{"id":53916,"date":"2026-08-21T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/53916\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:29:12","slug":"fgf-hometown-hero-junior-golf-and-a-fire-milestone-culture-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/53916\/","title":{"rendered":"FGF: Hometown Hero, Junior Golf, and a Fire Milestone | Culture + Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The founder of the Tacoma Girl Walk club, the Tacoma Flea, and the newly launched Sips in the City series just wants to bring everyone together \u2014 especially women. Get to know her in a new interview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

American Junior Golf Association Tournament Coming to Thurston County<\/p>\n

The American Junior Golf Association<\/a> will be in Thurston County<\/a> this month, with 78 of the nation’s top junior golfers competing, as part of the organization’s tournament, at the Tumwater Valley Golf Club<\/a> from Aug. 24-27. Learn more here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New Indoor Soccer Venue Debuts in Olympia; League Registration Opens<\/p>\n

Registration for the indoor soccer leagues of FC Olympia<\/a> and its new indoor soccer venue, Oly Arena, has officially opened after a two-year hiatus. Find out more here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Pelagic Bird That Prefers the Shore<\/p>\n

The pelagic cormorant is the smallest of Washington\u2019s three Pacific cormorants and can be found year-round. Learn more about the species in Janine Schutt’s latest local birding column<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Olympia Names First Woman Fire Chief<\/p>\n

Hillory Flowers first joined the department in April 2025 as assistant chief of EMS before later becoming deputy chief of operations. Get more details about Flowers and her milestone appointment here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of the Tacoma Girl Walk club, the Tacoma Flea, and the newly launched Sips in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20400,20406,20405,20395,44,20404,20407,20396,20399,3367,56,20397,20398,20401,20402,20403],"class_list":["post-53916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-american-junior-golf-association","tag-birding","tag-fc-olympia","tag-feel-good-friday","tag-golf","tag-olympia","tag-olympia-fire-department","tag-sarah-turner","tag-sips-in-the-city","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tacoma-girl-walk","tag-the-tacoma-flea","tag-thurston-county","tag-tumwater","tag-tumwater-valley-golf-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}