The Suburban Times
A community bulletin board for Western Pierce County.
David Anderson · · ·
How intriguing is our sometimes fantastical world – what we can see, though not with the naked eye.
For Alice, of “Alice in Wonderland” fame, it was by “by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it,” as told by Lewis Carroll in the sequel “Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.”
Joseph Boyle · · ·
I remember back in the late 90s when I was with the Lakewood Police Department, a proposal surfaced to build a skate park. It was thought a skate park would provide our youth with healthy, safe and legal activity where they could hang out with friends and expend some of the teenage energy that we all wish we still had. Some of our local youth made an organized effort to communicate to our Lakewood City Council their support for building a skate park. Our city council listened and then took action. Isn’t that great? Kids talk and adults listen. Kids and adults working together to make our city a better place to live, work and play. Lakewood is a kid friendly city.
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Approximately 300 Lakewood children participated in an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, March 28th, at Springbrook Park, sponsored by the Lakewood First Lions Club and Caring for Kids.
David Anderson · · ·
One year for my mom’s birthday (March 6), and with May Day and then Mother’s Day right around the corner, I bought her a flowering pink cherry blossom tree. At least that’s what the tag said. There was no evidence that this spindly, scrawny, skeleton of a few twigs was what it said it was or that it was even alive.
David Anderson · · ·
By David Anderson, President Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association
The registration fees for our entire team of 13 are totally paid for! At $90 each that’s $1,170 all from individuals throughout the Tillicum community.
David Anderson · · ·
Just in time for the BBQ season, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to protect your lungs – and the environment – from backyard burger flipping.
The EPA is concerned (flipped-out) over the air pollution (saving the polar bears) caused by emissions (grease drippings) as the meat is turned.
David Anderson · · ·
Which is worse: picking up pieces of litter, or “advocating a position on a piece of legislation”?
In Lakewood, it’s the latter because doing so will eliminate you from the volunteer litter (of those duly authorized to pick it up.)
David Anderson · · ·
Fluff, frills and froth are a more apt description of what is ostensibly touted as benefiting education – much less professional development – at the National School Board Association (NSBA) annual conferences.
Certainly so in light of the savings to be had, had the members of the Clover Park School District board just stayed home.
David Anderson · · ·
“How to deal with difficult people seminar” was one of the takeaways from the National School Board Association (NSBA) annual conference held last year in New Orleans, Louisiana, attended by four of the five members of the Clover Park School District Board of Directors (CPSD). Count me among the difficult-people group as I have a […]