017 entered a brand new high school that gleams with potential and resonates with...
Federal Way teachers made history in 1974
by Chris Green From August 29 to September 17, 1974, teachers in Federal Way were on strike. It was the first public school teacher’s strike in the history of King County. Public school teachers in Washington state had only been granted the right to organize unions...