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In 1937 the Daffodil Festival was made into a non-profit corporation. Funding came from donations and the sale of memberships. An annual event, the festival encompasses the whole of Pierce County. Originally five participating cities included Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, Orting and Fife joined in 1959. The Daffodil Festival grew to become the 3rd ...
Puyallup also hosts and is origin of the annual four-part Daffodil Parade, which takes place every year in Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, and Orting. The parade includes floats that are covered in daffodils or are themed in the daffodil season. Car clubs, veteran groups and also some businesses are also part of the parade. [citation needed]
Every year, Puyallup High School participates in the Pierce County Daffodil Festival. A competition is held to select the Puyallup High School Daffodil Princess who then competes, with other regional schools, for the title of Daffodil Festival Queen. The Queen title is considered the highest honor of this regional festival.
Van Lierop is selling about 24 acres of his land to the city of Puyallup for $3.75 million. The city is plans to develop a park on 18 acres and sell the rest to nonprofit Step By Step for $1.25 ...
Tacoma (/ t ə ˈ k oʊ m ə / tə-KOH-mə) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. [6] A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and 80 miles (130 km) east ...
Eight feature-length films and 55 shorts from the Pacific Northwest also will be shown during the festival’s run. Documentary on the city’s most famous band opens this year’s Tacoma Film ...
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians plans to redevelop the site of its former Emerald Queen Tacoma I-5 Casino into an entertainment district, according to pre-application plans filed with the city of ...
Mount Rainier from Ricksecker Point, 1932 Tacoma—seat of Pierce County Mount Rainier hazard map. Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 921,130, [1] up from 795,225 in 2010, making it the second-most populous county in Washington, behind King County, and the 59th-most populous in the United States.