As you prepare to exit the elevator on the Ninth floor of the County-City Building, a pleasant automated voice announces that you have arrived at the office of the County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Sure enough, straight down the short hallway to the left is the appropriately labeled door emblazoned with the words “Core Values.” There’s […]
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Letter: Sex Ed topic of Clover Park School Board
The School Districts of Peninsula, Othello, Mead, Omak, and Spokane have reportedly objected to – or written formal letters of concern about – the controversial Comprehensive Sex Education bill, addressing their respective positions to Gov. Inslee who is expected to sign SB 5395 into law. The Clover Park school board has added a special meeting […]
Letter: Clover Park School District?
Will the Clover Park School District Board (CPSD) take a similar position as the Mead School District in Washington per their letter to Governor Inslee requesting he veto the controversial Sex Ed bill? From The Ruth Institute: “Some of the approved curriculum is so graphic legislators couldn’t quote it in proceedings without getting ‘gaveled’ or silenced. […]
Letter: Hugs from God and raisin-filled cookies
Note: This article that follows is a repost from four-years-ago today. There is great value I think in recalling the people, location, smells and music that “can have a cinematic quality, playing out in the mind’s eye like an old Super 8 movie or vintage Technicolor film.” As Louisa May Alcott wrote, “reminiscing does us […]
Letter: Ten little piggies went home
We captured the historic moment on video. Her little legs at first refused to move, her feet as it were locked in concrete. She hesitated, uncertain what next was required. She was standing. On her own. How did she get here anyway? No coffee table nearby. No couch, or chair she’d often worked herself along. No box of […]
Letter: Like buried treasure inspires the imagination, so life-stories told by fathers and mothers inspire courage and conviction
We had just finished reading “Blackbeard’s Ghost” to our ‘little pirates’ so off they went, child’s yellow beach shovel in one hand and blue bucket in the other, to search for the ‘x’ etched in the soil left eons ago by this nefarious ne’re-do-well. They found it too, the ‘x’ and the treasure buried beneath […]
Two neighborhood homicides topic of Tillicum meeting
The Lakewood Police Department will have a representative at the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association (TWNA) meeting March 5, 6:30 P.M. “to discuss the two recent homicides and any other issues/concerns.” The TWNA meets at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. In the neighborhood newsletter for March, there are four links to Tacoma News […]
Letter: Is anyone else tired of the Tacoma News Tribune (TNT) telling our city what to do?
Readers may remember when the TNT – aka, in effect, drug-dealer – editorial board had then recommended Lakewood drop its basically silly scruples and allow marijuana to be sold in the city. Wrote the editorialists: “Principles are well and good, but they don’t keep the lights on, and they don’t pay for recreation departments or […]
Letter: My First Pet
Asking for advice. For a friend. He said his pet has outgrown, and escaped from, the cute little carry-along cottage-like critter-cage. Now, smashing motorcycles (he didn’t mean to); snarling traffic; cars and trucks, a bulldozer and a 4×4 all come to play. Even a fire truck but where are the firemen? They were here just a minute […]