If you had been one of those surveyed to finish the sentence that follows, what would have been your answer?
“When people in 50 countries were asked to report their guiding principles in life, the value that mattered most was . . . .”
Letter: No Matching Pants, No Problem
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.