Lakewood lost starting quarterback Justin Lane to injury during the week, so the challenge of playing the Knights of King’s High School, the Cascade league leader, seemed to be a stretch.
The Arlington School District is conducting its “Bus Ridership Week” Sept. 29-Oct. 3, and is asking that all children who will ride an Arlington school bus at any time during the school year to make sure that they ride the bus this week.
Most of us are tired of angry, partisan politics and smear letters. We want someone who is not divisive, who can work with people on both sides of the aisle, who will listen. There is a candidate who is all of these things: it is Barbara Bailey. She is a legislator of honesty and integrity, who understands the issues and will work with representatives of both parties to represent us in Olympia.
In many circles these days, it’s fashionable to criticize forestry. Critics say tree farming, cutting trees and salvaging logs for lumber, paper and thousands of other products we need every day is wrong and clearly bad for the environment. They are wrong.
Tribal Spokesman Stan Jones recently published one more call for better stewardship of our streams and rivers. Jones’ plea addressed a real need but was anyone listening? We might pay more attention if evidence for stream degradation was measured against the best baseline but that won’t be found by looking back to 1990 or 1960. The only baseline that really counts is the condition of pristine waters before the forests were cleared away and homes and businesses of immigrants lined up along waterfronts.
Let’s see. Last week is was extolling the virtues of our wonderful Indian Summer and how these warm sunny days were extending the growing season for us. As you were reading you must have thought I had lost my mind considering that in fact our Indian Summer seems to have vanished now that fall is officially here. But you need to remember that these columns are written the week before they are published and at the time I was pondering my subject matter it was indeed glorious outside. What a difference a week makes.
Barbara Bailey helped pass SHB 1032 which created a sustainable energy trust and which promoted the development of sustainable energy resources including new energy technologies. She also supported EHB 1057 which required a review of state agencies that owned and operated refueling sites to see if it was practical and/or possible to offer alternative fuels to other agencies or for public use. Barbara Bailey also helped pass ESHB 1211 which provided tax exemptions for solar components.
I was rather surprised to learn that Joe Wilson, a candidate for Superior Court Judge, has had multiple DUI’s or alcohol related driving incidents as reported in the local media. Shouldn’t Superior Court Judges exemplify the law?
Those in support of physician-assisted suicide argue that by providing lethal medication they are showing compassion to the terminally ill. Yet when offered the choice of death, patients, instead of feeling less pain or fear, actually had increased feelings of anxiety, pain and worthlessness.
Three artists from around this neck of the woods have been transformed by the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, a part of a bigger world called Cascadia. Cascadia stretches along from the majestic Oregon Coast north to the inner passage islands of Puget Sound and British Columbia, from the sea to the mountains.
Inspired by views of unending sunsets over Marysville from his picturesque location on the western slope of Getchell Hill, Art Dujardin is pleased to announce he is having a solo show at Solovei Art Gallery in Everett.
The Ken Baxter Senior Community Center is looking for a resident band to practice once a week during the day at the senior center. Practices could be open to the public to come and listen. Big band, jazz, old time fiddlers, etc. are encouraged to submit a request. For information call Maryke Burgess at 360-363-8450.
