Some years ago I installed a rain chain as a downspout near my front door. At the base is a recessed drain grate covered with decorative colored stones. Mother nature delivered a leaf upon the colored stones with the clear message to all those who approach our front entrance. “Dew drop in.” Rather welcoming, is […]
Letter: ‘Tis the season to be, uh, to be, uh
The Pastor shouted at kids waiting to see Santa in the Amarillo, Texas mall saying he wasn’t real; nothing but a red suit. Angry parents, leaving their toddlers behind, stepped out of line to confront the preacher, some protesting to Westgate Mall representatives that the Santa Claus Grinch should be banned.
Lions Clubs test student sight and hearing
During 2016, members of the Lakewood First Lions Club and the Dupont Lions Club volunteered more than 760 hours to test 7,130 elementary and middle school students in 19 Clover Park and Steilacoom schools for sight and hearing issues at the request of school nurses.
Westside Story – Snow
As we press forward into our winter season, we have already been caught with some of that white powder. I am talking snow, not cocaine. Snow can make your day BEAUTIFUL. Snow can make your day UGLY. Two December 2016 photos illustrate my point.
Letter: Lakewood’s record-setting rental inspection program
What Lakewood has accomplished has never been done before. The City’s is an historic, Homeric, Guinness-World-Record-worthy entry of monumental proportions unequaled in the annals of celebrated accomplishments.
Letter: Rental Inspection Paradox
When I won the Great Cross Sound Race in 1990, a competitor’s double rowing shell was named ‘Paradocs’, appropriately enough given the pair were both doctors. Lakewood’s Rental Housing Safety Program (RHSP), paradoxically, plans to achieve after the fact – entailing a great deal of complexity in the process – what it could have done […]
Redux: Westside Story – Joe Boyle Qualifies for Olympic Games
The following Westside Story originally appeared on Tuesday, December 6. Sadly, Publisher Ben Sclair erred by not properly loading the images to the story and prolific author Joe Boyle feels “a lot of folks will have missed the full impact of the total original article.” We certainly can’t have “a lot of folks” miss “the full impact” […]
Letter: How much is a loaf of bread?
If the loaf of bread is from a grocery store that’s but two blocks away, then the cost is tickets for two on a trolley bus and two more for two separate subway lines, not to mention the price of the loaf itself. Is that the only way to get to the store?
Letter: The rainbow had no pot, the oyster had no pearl
The things you can discover about government and politics while heading somewhere else. It all began, as perhaps most fairytales do – and dreams of quick riches for that matter – with a ‘once upon a time’ opening line.