The Lakewood First Lions Club would like to thank Heritage Bank in Lakewood for their continuing sponsorship of our annual crab feed. This year, because of the pandemic, it is being held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14th, as a drive through in Fort Steilacoom Park. We prefer that meals be paid ahead of time […]
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Across the Fence: Playground Preferences
The other day, on a walk around Chambers Bay Golf Course, I came past the playground and pondered with how much love it has been set up. There were quite a few kids playing there, not all of them physically distancing; but in one corner, on a swing, sat a little girl all by herself, […]
Letter: What’s Going On?
According to recently released public disclosure documents, Deb Hansen, President of the Clover Park Education Association (CPEA), solicited from association’s members their signatures on a template she provided that would be sent to the Clover Park School Board in advance of their January 11, 2021 meeting. The letter – to which CPEA members could sign […]
Letter: The CPSD, Emails and Groupthink?
A Public Disclosure Request for “all emails and correspondence and board meeting minutes related to Paul Wagemann’s alleged ‘crack the whip’ comment” netted 86 emails that are carbon copies. In these mass-produced emails that supposedly find School Board Director Paul Wagemann’s “crack the whip” comment “racist and absolutely unacceptable,” there is only one difference that […]
Letter: As White As Snow
Overnight the temperatures had dropped 20 degrees, and by dawn the weather had grown in the ferocity of a minus 10 degrees blizzard. As the farmer prepared for work in the frozen landscape as seen through the frosted window of the mud room, he smiled at the recollection of the shy girl in the gingham […]
Letter: A Lesson From An Unknown Lake
It didn’t look like much of a lake. In fact, if I had not looked up and through the trees and my tears, I might have missed it. To reach its edge of this unknown lake, I had to make a trail. On the shore of that unknown lake I drowned in my grief. I […]
Letter: Revolutionary Green Peppers
The green peppers of the world have united! With good reason, they – with help from a renegade band of baby carrots – had organized, created a logo, and would eventually raise hell in the world of food. Vive la revolution! This revolt of the peppers came about because of its test scores on the […]
Across the Fence: Outside Inside
It’s this grayish, wet time of the year in which we don’t know whether we might expect snow in the Lowlands of Western Washington or not. Personally, I find it a cozy time of year when you can appreciate your home and take care of it, and maybe even enjoy walks in the drizzle. What […]
Westside Story – Stop Junk Mail
Are you like me? Do you ever get sick and tired of being sick and tired of receiving a mailbox full of junk mail? I have suffered from a barage of copious amounts of junk mail for decades. Finally, based on my natural genius, I have discovered a novel and effective solution for stopping junk […]