Sandra Romero

FROM COUNTY COMMISSIONER ROMERO'S E-MAILER:
Please join Thurston County Commissioner Sandra Romero, as she hosts her monthly informal coffee hours in Rainier and Yelm on Monday, May 21st:

This month the Commissioner is bringing WSU Extention’s Erica Guttman who will share gardening and low-impact landscaping ideas with you that will help prevent pollution to local waterways and Puget Sound.


Please join Commissioner Romero as she hosts this informal coffee hour. There is a lot happening in Thurston County and we want to hear from you! These coffees give you the opportunity to talk about issues of concern, ask the Commissioner questions about the county, and share ideas. Commissioner Romero provides participants' coffee that she pays for herself. She is the representative of District 2, which includes Yelm, Lacey, and Rainier.

What: Citizen meeting with second district County Commissioner Sandra Romero

When: Monday, May 21, 2012

Where:

Rainier: 9:30am – 10:30am at Rainier City Hall, 102 Rochester St W

Yelm: 11:00am – Noon at Fadi’s Restaurant (Tahoma Golf Course), 15425 Mosman Ave SW

Becca Pilcher
Assistant to Commissioner Romero
2000 Lakeridge Drive SW
Olympia, WA 98502
(360) 786-5747

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From the Yelm Chamber:

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Community Bowling Tournament

Sponsored by: Chamber Education/Foundation

Bowling Sessions: 10-11:30; 12-1:30; 2-3:30

Six bowlers per team ... individuals may also register!

$25.00 per bowler; under 12 year $15.00

Prairie Lanes - Yelm

Sponsors: $150 per team; $100 Pin Sponsor

Sign up at Chamber Office - (360) 458-6608

Drawings - Silent Auction - Trophies - Fun!
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"Our location for this year’s Yelm Farmers Market has been officially approved! The site is just begging to be ‘freshened’ up ;) So now you have no excuse, we’ll be seeing you every market Sunday starting May 27 on 2nd Street! We’ll be right next to the Yelm skate park and in between the McKenzie and Mosman Avenues. There will be parking available with details to be posted soon. You’ll be able to see everything from Yelm Avenue so make sure to stop by when you are in town, see you soon!
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ABOUT the Yelm Farmer's Market
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From Thurston County Solid Waste:
"Thurston County residents use about 90 million plastic shopping bags each year.

The Solid Waste staff would like to work with the citizens, cities, retailers, and community groups on the problems all these bags can create.

Our goal is to develop possible solutions to reduce our use.

To learn more about the issue, sign up for email alerts, or to take our short survey, please visit www.ThurstonSolidWaste.org/plastics

To go directly to the survey, just click on www.surveymonkey.com/s/Tcbagsurvey

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People V The State of Illusion
is
screening in Olympia
on Saturday. May 19 at 4pm, one-time showing.

Can people really change?
This documentary approaches the question with something almost like a fable: a fictional story of a man whose wife has died, who starts to make bad decisions, and who is ultimately arrested, convicted of manslaughter, and torn away from his daughter.
Is he capable of doing the right thing?
Experts interviewed in this documentary include
Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul,
neuroscientist Joe Dispenza [Yelm-based office],
and life coach Debbie Ford.

"This film, by Austin Vickers, questions the very nature of reality, and through an examination of our perceptions, beliefs and imagination, makes you both judge and jury in what will be the most important trial you will ever witness."

Lisa Minzey of The Reel Critic.com, writes, “Following in the footsteps of films such as What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? this film takes what was introduced and expands it where the viewer can relate on an everyday
level. It gives a comprehensible meaning to emotional intelligence, where so many others in films, books and speakers, have alluded to but the meaning is still vague. In an age where so many people are hurting
and searching for the key to their happiness, this film puts the key in the viewer’s hands and challenges them to see they can unlock their own prison.”

OFS members $4.50 (members must show their current member card at box office)
Non members/General $7.50

Capitol Theater
206 5th Ave. SE
Olympia, WA 98501

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INTRODUCING THE ELYSIUM MEDICAL CENTER

"We would like to introduce you to “The Elysium Medical Center” located in the “Burnett Center” between 93rd & the “Ramtha School” at 9144 Burnett Road, Suites #B 3 & 4."

“Elysium” is the umbrella for a group of dedicated “Health Care Professionals” that offer traditional, as well as alternative medicine, health care, services & education for your greatest & most radiant health & well-being."

We look forward to seeing you soon!
We are open now, however, we will be having a “Grand Opening” on May 19th from 4:00pm until 7:00p.m."

Come & meet our staff & enter to win a complete “Radiant Health Day” with each one of our staff.
Package includes: a Health Evaluation, Chiropractic session, Massage session, Emotional Intelligence Consultation, RX Peel Consultation & a Foot Detoxification session," quoting MastersConnection.

Meet the Practitioners
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Location & Map
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MastersConnection is an online resource "serving the Ramtha School of Enlightenment International Community of Students and Friends."
Yelm Community Blogger Klein is the Event services Manager for Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.

