The first weekend in May, Rotary District 5020 held their annual conference in Tacoma (Hotel Murano). District 5020 is one of the few international Rotary districts in the world and contains Rotarians on Vancouver Island, B.C. and Western Washington from Pierce County south to Woodland including the Olympic Peninsula. Worldwide Rotary unites over a million […]
To Ponder
Letter: Educate or eradicate – a pot predicament
The upcoming night of May 7, the Lakewood City Council will recognize with a proclamation in their honor, the “more than 940 Clover Park School District (CPSD) certified employees (who) work to open student’s minds to ideas, knowledge and dreams” (p.005, of 534).
Chinese and the Mississippi Delta – Not that Far Away
I don’t know how I stumbled onto Untold America on Facebook, but the programs are riveting and unusual. The first one I found was “Chinese and the Mississippi Delta,” which told the story of the Chinese in Mississippi. Since over the last year I’ve been involved in the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation, I was drawn […]
Home from Home: White Asparagus
Submitted by Susanne Bacon What is it with German-Americans and their love for white asparagus? We keep craving it especially during spring time. We do a dance of joy as soon as we spot some in a supermarket. We talk about it on Facebook when we have found some, and all our German-American friends go […]
Eating Chinese Food and Planting Seeds of Science
After dining with our granddaughter and her boyfriend at a Taiwanese restaurant at the South Center Mall, I searched for local Chinese restaurants that offered Taiwanese food. We had already visited The Fortune Cookie in DuPont and had plans to visit Tacoma Szechuan in Lakewood. Life sometimes moves faster than our plans, however. An ultra-quick […]
Facts and Fun – Lakewood Playhouse & John Munn
Lakewood Playhouse was founded in 1938. They currently have a 180-seat theatre at the Lakewood Towne Center. Their building turned 50 Years Old in 2016. I performed in a one-act play at the old location during the summer of 1963. Over the years Peg and I have seen numerous productions at Lakewood Playhouse. The Managing […]
Letter: The Roly Poly and the Worm
“Grandpa look!” It was a white-handled child’s plastic play blue bucket full of dirt.
Letter: ‘We got the best weed!’
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Hemp! and other such hypocritical juvenile-isms – as the one headlined here and making headlines nationally what with Washington Gov. Inslee’s teevee pot pronouncement last week on the Bill Maher show – may soon high-light the high-way to lure passers-by to get their highs here instead of elsewhere.
Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
The greatest blues song of all times starts out with the lament, “I hate to see, that evenin’ sun go down.” Some say that the W. C. Handy wail is a precursor to another night alone and homeless on the streets of St. Louis. If you’ve ever experienced a winter in a mid-western city with […]