It’s Easter weekend which means, among many things, there’ll be a hunt for eggs in the front yard. It’s her first opportunity, with her newfound ability to toddle about on her own, that she’ll navigate her way robotically from one brightly colored egg to another and fill her little basket. She’ll be dressed in her […]
Letter: Lottery purchases unaffected by virus so support (sex) education
On March 23, the “Lottery Post” broke down every state’s lottery response to Covid-19. Here, according to Lottery Post, was Washington’s: “Business as usual, with no changes in operation or claiming of prizes.” Washington’s official lottery website has a link for “Responsible play during Covid-19.” You can still buy tickets for “both Washington-based and multi-state […]
Letter: A homeschooling irony
Harvard would ban homeschooling. The National Education Association (NEA) would ban homeschooling. And yet what hath the coronavirus wrought? Homeschooling. The Editorial Board of the Tacoma News Tribune (TNT) recently opined with regards “Washington’s new sex education law (that) if parents don’t like it? Two words: Opt out.” They might. Altogether. “The coronavirus pandemic has […]
Letter: This little light of mine – in the coronavirus, a candle in the window
She’s so little. ‘Petite’ a stranger called her. She has just learned to walk and while she’s already become quite proficient and doesn’t at all need my help, still I extend way down to her my hand and she, reaching up, will grasp one finger of mine in her little grip, and off we’ll go. […]
Letter: Banning fireworks, the Coronavirus, and mandating Sex Education
Borrowing from an argument put forth by Ryan T. Anderson, substituting specific issues but still examining the principle: ‘If Thomas Jefferson and James Madison came back to America today and heard about the proposal to ban fireworks in local municipalities; or about how parents were responding to the forced education of their children at home; […]
Letter: The great battle being fought over Sex Education in Washington Public Schools
Ultimately, it is about the erosion of the privileges and responsibilities historically, not to mention biologically, we believe – or used to – are, or were, rightfully the purview of parents. It is apparent, however, that public schools would now parent, having been mandated that authority. Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law this past Friday, […]
Letter: There’s far more at stake with the Sex Ed mandate than when children learn about sex – and from whom
If there is but one flag – and there are many – flying high from the mast, as it were, of the Black Pearl having been stolen from the family, renamed and retrofitted with the heavy armaments of the National Education Association (NEA), it is the Jolly Roger of secularism and cultural relativism, of which […]
Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association April Meeting Cancelled
The April 2 meeting of the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association has been canceled. The meetings are scheduled for the first Thursday each month.
American Lake Closed to Fishing
“Beginning at midnight March 25 and lasting until at least 5 p.m. on April 8, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is closing recreational fishing statewide in response to the governor’s order to ‘Stay Home, Stay Healthy’ and limit the spread of coronavirus.” This includes of course Bill’s Boathouse in Tillicum where the […]