We were the only team without pants to match.
Scruffy jeans with holes in the knees, a third of the boys without mitts, and none – not one – of the 11 having every played organized baseball before.
To Ponder
Letter: Impacted Teeth and City Government
A Camp Murray gate-relocate she-said-he-said is back in the news.
Former Lakewood City Councilman Walter Neary called it “one of the most bitter neighborhood debates in recent memory.”
Letter: Of Mice and Men – Munchies and Lotteries
Who gambles more, the fit or the fat?
“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave.”
Letter: Shopping Carts Over Saving Lives
The top priority of the Lakewood Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) is to “develop a shopping cart ordinance.”
Letter: You’re Grounded!
That’s a good thing.
Unless you’re an airplane or its pilot in which case you’re not allowed to fly.
Westside Story – ‘No Wife, No Horse, No Mustache, No Cell Phone’
One of the fun things about being a writer, who no longer writes police reports, is I can be creative in my writing. When you write police reports, being creative is not acceptable. It is all about, “Just the facts.”
Some of you may have heard the classic admonition, “No Wife, No Horse, No Mustache,” which originated with the U.S.Military Academy at West Point, commonly referred to as simply, West Point. West Point is located in West Point, New York.
Letter: Everything We Needed to Know
On my first day of Kindergarten I turned around and walked back home.
Maybe if I’d have gotten that first hug from her like all the other five-year-olds entering those scary halls of learning at Tillicum Elementary School I’d have stayed but she never got the opportunity.
Westside Story – Pariskevopoulos
Each and every one of us has an interesting life story. That being true, I realize I could spend my lifetime trying to tell all these stories without ever leaving Starbucks.
Todays story starts with the word Pariskevopoulos. Pariskevopoulos is an original pre-America last name from Greece. It is the family name of my Starbucks friend, Kayden Paris. His full name originally would have been Justin Kayden Pariskevopoulos, had it not been for the impact of influential circumstances. His name is constantly being reshaped by societal events. For most of his life he went by his first name, Justin. That changed when he joined the Starbucks team. There were already three Justins working 100th Street Starbucks. A fourth Justin was just too much. Justin decided to use his middle name, Kayden.
Letter: Ruby Apts. Plan Rubs Oakbrook Residents Wrong
And the Camp Murray gate-relocate similarity.
Lakewood City Councilman Mike Brandstetter wants to know how the zoning that allows for three-story apartments planned for Oakbrook – four buildings at 40 feet tall housing 66 units covering nearly 3 acres to include a multipurpose building and 121 parking stalls – differs from what happened in Tillicum with the relocation of Camp Murray’s gate.