Story – Joseph Boyle It has been one week since I started my new life serving our community as a retired guy. Someone has to do this important work. I am doing my part by hanging out at Starbucks with no visible means of support. My friends are hoping I have some invisible means of […]
Lakewood
Westside Story – A Train Ride
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle I can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday when I started my career with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. On Friday, March 29, 2013 at 4:30 pm I walked out the door of the County City Building – Sheriff’s Headquarters for the last time. For 8440 days, my career […]
Westside Story –The Dalai Lama, Words of Wisdom
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Early this week I was wandering around Graham – Kapowsin High School. I do that because I have a wandering-around job.
Letter: High Speed Fail Won’t
By David Anderson Of course we out here in Tillicum wish the City of Lakewood well – in the just announced lawsuit – in derailing High Speed Fail given it’s our community that is “isolated,” and it is our neighborhood that “has the most to lose from the project.” However, given the track record of our community […]
Letter: Top Ten Reasons to Reject City Survey
By David G. Anderson At its Study Session the evening of March 25, following the Transportation Benefit District meeting, the Lakewood City Council will survey fellow councilmembers as to whether to survey city residents on matters the council believes need surveying. You can get the city’s rationale for the survey by clicking here, and then click […]
Westside Story – A Dozen Days
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Only a dozen days and my work life will end. They call it retirement. It does not seem that long ago when I was just an 11-year-old kid in the neighborhood. That is the age when I asked my dad an important question that is on every young boy’s mind.
Letter: City Commercial: $20,000 Cash
By David Anderson People have to heat their homes and cook their food. Given the current economic times, we didn’t think it was wise to increase that tax. So how does spending nearly $20,000 for an infomercial reflect those valued bare-necessities?
Westside Story – The Science Guy
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Even those who know me well are not aware that in the early 1960s an undergraduate future psychologist tested and measured my young college student brain. It was determined that I had a rare highly evolved scientific brain, much like that of Albert Einstein (b. 1879 d. 1955) or Nicolaus […]
Westside Story – Chevron News Assault
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Yesterday I pulled into the Chevron gas station at 108th St SW and Bridgeport Way SW for the mundane, but necessary purpose of filling my gas tank. We used to call them Chevron Service Stations, because they actually provided service. Back in 1959 I started buying gas when we […]