Our Federally mandated 811 – Call Before You Dig program is an excellent idea with one major flaw. Call Before You Dig employees lack good judgement and common sense. While this may seem like a bold, opinionated and condemnatory statement, all you have to do is look around at their graffiti handiwork to see evidence confirming my point. It is like Call Before You Dig employees have to earn low scores on a common sense / intelligence test before being selected for the job.
Klingenberg named ‘Lion of the Year’
Jillian Klingenberg, Heritage Bank Lakewood’s assistant branch manager, was recently named Lakewood First Lion Club “Lion of the Year” for 2014, for her efforts on behalf of the club’s apple sales and crab feed.
Letter: Gambling with Lakewood’s future
Within sight of Lakewood City Hall there’s a bank with a sign on the door – both entering and exiting – that indicates you are “entering a no-surprise zone.” Given a number of factors, not the least of which is our struggling economy, imagine then the surprise to read that Lakewood’s number-crunchers are counting on residents gambling significantly more in the foreseeable future.
Westside Story – Young Author
Here I am pushing 72 years of age and I am playing with the idea of becoming a writer. I will admit that it is a late start, but I have always done things late. I was born late. I graduated from high school and college late. I joined the Sheriff’s Department late. I retired late. The way I see it, if I live to be age 100, I have a little over 28 years to become an accomplished writer. So I am reading books on writing and taking college courses to become a better writer.
Letter: Cheat sheet
Depending on what time you checked most popular articles, story number one was “NCAA investigating fraud at 20 schools.”
Story Number Two: “11 of 12 Patriots’ Footballs Deflated.”
Story number three: So?
Letter: Buried beneath the old juniper tree
He’d be back one day to retrieve it, and what was below it. Soon as he could rustle up the gear and find financial backing – in the outside chance he’d locate those he could trust – he’d return. It was a promise he’d made to himself.
Letter: Penny paranoia – a parable
Paranoid, fearing the notoriety of having in his possession a penny – for which he’d just plunked down $2,585,000 – would make him an instant target of thieves once he entered upon the street, he smiled and waved at the crowd and, as TV cameras rolled, he placed the highly-prized treasure, which was encased in its felt-lined box, into an outside pocket of his briefcase and pulled the leather strap through the buckle, all the while making much of the effort.
Letter: All Lost, Lives Saved, Time to Help
The smoke alarms screamed their warning throughout the Tillicum Baptist Church parsonage Monday, January 5th, and at 4 A.M. the family of Pastor Scott and Caressa Fennell were suddenly awakened to gather their bed clothes about them and rendezvous outside. The fire destroyed the garage, the heat of the flames burning the tires down to […]
Letter: Get (the) lost
I recently applied for a grant for 24 children in our community to play baseball this spring. Our goal is to field two teams this year to last year’s one. Twice as many uniforms; twice as many coaches; twice as much money; twice as many parents enjoying a season’s worth of heart-stopping action (as much […]