The Suburban Times
A community bulletin board for Western Pierce County.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
If you missed Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Part 4, consider clicking on the colorful (PGE approved) link to catch up.
One of our faithful The Suburban Times readers, David Wilson, submitted a comment to my August 4, 2015, article, Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Part 3 as follows.
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More than 400 under served children and their parents recently attended a back to school fair at Springbrook Park sponsored by Caring for Kids.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
If you missed Westside Story – On The Road 75 years later – Part 3, consider clicking on the colorful (page approved) link to catch up.
At the end of Part 3, I was hoofing it across the sandy beach when my escape was blocked by a 6’ cyclone fence with three strands of barbed wire on top. It might have been electric barbed wire for all I know. Remember, this is Chicago.
David Anderson · · ·
National Night Out’s (NNO) baseball game between the Lakewood Baseball Club’s Pinto Division Champion Tillicum Crushers and their parents was so fun, so outstanding, and so incredibly important at so many levels.
If only somehow we could capture – and that is the intent here in writing this – the far-reaching difference a simple three-inning exhibition game can – and will – have for all of life for all concerned.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
If you missed Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Part 2, consider clicking on the blue link to catch up.
During the summer of 1965 I survived learning some life lessons that serve me well to this day. There are two ways to learn things; the easy way and the hard way. I learned these lessons the hard way while serving as a college scholarship intern for James S. Kemper Insurance Company in Chicago, Illinois.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
If you missed Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Part 1, please consider clicking the blue link to catch up.
My roommate, Jim Singer, and I combined walking and bus riding for our daily commute to and from work. On one fateful day as we made our way home, we were swept up in a racial protest down in the Loop. We did not fully understand what was happening, nor did we wish to protest. We tried to escape the fracas by entering a nearby jewelry store. The owner quickly slammed and locked the door and would not let us in. He must have thought we were protestors bent on pillaging his store.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
When I was young, probably in the late 1950s, my eyes were glued to author and poet Jack Kerouac’s novel, On The Road. Kerouac’s tale told of adventures as he and his pals, described as the Beat Generation, traveled across America and Mexico.
Joseph Boyle · · ·
On Friday, July 24, 2015, a good news article appeared in The Suburban Times titled Legislative Session Successful For Lakewood. Under the sub-heading JBLM Corridor, I found miracle news which read as follows:
“A local connector road between Gravelly Lake Drive and Thorne Lane, essentially opening up the Tillicum neighborhood to the rest of Lakewood for the first time.”
David Anderson · · ·
Ben Gonter is not the pilot of a ship but has piloted a plane and now wants with the same firm hand required of both challenging and adventuresome pursuits to help steer the direction for Lakewood as candidate for City Council.