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The public meeting about Chabad of Pierce County’s zoning application with Tacoma has been moved. It’s now at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 708 in the Tacoma Municipal Building at 747 Market St.
The Orthodox Jewish group wishes to build a synagogue at 2146 N. Mildred St., but several of its neighbors have complained the proposed size of the building is too large.
At the meeting, the city will provide information about the proposal and listen to feedback from the public. This is not a formal public hearing, and no decision will be made at the meeting.
The Association of Space Explorers is in Seattle for its 21st Planetary Congress. And tomorrow, astronauts and cosmonauts will be visiting school districts around the area to talk about science with kids.
We’re working on getting a full list of who’s going where. But here’s what we know so far:
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● Belgian astronaut Dirk Frimout will visit Tacoma MESA, Jason Lee Middle School, Stewart Middle School and Sheridan Elementary School in Tacoma
● Russian cosmonaut Alexander Poleshchuk will visit Pioneer Middle School in DuPont and Saltar's Point Elementary School and Steilacoom High School.
● Hungarian cosmonaut Bertalan Farkas will visit Sumner's Emerald Hills and Daffodil Valley elementary schools and Sumner High School.
● NASA astronaut John Blaha will visit Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way. Also, Khazakhstani cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev will visit Federal Way High School.
● NASA astronaut Vance Brand will visit Neely-O'Brien Elementary School in Kent.
● NASA astronaut Dick Richards will visit Chinook, Washington and Dick Scobee Elementary schools in Auburn.
● NASA astronaut Charlie Walker will visit Aviation High School and Midway Elementary School in Des Moines.
● NASA astronaut Tom Henricks will visit Peter G. Schmidt Elementary School in Tumwater and East Olympia Elementary School.
● NASA astronaut Millie Hughes-Fulford will visit Mountain View Middle School in Bremerton and Orchard Heights Elementary School in Port Orchard. Mongolian cosmonaut Jugderdemidyn Gurragchaa will also visit Orchard Heights.
(Any school PIOs out there want to e-mail me so I can add more to the list?)
We’re going to have a reporter (me) and a photographer at one of the visits tomorrow, but I’m not sure where yet. But I can promise I won’t use lame turns of phrase like, “This astronaut’s visit was out of this world!”
Talking immigration with nonprofits in the morning, and then I'm going to continue some reporting on Tacoma Fire Chaplain Wilby Casey (hilarious guy with plenty of good stories).
