Tillicum
Letter: Trash Hauling
By David Anderson
The U.S. Park Service, and for that matter the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), doesn’t want to deal with trash anymore.
They want you to.
Letter: Ethical (check), Legal (check), Moral – huh?
By David Anderson
Dear students,
Effective immediately, your teaching staff generally and your administration most particularly will no longer be held to standards requiring conduct that is morally upright nor morally reprehensible as we educators have no idea what ‘moral’ means.
Letter: Fat Check
By David Anderson
Remember how one of our dear departed council members thought it would be funny –back during the great debate over gambling in our city — to dismiss the whole matter of the so-called evils associated with convenience casinos, situated as they are on strategic corners in the city, by suggesting that those advocating for a ban on card rooms were the equivalent of fat-content checkers at fast food eateries?
Letter: Eight Ways to Get Ahead (or not)
By David Anderson
Hurry up and wait. We’ve all been there. Long lines and shorter fuses, places to go and the express-way is exasperatingly @ # $ % ^ slow. Snarled in traffic, stalled with temperatures rising (car, climate and complexion), are we there yet?
Lakewood’s New City Manager – Vending Machine or Barn Raiser?
By David Anderson
Letter: Lakewood #1 in the State for Bikini Coffee?
By David Anderson
Should the Oakbrook area Black Star Coffee stand become a bikini barista hangout/drive-by/dispensary . . . for coffee and other things they sell, Lakewood would slide into fourth place state-wide in the “Ordering-Espresso-Can-Be-Fun!
Letter: “Is Abortion a Distraction?”
By David Anderson
With the candidate filing deadline for local offices May 17th, be wary of those who promise to work at improving the economy without – as a central plank in their platform – specifics for strengthening the family.
Here’s why.
Letter: “Sorry Mr. President, I Don’t Dance”
By David Anderson
Normally it’s a once-upon-a-time event for which villains — mostly, and heroes — sparsely, are cast in roles to relive on the silver screen a tale once told. But with what’s happening on the national stage today, it’s just the reverse.
This time, in real-time, the actors are playing themselves with a sounds-familiar script. Benghazi has become the new blockbuster.
Pacific Islander month of May celebration at Tillicum library
By Mary Getchell, Communications Director, Pierce County Library System
TILLICUM – The community is invited to celebrate the culture and diversity of the Pacific Islands will come alive during a free event at Tillicum Pierce County Library, 14916 Washington Ave. S.W., on Saturday, May 11, at 2 p.m.
Letter: Miss Pierce County 2013 Haley Nicholson at Tillicum Meeting
By David Anderson
Haley Nicholson, Miss Pierce County 2013, is the featured presenter at our Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association meeting May 2, 6:30 P.M., Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. Haley’s presentation will include her talent: Vocal and her platform issue: “Prevention of Innocence Lost – Sex Trafficking.”
Letter: Victoria’s Secret, et al., is Not at All, Not Anymore
By David G. Anderson and Cindy Peak
Emblematic of America’s cultural demise is the Titanic; the sexualization of the most vulnerable aboard – young females – the iceberg.
If a violin was played as the unsinkable Titanic sank, what instrument will be heard when the unthinkable happens — the sinking of America’s ship-of-state?
All of them.
Letter: Local Youngster to Nationals
By David Anderson
Nine-year-old Jada Yeater could help President Obama in court – the basketball court.
Obama went 2 for 22 with the basketball recently with players from the Washington Wizards looking on as part of the annual Easter Egg Roll festivities.
Learn How to Manage Your Money
Free money management classes beginning Tuesday, April 9, 6-8 P.M. and each Tuesday in April thereafter. Free to the public, all sessions occur at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW.
How to keep track of your money; why you should save; how to be an informed banking customer; and how your credit history affects you.
Tutoring: One Small Step at a Time
How did you make it through high school? Most of us had some simple help – even if only from older siblings or parents. But what if that help hadn’t been there? What if your parents or older siblings didn’t graduate high school? This is the case for many young people struggling in school today.
In the isolated overlooked community of Tillicum, there are many potential first generation high school graduates. Tacoma Youth for Christ established the Scholars Program at the Tillicum Youth & Family Center to help that potential become a reality.
To find out how something as simple as a $10 art fee can be a challenge to a struggling young person – check out the latest blog by Education Specialist Nate Duriga.
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 in conflict with the City, my guess is this lawsuit will end up in the same circular file ours did when fighting Lakewood to keep Camp Murray traffic from running through our town.
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