Volunteers Needed for Prom Craze at Cinderella’s Closet
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski Sparkles. Beads. Satin. Velvet. Glitz glamour, gowns. You’ll find it all at Cinderella’s Closet, a local non-profit dress rental shop located in the South Sound Lacey...
View ArticleAll About the Appetite – Eastside Big Tom’s Creative Community
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski, Timberline High School intern to ThurstonTalk “We interact with customers. You don’t get that anywhere else. It’s nice to be able to lean out the window and ask about...
View ArticleGrandpa’s Soda Fountain and Ice Cream Parlor – Family Friendly Throwback With...
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski The door to Grandpa’s Soda Fountain and Ice Cream Parlor is secretly a time portal. One minute you’re on Fourth Avenue in 2014 downtown Olympia, and the next you’re...
View ArticleHop Off the Couch and Try Low-Cost Teen Activities around Olympia
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski For many, summer is a time of relaxation. It’s pleasant to catch up on sleep and to throw your alarm clock into your below-bed abyss. Binge-watching Netflix for a day...
View ArticleYoung Hands Join Weathered Ones: Launch of STEP Program
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski, ThurstonTalk Intern Bridging the distance of the age gap between generations has always been a challenge. The youngest generation is pinned with self-absorption and...
View ArticleLooking Through the Lens at Molley Gillispie Photography
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski Simply stated, Molley Gillispie, the one woman show behind Molley Gillispie Photography, has gotten a head start on life. At just nineteen years old, she is already a...
View ArticleA Look at Thurston County 4H Leaders After the Fair
ThurstonTalk By Libby Kamrowski Every year in the first week of August, the Thurston County Fair sprouts up in Lacey’s normally desolate fairgrounds. If you wander away from the rides, food trailers,...
View ArticleAlexis and Ashley Carandang – SMU’s Twin Track Sisters Sprint Side By Side
ThurstonTalk Among the 44,319 citizens of Lacey, Washington, there is a pair of twins ringing in at the grand height of 5’1”. They may not be intimidating in size and even less with their...
View ArticleChloe O’Brien – Young Olympian Strumming Up a Musical Career
ThurstonTalk Chloe O’Brien has spent the majority of her twenty year life establishing herself: be it geographically from hometown Queenstown, New Zealand to the Olympia area in Washington, to the...
View ArticleThrifty Thurston Wheels into Rainier Vista Community Park
ThurstonTalk Cruise on up to the chain-link fenced-in world that is the skatepark at Rainier Vista Community Park, and stare in amazement at the only half-pipe within Lacey. You’ll hear the distinct...
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