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Photojournalist JM Simpson and publisher Danny Stusser bagged the Institute for Nonprofit News’ (INN) award for The JOLT News Organization for photographs and text essays on Olympia’s …
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City of Olympia officials notified homeless individuals living in The Jungle encampment on Monday, September 16, that the city would soon begin a “clean” of accumulated trash there, …
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Vernetta Eichinger believes that taking care of the homeless is not just a job. Seven years ago she founded the Poverty Exed Project, a 501(c) (3) non-profit based in Lacey. And now her Pep-Tacular Discount Store is open to the public...
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Ever wonder what it might be like to be homeless in downtown Olympia?
I estimate that most people here have never spoken with a person living outdoors, in a recreational vehicle or in …
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For the sixth year in a row, the 2024 Summer Outreach Event brought together more than 60 agencies representing behavioral health, primary care and family support agencies to housing programs, …
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By JM Simpson
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7/17/24
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The 2024 Summer Outreach Event bridges the gaps between services which are available to the less fortunate of the community.
“Holding the se event s (there is a Winter Outreach …
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Tenino is looking to commission two mural projects on city buildings; bids are due by July 1.
The city's ARCH (Arts, Recreation, Culture, History & Business) Commission and staff will …
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By JM Simpson
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6/14/24
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National Donut Day is celebrated in this country on the first Friday of June. In 1938, the day came about as a fundraising initiative by the Salvation Army to aid those individuals economically …
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On April 24 the Olympia Fire Department responded to a car fire in The Jungle, the homeless encampment located near the 3200 block of Martin Way East.
As KOMO News reported on May 23, …
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The English philosopher G.K. Chesterton once pointed out that courage is an apparent oxymoron, that it means “to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
This sense of …
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As I was walking down Washington Street NE last Friday morning, a homeless man standing in the shadows of the alley next to SK Market hailed me. “How ya doin’. “I …
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Editor’s Note: Many of the business owners interviewed wished to remain anonymous due to fears of retaliation from taggers. Also, some of the graffiti in the photographs has been …
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During the City of Lacey’s 2023 Mayor’s Gala last October, Karen Schoessel introduced the evening’s guest of honor, then-100-year-old Harvey Drahos, a World War II veteran who had …
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By JM Simpson
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5/3/24
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Army veteran Crystal Beeler made it clear that she wants the Olympia City Council to address the issue that VFW Post 318 says involves the actions of homeless individuals living in the nearby Unity …
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For the past 15 months, I have been engaged in photographically documenting the homeless in Olympia for The JOLT and national media . As such, I have had the opportunity to meet and talk with …
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Standing in his makeshift house next to the wetlands in the east side of The Jungle, yesterday, Mike commented that he was free.
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An Army doctor stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was arraigned last Friday in what Army investigators say is the largest military sexual abuse case on record.
“We cannot state with …
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“Pets are humanizing,” said actor James Cromwell, who added, “They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.”
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She spent last Friday night at the corner of Thurston and Washington, not far from the Olympia Union Gospel Mission.
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