As I shared, a few months back, I began a journey 24 months ago. My goal is to swim across Lake Erie, a 24 mile non-stop swim. One day this month, between July 17 & 23, I will find out if the culmination of my work will pay off. Since my journey started I have […]
Letter: Marathon Swim to support Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital
This summer, during the third week in July, I was approved by the Lake Erie Open Water Swim Assoc. to attempt a 24 mile non-stop swim, from Canada back to Pennsylvania. I spoke about my plans at the April 18, 2022 Lakewood City Council meeting which you can watch at the 53 minute mark, on […]
Letter: Three South Sound Parks Reviewed
What a sunny and great weekend we just enjoyed. As I have written before, my four legged friend loves to get out and explore and this weekend was no exception, she enjoyed/explored three South Sound Parks. The first was the Meridian Habitat Park in Puyallup, located at 144th and Meridian. The highlight of this 36 […]
Letter: Lakewood Potholes
On January 9th the City of Lakewood posted an update on the Gravelly Lake Dr. construction. On January 10th I commented on how other roads have been negatively effected. Well today, Monday January 17th 2022 I would like to start a timer to see how long it takes the City to fill the potholes along […]
2021 Steilacoom H.S. Graduate Makes ASU Dean’s List
Kerrigan Hills, a 2021 Steilacoom H.S. & Pierce College Running Start Graduate, makes the Dean’s list in her first semester at ASU’s College of Health Solutions. Congratulations Kerrigan on a very successful first semester. 1 down 3 to go. You got this!!
Letter: CPSD… “Leadership That Listens”?
I saw signs all over Lakewood a month or so ago about “Leadership That Listens.” However, my experience has been quite the opposite and the recent mascot change at Clover Park High School is the latest example of how leadership does NOT listen. If leadership was listening, they would not have waited until the last […]
Letter: CPSD – 5 Months Late
As reported back in May 2021 by KIRO TV the CPSD website was hacked. I have read several submitted letters, here in the Suburban Times, about the District not notifying student’s families with regard to what info may have been stolen, as a result of the hack. I have been employed by CPSD on 3 […]
Letter: Equity?
The definition that comes up when you Google Equity . . . is “the quality of being fair and impartial. I think most of us have seen the below cartoon about equity vs. equality. I recently spoke at a public meeting and posed the question to publicly elected officials about how to do more for […]
Letter: CPSD Board Members work for…?
On my way home from Chambers Bay, after a walk with my favorite K-9, I drove past the corner of Whitman and Motor Ave, here in Lakewood. Some election signs caught my attention and made me question who some of the Clover Park School District Board Members are truly representing? The storefront, on the corner, […]