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To Ponder

Westside Story – Pediamorphosis

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Being smart, like my wife, who was in the Top Ten of every class she attended: grade school, high school and college, is thought to be most desirable.

Let me hasten to tell you; it is also desirable to possess a low level of intellect. Take me, for example. One of the fun things a low-level intellect guy does for the amusement of smart people is to mess up words like too, to and two; isle and aisle; then and than; youth and “yute"; merry, marry and Mary. I use close, but wrong words all the time. I don’t mean to. It just happens. It would drive me crazy if it were not for the fact that I realize guys like me are needed to make the intelligence comparison possible. Smart people could not look intelligent without low intellects paving the way.

Westside Story – No One Is Safe

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Our The Suburban Times Editorial Cartoonist, SWS, strikes again. This cartoon proves that anyone or any topic can end up on the sharp point of the Shake’s Spear spear.

Yes, even the publisher of The Suburban Times, Sir Benjamin Sclair, becomes a target.

Westside Story – When I Am Gone

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My title is the name of a song, When I Am Gone. Well, I am not gone yet, but I am getting older. One of the fun things about getting older — yes, there are some fun things — is having long term friendships.

In 1975, my daughter, Paige Evers, met a little girl in Judy Drysdale’s Oakbrook Children’s Center pre-school, named Jenny Hammond. They were only 3 years old.

Letter: Wreck-reational Marijuana

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There’s a team coming – our featured presentation – to the November 5th meeting of the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association (TWNA), 6:30 P.M., to present their case as to why Lakewood should allow – since city leaders have made it clear they’re not likely to endorse – recreational marijuana (MJ) sales.

Westside Story – Cottage Zoning

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Lakewood City Council, please be careful. An article appeared in the Suburban Times titled, Cottage Housing Code (click the link to see the earlier story).

While I did not feel like I had time to deal with yet another challenge to our community, my 40 plus years experience working around small size, low cost housing as a Real Estate Broker, investor, landlord and property management company owner along with 23 years in law enforcement compelled me to share my thoughts on the cottage zoning issue being voted on by Lakewood City Council on Monday, October 5, 2015.

Letter: Adoption Day

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There’s an ancient proverb that reads: “A house is built by wisdom and by understanding it is entirely put in good order. And the inner chambers are filled by knowledge with every possession, honor and delight.”

Letter: Photo Finish

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Or rather more accurately, a photo of us having finished.
I’ve never wanted to quit a race shortly after it started in my entire 27 on-again, off-again years of rowing.

Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Part VI

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If you missed Parts I – V including Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Alternate Ending, click the link if you wish to catch up with the full story.

Yes, it is true. Some gangsters tried to rob and kill me and three of my pals back in 1965 while we were walking on Fullerton Avenue Beach at Lake Michigan in Chicago. Eventually we returned to our home states of New Jersey and Washington; alive I might add. But before we could return home, we were in for some more drama.