Save the date: Financial aid discussed at YHS event next month

Friday, January 27th, 2012, 8:23pm

Yelm High School is holding a forum for students and parents about financial aid for college next month.

Here are the details"

FAFSA Help Night at YHS Feb. 6
An important part of receiving financial aid for college is filling out the FAFSA form before February 15 to meet the priority funding deadline. A representative will be at Yelm High School on February 6 at 6 p.m. to help parents and students fill out the FAFSA form.

FAFSA Help Night
February 6, 2012 - 6 p.m.
Yelm High School, Room 103
•Bring completed tax forms or W2's
•Must have pin numbers (parents and students) - www.pin.ed.gov
Priority funding ends February 15!

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Beaver helps out with storm damage at Northwest Trek

Submitted by Chris West, KOMO Communities Reporter

Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 1:50pm

Beaver helps out with storm damage at Northwest Trek

A beaver is helping the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park clean up from last week's snow and ice storms.

The park suffered severe damage from last week’s storm and will be closed for several weeks.

According to a news release, the wolf, cat, raptor and bear exhibits were severely damaged as were nearly four miles of fencing surrounding the park’s 435-acre free-roaming area.

Officials hope to reopen the park in mid-February.

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DSHS mobile office in Yelm, Tenino on Thursday

Submitted by Chris West, KOMO Communities Reporter

Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 8:55am

The Mobile Community Services Office from the Department of Social and Health Services will be in Yelm and Tenino on Thursday.

The program is aimed at helping rural households complete cash, food, and medical interviews, issue EBT cards and receive documents without having to travel far.

Here are the details for Thursday:

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Tenino at St. Peter’s Parish parking lot, 149 Keithahn Street S.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Yelm Safeway, 1109 Yelm Ave. E.

Current recipients of Basic Food benefits also can seek replacement of food purchased through the program that was lost during recent power outages.

Learn more at the program's website.

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Yelm Cinemas special showing Saturday morning open to the public

Submitted by Steve Klein on Thursday, January 26th, 08:17am

Yelm Cinemas Saturday morning Special Screening for Jan. 28th.
All screenings are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Showing Saturday, January 28, 9 AM in the Big House:

Revenge of the Electric Car

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DSHS mobile office at Yelm Safeway today

Submitted by Chris West, KOMO Communities Reporter

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012, 8:49am

DSHS mobile office at Yelm Safeway today

The Mobile Community Services Office from the Department of Social and Health Services will be in Yelm today offering a wide range of services.

The program is aimed at helping rural households complete cash, food, and medical interviews, issue EBT cards and receive documents without having to travel far.

Current recipients of Basic Food benefits also can seek replacement of food purchased through the program that was lost during recent power outages.

The traveling office will be at the Yelm Safeway, 1109 Yelm Ave. E., from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Learn more at the program's website.

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PSE hopes to have outages restored by Thursday

Submitted by Associated Press

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 2:55pm

A Puget Sound Energy spokesman says the utility hopes to have most of the out-of-service customers back on line Wednesday with no more than scattered outages remaining Thursday.

By Tuesday afternoon it still had about 22,000 to go, mostly in the south Puget Sound region.

Spokesman Roger Thompson 280 line crews are working their way through neighborhoods in south King, Pierce and Thurston counties, making repairs that sometime restore only one or two customers at a time.

Last week's snow and ice storms knocked out nearly 400,000 customers or more than a third of PSE's 1.1 million electrical customers in Western Washington.

Thompson says, "This has been a monster."

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PSE outage update for Tuesday

Submitted by KOMO Staff

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 12:14pm

Here's the latest power restoration predictions for Thurston County from Puget Sound Energy.

As of 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, 24,000 PSE customers were without power.

•Bald Hills, Wednesday, January 25.
•Johnson Point, Wednesday, January 25.
•Lacey, Wednesday, January 25.
•Olympia, Wednesday, January 25.
•Rainier, Wednesday, January 25.
•Rochester, Wednesday, January 25.
•Tenino, Tuesday, January 24.
•Tumwater, Tuesday, January 24.
•Yelm, Wednesday, January 25.
•The restoration work is completed for the Delphi Road, Hawks Prairie, Steamboat Island, Summit Lake, and West Olympia/Cooper Point areas. If you live in these areas and your power is still out Tuesday afternoon, please call 1-888-225-5773 and report your outage again. In rare cases, repair crews could miss a problem with an individual service while repairing a larger problem out on the grid.