Now that the Clover Park School District (CPSD) has announced it will put before the voters on Feb.9, 2016 a “replacement educational programs and operations levy proposition,” while not necessarily a levy-breaker this is nevertheless an opportune time to consider what you can do for $10,000. Ten-thousand dollars is the estimated price to purchase a […]
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Letter: The little black(ened) books
It would be doing them a favor to call them nondescript. Decrepit would be far more descriptive. “The only thing left in the dirt and trash were these two old books, covers ripped off, quite plain looking for all intents and purposes, little revealing what lay inside. I picked them up, blew off the dust […]
Letter: Home for the Holidays – it wasn’t going to happen
There are hardly more frustrating experiences than having searched the house for the last piece of the puzzle. It doesn’t matter whether the puzzle is a simple pre-school child’s version of a mere handful of pieces, or a far more time-consuming, complex and complicated puzzle of a thousand little bits of funny-shaped and patterned cardboard.
Letter: The great shopping cart roundup
The following is an excerpt from the book “Lonesome Dove,” by Larry McCurtry, that kinda casts a loop around what the Lakewood City Council will hear Monday night (December 14, 2015) when Chief of Police Mike Zaro reports on the long-awaited roundup of what has been a 21-month study (p.46) by the Public Safety Advisory Committee […]
Letter: Bradley, the forgotten reindeer
Our adopted daughter Jennifer Bradley – a Physical Education Director in the local school district – jokingly complained on Facebook yesterday that a certain national restaurant chain discriminated against those, like her, whose name had nothing to do with Christmas and therefore, unlike another of our daughters – Christina Noel (Anderson) Klas (Mrs. Klas, born […]
Letter: She sat up at the bottom of the steps
It was not where she’d fallen but where she’d taken refuge. Huddled there in the shadows on yet another grey and cold December morning, she had gathered close around what appeared to be her few possessions: a sleeping bag, a backpack and various odds and ends of things indistinguishable what with the little amount of […]
Letter: How to carve a turkey in 27 easy-to-follow photos
Not like it matters these days after Thanksgiving any more than it did the day of.
Westside Story – Tillicum Goes to Pot
Now I see the pro-pot people are invading Tillicum. Why would pro-pot people spend time at a Tillicum community meeting? There is only one reason I can think of. Pro-pot people want to bring pot to Tillicum.
Letter: Did you go as a giant for Halloween?
USA Today says Harley Quinn – the supervillain and frequent accomplice and lover of the Joker – was costume choice number one.