A community bulletin board for Western Pierce County.
Sunday morning around 10:00 am, I stopped in at Starbucks for a cup of beverage, some fun talk with friends and to do some writing on my laptop.
I suffered a long wait. While standing in line, 4 customers became frustrated and left the store without making their intended purchase.
Howard Schultz, had a dream. He took an idea found in Europe, the sidewalk coffee shop, and imported it to America and then spread his wonderful idea around the world eventually returning full circle establishing Starbucks stores in Europe where his idea was born.
Do we still call it Sunday if the sun’s not shining?
“Blur” is not only the name for the alternative rock band that featured their song “Sunday, Sunday,” but blur, blurry, and like-focus-fogging, life-doesn’t-make-sense terms will just as surely as the sun rises descend on and describe us someday – whether a Sunday or perhaps a Monday.
I received a little blue postcard announcing I had been selected for Pierce County Superior Court jury duty.
In America we are promised the right to a trial by a jury of our peers. This sounds good in one way and admittedly works better than any system in the world, but there are problems with the system which makes it less than perfect.
Who you gonna pick for your team?
“Draft Day,” stars Kevin Costner playing Sonny Weaver, the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns, whose dilemma – with regards the team’s first choice – is “does he pick the player everyone expects him to, or does he go with his gut and pick the player he thinks is truly right for the team?”
What do plastic bags in Lacey; persons at 20 weeks gestation in Mississippi; work emails after-hours in France; after-shave and cell phones in Zurich; tanning beds for teens under 18 in Washington; and new casinos in Fife have in common with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th leading cause of death in America roaming Lakewood’s parks?
Nothing.
“Incredible things can happen when decision making includes the community.”
The Tillicum community has perhaps a unique opportunity to participate in a forum at which candidates for a new principal at Tillicum Elementary School will be on hand.
I’ve a house-shaped paperclip holder on my desk. Turn it upside down and shake it and those funny bent wires that hold things together don’t quite escape the chimney at the top since there’s a magnet there that keeps them intact and close at hand.
On this 22nd day of April, the Swedish – my heritage – word for paper clip is “gem” a most appropriate description of my wife whose birthday is today.
“Until city governments tie salaries to the communities they serve,” we will be forever growing the size of government.
Lakewood workers are worried.
How worried?