Have you switched off your screens, and are you ready to ponder the above prompt? Wait – didn’t we already ponder something very similar at the very beginning of this column, “Let’s Talk!”? Something about a moment that defines awkwardness? Let’s recapitulate that I defined it as the moment when we get caught at something […]
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Custer Elementary School: Enhancement versus Education
Submitted by John Arbeeny. Each week as a public service Lakewood CARES will be providing the real academic situation in response to schools highlighted in The Suburban Times by Clover Park School District (CPSD). This is data you will not find elsewhere on the CPSD website, board meeting agendas or “Inside Schools”; however it is […]
Letter: Before Sunrise, That First Resurrection Morning
It was the fastest quarter mile ever run in the history of women’s track. And it happened that very first Resurrection morning. Just tenths-of-a-second over 00:45 it still stands. Had Sports Illustrated been published then they’d have made a front cover. Theirs was a miracle, a true-life made-for-TV triumph long, long “before science invaded every […]
CPSD #SuperSchoolShoutOut – Lakeview Hope Academy
Each week, we highlight a different school or profession at Clover Park School District on our social media and web pages. Last week, we showed our CPSD pride by giving a #SuperSchoolShoutout to the Lakeview Hope Academy. Lakeview is one of the district’s largest elementary schools. Located next to St. Clare Hospital, the school serves […]
Farwest Drive SW Safe Routes to Schools Bid Opening
Sealed bids will be received by the City of Lakewood at the office of the City Clerk at 6000 Main Street SW, Lakewood, Washington 98499-5027, until 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday April 16, 2024, and not later, and will then be opened and publicly read aloud in the American Lake Conference Room shortly thereafter. This contract provides […]
King 5: Lakewood man fights decision to condemn, demolish home for parking lot
“LAKEWOOD, Wash. — A Lakewood man is fighting to keep his home after the city ordered it to be condemned and demolished to make way for a parking lot that’s part of a plan to improve access to Lake Steilacoom. “When Ebrahim Mirjalili first bought his home in 2009, he said he couldn’t move in immediately. […]
Riding my Sears J. C. Higgins bicycle – bought in 1963 at Sears & Roebuck in Lakewood on South Tacoma Way – into the sunset
Story and photos by Tim Marsh, Lakes High Class of 1966. I rode my Sears J. C. Higgins bicycle — bought in 1963 from the Sears catalogue and paid for and picked it up at Sears & Roebuck in Lakewood at 8720 South Tacoma Way at the “U.S. 99 at Lakewood cutoff” – off into […]
What Happened to the Little Free Pantry on Boston Avenue in Springbrook?
The Little Free Pantry on Boston Avenue in Springbrook was removed because the stewards, Dawn Carroll and Jan Deney, are moving. The Lakewood Rotary expressed gratitude for their community support and announced that the remaining pantries in Springbrook are located at the Community Garden at Springbrook Park. Those interested in becoming a host and steward […]
Across the Fence: Loanword
What a fun word today, taken from the German language and adapted/translated into English – because “loanword” is the equivalent of the German “Lehnwort” (pronounce: ‘lane-vort). Which linguistically makes it a calque, NOT a loanword! Because a calque is the literal translation of a word from another language. Hah, I know this will be a […]