A small wooden sign with the words “No water next sixteen miles” introduced us to a faint trail that meandered up and into the trees. This narrow and overgrown goat-like track – a harbinger of more hard hiking – suggested that others had opted for the wider, well-traveled and easier way downhill. Given that my […]
Pacific Foods Boxes of Soups Review
I first started trading at Bartell Drugs because they offered great prices on scan disks. Soon, Peg and I would check the ads in the Sunday papers for the Bartell flyer. Scan disks soon transitioned to maple syrup, pickled green beans and asparagus, and other interesting food items at excellent sales prices. In the fall […]
Letter: Resolution And Old Age
As the hourly chiming of the grandfather clock marked time, an old man settled into his worn, leather chair. Often on cold, late winter’s evenings – blanketed and cushioned in the comfortable confines of the crinkled leather – he’d read himself to sleep with stories about adventure. One night he read about Captain Henry Keilett […]
Lakewood First Lions Club hosting drive through Crab Feed Fundraiser
Happy 2021 from the Lakewood First Lions Club, which hopes that you and yours are doing well, despite the awful pandemic that we are all enduring. For those of you who have participated in past Crab Feeds and Dances, thank you. We hope that you will join us for our 2021 version of dining on […]
Letter: Questions For The Clover Park School District Board
If the Clover Park School District Board of Directors is so concerned about a three word statement by a fellow board member – which led to a special meeting being called for him to explain his alleged racist statement – then how do board members know when they see actual racism? If the board of […]
Letter: Amtrak On Track To Be Safe – This Time
“Expect to see trains going 79 mph through Tacoma, Lakewood and DuPont soon,” reads the headline in the January 7 Tacoma News Tribune. “We have demonstrated, I think, to them (Pierce County communities) and everyone else that all of the necessary safety measures that Amtrak is expected to take before this testing have been fully […]
Across the Fence: A Route of Surprises
Do you catch yourself getting bored with a specific traveling route to a destination? Well, it happened to us the other day when we headed to the coast near Astoria, OR, to celebrate my husband’s birthday. In the past, we had done the I-5 route all the way to Longview and from there straight into […]
Letter: LIVE or DIE
Love, Individualism, Vision and Effort were the four non-negotiable principles Clover Park School District Superintendent Ron Banner instilled in his adopted son, Zach Banner, an offensive tackle for the Pittsburg Steelers. In an April 19, 2010 article entitled Zach Banner – A Profile in Character, Chris Fetters wrote: “The basis of Ron’s teachings toward Zach […]
Is there a book doctor in the house?
A rotating panel of authors with great experience and many published books between them will give you tips for getting your book going from idea to print to launch. The Book Doctors – Thursday, January 7 – 2:00 pm Pacific Time – zoom virtual monthly event This is not a program where aspiring authors read […]