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Mill Creek Women's Club charity auction event
The Mill Creek Women's Club will be welcoming members and guests to our annual Thanks for Giving Fundraiser on Wednesday, Nov. 17. We hope to make some wishes come true for our... — Updated 10/29/2021
Mill Creek Garden Club plants autumn colors
Mill Creek Garden Club's Garden Projects Chair Carol Taylor and new member Lois Harrison planted a bit of fall color at the Veterans Monument. Taylor coordinates with the City of... — Updated 10/22/2021
Mill Creek Women's September club meeting will be in-person
The Mill Creek Women's Club has been taking a break for the summer but will be able to come together again in the fall at our first meeting after the summer break at 10:30 a.m. Wedn... — Updated 8/20/2021
Mill Creek Women's Club announces new officers for 2021-22
The Mill Creek Women's Club has elected new officers for the 2021-22 season. They are Luanne Kunz, president, Jeannette Bliss, vice president, Carol Ellis, secretary, and treasurer... — Updated 7/16/2021
2020 was empathy training | Editor's Note
It is almost 2021. A new year. A shift in the calendar will at first seem inconsequential. Most of us will live the same life we were living before the new year: obsessive... — Updated 1/4/2021
Peace of mind
My father was a practical man. When I was young and full of myself, one of the first cars I bought was a 1960 Triumph TR3 roadster. Very impractical. It had removable side curtains... — Updated 1/2/2021 Full story
Mimicking the open door policy | Editor's Note
Transparency is definable, even though it is achieved differently by various agencies. In fact, Ballotpedia has a 10-point checklist on transparency. That list includes something... — Updated 12/20/2020 Full story
We need to talk | Editor's Note
Secrecy and privacy are different things, but sometimes they get muddled. We apply that precise understanding in the news business: an eye on that particular distinction. We are... — Updated 12/11/2020
Annus horribilis hope from a good doctor | Chuck's World
"I have good news and bad news," the young woman said, and I had to smile at that alone. I think I've found the perfect 2020 line. I don't know if there's an original source for... — Updated 12/10/2020
It's officially Christmas movie time
'Tis the season of "Joy to the World." Sitting down with friends and loved ones exemplifies the time-honored truism: that the togetherness of watching those oldies-but-goodies... — Updated 12/4/2020
Pulling punches
Pull up a chair. Or don't. You are free to make your own decisions. Media. Information. Democracy. Freedom. It's all on the line right now, and surely you all see that, right?... — Updated 12/4/2020
This is us, Thanksgiving edition | Chuck's World
After a long, chatty call with my daughter the other night, she mentioned that it was time for her nightly routine. She and my son-in-law apparently do the New York Times crossword... — Updated 11/27/2020
School sports, activities needed more than ever
Ever since I was lucky enough to become the executive director at the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, I've told our staff and membership that we are in the memory-making business. Those memories can be made in... — Updated 11/25/2020
Science, skills and tenacity are our friends | Darn Wright
HED Science, skills and tenacity are our friends W/PHOTO Courtesy of Chuck Wright Packs of playing cards were handed within jails and prisons to help jog memories of inmates, who... — Updated 11/19/2020
It takes a village, and maybe power tools | Chuck's World
The first noise was the worst, although I was asleep. This raises a sort of empirical question: If a horrific, tearing, crashing sound occurs outside your window and you’re uncons... — Updated 11/19/2020
Finding chicken Zen
I was visiting Mill Creek last night in a downpour, and I met a chicken. Her name is Hazel. She seemed to be on tour and having a lovely time seeing what work looked like, for the p... — Updated 11/19/2020
The punk rock choice of 'home for the holidays' | Editor's Note
I am a storyteller since childhood – my first writer’s conference was in fourth grade. I remember going to Seattle and looking upwards at a brick building covered in ivy that... — Updated 11/13/2020 Full story
'Schitt's Creek,' Following the crowd, finding some light | Chuck's World
I have unremarkable taste in everything, which should come as a surprise to no one. And when it comes to culture, I only pretend to march to a different drummer. It’s usually the... — Updated 11/12/2020
Consider the lilies of the pond | Chuck's World
To be completely clear, I am uninterested in most things. I don't have passionate feelings one way or the other. I don't often talk or write about these things. This is because you... — Updated 11/6/2020 Full story
Editor's Note | Freedom's meaning
We are in an odd era where the lines are being redrawn, and we are tasked with asking a question once asked in 1954, in Rev. George Doherty’s sermon near the White House, that... — Updated 11/6/2020
From detained to bloodstained | Darn Wright
Nov. 11 is Veterans Day and, with this in mind, let’s go back in time and remember those soldiers who were labeled possible enemy agents, but yet still marched forward and... — Updated 11/6/2020
Halloween is here -- let's be careful out there
W/PHOTO on website: pumpkin baby or a mask pic Happy Halloween, from your Mill Creek Beacon editor! I want everyone happy, but this is a weird Halloween. Masks used to be preserved... — Updated 11/4/2020
Book club in Mill Creek Zooms | Book Club Corner
When the Mill Creek Women's Club announced an opportunity for the formation of a new book club within its ranks, it became the impetus for forming The Page Turners Book Club in Nove... — Updated 10/3/2020
Editor's Corner: Getting the Band Back Together
Hello, Mill Creek readers – I am, once again, your editor. I was last an editor for Mill Creek readers in 2002. I was at the Enterprise, a community newspaper then owned by the... — Updated 8/25/2020
Going postal: Good noise pollution
In 1989, the U.S. military went into Panama to extract an installed dictator, Manuel Noriega. There is much to this story that every American should know, but that is another... — Updated 8/21/2020