Detective Bunton, Lakewood Police Department, and possibly Chief Mike Zaro, will update the Tillicum and Woodbrook community this coming Thursday, November 7, 6:30 P.M. concerning the ongoing investigation of the incident this past month on Tillicum’s Washington Ave. in which a “teen died after being shot in the back and his friend is charged in the […]
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Juicy Crowd Drawer in Steilacoom
Last Sunday morning started off with a thick layer of fog after a rosy dawn. That is usually good foreboding for a brilliant fall day here in the South Puget Sound region, and the Steilacoom Historical Museum Association couldn’t have wished for better. For it was hosting the Annual Apple Squeeze for the 46th time. […]
Lakewood Police Citizens Academy, Pt I
20 people were scheduled and appeared for the first Lakewood Police Department Citizen Academy. The course is an immersive study into the background and assets of a modern police force. It is a series of 10 classes that will happen in September and October, most on Thursday nights, with two of the classes happening on […]
Fire and Ice – Film Review
I am a HUGE fan of Ralph Bakshi. If you’re not familiar with him, Bakshi is the innovative director and animator of various independent adult-oriented animated films such Coonskin (1975), American Pop (1981) and Fritz the Cat, which was the first animated film to receive an X rating. While most animated films up until that […]
Not Kidding. We’re History.
History is being made on the Fourth Friday of every month at the Lakewood Senior Activity Center. Believe it or not. That’s the day Amanatee Radio Ear of Sarasota Florida records “Swimming Upstream, Dorothy Wilhelm’s Internet Radio Show.” Where you will hear programming you can’t hear anywhere else. Right this minute, drop everything and go […]
Susanne Bacon’s 5th Wycliff Novel Visits with Ghosts of the Past
While assessing the inventory of an old villa, Izzy Watson, the Wycliff museum’s part-time curator, wonders who is leaving vintage jewelry on her doorstep. This is the beginning of my fifth novel in my series centered on the fictitious South Puget Sound Victorian small-town of Wycliff. Or is it? Because “Haunted Homes” – that is […]
“We Just Suspend Your Social Security Number…”
Be on the lookout for this newest scam. At 8 a.m. Tuesday morning I received this robotic voice message. “This call is from the Department of Social Security Administration. The reason you have received this phone call from our department is to inform you that we just suspend (sic) your social security number because we […]
More Leadership for Lakewood
One of the presumed ‘candidates’ for Lakewood has a webpage proudly displaying both a yard sign AND a request for donations, even before filing. Not only am I NOT fundraising. I will not rely on yard signs to clutter up our city. I will rely on contact with community members. Next week I will file […]
Fishing event, town cleanup, trains and more
The Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association newsletter for the month of April can be downloaded here. Remember our monthly community meeting is the first Thursday so April 4, 6:30 P.M., Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW.