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Children play on the playground at Fort Steilacoom Park. Fort Steilacoom Park in Lakewood, Washington is the largest park in the city. The 340-acre (1.4 km 2) park includes Waughop Lake, an off-leash dog park, and several soccer fields and baseball fields. [1] It is adjacent to Pierce College, historic Fort Steilacoom, and Western State Hospital.
Waughop Lake is a lake less than 1.6 km (1.0 mi) east of Steilacoom in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The lake lies within Fort Steilacoom Park, in the city of Lakewood, Washington. Waughop Lake has a surface area of approximately 33 acres (130,000 m 2) and a mean depth of 7 feet (2.1 m). The lake is fed by groundwater and has no ...
Live 8 producer/promoter Russell Simmons was the man responsible for adding more African-American artists to the Live 8 Philadelphia bill, including some Def Poetry Jam poets. After noticing the lack of hip-hop artists on the bill, Bono called Jay-Z and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park personally and asked them to perform in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
Firefighters battled heavy fire at a Lakewood events center building just before midnight Sunday. Fire crews were dispatched to the 11500 block of Bridgeport Way Southwest.
Chambers Creek was named for Thomas M. Chambers, who settled near Olympia, Washington, in 1846 and later built a sawmill on the creek. [1]The creek was also known as Steilacoom Creek, for the Coast Salish tribe whose territory on its north side.
The Neshoba County Fair, also known as Mississippi's Giant House Party, is an annual event of agricultural, political, and social entertainment held a few miles from Philadelphia, Mississippi. The fair was first established in 1889 and is the nation's largest campground fair. The event usually starts at the end of July and lasts a week.
All facilities are administered by the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation department since a merger of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Department of Recreation in 2010. [5] The new Parks & Recreation department also administers six older adult centers, three environmental education centers, 40 historic sites and 25 KEYSPOT computer labs.