Submitted by Beth Elliott. I am running for the DuPont City Council because I believe responsible growth is a way to protect and enhance our quality of life. My last letter focused on zoning codes and this one focuses on recreation. I believe we should expand our recreational opportunities in a thoughtful, realistic, and affordable […]
To Ponder
Across the Fence: Frost
This week, Lakewood experienced its first morning of frost. Waking to a clear, sunny sky on Tuesday morning, I found that our neighborhood’s roofs were all glistening white, and so were the front lawns. The thermometer showed me a mere 31 degrees Fahrenheit. An hour later, the sky was clouded, and the magic was gone. […]
Letter: Who Are The Extremists?
Submitted by John C. Alessio. Dr. Marty Shafer, current president of the Clover Park School Board, has been attacked, and is now being challenged by a reckless extremist. The Clover Park School District has been recognized as a “Board of Distinction” five times, and in 2019 was named the “School Board of the Year” during […]
Letter: Indoctrination is exactly what Dave Anderson and Jeff Brown Seek
Submitted by Taniesha Lyons. This is why Marty Schafer and Alyssa Anderson Pearson get my vote and should get yours too. The Family Policy Institute of Washington has a clear plan for indoctrination over education according to them anyone who can click the box “other” has no place in the schools. Religion should not be […]
Letter – Clover Park School Board: attendance, test scores, grade completion define student, Board and District success or failure
Submitted by John Arbeeny. As mentioned in my previous Suburban Times article “To debate or not to debate: that is the question” I reviewed the Clover Park School Board candidates’ comments during the League of Women Voters forum conducted 23 September 2021. Current Board President Schafer dropped another bomb (besides disowning debate) during this forum, […]
Letter: Equity?
The definition that comes up when you Google Equity . . . is “the quality of being fair and impartial. I think most of us have seen the below cartoon about equity vs. equality. I recently spoke at a public meeting and posed the question to publicly elected officials about how to do more for […]
Letter: Endorsement for Jeff Brown and David Anderson for Clover Park School Board
Submitted by Paul Wagemann, Director #5 CPSB. During the November 2019 election the Clover Park voters elected me to serve as aClover Park school board director with over 60 percent of the votes cast. I have served as a director since April 2009 and have done my best to support theDistrict, the Board, our students […]
‘Let’s Play Too!’ (Dog Park)
Submitted by Greg Rediske. The great Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs always knew how lucky he was to play the game of baseball for a living. And he’d express that with the enthusiastic shout of “Let’s play two!”, meaning playing a double header—the first one was so fun, let’s play again. It occurs to […]
Letter: History on “Equity”
Submitted by Candyce Hernandez. The last school board meeting people (and Paul Wagemann) who are against the new iteration of the Equity policy we’re slandered as “conspiracy theorists” for believing the ties equity has to Marxism. Let me explain why this isn’t conspiracy and you should probably refer to the Communist Manifesto. From each according […]