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Manager's Message
Landscaping
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Hello neighbors,
As you may have noticed, at the height of COVID-19 there was a slight modification to the landscaping service provided to Salishan by Signature Landscaping. These modifications enabled them to follow the governors directions on the operation of essential businesses and on social distancing. The crew of Signature are just getting into the swing of their routine now, so it will be a few more weeks or so before they can get back to their normal routine and cover the entire property.
Our General Manager is meeting with their staff on an ongoing basis to go over the scope of their schedule and to make up the loss of time during the height of COVID-19 restrictions. For the time being, you may notice crews operating in different areas then normally scheduled and on some Fridays.
We apologize for this temporary disruption in the service patterns, but can assure you that normal landscaping service will be back in the full swing soon.
Stay safe, stay healthy, stay connected, and have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Janette Simon -
General Manager
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News From Around Salishan:
Salishan's Virtual Community Prom
By: Autom Duncan, Karen Braa, & Robin Javid students of the Eastside Meaningful Homeschool
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On
May 15th
, the Salishan Association hosted a
“Mask”erade Virtual Prom
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Everyone was invited to dress up, be photographed, and tune in to the Salishan Association Facebook's Livestream complete with a DJ curated Spotify playlist, a live MC, and featured participant videos. Below is an article about the event written by youth from the
Eastside Meaningful Homeschool
:
With the onset of COVID-19, Salishan’s Island Dance Night and all the local high school proms had to be cancelled. To help get our community together and congratulate the senior class of the 2020 school year, we created a dance celebration in their honor.
People were dressed in their finest clothes and the Association arranged for a photographer to come by people’s homes to take outdoor prom pictures of them.
There was lots of dancing to the good music in homes,and the songs included dance music and songs from around the world influenced by COVID-19.
The host of the prom, Zamara, invited people to share comments about their past prom experiences, their favorite quarantine moments or to share live video of them dancing for a chance to win Safeway gift cards from the Salishan Association.
We recreated prom for people who did not get to in the past and also this current year.
The prom sure was a blast for us! If you enjoyed this virtual prom let us know if we should do more dances like this!
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Should we do more virtual dances?
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Help Design Our New Climbing Boulders
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Calling All Youth: Take this survey to help design climbing boulders!
The first 50 responses will receive a
FREE Walls are Meant for Climbing t-shirt
. The Trust for Public Land and The North Face are looking for feedback to help inform the design of climbing boulders to be installed next to the Eastside Community Center. This survey is open to everyone but we are primarily looking to hear from youth – it is designed to both help our planning and be fun and educational.
Please share with friends and family!
We know this is a challenging time as we are not able to spend time together in our favorite outdoor places. Hopefully this survey will help open doors for exciting future adventures.
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Help Metro Parks Plan for the Future and
Receive a Safeway Gift Card
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Metro Parks Tacoma facilities and programs play a huge role in the community. Given these unprecedented times during the COVID-19 Pandemic, they want to ensure that they are engaging our vibrant community and hearing your voices.
We value you and we are asking you to participate in a survey to help gain community feedback, understanding, and to aid in our recovery planning.
Any Salishan resident can email a screenshot of their completed survey to
[email protected]
to receive a gift card.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey!
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Salishan Chalk Festival - Coming Early June!
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Post how you and your family Stay Home, Stay Healthy with
#SalishanStrong
for a chance to win a
Safeway Gift Cards
or
Portland Avenue Nursery gift certificate
!
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Food at the FIC - Every Tuesday-Friday
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City of Tacoma Virtual T-Town Hall - May 14
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Tacoma Emergency Micro-Shelter Site Relocation
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The City of Tacoma has launched T-Town Hall, a new virtual community event series of weekly conversations on issues of importance to the community during this unprecedented public health and economic crisis.
Join City staff, Mayor Victoria Woodards and Council Members Chris Beale and Catherine Ushka for a Virtual T-Town Hall to talk about the new Tacoma Emergency Micro-Shelters (TEMS) site location. The City of Tacoma is establishing a TEMS site at 60th and McKinley. The project would be contracted through 2021.
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When: Thursday, June 4, 2020
Time: 6 - 7:30 PM
Location: Zoom Webinar
Participation Information via Zoom:
Password: 768156
Or join by phone: +1 253 215 8782
Webinar ID: 832 6811 2678
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Digital Resource Map
Graduate Tacoma and the Tacoma Urban League have partnered to provide Tacoma families and youth an online directory of resources to ease the burden of navigating a new system of services during school closures.
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-Tacoma Housing Authority
offers a list of
financial or home resources
and
student learning resources
Here.
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The Office of Equity and Human Rights - COVID-19 Survey
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The City needs YOUR help to understand the challenges you & your community are facing as a result of COVID-19!
Please answer three short questions & share with others:
(1) What resources would be most useful at this time?
(2) What challenges have you, your family, and your community been facing during the COVID-19 crisis?
(3) How can we all support each other during this crisis?
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Free student breakfast and lunches
Weekdays
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FREE Transportation Help
for those seeking employment opportunities or job training:
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Three Things You Can Do Now to Be Prepared
This is a challenging time. There are many things that are out of our control. But there are some things we can do to help us be prepared — both for ourselves and the people we care about. Here are
three important things
each of us can do, right now, to be prepared.
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Eastside Meaningful Online School for High Schoolers
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Have highschoolers in your household (or are one) going crazy with boredom?
A group of young adults in Salishan voluntarily organize a mini "online school"
1-3pm weekdays
using language arts, math and science themed material from the
Pierce County Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program
, news articles, and guest instructors for watercolor, drawing, exercise, yoga, gardening, and more.
All high schoolers welcome!
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Eastside Youth Storytelling Contest due June 1
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Ocean Fest Youth Storytelling Contest w/Free Workshops
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Ocean Fest has changed dates and the YSC is still up and running! They're now accepting entries through
June 1st
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Categories (apply in one, two or all):
– Poetry (500 words or less)
– Film (3 minutes or less)
– Graph (one or more graphs)
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CDC recommends
wearing cloth face coverings in public settings to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Stay connected and stay safe!
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Janette Simon
General Manager
253-682-0205
Stephanie Christy
Community Relations Manager
253-503-0460
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Office Hours
Weekdays
9am-5pm
Walk-ins:
Closed due to COVID-19
4205 East R St Tacoma, WA 98404
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