PRIDE Auctiion 2013 - Welcome to the Jungle

The 2013 PRIDE Auction was hugely successful! Bellarmine would like to thank everyone who attended, volunteered, and supported the auction.

Click Here are pictures from this great event held on March 23, 2013.

Tenor goes from Tacoma to ‘Traviata’

When Brendan Tuohy strides into the party scene in the opera rehearsal room at Tacoma’s Urban Grace Church, he dominates the room – literally. His six-and-a-half-foot frame overshadows the men of the chorus, his gestures radiate power, and the tenor barreling from his chest like a waterfall makes the walls ring. He looks like a linebacker who can sing really well – which is kind of what he is.

Tuohy is the guy from Bellarmine who was too busy playing sports to sing in the musicals, the guy who combined a music degree with track team. And now he’s back in Tacoma after 12 years of study, singing the lead in Tacoma Opera’s “La Traviata.” This weekend is just one step in the long process of becoming a professional opera singer.

New Service Tackles Old Problem

Orginally run in the Business Exmainer on March 18, 2013

By Breanne Coats of the Business Examiner

Every week, donation requests would pour into Chuckals Office Supplies in Tacoma, through the mail, e-mail and in person.

"It all went through my desk, said Crystal Wertz, director of marketing for Chuckals. "It definitely was coming from all different areas."

It's much of the same at Bruce Titus Automotive Group; on top of weekly requests for smaller donations, the company receives about five requests for a free car donation.

Pickle business is sweet and sour success for local family

Originally ran in the Tacoma News Tribune on March 27, 2013

By Craig Sailor
Nalley’s Pickles may be gone from Tacoma, but a new pickle brand is quickly greening up the city.

Lynnae’s Gourmet Pickles formed just one month after Nalley’s closed up shop in July 2011. The start-up just expanded its all-natural sweet and sour pickles to a national audience.

The family-run business was started by Bellarmine Preparatory School graduates Lynnae Schneller and Aly Cullinane. The pickles come from a secret family recipe handed down from Schneller’s great-grandmother.