Great news service. I lived in area 30 yrs worked for Qilcox Farms. I lived in Yelm until 1964 my phone number at that time was 458 that was the whole number. I like being able to keep up with current events in Yelm. Your paper is an excellent source of information.
Community is the strength of or country.
Fun to read the comments about my family's home town. William Olson was my sixth grade teacher, Jean. Recent studies of the human DNA show cultural concepts of race to have no scientific counterpart. That is, human beings with varying skin pigments and other superficial characteristics are not separable into species as are birds or ants or bears. Modern realities of transportation and commerce are creating one world.