It’s the day after the Academy Awards, as I am writing this article, and the world of TV audience seems to be divided. I didn’t even watch the entire program, just maybe the last 15 minutes. To be honest, it has become way too political for my taste. And each and everybody of those who […]
To Ponder
How to Help St. Vinnies and Others in Your Community
People in our communities need help. St. Vinnies (St. Vincent de Paul Society) has been offering assistance to individuals for years, but there are others who help as well. It seems that every year the load gets heavier and the number of people in lines grow longer. Many people step up to help, but we […]
Your Old Car Could Be Someone’s Salvation
By donating your old car, St. Vinnies can resell or provide transportation to the doctor’s officer, the grocery store, kindergarten . . . or to work! Even decades old cars can help someone. St. Vinnies can spin your old car into gold for a desperate family in Tacoma/Pierce County. Regardless if you drove it yesterday […]
Not Out of Gas but Out for Cash
I had dropped off my wife Peg for her allergy shots at the Baker Center, visited Johnson’s Candy a few blocks south for some energy and had gone back to park outside the Baker Center on MLK Jr Way, formerly K Street where the second place we lived after marriage was an apartment at 911 […]
Gyro Bites – Delightfully Surprising
We don’t follow through and write reviews of every restaurant we visit. We know how hard it is to be successful with location, workers, menus, and service . . . and of course food worth eating and telling the world about. I first ate at Gyro Bites before COVID. My buddy Jim Harris and I […]
Across the Fence: Symphonic Poetry
Submitted by Susanne Bacon. The first time I was ever aware that there are such things as topical programs to orchestral music, I was in fifth grade. Our music teacher told us just to listen and try to figure what we were listening to. I was bewitched by the piece, and though I can’t remember […]
Homeless Neighbors – A Sad Ending
A friend wrote me this over the weekend: “Today, for a third time, I attended a memorial for homeless neighbors who died while living on our streets. A name read, a bell rung. Anonymous to most, neighbors to some, family members to others. Homeless people die about 28 years younger than those who are housed. […]
Letter: CPSD discipline policy. A recipe for chaos.
Submitted by John Arbeeny. “There are none so blind as those who will not see,” Jonathan Swift, 1738. I reviewed the 14 March 2022 Clover Park School District (CPSD) Board regular meeting and came away with observations on the most significant issue: District discipline policy. Agenda Item 22-102, Adoption of Policies, Policy 3241 “Student Discipline” […]
God Said This – Play Review – Dukesbay Theater
God Said This is a play about sickness, death, petty remembrances, and love. The play addresses the lives of Japanese Americans. The author herself, Leah Nanako Winkler, is a Japanese American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her play God Said This won the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize. She is a recipient of […]