Community Corner
Tacoma Roller Derby to Kick Off Season At Pierce College
Dockyard Derby Dames to present double-header on Saturday evening.
By day, they’re lawyers and nurses. Hairdressers and journalists. By night, they skate.
And on Saturday night, they will kick off the Dockyard Derby Dames’ 2012 season. Tacoma’s original roller-derby league’s sixth season will commence with a double-header as the Marauding Mollys face Season 5 champions The Trampires, followed by the Hellbound Homewreckers battle the Femme Fianna.
Doors open at Pierce College’s Health Ed Center at 5 p.m.; the first bout starts at 6.
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The event is billed as family friendly, and there is also a beer garden. Tickets are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233027. They are $12 in advance and $15 at the door for adults, and $10 for children 6-12 or those with military ID. Children under 5 are free. A portion of proceeds from the event benefits Coffee Strong.
The Dockyard Derby Dames is a not-for-profit league run by the skaters. Founded in 2006, Dockyard has changed from a small group of women with a dream to skate competitively to a five-team functioning league with 80 members and national status.