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Brad Shannon of The Olympian reports:
"Steve Hannon, a self-described independent and teacher from Yelm, filed Monday to run in the state’s new 10th Congressional District, offering himself as an alternative to the partisanship of Congress.

The long-shot filing was among a few small surprises that emerged on the first day of candidate filing week.

A major battle in the 10th between Democrat Denny Heck and two Republicans with military backgrounds – Dick Muri of Steilacoom and Stan Flemming of University Place – has been shaping up for months, with Heck already reporting that he raised more than $1 million.

Hannon could not be reached to comment about his somewhat under-the-radar campaign. Muri and Flemming both filed Monday, and Heck is expected to follow soon. The new 10th includes Shelton, virtually all of Thurston County and a swath of Pierce County as far north as University Place and Puyallup."

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May 17 – 22: STANDING ROOM ONLY is very pleased to present a first for the Yelm Community.

Our next production is a World Premiere which will be shown for the very first time at the Triad Theater in Yelm.

A LOUD NOISE IN A PUBLIC PLACE is an epic vaudeville play with music which spans four decades in the life of George Metesky, the notorious Mad Bomber, who held New York City hostage all through the 1950s with his homemade pipe bombs. George is an Everyman figure who takes on the established power structure in a quixotic quest for justice, and despite repeated betrayals, rebuffs and indignities, never gives up in his relentlessly determined, though monstrously misguided, battle for fair play. Director Nancy Hillman adroitly employs the musical background to bring out the wit and wisdom of this ethical conundrum, keeping the material freshly entertaining as well as intriguing. Featuring a group of local, multi-talented actors. Musical Direction by Stephen Borsuk.

The show runs from May 17-22 at the Triad, 102 Yelm Ave. East. 8pm. All tickets $12. On sale at Gordon's Garden Center in Yelm.

For reservations, call 446-2188.

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The Yelm Community Blog has been frequently critical of the city and mayor for their lack of public disclosure and protecting the public's interests, with 6 years of archives accompanied by supporting public documents. Yelm city officials' lack of care for their constituents was demonstrated in last week's story on the library purchase delay by Megan Hansen in the Nisqually Valley News (NVN).

To quote:
"Mayor Harding told the NVN this week the reason for the Library purchase delay "was in finalizing a survey that needed to be completed.

The agreement was initially scheduled for approval in March. However, the matter was delayed for what was expected to be a couple of weeks.
At that time, Harding said the problem was in the "wording" of the contract."

Editor's Note:
Harding's changing reasons for the library purchase delay rests on shifting sands.
Yes, I am a critic of the city for this very reason, lack of candor. Elected city officials take an oath to uphold the public's interests and the Yelm City Council continues to act in deference to their oath.
Why a new story at every turn on the library?

We can start to tally the city council's actions against the public:
- seizing a citizen's water rights
- not allowing a military family to move into their home because they did not have adequate fire hydrant coverage according to the city, yet the Fire Chief approved of the move-in. The home sits empty.
- not being a lien holder for way over $100,000 in taxes/fess owed the city from the Thurston Highlands default.
- Yelm City Council tacking on $1 million extra to the library purchase bond for a community center, without public disclosure, public input or public discourse.
_ Moratorium on mentioning the word "big box stores or Wal-mart" in council sessions.
- etc., etc. etc.

And the local newspaper seems complicit in this. They have been highly critical in Op-Eds and headline stories of Rainier & Roy's governmental; actions, yet seem to give Yelm a "bye" at every turn.

There was one ray of hope at last week's City Council session.
In a first that I have witnessed in 12 years of following the Yelm City Council, Council member Mike McGowan said he had to vote "no" on an "Action item" regarding a litigation issue. He said the public had not had an opportunity to see the proposal for the city to pay $151,000 for the golf course's litigated water rights.

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. McGowan.
I hope this is the first of many votes where he (and maybe others) side for their constituents!

The oath of elected officials:
- Protect the public's interests
- Uphold being trustworthy
- Do no harm

Blogger Klein was a 2004 mayor appointee to the Yelm Library Citizens Advisory Board and selected that Board's Chair in 2007, serving in that capacity to 2008.

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From Jake Luplow in Thurston Talk:

"Is the idea of a food sustainable community really that absurd? If you had asked me that a week ago on one of my fast food excursions, I would have said, “Absolutely! Just the thought of a community not drooling over Big Macs, steeped in grease, is absurd.” But, in actuality, the town of Yelm is growing ever closer to reaching that goal; one set forth by the Yelm Food Co-op."

"Truth is, I’m not a scientist; I’m just a writer, but I do have common sense. I know pollution isn’t good. And I know that if we allow corporate models to dictate how and when we get food, we become much too vulnerable. It’s never too late to make a difference, to make changes for a brighter future. It’s time to take action, and the Yelm Food Co-op has made one of the very first steps toward this greater vision."
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