Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle This article is about keeping your financial house in good order. When you retire, please, please, please take a good long look at your retirement plan settlement options. Do the right, ethical, smart and loving thing during your decision making process.
Westside Story – Retirement Week 1
Story – Joseph Boyle It has been one week since I started my new life serving our community as a retired guy. Someone has to do this important work. I am doing my part by hanging out at Starbucks with no visible means of support. My friends are hoping I have some invisible means of […]
Learn How to Manage Your Money
Free money management classes beginning Tuesday, April 9, 6-8 P.M. and each Tuesday in April thereafter. Free to the public, all sessions occur at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. How to keep track of your money; why you should save; how to be an informed banking customer; and how your credit history affects […]
Westside Story – A Train Ride
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle I can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday when I started my career with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. On Friday, March 29, 2013 at 4:30 pm I walked out the door of the County City Building – Sheriff’s Headquarters for the last time. For 8440 days, my career […]
Westside Story –The Dalai Lama, Words of Wisdom
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Early this week I was wandering around Graham – Kapowsin High School. I do that because I have a wandering-around job.
Letter: High Speed Fail Won’t
By David Anderson Of course we out here in Tillicum wish the City of Lakewood well – in the just announced lawsuit – in derailing High Speed Fail given it’s our community that is “isolated,” and it is our neighborhood that “has the most to lose from the project.” However, given the track record of our community […]
Letter: Top Ten Reasons to Reject City Survey
By David G. Anderson At its Study Session the evening of March 25, following the Transportation Benefit District meeting, the Lakewood City Council will survey fellow councilmembers as to whether to survey city residents on matters the council believes need surveying. You can get the city’s rationale for the survey by clicking here, and then click […]
Westside Story – A Dozen Days
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Only a dozen days and my work life will end. They call it retirement. It does not seem that long ago when I was just an 11-year-old kid in the neighborhood. That is the age when I asked my dad an important question that is on every young boy’s mind.
Letter: What if?
By David Anderson How the Seattle Mariners can win the World Series. I was giving some thought to an article I was thinking I’d write on the decisions we sometimes think maybe we ought to give more thought to before we make them – or not – when I got sidetracked by a friend on […]