We were the only team without pants to match.
Scruffy jeans with holes in the knees, a third of the boys without mitts, and none – not one – of the 11 having every played organized baseball before.
Letter: Impacted Teeth and City Government
A Camp Murray gate-relocate she-said-he-said is back in the news.
Former Lakewood City Councilman Walter Neary called it “one of the most bitter neighborhood debates in recent memory.”
Letter: Of Mice and Men – Munchies and Lotteries
Who gambles more, the fit or the fat?
“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave.”
Letter: Shopping Carts Over Saving Lives
The top priority of the Lakewood Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) is to “develop a shopping cart ordinance.”
Letter: You’re Grounded!
That’s a good thing.
Unless you’re an airplane or its pilot in which case you’re not allowed to fly.
Letter: Everything We Needed to Know
On my first day of Kindergarten I turned around and walked back home.
Maybe if I’d have gotten that first hug from her like all the other five-year-olds entering those scary halls of learning at Tillicum Elementary School I’d have stayed but she never got the opportunity.
Letter: Ruby Apts. Plan Rubs Oakbrook Residents Wrong
And the Camp Murray gate-relocate similarity.
Lakewood City Councilman Mike Brandstetter wants to know how the zoning that allows for three-story apartments planned for Oakbrook – four buildings at 40 feet tall housing 66 units covering nearly 3 acres to include a multipurpose building and 121 parking stalls – differs from what happened in Tillicum with the relocation of Camp Murray’s gate.
Letter: Let’s Be Perfectly Clear
You can run for office you just can’t say that you are.
When Paul Wagemann, during the three-minute public comment period at the March 17th Lakewood City Council meeting, announced his intentions to run for state legislative office he was told that was not allowed.
Letter: You Don’t Say
Don’t mention it. At least not at Lakewood City Hall.
What do you think ranks – and reeks – among the most offensive things you can say during the public comment period at Lakewood City Council regular public sessions with the result that your microphone will be turned off?