Designed by kids, built by volunteers: Turnkey Park to get a new playground
The community is about to flip a playground. Kent Parks, Recreation & Community Services – together with the Kent Parks Foundation, KaBOOM! organizers, Disney workers and more than 200 volunteers – will build a new playground in one day at Turnkey Park.
Kent Parks and Rec offers Teen Camps
Parents know once school is out, finding healthy activities for teenagers can be a challenge. Teen Camp, offered by Kent Parks and Recreation, provides seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders a fun and safe experience throughout the summer.
Kent seniors win leadership scholarships
Kent residents Kiia Z. Brantley, a senior at Kentwood Senior High School, and Ruben Riordan, a senior at Charles Wright Academy, are among the 90 recipients of the Comcast Foundation's annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program awards in Washington State, the Foundation has announced.
SLIDESHOW | Watch D.O.G.S. program encourages dads to volunteer in schools
Faster than a speeding kickball, more powerful than a Tonka truck and able to leapfrog two first-graders in a single bound, the Watch D.O.G.S., a special group of volunteer dads, are gaining recognition throughout the Kent School District.
SLIDESHOW | Green River Community College hosts Sounds of Hawaii
Green River Community College hosted the final Artist and Speaker Series for the year with performances from the Ke`ala `O Kamailelauli`ili`i hula group and Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole, a five-time Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winner for hula and choreography.
Memorial Weekend Forecast
Memorial Day is not a dependable weekend around the Northwest...never has been, never will be. Generally we have a sunny, warm period in the middle of May (early May this year) and then we move towards the June gloom mode of low clouds.During the past few days we have had a closed upper low hanging...
Kennedy Catholic's Battle of the Bands to raise emergency relief money for Oklahoma
Kennedy Catholic High School students are rallying to support Oklahoma families devastated by the May 19 tornados with a Battle of the Bands contest on Tuesday.
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company supports Kent Fire Department
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company celebrated 150 years in business by recently giving $5,000 to the Kent Fire Department.
Haeger Orthodontics announces Smile for Lifetime recipients
Haeger Orthodontics of Kent announced today the names of the first four recipients selected in the community as part of the Smile for a Lifetime Foundation (S4L) program.
SmileMobile coming to Kent in June
The Washington Dental Service Foundation SmileMobile, which travels the state offering examinations to children who might not otherwise have access to dental care, will be in Kent next month.
Kent Rotary, supporters provide fishing experience for kids
Kent Rotary, in partnership with the City of Kent Parks Department, annually hosts a kids fishing experience at a two-acre pond in Kent, affectionately known as the Ol'Fishin' Hole.
This recent one-day event attracted hundreds of youngsters from toddlers up to the age of 14 (no license is required).
