This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Alternating weeks of storytime and sensory play for babies and their participating caregivers. This is an early learning program.
On October 12, 1962, a windstorm fueled in part by the remains of Typhoon Freda struck the Pacific Northwest with deadly winds topping one hundred miles per hour.
The storm killed dozens, injured hundreds, damaged more than fifty thousand homes, and leveled enough timber to build one million homes. Join us for an author talk with John Dodge, former investigative reporter for The Olympian, as he reads passages from his new book about Typhoon Freda, “A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm.” This talk will include a slideshow and a question and answer session. A signing will follow the presentation, and copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Join us for a day of skill building workshops, networking, and inspiration!
Featuring Keynote Speaker Susan Howlett, nationally known nonprofit speaker, trainer and consultant.
Haiku Contest – Win $500 for your nonprofit
Free Professional Headshots
Continental Breakfast and Lunch included
Interactive workshop sessions on a wide range of topics including fundraising, working with a Board of Directors, volunteer recruitment & management, sustainability, leadership, communications and more!
Learn more and register online at www.nonprofitleaders.info Registration $30 through August 13. Scholarships are available. See www.nonprofitleaders. Info for more information.
Explore your creativity and exercise your brain. Have fun building with LEGO® bricks at the library. For children 3-11.
“Support our troops” is a common phrase, seen on lawn signs and bumper stickers across America. Veterans are welcomed home by enthusiastic crowds, and thousands of service organizations help veterans find jobs, secure housing, and heal from the experience of war.
But it wasn’t always this way. Veterans returning from Vietnam were often greeted by mobs accusing them of being “baby killers.” Veterans from Korea felt their war was forgotten and unknown. And veterans from World War I, destitute during the Great Depression, were treated like criminals by their government.
Why and how has America’s treatment of its veterans changed over time? How have the country’s citizens responded to the call of duty from one war to the next? This presentation examines America’s relationship to wars and veterans over the last century, and what shapes our current national consciousness towards veterans and the wars they fight in our name.
*Contains mature themes.
Explore your creativity and exercise your brain. Have fun building with LEGO® bricks at the library. For children ages 3-11.
Imagine the one-of-a-kind wonders you will find at the Hands On Children’s Museum’s first-ever garage sale! The sale will be located in the driveway behind the building. Cash and credit cards only.
Sample of Items Include:
*colorful dishes
*used train parts
*Tonka trucks
*furniture cabinetry
*bookshelves
*Much, much more!
Imagine the one-of-a-kind wonders you will find at the Hands On Children’s Museum’s first-ever garage sale! The sale will be located in the driveway behind the building. Cash and credit cards only.
Sample of Items Include:
*colorful dishes
*used train parts
*Tonka trucks
*furniture cabinetry
*bookshelves
*Much, much more!
Imagine the one-of-a-kind wonders you will find at the Hands On Children’s Museum’s first-ever garage sale! The sale will be located in the driveway behind the building. Cash and credit cards only.
Sample of Items Include:
*colorful dishes
*used train parts
*Tonka trucks
*furniture cabinetry
*bookshelves
*Much, much more!
In 2021, 82 percent of American Jews said antisemitism had risen over the last five years, while only 44 percent of the general public believed that to be the case. How can we account for this striking difference?
Antisemitism is sometimes called “the oldest hatred,” and this talk will show how religious and racial prejudice shaped Jewish experience over millennia and came to unite diverse Jewish people around the world. Topics will include the origins of Jewish stereotypes, how antisemitism intersects with white nationalism, and the difference between critiques of the Israeli government and discrimination against Jews. Attendees will gain new knowledge and understanding about antisemitism along with strategies to address it.
Nancy Koppelman?(she/her) has been a professor of American studies and humanities at The Evergreen State College for 28 years, where she currently leads the Evergreen Jewish Studies Project. She holds an M.A. in history from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in American studies from Emory University
