Can you believe it? The presidential election is over. While there is disappointment for many, the fact that the election is over cannot be a disappointment. Yesterday as I left a meeting at Starbucks, I spotted an acquaintance, Dr. Preston Carter, who serves as the Madigan Hospital General Surgeon.
Letter: Two extremes – the haves and the homeless have-nots
As we enter this season of Thanksgiving baskets and Christmas presents; bell-ringers and heart-string pullers; card-board sign displayers and more rain and cold nights under a tarp or park bench, what does true help to the homeless look like?
Letter: Marijuana – coming to a city near you
Buckley buckled; Bonny Lake has sprung a leak; UP wants MJ, Tacoma is already in the tank so any bets Lakewood will for long lag behind? “Lured,” is the word John Gillie used in his November 6, 2016 headline in the Tacoma News Tribune: “Bonney Lake joins Pierce cities lured by marijuana tax revenue.”
Westside Story – Election News
As I travel from one end of our great country to the other; well actually I was simply shuffling around my neighborhood, I am constantly discovering renewed and innovative enthusiasm for our election process. For those frustrated by Trump and Clinton, may I remind you there are alternatives.
Letter: Beating the living daylights (Daylight Saving Time, and rental inspection in contrast)
“Reducing demand for expensive wax candles,” wrote Ben Franklin in an April 26, 1784 essay entitled“An Economical Project”, was reason enough to save daylight by simply moving the hands of the clock. And it was with that pronouncement, upon which the American delegate to Paris pontificated whimsically at length, that over two centuries later nations […]
Letter: When you no longer have a script
Snow White, Prince Charming, Geppetto, Grumpy and many, many other fictional fairy tale characters are ripped from the pages of every child’s bedtime reading and relocated to a fast-forwarded future where they no longer know how their plot is supposed to end.
Westside Story – Ideas, Old & New
Don’t you agree? Sometimes old ideas are better than new ideas.
Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association Nov. 3 meeting moves
The monthly meeting of the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association (Nov.3, 6:30 P.M.) will be held at Tillicum Baptist Church 8415 Maple St. as the folks at our normal venue – the Tillicum Community Center – prepare for their annual Holiday Bazaar (Nov.4 and 5).
Letter: Metal slides and merry-go-rounds
One of the best quality of life indicators in a community is the existence of, and the investment in, the local park. As long as it has a metal slide and a merry-go-round.