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Westside Story – Christmas 2015 Canceled

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Do you remember the stories I shared with you titled Christmas Community Angels and Christmas Angels – 15th Year? Christmas Angel Joan Eisenhardt phoned me a few days after the giant Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare Holiday Gift Give-A-Way program to report on the results. She had amazing things to tell me, which means I have amazing things to tell you.

The first person in line at arrived at 1:00 a.m. the morning of Friday, December 12, 2014, for the scheduled 9:00 a.m. opening time. The second client arrived at 2:00 a.m. By 6:30 a.m. the line stretched around the building. They arrived by car, bus and on foot.

Letter: Fireworks during a burn ban?

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Do fireworks contribute to air pollution? Yes. Are fireworks considered “outdoor burning” which is banned during a Stage One Burn Ban which has been called by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) this New Year’s Eve? Given “the exceedance of fine particle pollution” acknowledged as commonly associated with, and attributed to, fireworks you would […]

Letter: The matching game

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One of our grandsons (he’s 8) is very, very good at those kinds of games where cards picturing this or that must be turned over to form a matched pair.

I wonder how he – or you – would do with these. Which of the following match? (A) a slave who becomes a king; (B) an overbearing fool who prospers; (C) a bitter woman who finally gets a husband; (D) a servant girl when she ousts her queen.

Letter: If Jesus were born today

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Automated email/text alert from BrickHouse Security to both the mobile phones and computers of the W.T.K. in an undisclosed but highly secured location in the Orient:

“Jesus is on the move.”

Letter: ‘Because we can’ is not good enough

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When money is allocated for one purpose but then is used for another, is that legit? When members of the Lakewood Police Department (LPD), or, for that matter, board members of the Clover Park School District (CPSD), jet across the country to attend conferences – whether using grant funds or department funds, let alone buy […]

Westside Story – Christmas Angels – 15th Year

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On March 5, 2014, I wrote a story titled, Westside Story – Community Christmas Angels.

The two women featured in my story have done it again.  On December 12, 2014, The Friends and Family Holiday Give-A-Way was held. Christmas Angels, Joan Eisenhardt and Kathy Sweeney, volunteered for a solid year in their effort to create a joyous Christmas holiday for 500 low income Greater Lakes Mental Health Care clients who suffer from a variety of debilitating mental illness conditions.  Greater Lakes, which must be considered a community asset, is located in the City of Lakewood at 9330 – 59th Av SW.  T: 253-581-7020.

Westside Story – Grim Reaper – Part V

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During Grim Reaper – Part IV (Link) we left off with the Grim Reaper bubbling with excitement as he held me in a headlock with my heart rate sinking to 19.

Somehow I managed to live through the night so the next morning they rolled me towards the operating room. As we drew near, the nurse instructed my wife to sit in the waiting area.

Westside Story – Grim Reaper – Part IV

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When we left our suffering hero, Joe Boyle, in the last segment of the award winning series, Grim Reaper – Part III, (LINK) Joe was deciding between 1) following his doctor’s orders to move his half dead body to St. Joseph Emergency Department or 2) making a break for Starbucks it in a state of panic.

Did you notice I slipped into 3rd person?