“Most people tend to rush signing a lease,” warned Nancy Simmons Starrs in the December 28, 2016 “Washington Post.” Indeed, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” likewise warned Alexander Pope in a poem about tenant/landlord relationships gone bad (or maybe 1711 was pre-rental inspection days).
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Letter: New Year’s resolution – never ‘whatever’
Whatever is the most annoying word of the year just ending? Yes. It’s both a question and a statement to which ‘whatever’ is the answer.
[Picture] Ow! Dental
…seen around town…
Letter: Three predictions for 2017
Marijuana sales will sprout – like the weed that it is – in Lakewood, the city joining La La Land – not the movie but its neighbors – in transitioning from holdout (bans) to handout (bucks). “Principles,” after all, opined the Tacoma News Tribune Editorial Board, “don’t keep the lights on.” And sprigs, that is […]
Westside Story – Hard Dollars or Soft Dollars?
When you look at my first photo, do you immediately think, Tax Shelter? In 1953 I lived next door to Mr. Sandy Sandstrom, LPA. LPA or Licensed Public Accountant was a professional designation which was ultimately replaced by our modern day CPA or Certified Public Accountant designation. Eventually LPAs became extinct.
Westside Story – Welcome
Some years ago I installed a rain chain as a downspout near my front door. At the base is a recessed drain grate covered with decorative colored stones. Mother nature delivered a leaf upon the colored stones with the clear message to all those who approach our front entrance. “Dew drop in.” Rather welcoming, is […]
Lions Clubs test student sight and hearing
During 2016, members of the Lakewood First Lions Club and the Dupont Lions Club volunteered more than 760 hours to test 7,130 elementary and middle school students in 19 Clover Park and Steilacoom schools for sight and hearing issues at the request of school nurses.
Westside Story – Snow
As we press forward into our winter season, we have already been caught with some of that white powder. I am talking snow, not cocaine. Snow can make your day BEAUTIFUL. Snow can make your day UGLY. Two December 2016 photos illustrate my point.
Letter: Lakewood’s record-setting rental inspection program
What Lakewood has accomplished has never been done before. The City’s is an historic, Homeric, Guinness-World-Record-worthy entry of monumental proportions unequaled in the annals of celebrated accomplishments.