I would never participate in such an ironic display of civil disobedience but if I did I would go about it in the following way... I would first go to a website called zazzle.com and do a search for driving bumper stickers or just go -> here.

Then I would get with a friend and pool up some money to order these bumper stickers in bulk for a discount. Lastly, I would wait until dark and ride my bike around town placing the stickers at high traffic stop signs.

I would also check them periodically to note when they are taken down so I can sticker them again.

Cougar Sightings - we need to protect the homeless!

If you are homeless and you live in the wooded area around Yauger Park you won't be able to read this post because you probably don't have a computer. But if you know of someone who is homeless and living in this wooded area please warn them right away.

Maybe you use Yauger Park as a pedestrian connection between Yauger Way and Cooper Point Road. Maybe you are a frisbee golpher or you live in Apple Park. Look out!

Here is a link to the story

King 5 Story

I see this stuff often while riding my bike down Harrison Avenue. It is just past the safeway going west on the right hand side off the bridge. I've also seen this stuff at budd bay at the future site of the West Bay Park. Is it insect related, pollution related, what?

Our family tries hard to bring canvas bags when we go shopping at the grocery store and we actually feel guilty when we forget and come home with 20 or so of those cheap plastic petroleum products that cashiers hand out like it’s a contest to see who can get rid of them first. We often feel like outcasts when we check out and quickly throw our own canvas bags before the cashier is able to score a few new points. However something happened recently that made me feel like we are not as alone as we thought.

I don’t know, maybe it was the afterglow from the news reports about the recent Seattle bag tax initiative. Seattle grocery stores will begin charging for those environmental earthsores and the money collected will support environmental initiatives. But at my recent trips to two grocery stores on the west side, one cashier actually thanked me for bringing my own bag and at another the customer before me had her own canvas bag. At both stores we all discussed the issue and agreed Olympia should follow in Seattle’s footsteps.

Let’s not let the afterglow of the media coverage fade. Let’s use the enthusiasm in the grocery store checkout lines to pass our own bag tax in Olympia. Let’s use the money collected to enhance local green projects that will offset our petroleum and paper bag footprints.