Words are supposed to mean something. A promise made should be a promise kept.
Desiree Winkler, Transportation Division Manager for the City of Lakewood, wants to take money earmarked for one purpose in Tillicum and use it for another.
To Know
Letter: More to the Story
Culpable – the Center, the City, or both?
According to the May 4th article in the Tacoma News Tribune in which the Tillicum Community Center feared loss of funding which a follow-up article now declares is reality – the decision based upon “concerns with its past financial reporting” – Jeff Gumm, Lakewood’s program grant coordinator said that “the city is required by HUD to review the finances of the groups that receive the money every two to three years.”
Letter: Fluffernutters and Shopping Carts
What does a peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwich – the Fluffernutter – inMassachusetts, have in common with shopping carts in Lakewood?
Both – sandwiches and shopping carts – are apparently serious legislative directives by their respective governments for further study likely leading to official enactments.
Letter: Human Speed Bumps
If walking into a lamppost is labeled an insurable injury, what do you call a misappropriation of funds?
Feeling run down?
Letter: Once Upon a Dime
Speeding is bad, except when it’s not.
And not a dime more than $15,000 will be spent addressing it in Tillicum.
If that.
Letter: You Lie Like a Dog
National Honesty Day, April 30, is a day to tell the truth about dogs.
And cats, their counterparts from hell.
If there’s one thing that dogs do not do its lie. Lie around but not lie.
Letter: Heart Burn
They say it’s what you eat.
It’s not.
It’s what eats you.
Westside Story – Starbucks Customers Walk Out
Sunday morning around 10:00 am, I stopped in at Starbucks for a cup of beverage, some fun talk with friends and to do some writing on my laptop.
I suffered a long wait. While standing in line, 4 customers became frustrated and left the store without making their intended purchase.
Westside Story – Starbucks 3rd Place is Dying
Howard Schultz, had a dream. He took an idea found in Europe, the sidewalk coffee shop, and imported it to America and then spread his wonderful idea around the world eventually returning full circle establishing Starbucks stores in Europe where his idea was born.