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📆 Tacoma Area Events
⛑️ Duke’s Turns Chowder Into Wildfire Relief
🍭 The Candy Cannon Is Back
⚾ Soundview Takes the World Stage
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Wednesday, August 19
Soundview in Little League World Series - 12:00 / Watch on ESPN
STEAM Night - 4:00 PM / Mottet Library
First Creek Trailhead Opening - 5:00 PM / First Creek Park
Funky Jazz - 7:00 PM / The Spar Tavern
Che Arthur - 7:00 PM / Jazzbones
Thursday, August 20
Broadway Farmers Market - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM / 9th & Broadway
3rd Thursday Free Museums - 3:00 PM / See link
Cruise-In - 5:30 PM / LeMay America’s Car Museum
Stankoma Aroma - 6:00 PM / New Frontier
Route 66 Big Band - 6:30 - 7:30 PM - / Franke Tobey Jones
Fowl Music - 7:30 PM / St. Luke’s Episcopal
Friday, August 21
Wee Ones Weekly - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM / Children’s Museum
Music Festival - 5:30 PM - Real Art Tacoma
Family Fun Night - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Fort Nisqually
Summer Bash - 6:30 PM / STAR Center
Beginning Line Dancing - FREE - 7:00 PM / Airport Tavern
Saturday, August 22
Proctor Farmer’s Market - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM / Proctor
Cars & Coffee - 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM / LeMay America’s Car Museum
Embla Lodge Rummage Sale - 10:00 AM / Bethlehem Lutheran
Glass History Talk - 1:00 PM / Glass Museum
PNW Night Market - 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Point Ruston
Beecher’s & Bubbles - 6:00 PM / Incline Cider House
Comedy Summer Social - 7:00 PM / Edison Square
Sunday, August 23
Bird Walk - 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM / Point Defiance
Haunted Farmer’s Market - 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM / S 54th St & S Tacoma Way
E Komo Mai - 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM / Owen Beach
Champagne Sunday - 6:00 PM / Spanish Ballroom
Monday, August 24
Fun Run - 6:00 PM / Fleet Feet in Proctor
She Built Tacoma - 7:00 PM / Lumora Theatre
Tuesday, August 25
Bites on Broadway - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM / 9th & Broadway
Hot Brown Smackdown - 7:00 PM / Spanish Ballroom
Tacoma Rainiers (T-Town Tuesdays) - 7:05 PM / Cheney Stadium
Electric Taco Tuesday - 8:00 PM / Airport Tavern
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Duke’s Turns Chowder Into Wildfire Relief
Duke’s Seafood has launched a chowder fundraiser through the end of this month to help people affected by wildfires in Eastern Washington.
For every small or large bowl of clam chowder sold at any Duke’s location, the restaurant will donate $2 to a special Red Cross fund supporting wildfire victims. All six Duke’s locations are participating, including Tacoma.
The fundraiser runs through the end of August, giving Tacoma diners an easy way to help while grabbing a bowl of chowder.
The Candy Cannon Is Back
Fort Nisqually is bringing back one of its most unusual summer traditions this Friday night: Family Fun Night — complete with old-fashioned games, music, ice cream and a cannon that fires candy into the air.
The family-friendly evening runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at Fort Nisqually Living History Museum in Point Defiance Park. Visitors can bring a picnic, spread out on the lawn and take part in activities inspired by life in the 1850s.
And yes, the candy cannon is exactly what it sounds like. It’s one of the event’s signature attractions and gives kids a chance to chase candy launched out onto the Fort grounds.
For more information, click here.
Soundview Takes the World Stage
Tacoma’s Soundview Little League team begins its Little League World Series run today in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, representing the Northwest Region on baseball’s biggest youth stage.
Soundview earned the trip by winning the Northwest Region championship after going 3-1 in regional play. Their first World Series matchup is against the Southeast Region representative, Alabama, at 12 p.m. PDT. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN and can also be seen on the ESPN app.
The Little League World Series runs through Aug. 30 and features 20 teams from around the United States and the world. For Tacoma, though, the focus starts with one game: Soundview vs. Alabama tomorrow at noon.
The Little League World Series site can be found here.
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