The Observation Deck

Mayor Summers was back at the ground breaking for the new schools which only seems
right as he was on the Lakewood School Board.

OK we all know the routine so let's go through it and check everything off.


Mayor Summers and Lakewood School Board Vice President Tom Einhouse.


Colin McEwen, Public Information Officer for the City of Lakewood, working it.


Superintendent Jeffery Patterson gets the ball rolling.


Which cheered up the Mayor and Tom.


A nice crowd had gathered.


School Board President Emma Petrie Barcelona speaks of the history.


Mayor Summers speaks of the City's vision for the future.




Tom Einhouse gets another plaque.




Emma gets another shovel.


Time to break some ground.


Left to right, Superintendent Jeff Patterson, Mayor Mike Summers, Board VP Tom Einhouse, Roosevelt Principal Eileen Griffiths, student Shannon Dohar, Board President Emma Petrie Barcelona, students Dominic Patera and Deanna Williams, Board members Betsy Shaughnessy and Edward Favre, PTA President Allison Kirkwood.






Fun was had by all!

Next stop Lakewood High School in a month or two.

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Couldn't help notice the basketball backboard sans hoop. The words: "credible threat to public saftey" continues to ring in my ears.

Peter, those hoops came down forever ago. I think if the folks (adult men about 18-30) using the hoops hadn't been so prone to shouting obscenities into the late evening and blasting music out of their car windows while they played, the hoops would never have come down. That parking lot was usually full of kids riding bikes and flying kites etc and the bballers kind of ran them out.

Also, no, it wasn't me who complained. But that went on for a couple months and then suddenly there were no hoops anymore.