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The W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory is offering extended evening hours until 8 p.m. tonight and Thursday to see its Dale Chihuly glass art display.
Tacoma native Chihuly loaned 250-some pieces to the conservatory for the three month exhibit to cap the glass house's centennial celebration. The display, which ends Sunday, intermingles a variety of Chihuly forms with the exotic plant life.
It's a particularly stunning sight at night, when the work is lit up. The conservatory has been offering the night display as part of the Third Thursday Art Walk. Tonight's display is to make up for the December event that was canceled due to snow, said conservatory manager Mary Anderson.
"It's been wonderful," Anderson said. "We've had probably triple our normal visitors and people have really enjoyed it."
Here's our earlier story on the exhibit.
The exhibit will be open regular hours - 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Friday through Sunday. A $5 donation is suggested. The conservatory is at 316 S. G St. in Tacoma's Wright Park.
Puyallup officials have a dream.
As part of their plan to connect South Hill and downtown Puyallup, they'd like to start up rapid bus service up and down Meridian.
They'd want the bus line to have a name, much like the MAX light rail line in Portland.
It's still preliminary, but city officials have a name they've been gravitating toward. They want to call the rapid bus line the "EZRA" -- short for "Easy Rider Area," and also honoring Puyallup's first mayor, Ezra Meeker.
The line would stop every 15 minutes or so, making it a reliable transportation option for people looking to stop in downtown Puyallup, then quickly go to the South Hill Mall or Pierce College's Puyallup campus and back, said city spokeswoman Glenda Carino.
"It wouldn't be just a bus," Carino said. "It would be a branded bus that looks like a trolley or something like that. It would help with traffic congestion."
The rapid bus line was a key component of the city's proposal for a state LIFT grant, which they won last year and will reap $1 million a year from for the next 25 years.
The city will be asking the federal government for $1.5 million in 2010 to complete an engineering study for the EZRA. I'm writing about the project for a weekend edition of the paper.
Pierce Transit is partnering with the city on the project.
