Clik here to view.
Westside Story – No More Traffic Deaths
I love my title, No More Traffic Deaths. Actually, it is not the title I love. I love the result my title describes, no more traffic deaths. Safe driving is something I think about and work on every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Passing The Buck
I have a couple of serious life and death stories I am not going to share with you today. Those stories date back to c1972 and c1985. Both tragedies occurred in and around the intersection of 75th St...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Junk Mail
How many of you out there are sick and tired of junk mail? I am. Everyone complains about junk mail, but no one does anything about this insidious problem. I have good Leap Year news for you. Many of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Vape, Cigarettes & Baseball Bats
Just today I was reading a good news article in The Suburban Times titled New Year: No vaping In public places. Thank you Tacoma – Pierce County Health Department for your excellent work and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Letter: What Can You Do For $6.00?
Recently Mr. David Anderson submitted a thought provoking letter to The Suburban Times titled, Letter: What Can You Do For $10,000? Mr. Anderson uses his letter for another attack on our Clover Park...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Being Mortal
On January 2, 2016, there was a death in my family. With the passing of my 93 year old mother, the entire generation ahead of me is now gone. My parents, aunts, uncles and in-laws are all gone. There...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Circling Back with Gratitude
If you will allow me say so, my title today, Circling Back with Gratitude, displays some strong and long term observation skills, highly efficient memory along with a superior level of intellect....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – That’s The Ticket
Last week my daughter rolled in on a big jet from the East Coast. We met up the next morning before breakfast at Java Joe’s, an exclusive Lakewood coffee spot. Actually, Java Joe’s is so exclusive,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – No Shots Fired
Every day major news sources are full of highly critical stories telling us cops are trigger happy, violent and racially biased. Do you ever wonder if this news is the truth, half truth or simply...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Homeless Heading For DuPont
Recently, I read an article about an exploration to determine if Pierce Transit should bring bus service to DuPont titled Pierce Transit Follow Up and City of DuPont Survey Results. My knowledge of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Cyberspace Relationship Turns Human
In 2013 I noticed a grammatical error in a message displayed on a Clover Park Schools reader-board. I attempted to contact Ms. Debbie LeBeau, Superintendent of Clover Park Schools, by sending her an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story: High Seas Darkness
Today I am going to write a book report. This is my chance to make up for an overdue high school book report I failed to submit to Miss Gertrude Hansen back in 1961. Miss Hansen’s impact on my life is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Save Your Child
On April 21, 2016, Mr. Chas Ames published an article in The Suburban Times titled, Just Another Lakewood Loss? If you have a child, grandchild, great grandchild, niece or nephew or maybe a kid in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Rolling Thunder
On Memorial Day weekend in May 2015, my good friends, the Canary brothers, Tom and Randy, invited me to join them along with one million of their close personal friends for a motorcycle ride called...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Beauty In Progress
Just a few words and some photography says it all. A sculptured archway through a 60 year old Laurel Hedge leading to hidden magical gardens located in the City of Lakewood is now draped with two year...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – No Shots Fired, Again
It is difficult, no impossible, to turn on the news most days and not hear about another officer involved shooting. I receive reports of cops and citizens dying every month all around the United...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Use of Force
There is enough conversation going on in national news about Use of Force by police departments to fill the Grand Canyon. In public meetings Lakewood’s police chief, Mike Zaro, often asks the question,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Ducks In A Row
Any of you who have ever worked on a project with me, know that I always insist that we get all our ducks in a row. Public notice: No ducks were injured or killed during the process of creating this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Modern Fathers
As the generations roll along, parenthood, especially fatherhood changes. When I was a new dad in the 1970s, I, like my father before me, changed a grand total of only one diaper before throwing in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Westside Story – Coyote
During my almost 50 years in Lakewood, I have always enjoyed peacefully coexisting with wildlife such as raccoons, bald eagles, squirrels, blue heron, deer, coyote, rabbits, wolves, ducks, and a wide...
View Article