This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Join us for this Lewis County Historical Museum – Fundraiser.
This is an open to the public fundraising event for The Lewis County Historical Museum with proceeds to help benefit the Museum.
Included with your $45 fee is everything needed to create the featured painting. You will receive step-by-step instruction by a qualified artist during the event and at the end, you get to keep your painting.
A full “no host bar” will be available during the event so participants can purchase beverages.
At this time, food will not be available. (Interested in donating food for this fundraiser? Email us.)
There will also be a small raffle for items including a Gift Certificate to a Merlot Canvas Paint & Sip, so bring some extra cash for the raffle!
Please note, this will be a 21 and over event.
Join the Lewis County Historical Museum and The Merlot Canvas for a Paint & Sip Fundraiser on Friday, May 20, at 6:30.
Tickets for the event are $45 with the proceeds benefitting the Museum. Tickets can be purchased online at www.themerlotcanvas.com
In commemoration of the centennial of the National Park Service, we will be painting “Mountains Out”, a representation of our closet National Park, Mount Rainier. All painting supplies and instructions will be provided by The Merlot Canvas.
Even if you are worried about your artistic skills there will be guided instructions on the how to paint the perfect Mount Rainier! Guests will also be able to take their picture home with them! What a better way to help support the Lewis County Historical Museum and get a beautiful piece of artwork for your home or office.
As a no-host bar and raffles will be available for guests: all attendees must be 21 years of age.
Lewis County Historical Museum
599 NW Front Way
Chehalis, WA 98532
Contact: Andy Skinner
director@lewiscountymuseum.org
360.748.0831
Join the Breastfeeding Coalition of Lewis County for a free community screening of MILK, a documentary on the politics, commercialization and controversies surrounding birth and infant feeding.
Thursday, May 26
Screening begins at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.)
Centralia College Campus, WSC 121 (Science Center)
Q&A with Director, Naomi Weiss, to follow!
Suggested donation of $5 welcome (cash only, please). All proceeds support breastfeeding promotion activities in Lewis County.
For a complete article about this event that benefits Boys & Girls Club of Chehalis, click here.
Let’s Play Something will be doing our first Funtime Festival KID FEST at the Napavine Community Park (on the baseball fields) on July 16th.
We’ll be getting doused for charity (benefiting the Youth Advocacy Center), have bounce houses from The Hop Shop (just $5 for an all day wristband to jump), balloon animals by Mr. Twister, face painting, a local business scavenger hunt, and so much more!!
Be sure to check it out! We’ll start right after the Funtime Festival parade ends, around noon (parade starts at 11am).
For more information, check out our event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/907392379388622/.
This event is designed for beginning and intermediate tri-athletes on an open course. The sprint triathlon begins with 250-meter swim (15-minute heats) in an indoor 25-meter pool. Athletes then move on to a 16K bike ride through flat neighboring streets and a 5K run through scenic Fort Borst Park. Proceeds will be donated to ALS.
The Human Response Network Presents: Festejando Nuestro Dia De La Independencia. Featuring local dance groups “Mexico Within The Heart” (Mexico En El Corazon) from Winlock and “The Stars of Onalaska” (Las Estrellas De Onalaska) from Onalaska.
Please help us celebrate Hispanic Culture with these two local traditional Mexican children’s dance groups! This family-friendly event proudly sponsored by The Human Response Network will be an admission free event, we will also have free snacks (chicharrones!) as well as a local food vendor on site (La Mexicana food truck).
Group members will be available after the performances for meet and greet as well as advocates from The Human Response Network to tell community members more about HRN programs and services!
Join Billie’s Sewing Circle at Billie’s Designer Fabrics tomorrow, January 11th, from 10 – 2 pm as we make Kitty Crack catnip toys to be used as a fundraiser for The Almost Home Project no-kill animal rescue (facebook.com/thealmosthomeproject). Fabric, catnip and sewing machines will be provided. This sewing circle also makes hats and mittens for our local giving trees. Billie’s is a wonderful store located at in downtown Chehalis at 510 N. Market Blvd with lots of fabulous fabrics and sewing machines worth drooling over not to mention the reasonable repair work they do.
Bethel’s School of the Arts is excited to announce their second Dinner Theater Event. Join us as we take a trip to the 1950’s for Food, Music and Fun! Invite your friends & family to the hottest spot in town, Uncle Phil’s Diner!
Performances are Saturday, February 18th at 1pm and 5:30pm, at Bethel Church – Chehalis Campus, 132 Kirkland Road (Exit 72).
Proceeds from the event will help provide stage lighting on Bethel Downtown/School of the Arts’ Liberty Theater upgraded stage at 413 N Tower Ave, Centralia.
If the thought of a scrumptious dinner and a thrilling murder makes you want to donate to a great cause, then the upcoming Twin Cities Rotary Club event is for you.
Read more about the event here.
