The Suburban Times
A community bulletin board for Western Pierce County.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
Back in about 1989 I noticed a new business getting ready to open in what we then called The Lakewood Mall. The new business was named Starbucks.
When I was growing up it seemed my parents were chained to their personal coffee pot. It was big, shiny and called a percolator or something like that. They dumped the water in and then filled the MJB coffee up to the line marked on the side of the coffee maker. My parents never ventured too far away from the coffee pot.
David Anderson · · ·
Evidently the lawmakers at the State Legislature have had it with the weather. Me, and probably you, too.
David Anderson · · ·
“To Question is the Answer” is an intriguing title for a talk by a city manager who you might think would have all the answers.
David Anderson · · ·
Dilly-dallying while traversing a known avalanche funnel is akin to a partial park ban on smoking as is no ban at all.
In hiking, switchbacks are trails with hairpin turns. In railroading, they’re a way to negotiate steep terrain without tunnels. But in communication – as sometimes in mountain climbing – zigzagging, doubling back, doublespeak, and reversing direction can be disastrous.
David Anderson · · ·
Were we at the same meeting?
I admit I wasn’t there at the presentation by the Lakewood Parks Department to the City Council during the latter’s study session this past Monday evening, February 10, 2014 during which time discussion was aplenty I’m told on the issue of banning tobacco products in city parks.
David Anderson · · ·
There’s a big difference – gi-hugic in fact – between being on a team and simply wearing the same jersey.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
THE GOOD – We have many GOOD businesses in Lakewood, such as Safeway, Saar’s Market, Grocery Outlet, Paldo Plaza and the former K-Mart. THE BAD – Some customers, who patronize our GOOD businesses, are THE BAD because of their criminal behavior involving stealing shopping carts.
David Anderson · · ·
It’s not a class, it’s character.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
This past December 2013, many of us learned of the tragic death of Dr. Thomas Babson and his 8 year old daughter caused by a fire that destroyed their Fox Island home. I had the pleasure of working with Tom while we both served with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.