This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
The annual Pioneer Pie Social happens Sunday, July 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the historic Claquato Church.
Over 30 pies will be up for live and silent auction as well as gift baskets and other items donated by friends of the museum. Live bluegrass music will be provided by The Lewis County Pickers.
This year’s auctioneer is Todd Mason. Enjoy pie by the slice, a game of corn hole, balloon animals, and the candy hunt.
The Daughters of the Pioneers will be giving tours of the historic Claquato Church.
Putting up the bountiful harvest for a long winter. Activities and discussion of how to put up and store foods in the mid-19th century. Panel of our Living Historians. Mary Borst had a lovely, in that day, very modern cook stove. Joseph also built her a state of the art pantry, which kept things cool ~ one of my personal favorites in the house.
Join storyteller and Quinault Tribal Ambassador Harvest Moon to hear tales from the Northwest Coast Indian tradition. This program is part of Timberland Reads Together, featuring “There There” by Tommy Orange and Native Voices, focused on Indigenous Peoples history and culture.
Living Historian Beverly York will present Friendship Quilts, how the pioneers moving west would take a part of their friends and family history with them. Volunteer Coordinator Sara Light-Waller will show how to put a signature on the quilt block, as they did in the mid-19th century.
Gather Green, a local women powered sustainable event planning company, is hosting a women-led rewilding retreat, Women of the Woods, September 20-22 at Camp Singing Wind, in Toledo, WA. Over 250 women from the Pacific Northwest will attend to celebrate sustainability, nature, natural healing, art, and community building. All presentations and vendors are women led.
Lyla June and Bibi McGill are headlining the event. Lyla June is a nationally and internationally renowned public speaker, poet, hip-hop artist and acoustic singer-songwriter of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her music and message centers around intergenerational and inter-ethnic healing, as well as an articulation of Indigenous Philosophy. Bibi McGill is a DJ, producer, musician, and yoga instructor from Portland, Oregon. Bibi served as Beyonce’s lead guitarist and musical director for almost a decade, leading the ten-piece all female band that literally rocked the world.
Many skilled and engaging women will be presenting at Women of the Woods in the tracks of art, healing, sustainability, and connection with nature. A land blessing will be performed by the Cowlitz Tribe and an equinox celebration will be held Saturday evening. Music, yoga, and hiking with goats will also be a part of the retreat.
Camping for the weekend retreat will be held onsite at Camp Singing Wind, an ex-Campfire Girl camp with over 180 acres of natural beauty.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale basis. More information about the retreat can be found at www.gathergreenevents.com. Vendors, sponsors, and musicians are still being accepted for this event and can contact Gather Green through their website, Facebook page, or Instagram.
If you are looking to have an evening of super duper fun where you can just laugh, gab and grub then this is the event for you! Zonta Club of Olympia collaborates with Open Road Productions and this year’s theme is an interactive 70s murder mystery. Costumes are encouraged but not required.
The cost for this fun evening is $75 which includes appetizers, dinner and the play. There will be a no-host cash bar.
Join Dahlia enthusiast Jim Culp from the South Sound Dahlia Society for an afternoon of tips, tricks and everything Dahlia!
Our own Jean Bluhm (aka: Mary Borst since 1985) will share her findings of
more of the Borst Family story. Do join us for seasons end and celebration.
Refreshments are served and all are welcome to join our volunteers to keep our
history alive for future generations. See you there!
Casino Royale Gala, Providence Centralia Hospital’s 2019 Gala Dinner & Auction, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 5:00 – 9:30 p.m. at the Jester Auto Museum & Event Center in Chehalis. The Gala Dinner & Auction is Providence Health Care Foundation’s largest event fundraiser of the year and includes a champagne hour with auto museum viewing, silent and live auction, dessert dash, wine grab, and live dance music by the Bruce Maier Band.
Funds raised will support the purchase of an E-ICU unit. An Electronic Intensive Care Unit is a form of telemedicine that uses state of the art technology to provide an additional layer of critical care services. It is a supplement – not a replacement – to the beside team, offering support and delivering need-to-know information to caregivers, empowering them to care for their patients who need it most in the moments that matter most.
Advance reservations required. Reservations are $100 per person and tables can seat up to 8 guests. For more information, to make a donation or to purchase your reservations, please call (360) 827-7940. We hope to see you there!
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, remember some of the remarkable, but often unsung, women of the Pacific Northwest.
Writer Mayumi Tsutakawa presents five “woman warriors” in the arts and journalism whose inspiring stories reach back to the early years of our region. Meet the pioneering photographer Imogen Cunningham, Black American jazz musician Ruby Bishop, Chinese American artist Priscilla Chong Jue, Leftist journalist Anna Louise Strong, and Native American linguist Vi Hilbert. Drawing on her own experience as an activist and writer, she explores how these women inspired others and changed our state and our society.
