Jared Cullum was selected as the October 2017 Rotary Club of Yelm Student of the Month through the Yelm High School Leadership program.

Homeless Backpacks feed local Yelm Community Schools students in the form of a care package that goes home with them on the weekend. Community members, Yelm Lions Club members, and Boy Scouts from Troop 268 spent a recent Saturday morning in service to Yelm families.

Bob and Becky Lincoln pose with a copy of the Nisqually Valley News in front of the Statue of Liberty during a recent trip to New York. If you want a picture of you holding a copy of the paper, send it to mwagar@yelmonline.com

Pictured from left to right, are Sunbird store manager Jared Hedgers, Yelm Community Services manager Monserrat Morales, and Georgia Boot sales representative. For every Georgia Boot Sunbird sold between Sept. 22 and Oct. 5, Sunbird donated $5 toward Yelm Community Services. The three hold a…

Bailey Sowers, 9, from Yelm Gymnastics Center in Yelm, won first place in the Level 3 Junior Division at the gymnastics meet in Enumclaw on Saturday, Oct. 10. She earned a total score of 33.405 which is a state qualifying score to compete at the state competition.

Students from a pumpkin sale — with pumpkins from the school garden — celebrate the fall season at The Phoenix Rising School.

When the steering committee for the Yelm Co-op first got together in 2005, it had no way of knowing how tall the seed they were planting would grow.