Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Back in the early 1990s I met a cool guy by the name of Deputy Dan Hacker. He was cool then and he is cool now. Dan, always looking for a way to be a helpful to our community, serves as a Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy. For as long […]
Letter: Think About It
By David Anderson Why are football players stereotypically dumb? Why are blondes the brunt of jokes? And what does this have to do the collapse of our country? The answer, with respect to those on the gridiron, is not that they can’t handle homework. And blondes, well, the fact that they have more fun is to suggest a […]
Westside Story – Crash-Art Finger Painting
Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle It is interesting to me that every human being making foot prints on our planet has a life story. The story is not always heard or told or written, but everyone has a story. In fact, having said that, if you have a story you might like to share […]
Letter: Tillicum Taken Off Life-Support
By David Anderson On its way to the morgue, Tillicum takes a detour with a flicker-of-life new lane for I-5. Vital signs: Backbone connectivity deterioration; critical lifeline threatened let alone curtailment of future growth and the latter only if delays in treatment are immediately addressed; congestion and clogging of arterials and choke points severe, experienced […]
Letter: Rail Rock ‘n Roll
By David Anderson It’s called “summer’s biggest moving party,” a chance for people to rock out before the train rolls on. Given the low view of high speed rail that unappreciative folks have taken toward the Point Defiance Rail Bypass that proposes to reroute passenger trains through Tillicum and other points of interest along I-5 […]
Betty Wellington celebrates 100th Birthday with Family & Friends
Betty Wellington worked for many years as a travel planner for AAA. She has just celebrated her 100th Birthday with a festive party in the Gallery/Library at Bridgeport Place Retirement and Assisted Living. Betty had lived in her own condo in Issaquah all by herself until just a couple of years ago when she decided to […]
Westside Story: Black & White Vs. Black & White
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle The day I arrived by motorcycle in the southern town of Clarksdale, Mississippi I checked into The Shack Up Inn, which is a historic cotton plantation. I spent a week living in a rustic sharecropper shack on the plantation. The shack was named Legends after icon Bluesman Buddy Guy’s […]
Letter: A Transportation “Listening” Tour?
By David Anderson “State Senate leaders have announced the details of a ‘listening tour’ that will collect public input on transportation needs,” Jordan Schrader is reporting in the August 28 Tacoma News Tribune. Groan. Given I-5’s competing-demand-for-capacity, 275 miles in our state described by Douglas B. MacDonald in Crosscut, this past May 16, as “in desperate need of repair, rehabilitation, […]
Letter: Rowers – and Celebrities – On the Rocks
Nine girls soaking wet, a submerged boat, a dislocated thumb and a trip to the hospital. A Cornish proverb runs, “He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.” It had all started out well enough as most disasters do.