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Community Monthly Meal
Stretch your dollar
Stretch your dollar and join us for a meal. Doors open at 5 pm. Meal will be served between 5:30 and 6:30 pm. Social services available.
Sponsored by the Greater Maple Valley Community Center, Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services, and Team Tahoma.
For more information please contact Janet Pennacchi of Team Tahoma. Download event flyer.
| Date | Time | Location | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday - March 23, 2010 |
5 pm Doors open
5:30 - 6:30 pm Meal served |
Maple Valley Community Center
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FREE
Social services available |
Community Resource Fair
Maple Valley provider and resource networking
The purpose of this event is to provide information about available resources and enhance networking between community leaders, Tahoma School District staff, local law enforcement, and the service providers to whom we refer families.
Providers of mental health, shelter/housing, domestic violence intervention, youth programs, older adult services, medical and other social services will be present – a great opportunity to put names and faces together!
This will also be a good opportunity for you to become more familiar with the services provided by the Greater Maple Valley Community Center, including The Den Teen Center.
Thank you for all you do to support our community family and we look forward to seeing you! Organized by Team Tahoma. For more information please contact Janet Pennacchi. Download event flyer.
| Date | Time | Location | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday March 31, 2010 |
2:00 - 5:30 pm |
GMVCC |
FREE |
Make A Difference Day
Many hands coming together can truly make a difference
"Make A Difference Day" is the largest national day of helping others. Everyone can participate - young and old, individual or groups. Anyone can carry out a volunteer project. It might be as ambitious as collecting truckloads of food for our local food bank or participating in beautification projects for our local trails and parks. Or it might be as personal as spending an afternoon helping an elderly neighbor or relative.
Saturday, October 24, 2009 will mark Maple Valley's eighth year participating in "Make A Difference Day." Co-sponsored by the Maple Valley Rotary and the City of Maple Valley, the event will kick-off at 8 a.m. with a free breakfast at our Greater Maple Valley Community Center.
To sign-up as a volunteer or to suggest a work project, please contact Patti Davis. Additional information may be obtained at Make A Difference Day on the web.
For more information email Kelly or call the Community Center at 425-432-1272.
| Date | Time | Location | Fee | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kick-off Breakfast Saturday October 24, 2009 |
8 am |
GMVCC |
FREE |
Diversity Forum
Tahoma Community
Tahoma schools reflect our increasingly diverse community. But are we doing all we can do to promote a sense of belonging and pride among our youth?
The Tahoma School District Diversity Committee is hosting a community Diversity Forum on Wednesday, October 23 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Tahoma Junior High. The forum's purpose is to gain insight and gather information for students and other participants about how to work collaboratively to address ethnic, racial, religious, socio-economic and other diversity issues in our schoools and community.
There will be information sharing and small-group discussion of diversity issues in and beyond the greater Maple Valley area. Students, parents and community members are invited to come together with the goal of having broad discussion about how to strengthen a sense of belonging and to promote success for all youth in our community.
Free childcare for younger children will be provided during the forum.
For more information please contact the Tahoma School District.
| Date | Time | Location | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday October 24, 2009 |
6:30 - 8:30 pm |
Tahoma Junior High |
FREE |
Cedar River Salmon Journey
Follow the salmon
Take part in the “Cedar River Salmon Journey” this fall -- and bring the kids! See spawning salmon and learn about them and the Cedar River. Volunteer naturalists will be stationed from 11 to 4 on October 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 and November 1 at Renton Library, Cedar River Park, Riverview Park, Cavanaugh Pond and Landsburg Park. Carpool if you can – these sites have limited parking.
For a flyer with directions or to get more information, call 206.245.0143 or visit www.cedarriver.org.
The Cedar River Salmon Journey is sponsored by Brown Bear Car Wash, City of Renton, Forum for Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed, King Conservation District, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Public Utilities, Wal-Mart Foundation, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
| Date | Time | Location | Fee | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
October 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 and November 1 |
11am to 4 pm |
Renton Library, Cedar River Park, Riverview Park, Cavanaugh Pond and Landsburg Park |
FREE |
206.245.0143 |
Maple Valley Days 2009
Community Breakfasts
Gather together with friends and neighbors in our community for a delicious breakfast cooked by Cindy Gregory and her talented chefs from the Cedar Grill. Breakfast will be served from 8 am to noon on both Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, at the Maple Valley Community Center during Maple Valley Days. Cost is $7/adult OR $6 w/food bank donation, $6/kids under 10 OR $5 w/food bank donation. Proceeds go to the Maple Valley Food Bank.
Menu
- Hotcakes
- Ham & Eggs
- Coffee & Juice
For more information visit the Maple Valley Days website or call 206-290-6635.
| Date | Time | Location | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
Saturday & Sunday June 13-14 , 2009 |
8:00 - Noon |
GMVCC |
Cost is $7/adult OR $6 w/food bank donation, $6/kids under 10 OR $5 w/food bank donation |
United Way Day of Caring
Microsoft employees make a difference at GMVCC
Exchanging computers for shovels and chain saws, a volunteer crew of 12 Microsoft employees area chopped and dug their way through the overgrown foliage at the Greater Maple Valley Community Center as part of the 2008 United Way Day of Caring on September 12th. Pictured is the team led by Microsoft employee and GMVCC Board Member Sean Stewart.
Thank you to Ryan Light, Basu Nagarahalli, Shawn Vita, Lynsey Compton-Drake, Shelley Wells-Frank, Daniel Burleigh, Roslyn Mainz, Dean Jaegerman, Shyamala Kuppusamy, Shelley Way, Jeffrey Snelling and Sean Stewart.
The crew first gathered with GMVCC Facilities Coordinator Kelly Travis and Executive Director Lynn Roberts for a kick-off breakfast meeting in the Community Center Hall before breaking into groups to clear 28 rhododendrons that had been flagged for removal by the Lake Wilderness Arboretum. Once the work was finished, the crew used hoes, rakes and brooms to clear the site of debris. It was uplifting to see how much brighter, accessible and welcoming the Community Center could be.
In expressing her thanks, Executive Director Lynn Roberts noted that GMVCC is a non-proft organization and it is volunteers who make it possible for the small staff of the Community Center to offer the wide variety of programs and services it does. "The Community Center does not have a budget for grounds maintenance that would allow us to perform this type of work. We deeply appreciate the efforts of Sean Stewart and his team of community volunteers from Microsoft."
United Way's Day of Caring is the largest single day activation of volunteers in King County. To learn how you can volunteer at GMVCC email Kelly or call 425-432-1272.