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Submitted by emmettoconnell on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 8:47pm.

On Tuesday night, the Olympia city council will consider settling their lawsuit with All American Water over the water rights associated with the old Tumwater Brewery property. Looks like everyone gets a bit of what they want, the cities get the water rights while the private company gets half of that water back in a seperate agreement.

Check out the rest and comment over here.

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Submitted by Rick on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 8:12pm.
this.
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Submitted by stevenl on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 7:31pm.
I recently started thumbing through Shanna Stevenson's Olympia Area Place Names (1986). It is a fun read, although I noticed she left out the former name of Mud Bay, which was, according to legend, "Shitpoke Flats." I note in Shanna's book that bodies of water seem to be the most likely candidates for geographic name changes. Anyway, I'll share some of the former and current place names from her book for you OlyBloggerz:

FORMER NAME(S)=CURRENT NAME

Sa-chal = Sat-chall = Black Lake
Seatco = Bucoda
Russell Lake = Chambers Lake
Drake Lake = Deep Lake
Chambers Prairie = East Olympia
Harlowe Junction = Gate
Wepusic Inlet = Gull Harbor
Pollala Ilaheee = Tyrell Prairie = Hawks Prairie
Lowe's Lake = Hewitt Lake
Wood's Lake = Rutledge Lake = Hicks Lake
Cushman Point = Hunter Point
Point Moody = Johnson Point
Simmons Lake = Ken Lake (Shanna says here: "Named for Frank Kenney, secretary of Olympia Brewery and a local realtor." I prefer to believe it was really named after Barbie's boyfriend)
Woodland = Lacey
Fleetwood Lake = Lake Lois
Wildman Lake = Lake Susan
Logan Lake = Long Lake
Shononadaub = McAllister Creek
Clear Lake = McIntosh Lake
McAllister Road = Marvin Road
Marshville = Olympia's Westside
Squaquid = Medicine Creek
Dodge Prairie = Mima Prairie
Nez Quarres = Sherlock = Gardner = Maxfield = Nisqually
Cheetwoot = Smithfield = Smithster = Olympia
Lyons Lake = Pattison Lake
Key = Rochester
Scates Creek = Scatter Creek
Little Bigelow Lake = Setchfield Lake
Ruddell Lake = Southwick Lake
Pray's Lake = Crooked Lake = Summit Lake
Swantown = Olympia's eastside
Post lake = Tempo Lake
Coal Bank = Tenino
Jones Beach = Tolmie State Park
Drewry Lake = Trail's End Lake
Ferguson Lake = Trosper Lake
New Market = Falls River = Des Chutes = Tumwater
Brune's Lake = Wards Lake

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Submitted by UnkemptTide on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 3:13pm.
May 1 2006 - 3:00pm

This years May Day Worker Solidarity events are going to be blast! Take a stand to defend the rights of immigrant workers and hear from numerous people and organizations including:

-Adrianna Barazza from Schools for Chiapas
-Cory Fischer-Hoffman from the WROC
-Amanda Milholland from UCAN
-the Olympia Workers Association
-Mary-Ellen Donaldson on CAFTA
-Delegates from the Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association
-Phil Owens of Bread and Roses
-And more!

Music will be played by:
*The Citizens Band
*Fast Rattler
*The Grizzle Grazzle Trash Can Band

There will be a solidarity statement read from the Seattle May Day Organizers.

Interactive tabeling will be done by:
+Rec The Place Records - Make your own buttons
+Last Word - Providing free zines
+Yes Yes - Community based art
+Free Radio Olympia
+Schools 4 Chiapas - Mother Seeds of Resistance

At 3pm events will begin at Sylvester Park
Around 5pm we will march
At 6:30 the march will end at the new Bread And Roses Advocacy Center

Free shows following the days events at the Yes Yes and at the Manium!

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Submitted by Rick on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 11:25am.
Apr 22 2006 - 12:00pm
Apr 23 2006 - 10:00pm

The Evergreen Club Baseball Team will be playing it's first home games of the season this weekend against the University of Oregon.

The games will be at Olympia High School starting at 12pm on Saturday and at 10am on Sunday.

Hope to see you there!

Mike Anchors
Facilities Manager
The Evergreen State College
Athletics and Recreation
(360) 867-6532
anchorsm@evergreen.edu

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Submitted by Rick on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 6:39am.
Apr 22 2006 - 4:00pm

Double Feature for Fry Bread Theater: Classic Indian Humor: SMOKE SIGNALS (4:30PM) AND POW WOW HIGHWAY (7:00PM)--Please Announce this Saturday's Fry Bread Theater and Post attached flyer—SATURDAY, APRIL 22nd, 26-105, WITH DOORS OPEN AT 4:00PM and 6:30PM FOR SILENT AUCTION!!!!

THANKS FOR ANNOUNCING AND ATTENDING OUR SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIES. This Saturday’s Movie is a Double Feature: SMOKE SIGNALS AND POW WOW HIGHWAY. Our Anthropology Club Members need your help to raise funds to attend the next international WARP (Wetland Archaeology Research Project) Conference is scheduled in New Zealand with Maori participation.

Our students hope to attend and present their latest research at the Qwu?gwes Mud Bay Wet Site and need your help to raise support. Please ANNOUNCE THESE CLASSIC AND GROUND-BREAKING INDIAN HUMOR BASED MOVIES, All is by donation and promises to be educational. We will fry homemade fry bread at the event so you can dine on fry-bread and enjoy the full-screen movies. Future showings will include Thunderheart and Incident at Oglala, Dances with Wolves,. (PS we have to credit Professor Bill Swanson with this idea!)


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