Mountain View Funeral Home: Fred A. Schenk. Fir Lane Memorial Park: Charles A. Duggins. Gaffney Funeral Home: Jean Evelyn Balman; Tacoma Mausoleum & Mortuary: Jeffery Zupan; Douglas Wright.
Friends of the Lakewood Library Donation Dropoff, Saturday, Feb. 15
Submitted by Robert Estrada. In preparation for the May 2-3, 2025 book sales, donation drop-off dates are the Saturdays of February 15, March 15, and April 12. Please bring your donations to the back parking lot of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 10630 Gravelly Lake Dr SW, Lakewood, from 11am to 1PM. In addition to books, […]
Letter: Towers of Babel in the Modern Era
Submitted by Aaron Arkin. According to Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was built to reach the heavens by a united humanity. God, observing this arrogance, resolved to confuse humanity’s previously uniform language, dooming the project and preventing any such future efforts. Still, with mathematics the lingua franca of architects and […]
Obituary Notices – February 12, 2025
New Tacoma Cemeteries and Funeral Home: Ingeborg L Carmona. Mountain View Funeral Home: Kelley B.C. Hopkins; James Alan Jenkins; Lon Lacina; Rodolfo Sanchez Rodriguez; Thomas Rogacki. Fir Lane Memorial Park: Arthur S. Mattocks. Powers Funeral Home: Christine Louise Thompson; Joan Hamburg; Beatrice L. Utzig; Vladimir Pavlov; Lelia Mickle; Chul K. Morin; Helen Reynolds.
Steilacoom Super Work Party XIV. Mother Nature Has the Last Word
Submitted by Nancy E. Henderson. Hours before Super Bowl LIX began, with assurances of no precipitation, 27 energetic volunteers attended Steilacoom’s Super Work Party XIV. This was the 14th work party devoted to restoring habitat along a stretch of the Town’s 5th Street Waterway which has lacked native plants and adequate shade. The 5th Street […]
Lakeview Light & Power’s Be The Spark Scholarship Applications Due Feb. 27
By Sarah LaBrasca, Lakeview Light & Power. Lakeview Light & Power is reminding local students that the application deadline for the 2025 Be The Spark Scholarship is quickly approaching! Applications are due by 5:30pm on Thursday, February 27, to the LLP office at 11509 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood. LLP is encouraging eligible students to apply […]
Andrea Smith Hudson: Honoring a loving mother by forging change
Office of Rep. Mari Leavitt, 28th Legislative District press release. Andrea Smith Hudson was a loving mother, daughter, and sister who loved camping, spending time outdoors, and caring for her family. One tragic day last March, Andrea was picking up her kids along with some other children from their homeschool co-op when she was hit by […]
Obituary Notices – February 11, 2025
New Tacoma Cemeteries and Funeral Home: Dorothy Breitenbach. Mountain View Funeral Home: Randy Paul Benitez; Jacqueline M Curtis-Faker; Tina Marie Williams. Gaffney Funeral Home: Gerald James Mayo; Gerald Lee Anderson.
Letter: Pluralism
Submitted by Greg Alderete. Pluralism, often praised as a strength of democracy, can be manipulated into a tool of division, serving the interests of those in power rather than the people. Throughout history, leaders who seek to maintain control have understood that the greatest threat to entrenched elites is a unified working class. To prevent […]