The proposal before the Lakewood City Council is to either prohibit everything that has to do with marijuana or allow it. Written comments can be submitted prior to the hearing to the City Clerk, 6000 Main Street SW, Lakewood, WA 98499, or emailed prior to 4:30 p.m., May 7.
Stage Door Friends
On a cold and wet weekend when we could have been quietly reading the Sunday papers and napping, we instead drove through I-5 and SR 167 crazy drivers to Renton. We saw the play “See Alice Run” at the Renton Civic Theatre, not because we wanted to, but because a friend had a part in […]
Westside Story – A Sign Of The Times
Any of you who read my stuff regularly know I promote complying with rules, laws, and directions whenever we can. The other day while visiting a Lakewood business establishment I experienced some high-level frustration. The first sign reads, “60 Minute Parking Only”.
Serendipity, Sri Lanka, and Peter Pan
“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.” James M. Barrie When I was attending Hudtloff Junior High School my parents bought […]
Tolls on downtown streets?
On April 3rd, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that Seattle will develop a plan to toll city roadways as part of its efforts to reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse-gas emissions. The Seattle Times used the comment and information as a front-page story. I had just finished a white paper for a history project about the changes […]
Raining On My Parade
In my senior year at Clover Park High School it rained so hard during the Daffodil Parade in downtown Tacoma, our band was told we wouldn’t be marching. My buddies and I took our leader’s word for it, put away our instruments, and wandered through the crowds. We were taken by surprise when we heard […]
Homeland Security coming soon… for you?
Apr5, 2018 The Honorable Patty Murray 950 Pacific Avenue, Ste. 650 Tacoma, Washington 98402 Dear Senator, I am a 56-year-old retired US veteran of 20 years combined service in the Marine Corps and National Guard. I understand that politics swings conservative and liberal and sometimes swings to the extreme.
Letter: ‘Roots and Wings’
Coming to the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood this next October is a four-week parenting class which, chances are – as the community board has begun planning – we’ll entitle ‘Roots and Wings’ attributed to Hodding Carter from his 1953 book “Where Main Street Meets the River.”
Home from Home: Working Out
Submitted by Susanne Bacon I’m not a couch potato exactly. But when I hear the word “work-out” I shrink and try to bow out backwards. Maybe because the term “work” in work-out sounds like … well, something that is not entirely fun. Yet, I’m sure I’m not at the bottom of the scale of sporty […]