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OK, this kinda just speaks for itself--

...is this because more are enlisted, or is the percentage increase real?

either way I'm bummed, my heart is just breakn 

I'm going to start a new beat here: Olyblog soccer reporter.

This year there will be five real deal college soccer programs in north Thurston County. Both Evergreen and St. Martins (first year for the Saints) will have men's and women's programs and South Puget Sound has a men's side.

So, until November I'm going to do my best to get out to some games and tell you what I see. The first opportunity will be the Geoducks/Saints scrimmage this Saturday at 2 p.m. over at Evergreen. I don't know if I'll make it, but I'll try.

Here are the schedules for the rest of the season:

Evergreen men
Evergreen women
South Puget men
St. Martins men
St. Martins women

Both Evergreen and SPSCC play their games on the soccer fields behind the College Recreational Center at Evergreen (map). Saint Martins will play at the Lacey Regional Athletic Center (map).

Here are a couple of related projects:

Tolmie Cup

A letter to the editor in the Olympian today regarding TJ Johnson.

TJ Johnson isn't the Pied Piper

I watched the Lakefair parade in disgust this year as I observed local anti-war/anti-military activist and Olympia City Council member TJ Johnson, leading his organization members through the streets of this town as if he were the Pied Piper.

I found their entry into this family oriented and close community event to be extremely political and distasteful.

They chanted loudly as they marched through the parade spewing their anti-America messages.

Wasn't this organization and City Council member also responsible for discouraging the military from attending this years Lakefair festivities? Didn't they claim that they would stage protests if our military made an appearance at the Port of Olympia?

They have used this parade to promote their political agendas.

Perhaps the Lakefair committee should take that into consideration before allowing this anti-American group to participate in next years festivities.

Anybody but TJ!

Shelley Weber, Olympia

Read the article here.

Well said. Could anyone imagine the result if a group had been in the parade with equal but opposite pro America and Support for our military and even anti-terrorism messages?

It seems to me that Mr Johnson enjoys the media attention, and believes his freedom of speech trumps the law as we saw in his illegal port protest. Ms. Weber was right in saying "Anybody but TJ!"

C.