Suggestions

Tips for School

Since the school year is about to begin, I thought I’d share tips on classroom success that I learned as a university professor.

Let’s begin with Gilbert’s Law of Classroom Inequality: whoever holds the gradebook is always right. It doesn’t matter whether or not that statement is true. It matters that your teachers control your grades, and you don’t.

To argue a point of grammar or punctuation, your only successful defense is The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage. Fowler is the absolute force of authority. He’s like The Shadow; he knows. No one with any sense argues with Fowler...

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Volume 4, Issue 17, Posted 4:58 PM, 07.29.2008

A Hardware Dilemma No More

Bobsons Hardware used to be the place. As far back as I can remember, if you wanted something out of the ordinary, you went to Bobsons to get it. Whether it be a rubber washer for an ancient faucet or a tiny screw used on a drawer hinge, you could count on Bobsons to have it.
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Volume 3, Issue 10, Posted 11:28 AM, 05.02.2007

Let's Capitalize on the Dog Park

A suggestion from Gordon Brumm
The Lakewood Observer invites our readers to send in suggestions for city government and civic organizations. All suggestions should be submitted through the Lakewood Observer Member Center – a one time registration is required. We intend to include your ideas as a regular feature in each edition. Selections will be made by the Editor and Publisher and we reserve the right to use submissions in part as space permits. Please let us hear from you.
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Volume 3, Issue 1, Posted 3:03 AM, 01.07.07

PHOTOGALLERIES

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UPCOMING EVENTS

August 20, 2008:
12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

2:00 PM - Paul Wright, MD, Author of Mother Teresa's Prescription

9:00 PM - Kyle Curley - Solo Acoustic FREE Concert @ The Winchester

August 21, 2008:
12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

August 22, 2008:
12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

5:30 PM - Annual St Augustine Health Campus Tom Kemer Memorial Steak Roast Benefit

8:00 PM - TLC Stroll In Theater

9:00 PM - Steve Lukather - Five time Grammy Award Winning guitarist from TOTO @ live The Winchester

August 23, 2008:
9:00 AM - Green Lakewood 5K

12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

1:00 PM - Wing Crawl

August 24, 2008:
9:20 AM - The Rev. Dagmar Celeste

12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

August 25, 2008:
12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

August 26, 2008:
12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8

August 27, 2008:
6:00 AM - Official Brake 4 Kids sign posting day

12:00 PM - Cheerleading – Grades 3-4

12:00 PM - Cheerleading Grades 5-6

12:00 PM - NFL Flag Football Grades 2-3

12:00 PM - Cross Country Grades 6-8