The Suburban Times
A community bulletin board for Western Pierce County.
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Do you like to eat crab? Do you like to dance? Then plan on attending the Lakewood First Lions Club’s Crab Feed and Dance at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 at Clover Park Technical College’s Sharon McGavick Center.
Wine, beer and pop and water are available or you can select to purchase a bottle of wine from the organization’s Wall of Wine. Music provided by the well-known Lakewood band, “The Derivatives.”
Joseph Boyle · · ·
I met John and Nancieann Anderson back in the 1970s when we worked at New York Life Insurance Company. The two of them have been serving our Lakewood community for decades as members of Lakewood First Lions Club. John has 40 years of volunteer service with the Lions. Nancieann has 20 years service.
David Anderson · · ·
We were the only team without pants to match.
Scruffy jeans with holes in the knees, a third of the boys without mitts, and none – not one – of the 11 having every played organized baseball before.
David Anderson · · ·
A Camp Murray gate-relocate she-said-he-said is back in the news.
Former Lakewood City Councilman Walter Neary called it “one of the most bitter neighborhood debates in recent memory.”
David Anderson · · ·
Who gambles more, the fit or the fat?
“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave.”
David Anderson · · ·
The top priority of the Lakewood Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) is to “develop a shopping cart ordinance.”
David Anderson · · ·
That’s a good thing.
Unless you’re an airplane or its pilot in which case you’re not allowed to fly.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
One of the fun things about being a writer, who no longer writes police reports, is I can be creative in my writing. When you write police reports, being creative is not acceptable. It is all about, “Just the facts.”
Some of you may have heard the classic admonition, “No Wife, No Horse, No Mustache,” which originated with the U.S.Military Academy at West Point, commonly referred to as simply, West Point. West Point is located in West Point, New York.
David Anderson · · ·
On my first day of Kindergarten I turned around and walked back home.
Maybe if I’d have gotten that first hug from her like all the other five-year-olds entering those scary halls of learning at Tillicum Elementary School I’d have stayed but she never got the opportunity.