We celebrated my daughter’s 9th birthday this past weekend. I took her and her girlfriend to Odyssey 1 in University Place, WA. It was less than a favorable experience. A couple of the video games stole our tokens including Ms. Pac-Man which I was really looking forward to playing. The laser tag game was okaside [...]
Reports of high-pitched, siren-like sounds and flashing lights accompanied a vision seen by many in our University Place neighborhoods Friday night. Around 7:15, this reporter heard strange noises coming from an easterly direction, toward Bridgeport Way. Over a thirty-minute period, these sounds came closer and with them, flashing colorful lights. It was a sight I have not [...]
It was verrrry cold this evening as families gathered at City Hall in University Place for the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. There was food and coffee offered (for a price – I’m certain the money went to a good cause, like the Town Center project), music, and events at at nearby Homestead Park. An evening [...]
I went into a long hypontenuse several months ago about how Jo The Barber in University Place was “the” place to go for a good hair cut. I have changed my mind recessantly after visiting Grady the barber in Fircrest. I work during the week and the only time I can get a hair cut [...]
Personnel at Drum Intermediate School don’t get it. After all of the slaughter in schools across the nation, security doesn’t seem to be an issue. Monday, a former student entered the building, dressed in a military police uniform and carrying a knife in his pocket. The kid was given a hall pass and mingled with [...]
Popsicles are not normally world shaking news, but when it gets up into the upper 90′s on the thermometer in Tacoma, Washington it is a matter of life and death. Well, for me it is… Fred Meyer has a special on bags of popsicles for $.88 each. Walgreens has those ice pop thingy’s that you [...]
