 Thank you to the volunteers that worked to build the border and spread bark under the swings. And a BIG Thank you to Onalaska Alpha Better Bets 4-H Club for their fundraising efforts to purchase the swings for our community! More plans are coming to add picnic tables, volleyball courts and horseshoes!
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Enjoy! Congratulation to the 2018 Onalaska Apple Harvest T shirt winners! Students at Onalaska Elementary Middle School drew pictures about this year's theme of 10 years of the festival. Winners were chosen based on pictures that match the theme and are visually pleasing. This year's winners are:
Stay tuned to purchase T-Shirts at local Ony businesses. A BIG thank you to the many community members that supported the community work party on June 23rd. Onalaska community Bethel Church members provided many volunteers that shared their equipment, expertise, labor and enthusiasm to make Carlisle Park amazing. A hug amount of work got done! Stay tuned! High School Science Teacher Johnny Garcia will be opening the Observatory on Friday, July 21, 2017 from 10:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. If you, or your children are interested in Astronomy, this will be a wonderful opportunity to look at at Jupiter (low on horizon), Saturn, M13 (a beautiful globular cluster), M57 (a wonderful planetary nebula pictured below), and many other deep sky objects such as interstellar nebula's and open clusters in the constellation Sagittarius, and Galaxies in Ursa Major and Andromeda. "I think we will have a very good viewing night," says Garcia.  M57: The Ring Nebula Credit: Composite Image Data - Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing and additional imaging - Robert Gendler The Herold Observatory is a wonder part of our community here in Onalaska. The Observatory houses a 24" telescope that was specifically engineered to be low to the ground to make it easier for school age astronomers, as well as college students and adults, to see the wonders of the night sky. All viewing is from a standard chair on rollers - no step ladders or risers needed here! The chair is rolled out of the way when wheelchair use is desired.
The observatory is open when weather is clear and there is enough notice. Visit the Observatory's webpage for directions, a map, and calendar showing which days the Observatory will be open. https://sites.google.com/a/onysd.wednet.edu/observatory/ Herold Observatory is in the Onalaska Elementary-Middle School complex (6th St W). To the right of the red building's mural, there is an opening in the fence about midway along the fence. After going through this opening, walk across the soccer field to the dome. There is also a neon open sign visible from Carlisle Ave. This is an especially great time to spark some interest in the sky. This year, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Here in our Onalaska, we will witness about a 95% eclipse. That will be quite a site to see! For more information on the eclipse, visit : https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/centralia or https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/. Happy Stargazing!  Free summer meals for kids and teenagers 18 years and younger are being served in the Onalaska Elementary Dining Hall:
June 27th - 30th Breakfast 8:30 - 9:00 Lunch 11:30 - 12:00 July 10th - 27th Breakfast 8:8:30 Lunch 11:30 - 12:00 If you are traveling you can find Free Summer Meals for All Kids sites at: www.fns.usda.gov/summerfoodrocks Questions? Call: Jerry Carlson Food Services Director Onalaska School District 360-978-4111 option 6  May 2, 2017 – Lewis County Commissioner over District #3, Gary Stamper is going to speak at the Onalaska Alliance's Community Meeting. The meeting will be held at the Onalaska High School (OHS) in room 408 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Commissioner will speak to community members about the county budget, Lodging Tax funds, economic development , resource protection and other issues that affect area residents. Stamper invited community members to email gary.stamper@lewiscountywa.gov before the meeting, with any questions or topics that they would like him to address. He will also take questions, and stay after the meeting to meet and mingle. Stamper has been a resident of Lewis County for his whole life, and he has been the Commissioner over District #3 for nearly two and a half years. His favorite part about being a commissioner is the spirit of our community. Stamper said, “I'll call it our county's spirit. People want to help each other, and we are very resilient. I am very proud of our county. I take great pride in telling everyone that I am a Lewis County Resident.” Everyone is invited to join us in meeting with and talking to Lewis County Commissioner for District #3, Gary Stamper. For more information on Stamper or any of the other county commissioners, visit their website, http://lewiscountywa.gov/commissioners. Onalaska Alliance is a non-profit volunteer organization that is 100% volunteer run. Learn more about Onalaska Alliance and how we are building partnerships for a sustainable community at our website: www.onalaskaalliance.org ### We just want to say thank you for making last year's festival amazing. We are getting ready for this year's festival... Will you be here?   Process Improvement Update #2
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15, 2017 SUBJECT: Updates to Lewis County Community Development Website CONTACT: Lee Napier Director of Community Development (360) 740-1146 lee.napier@lewiscountywa.gov The Lewis County Community Development Department has updated its website. The changes, recommended through the recent Permit Process Improvement Initiative, simplify the look and feel of the site and better showcase the available online content. The site is broken into three major sections: Get a Permit, Explore County Information, and Track Long-Range Planning Projects. Relevant information for the topic is provided under each of the headings. Upcoming meeting materials including agendas and handouts are included in the Calendar on the main page of the site. The changes are the first of additional improvements to the website that are intended to clarify the permitting process, better provide information about ongoing planning projects, and assist residents in locating information about their property. To explore the changes, please visit: http://lewiscountywa.gov/communitydevelopment. Thoughts about missing or desirable content should be provided to Fred Evander at (360) 740-1389 or fred.evander@lewiscountywa.gov. Our mailing address is: Lewis County Board of County Commissioners 351 NW North St. Chehalis, WA 98532 USA 360-740-1120 Weekly commission meetings are held on every Monday (except holidays) at 10 a.m. in Room 223. If you cannot attend, meetings can be viewed at
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