Whether you’re looking to be entertained or enlightened, Gig Harbor Now covers fun and informational events taking place in the community.
If you’re planning to over-indulge on candy on Halloween night, you’d be well-advised to get some exercise ahead of time. The Rattle Dem Bones bicycle ride is a good way to do that while also taking your costume for a test drive. Rattle Dem Bones, first held in 2019, returns Sunday, Oct. 29, for another
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Soggy fall days call for comfort foods. Like spaghetti. The Gig Harbor Senior Center will host a fun-for-the-whole-family spaghetti dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Eagles Club. The meal includes spaghetti, salad, bread and dessert. Tickets range from $5 for kids 5 and under to $24 for all-you-can-eat. The Eagles
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Ladies and gentlemen, start your paddles. The 2023 Narrows Challenge race takes place Saturday, Oct. 14, hosted by the national champion Gig Harbor Canoe and Kayak Racing Team. The challenge is open to all human-powered canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards, outriggers, paddleboards and surfskis that can handle tides, currents and open-water conditions. The course starts and
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Gig Harbor Now and Then’s last question of local history turned into a foursome, all pertaining to the lost history of the city of Gig Harbor’s Ancich Waterfront Park site. On the Gig Harbor Now Facebook page, Tomi Kent Smith ventured a very close guess of Mato Ivanovich as the owner, before Peter Ancich bought
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Harbor Farms is now open in Rosedale, offering a delightful family-friendly roster of things to do – including a pumpkin patch! Just after the last golden days of summer officially slipped into the crispness of autumn (and forced me to put on a jacket), this new family-friendly destination opened its gates on Sept. 29 and I reserved three tickets for opening day.
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Gas prices are sky high, and a night in a hotel is approaching astronomically expensive. So, for the foreseeable future, I imagine many of you are going to find yourselves taking day trips rather than the road trip vacations we’ve grown to love. This beautiful region in which we live is ripe with opportunities to
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween, with spooky critters appearing in front yards and piles of pumpkins at every grocery store entrance. The Scarecrow Festival at Sehmel Homestead Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, provides a preview of the holiday. The event includes hayrides and a petting zoo, pumpkin
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Editor’s note: Patsy Surh O’Connell organizes the local ChuSeok Festival. An earlier version of this story misstated that fact. Hundreds gathered in Skansie Park on Sept. 30 for Gig Harbor’s third annual Korean ChuSeok Festival, a free and family-friendly event sponsored by the Asia Pacific Cultural Center. Often referred to as the “Korean Thanksgiving”, ChuSeok
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While most Western countries mark the fall equinox as the height of the harvest season, in Korea it’s celebrated with a full-blown festival known as ChuSeok. Gig Harbor’s third annual ChuSeok Festival happens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at Skansie Park. It follows a similar event held in Tacoma last week.
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The 2023 Gig Harbor Film Festival drew hundreds of cinephiles to the Galaxy Theatres Uptown for its four-day run last week. “We truly had a memorable event and it was our most successful yet. Filmmakers came from as far as Connecticut and one even drove up from Texas,” said Pam Holt, the festival’s executive director.
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