You are invited to dinner. Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare (GLMH) is hosting their annual dinner and community fund raising program.
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Westside Story – A Blurry Thought
I am so confused by the pin I found lying on the carpet at the Lakewood DMV.
Letter: Hell’s Angels to crash Lakewood’s weed party?
A just-for-fun-stirring-the-pot-hey-it-could-happen-what-if. April 20, at 4:20 P.M. no less, counterculture cannabis consumers across the country – encircling this celestial planet for that matter – plan to conduct cannabis cough-ins (not to be confused with coffins, necessarily) celebrating this internationally recognized day on the calendar, code ‘420’, for pot legalization.
Home from Home: National and Nature Parks
Submitted by Susanne Bacon As a teenager I laughed when I read in a book by Paul Watzlawick that Americans visiting my mother country allegedly ask whether the Black Forest was open on Sundays. It never occurred to me that it could not be open. Or that people might expect to have to pay an […]
Westside Story – Upside Down World
My photo below reminds me that with so much going on in the news and around the world, at times, it seems our planet has tipped upside down.
Westside Story – Accidental Credit Card Fraud
What you are about to read is a true story. It happened right here on the West Side. Thus, another Westside Story. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, because no one is innocent.
Letter: Here we go again
Now the family of Daniel Covarrubias, shot dead by Lakewood Police when officers thought the cell phone he was holding was a gun, is suing the Lakewood Police Department (LPD). According to the April 13, 2018 Seattle Times story by Mike Carter, the federal suit claims “Covarrubias fell victim to the same aggressive police tactics […]
Here’s a thought: if the government and/or majority of people are for it, it’s probably wrong
What marijuana, tobacco products, automobiles, trains and their ilk have in common: advertising, and a too-gullible public. ‘Doggonit!’ exclaimed the owner of the puppy, pursuant to the pet doctor’s presumption that her beloved pet had probably swallowed pot in a public park.
Home from Home: Cast-offs
Submitted by Susanne Bacon Estate sales are something that I have never been to in my German past. Not that Germany didn’t have its number of those – they are usually announced in papers in specific advertising pages. Germany also has thrift shops like Oxfam or Christian organizations’ ones. It’s just that our family never […]