It was for sure the prize egg and I, and I alone, had found it. No one else had dared venture down into the stream bed to search among the tangle of branches from downed trees and along the marsh and among the weeds where mud squeezed over the shoe tops.
Letter: Where the sidewalk ends
In Lakewood, it doesn’t.
As Lakewood leaders look to create a city of “hipster charm,” what with its $9-million sidewalk proposal around Gravelly Lake and a property tax increase to that end, an opportunity exists by which to express what you, the taxpayer, think they, your elected representatives, can do with those sidewalks.
Letter: Flip a burger, fined a bunch
Just in time for the BBQ season, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to protect your lungs – and the environment – from backyard burger flipping.
The EPA is concerned (flipped-out) over the air pollution (saving the polar bears) caused by emissions (grease drippings) as the meat is turned.
Pick up litter in Lakewood and it will hurt
Which is worse: picking up pieces of litter, or “advocating a position on a piece of legislation”?
In Lakewood, it’s the latter because doing so will eliminate you from the volunteer litter (of those duly authorized to pick it up.)
Letter: Making ends meet – the circular G(o)LD trail
The circular trail around Gravelly Lake – paralleling Gravelly Lake Drive (GLD) – is, evidently, to be paved in gold.
Estimated at nearly $9 million to construct, the City of Lakewood has identified this path as a priority believing it will lead – somehow – to economic development.
Letter: A $9-million walking (logrolling) path ‘round Gravelly Lake?
And this is important because?
The Lakewood City Council held its retreat Feb.21 at City Hall on the third floor – which is three floors above street level where the rest of the 58,211 people in the city live – but at least that venue is a considerable savings to the taxpayer given the event used to be held at the posh Alderbrook Resort and Spa on Hood Canal.
Letter: The three ‘F’s’ as opposed to the three ‘R’s’
Fluff, frills and froth are a more apt description of what is ostensibly touted as benefiting education – much less professional development – at the National School Board Association (NSBA) annual conferences.
Certainly so in light of the savings to be had, had the members of the Clover Park School District board just stayed home.
Letter: Best bang for the buck in educating our kids
“How to deal with difficult people seminar” was one of the takeaways from the National School Board Association (NSBA) annual conference held last year in New Orleans, Louisiana, attended by four of the five members of the Clover Park School District Board of Directors (CPSD). Count me among the difficult-people group as I have a […]
Letter: No cause for alarm
On an overnighter at Gran and Pappy’s house, she pushed the alarm panic button because she thought it was the light switch hanging as the button was from the lamp cord, made convenient for Pappy who has health issues.
Lakewood Police arrived to what turned out to be a false alarm.