No Trains Through Tillicum is the featured presentation by Washington State Senator Steve O’Ban at the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association (TWNA) meeting August 1, 6:30 P.M., Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. You may have seen that sign along I-5, the one about trucks leaving the highway. Trains likewise should continue to be rerouted […]
Westside Story – Uncle Melvin’s Bike Story Contains No Political Opinions
I hope many of my readers think like me. I never tire of seeing Uncle Melvin’s bicycle. The bike’s appearance changes constantly. The bike is decorated in some manner every year by my talented, confidential, undercover, uncredentialed Master Gardener. She is not a card-carrying Master Gardener because she does not like going to meetings. If […]
Adult Family Homes Senior Care Alternatives for Puyallup – Lakewood – Tacoma
As our population ages, there is a growing concern about senior care. There are excellent assisted living facilities in our backyard like Brookdale in Parkland and Cascade Park in Tacoma as well as others. Many of these places have management and staff and most dispense excellent care, but there is an alternative: Adult Family Homes. […]
The Urban Elk Restaurant Breakfast Review
The restaurant Urban Elk name had come up three times in the last few days. One was from my buddy Steve Anderson asking if I had tried the restaurant, yet. I said, “No,” but was corrected by two other people that I had . . . but had not reviewed it. The Urban Elk took […]
Can Five Million Taco Eating Norwegians Be Wrong?
No one is sure when tacos were first eaten. There is evidence that people in the Valley of Mexico ate tacos filled with fish. There is historical documentation that supposedly the first Europeans to feast on tacos was at a dinner that Hernán Cortés gave for his captains. Have you ever heard of Norwegian tacos? […]
Westside Story – New Name For Tacoma's Proctor District
There has been a lot of high tension hand wringing in the news lately related to a building expansion explosion in one of my favorite Tacoma neighborhoods known as the Proctor District. If you have never visited Proctor, I recommend you check it out. They have a Starbucks on the corner, the Pacific Northwest Shop, […]
Across the Fence: A Short Waterfall Hike
Waterfalls have always fascinated me. Especially from below, but also from a place distant enough where you can grasp their size. You somehow don’t get this when you are standing right on top of them. And that was one of the reasons why my husband and I decided to hike to some falls in the […]
Princess Ida reigns in Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan frolic
Submitted By Peg Doman. When I read the press release from the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society, I was a bit put off with the theme of the current season, “Challenging the Canon”. But I was reassured because the Society aims “to preserve the gorgeous music, wit and story-telling from the Victorian theater while also […]
Breakfast at Chambers Bay – Restaurant Review
I arrived at Chambers Bay about fifteen minutes early to admire the spectacular view. The time of year or the weather doesn’t matter. There are little hillocks in the parking lot that lets you stand a little taller to enjoy the view even more. You can see Steilacoom, McNeil and Fox Islands and the Key […]