“If you look through it there is history, there’s culture… its just brilliantly done.īeached in Purdy, Feb. “There was so much thought, so much heart that went into this,” said Karen Haas, president of the Heritage League. The honor lauds the Longbranch Improvement Club for cooking up “a beautiful and tasty combination of history, heritage and recipes.” The Heritage League of Pierce County presented the seven women responsible for the cookbook “Savories & Sweets, South Sound Treats” with its Publications Award at its Feb. It may seem an unlikely pairing, but the effort by women of the Longbranch Improvement Club to mix heritage and epicurean delights is a winner. There is nothing sweeter than grandma’s sugar cookies served up with a dollop of local history. 9 Barb Van Bogart, right, working behind the kitchen counter at the Longbranch Improvement Club’s pancake breakfast fundraiser Saturday. ’History, heritage and recipes’ a winning dish, Feb. The view at the Longbranch Marina was simply divine. Children slid down small hills at Evergreen Elementary School, parents watching nearby glad for the diversion. Horses huddled together in their blankets on snow covered pastures. 9 Filucy Bay was a winter wonderland a postcard-perfect view from the Key Peninsula Highway. The sky turned crimson and purple for a moment before turning back to gray. With mist rising from frosty Filucy Bay, the sunrise did attempt an appearance. Not arctic cold like the frozen vortex that has descended on the midwest and northeast. 6 A frigid morning at the Longbranch Marina. This piece of road construction is important to many who work in Tacoma and beyond.įrosty Filucy Bay, Jan. Here are the blog’s more memorable moments of the past year.Ĭrews from the Washington Department of Transportation continue work to finish by spring the permanent eastbound state Route 16 viaduct in Tacoma. The local Boy Scout troop warmed our hearts when they went neighborhood to neighborhood collecting hundreds of items of food for the food bank.īy late autumn, we listened to a Lakebay potter’s lovely tale and followed a Lakebay chef serve up smiles and hugs at the community services center. Hundreds responded to a Wauna man’s desperate plea after a tree destroyed his home. As the Christmas season approached, we were amazed by the generosity of the people on the Key Peninsula. We proudly participated in the opening of the Key Peninsula’s first after-school youth center at Key Center. Found our rhythm while tapping our toes to bluegrass inside Longbranch’s historic club house, and marched with Home’s free-spirited people in their traditional Fourth of July parade along the bank of Von Geldern Cove. Later in the summer, we learned about McNeil Island aboard the Tacoma-based charter boat “My Girl” on a history cruise under azure skies. We were there to celebrate with the lovely kitchen mavens of the Longbranch Improvement Club when they were honored by the Heritage League of Pierce County for producing an amazing cookbook. We played in the snow in February as winter’s final act turned the Key Peninsula into a frosty wonderland. Last year went racing by us in a blur, but 2014 was a memorable one for Longbranch Chronicles. Gig Harbor students rush the field after the Tides defeated their cross-town rivals Seahawks 30-29 in the 36th edition of the Fish Bowl at Roy Anderson Field.
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