This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.
We’re a newer club – Lewis County Rock and Gem Society. We meet second Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. at Cowlitz Prairie Grange in Toledo on Jackson Hwy. We are family-oriented with a juniors program also. Bring your rock for show and tell, enjoy our monthly program, bid on something in our silent auction and bring a snack to share for break time. We have door prizes and try to go on field trips as often as we can. $10 for yearly membership for a single or $15 for a family
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.

Another great opportunity to recycle and minimize the impact on your local landfill. Deliver your Christmas tree to the Central Transfer Station at 1411 S. Tower Street in Centralia and have it turned into usable mulch for the community. Please ensure all decorations are removed from the tress! You can also recycle white Styrofoam at this time. No trees or wreaths from commercial operations are accepted. Flocked, artificial and or decorated trees may not be recycled. The collection of trees will begin December 26 and continue until January 12. The hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Donations gladly accepted to support WSU Lewis County Master Gardeners and WSU Lewis County Recyclers.
Meet with others who have dealt with or have a family member with breast cancer.
Bring your rocks for show and tell. We have a short program, then a break, door prizes and a silent aution. We have a junior program also. Membership is $10 single or $15 for a family for the year.

Please join us on Sunday, January 19 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. for this incredible literary event!
Putsata Reang is an award-winning author and journalist, born in Cambodia and raised in Corvallis, OR. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Ms, The Seattle Times and the San Jose Mercury News among other publications. She has lived and worked in more than a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia and Bangladesh.
Putsata is an alum of residencies at Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson and Mineral School. She is a current fellow of the Jack Straw Writers program. She graduated with bachelor of arts degrees in English and journalism at the University of Oregon. Her memoir, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, explores themes of debt and duty as the child of immigrants and the displacement of being a gay refugee
Michele Bombardier’s debut collection What We Do was a Washington Book Award finalist and described by Ellen Bass as “a call to empathy”. Her work has been published in dozens of journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review and others. Michele has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Mineral School and Centrum. She earned her MFA at Pacific University and is the founder of Fishplate Poetry, a social-purpose organization that offers workshops and retreats while raising money for humanitarian relief, specifically medical care for refugees in the Middle East and Northern Africa. She teaches poetry at BARN in Bainbridge Island and Hugo House in Seattle.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT; however, space is LIMITED so please call Shakespeare & Co. call 360-748-4652 to RESERVE A SEAT.
A Girl & A Gun is a woman’s only firearms training organization. Come learn to shoot a pistol, and eventually a rifle, in a safe and encouraging atmosphere. If you do not own a firearm let me know so one can be made available to try. Bring your firearm (if you have one), the correct ammo for it, eye and hearing protection. All women are welcome.