Clover Park Rotary is bringing back one of our most exciting FUNdraisers on March 8th, 2024! CPRI (Clover Park Rotary Invitational) is a raffle style game board with 100 spots. Some are winners – and some are losers. There are fun prizes from gift cards to wine to cold hard cash – with the top […]
Lakewood
Letter: Beachwood Elementary School: Successful within a failing Clover Park School District
Submitted by John Arbeeny, LakewoodCARES.org. Each week as a public service Lakewood CARES will be providing the real academic situation in response 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”. This week’s CPSD […]
Letter: Need To Get Away?
If you are planning on visiting Mount Rainier this summer, you’re going to need a reservation according to the National Park Service. Evidently there are too many people all at once wanting to get away from it all only to discover everybody else does too. Where do you go when your heart is overwhelmed, when […]
January 2024 Business Showcase: Veterans Roofing
Veterans Roofing started in Lakewood 14 years ago, but owner Jose Gonzales is a life-long Lakewood resident. He graduated from Clover Park School District schools and chose to return to Lakewood to start his business. An Army veteran, Gonzales wanted to name his company something that reflected not only his values and experience, but those […]
Lavinia Hart, actress, director, beloved cousin & friend, leaving Lakewood for Los Angeles
As a youngster my grandmother, Mary Lavinia Coker, traveled from Texas to New Mexico with her family in a covered wagon. As an adult she moved on to Oklahoma where she married and gave birth to twins, Lavinia and Virginia. Her husband abandoned her and the children and went to Hollywood, where he thought he […]
Cops vs Teachers Charity Basketball Game Recipent Of Funds Application
Submitted by Baron Coleman. We are currently accepting application/recommendation for this years recipient to receive funds from our annual event. All proceeds (minus cost of event) will financially support selected recipient for this years event. Please scan the QR code – or click here – and complete the application. Deadline to receive this application is […]
Friends of the Lakewood Library Book Donation Drop Off
Submitted by Robert Estrada. Friends of the Lakewood Library will hold a book sale on April 20, 2024. Your book, video, and CD donations can be dropped off on Saturday, January 20, 11-1, at St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 10630 Gravelly Lake Dr SW, Lakewood, WA 98499. Future drop of date are February 17 and March […]
Letter: A Walk In The Woods
Two days from now will be 10 months since I lost my wife of 50 years to cancer. Lately I have been encouraged to think not how much I miss what I had with her, but to be happy, joyful even, that I had her at all and for so long and, even more importantly, […]
Celebrating Hidden Heroes
Each year the City of Lakewood, in partnership with the Clover Park School District, celebrates “Hidden Heroes” to coincide with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month. The goal of Hidden Heroes is to raise the visibility of Black and African American leaders in our community. The focus is on celebrating their […]