I have good news. The same City of Lakewood Think Tank that brought us the ever-popular Rental Housing Inspection Program has now come up with an inexpensive idea whereby combining old technology with innovative thinking every home in Lakewood is going to be able to enjoy a new water park style ride.
The ride, appropriately called The Flusher Rusher, will be sure to thrill kids all throughout the city. After all, kids are always looking for a new way to have fun.
Right now The Flusher Rusher is in the testing phase, but the prediction is within six months, there will be a water park-style ride available to every kid in the city.
The photo below is a conceptually accurate depiction of the Think Tank’s vision for The Lakewood Water Park. And best of all, the ride will be free.
Disclosure: The testing of The Lakewood Water Park Ride did not harm any stuffed animals or live bears.
I just love living in a modern city that is flush with new ideas while other cities are going down the drain. Some time pipe dreams can come true.
All kidding aside, I’ve thought for years Lakewood should put a water park in at Ft. Steilacom Park. There’s not enough for kids to do during the summer. Has anyone seriously floated that idea?
Ms. Burns,
Thank you for reading and commenting even though this Westside Story easily qualifies as a groaner. While I admit to a certain amount of creative embellishment, my next paragraph will only deal with the facts; just the facts like on the old TV show, Dragnet.
Once upon a time after Lakewood incorporated as a city, a vendor showed strong interest in developing a water park in the part of Lakewood known as American Lake Gardens down on 150th St SW across the I-5 Freeway from Tillicum.
There was a lot of space for such a development, but it was a controversial idea and eventually it died. Warehouses are now being built in that location instead which will make it more of an industrial park.
To my knowledge, a water park at Ft Steilacoom Park is a new idea you may wish to float by Lakewood City Council and the two Clover Park Rotary clubs. There is an economic development department with the city you could share your idea with.
Good luck and let me know when the water park opens so I can take my grandchildren. They have already told me they are not going to play at Papa Joe’s water park as described in my article above.
Joseph Boyle