The baseball players of the Clover Park High School Timberwolves take the field today for the first game of their 2023 season. The Lil’ Crushers t-ball team from Tillicum also step onto the diamond today for their first ever opportunity to play organized baseball. Like the connection between a 74 mile per hour fastball and […]
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Janet Ruth Harper Memorial
Submitted by Bob Warfield. A special tribute will be held at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Avenue, SW, Lakewood, on Monday, March 20, at 1:00 PM, to remember Janet Harper for twenty years of cheerful friendship and tireless dedication to our community.
Letter: We’ll Fly Away
A worker bee flies from flower to flower as she works to ensure the survival of the hive. After its brief life span of eight weeks, it flies away – never to be seen again. This fact may have crossed the mind of Albert Brumley as he worked the rows of cotton on his father’s […]
Letter: Brothers
On a weathered board high up in the North Cascades at the terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail, there is scrawled a message that reads, “Never reach the end of your life only to discover you have not lived.” My younger – and only – brother hiked that trail from Lake Tahoe to the end. […]
Letter: Yet
‘Yet’ is such a lovely little word although, typically, the context is one of turmoil. The “Are We There Yet?” nursery rhyme, for example, takes the incessant and insistent backseat question of the impatient traveling companions and turns groans into games: “Let’s play a game. Look at where we are. Won’t you look with me? And tell […]
Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association to meet March 6
Monday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m. we will meet again at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW and the featured presentation will be that of the Claudia Thomas Legacy House, a Habitat for Humanity project here in Tillicum. Police, schools, and library will also provide updates of community goings-on. Coming to our April […]
Letter: The End of the Journey
If the sun hadn’t risen, I would not have seen them. If I’d not been so tired, pausing to catch my breath at the end of this early morning run, bent over with hands on my knees, I would not have happened to glance sideways and discover their beauty clinging momentarily to the dried stalks. […]
Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Meetings are back
We’ve not met since March of 2020 but we are excited to announce that Feb. 6, 2023, 6:30 p.m., our Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Meetings will begin with first-Mondays-of-every-month gatherings to discuss neighborhood goings-on! This Feb. 6 meeting will be held at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. In the following newsletter, you’ll read […]
Letter: It Happens This Time of Year, Every Year
The monster truck arrives at the nativity. Again. The two boys, now ages eight and six, brake their monster truck to a stop, sideslipping in a somewhat controlled fashion but not before careening into what had been a beautifully hand-carved, lovingly displayed, nativity complete with angels, shepherds, and kings. But not sheep. Or donkey either. […]