If going the extra mile is commendatory, and it is, then this that follows is a story of a law enforcement agency whose members climbed the summit. Four years ago, an engraved headstone was found in a ditch alongside a highway in Lewis County. Every effort made to properly locate the baby’s memorial marker was unsuccessful.
Letter: Today I’ll be able to hear again
When I’m at city council meetings and have signed up for my three-minutes of fame – speaking my mind at the microphone – I’ve forewarned whoever is sitting next to me that when my name is called could they let me know?
Letter: Baseball, a game for kids
They’re a bunch of kids at heart and always will be, whether they are the Tillicum Crushers or the Seattle Mariners. That’s the game of baseball. The game against the Chicago White Sox July 18 was Crusher baseball at its most glorious best, only being played by the Mariners.
Letter: Rental Inspection solution – could it be that simple?
It is human nature to ponder, to procrastinate and pontificate, to build sandcastles in the air. Speaking of which, July 23 is the sandcastle contest in Long Beach, WA, “the 32nd annual Long Beach Sand-Sculpting Competition Extravaganza: ‘SandSations’.”
Letter: Abandoned to the river
To be abandoned, literally, means to be “put under someone’s jurisdiction.” Spellbound. Under the influence. Mesmerized. That was the river as a young man – and still as a much older man, thanks to the memories – to me. Now it may be the Enchanted Valley chalet that is abandoned to the river.
Letter: Did you clean your toilet? City staff wants to know
The toilet-cleanliness-requirement question, and other questions posed in this article, should be among those asked by Lakewood City Councilmembers of city staff before the Council votes July 18 to create a mandatory rental registration and inspections ordinance.
Letter: No more Whac-A-Mole life for me
At least for now. Tomorrow – or later today maybe – I’ll probably take up my whacker and let somebody have it.
Letter: Cross-examining Lakewood’s case for rental inspection
At the July 5, 2016 Lakewood City Council Public Hearing concerning the proposed – and controversial – Rental Inspection Program (RIP), the prelude to public comment was a video by KIRO 7 News Investigative Reporter Jesse Jones involving a landlord/tenant complaint in the Laurel Gardens apartments located in the Woodbrook neighborhood-portion of Lakewood.
Letter: Sustained
I had hit a buoy. Dead center. Not one of those plastic buoys that give with the collision but one of those mid-channel, heavy-duty, metal navigational buoys that usually you find out on Puget Sound to mark the shipping lanes. I rang the bell and had my bell rung.