The Gang Unit of the Lakewood Police Department will be the featured presentation at the Thursday, August 4, 2016 (6:30 P.M.) meeting of the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association. The meeting will take place at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. Learn more from the Association’s newsletter.
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Donate those unused eyeglasses
Looking to donate those eyeglasses you’ve had laying around the house for a long time? Look no further than the Lakewood First Lions Club, which has been collecting and recycling used eyeglasses since 1954. The used eyeglasses collected by the club (more than 6,000 in 2014) are processed and packaged by the Northwest Lions Eyeglass […]
Letter: Saving America
There’s of course not enough detergent to clean – much less clothesline to hang – all the dirty laundry that seems an appropriate analogy to describe what’s wrong with the U.S. (and us, for that matter) but here’s just two quick examples from recent headlines: “A former Stanford University swimmer gets a six-month jail sentence […]
Letter: A portrait of perseverance: Sheriffs finally put infant’s headstone to rest
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.
Westside Story – Political Sign Watchdog
FREE COUNTRY: We live in a wonderful country that allows citizens to participate in their government, political campaigns and to vote. I support and cherish these gifts of freedom. CHILDISH POLITICAL SIGNS: What I do not cherish is the juvenile grade school kiddie practice of posting campaign signs all over town. These signs are a […]