Hoop camp returns
Applications are now being evaluated for The Ten Star All Star Summer Basketball Camp. The camp is by invitation only. Boys and girls ages 10 - 19 are eligible to apply. Past participants include: Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse, Grant Hill and Antawn Jamison. Players from 50 states and 17 foreign countries attended the 2004 camp. College basketball scholarships are possible for players selected to the All-American Team.
Friday, Sept. 2
Football: Foster at Tyee; Evergreen at Bonney Lake; Kennedy at Tahoma, 7 p.m.; Mt. Rainier at Bellevue, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 8
Football: Kennedy at Peninsula, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 9
Football: Highline at Friday Harbor; Evergreen at Fife; Mt. Rainier at Lakes, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 10
Football: Tyee at Clover Park, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 15
Football: Lindbergh at Mt. Rainier, 7 p.m.
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If you are one of the 50 million Americans who is hobbled by osteoarthritis in your knees or hips, you know just how painful this degenerative condition can be.
And if you suffer from the debilitating tenderness of fibromyalgia, you also share a personal awareness of living with chronic pain.
Osteoarthritis - a progressive breakdown of cartilage in the joints until the bones rub against each other - is the most common form of arthritis.
It is a major cause of pain and disability in older adults.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorde
Editor's Note: With Highline schools set to resume classes on Wednesday, Sept. 7, Times/News reporter Eric Mathison recently talked with new Superintendent John Welch. Welch, previously deputy superintendent, replaced the retiring Dr. Joe McGeehan on July 1. Mathison has covered Highline schools for five years. This is part two of that interview; part one appeared Aug. 24.
In the elementaries, you launched a reading initiative. Are you going more toward a math initiative now?
Welch: Our performance in math is not where it needs to be.
The transition from a long summer break to the start of a new school year is difficult for the entire family.
To quell those back to school butterflies, the Highline YMCA offers tips that can reduce "first day of school jitters" for children, adolescents and parents.
According to Patti Curde, senior director of community programs for the YMCA of Greater Seattle, back-to-school time is one of the most stressful times of the year for parents and students.
"Logistics, childcare, homework, new relationships and more must all be confronted and resolved if the family
Times/News Correspondent
Half of the deaf and hard-of-hearing students enrolled in a special-needs program at Bow Lake Elementary may be turned away when Bow Lake and Valley View elementaries combine in 2007.
Concerned teachers warned Highline School Board members of this possibility on Aug.
The city of Des Moines is looking for citizens to write statements for and against a proposed property tax levy lid lift.
If endorsed by city council members, the proposed levy lid lift would appear on the Nov.
Times/News
When Bob Burke took over as Boeing Field director in March 2003, he made an observation about the small airport that "didn't take rocket science."
If Boeing Field (King County International Airport) was to be economically viable, it would have to attract new revenue, Burke declared.
A move by low-cost Southwest Airlines from Sea-Tac International Airport to Boeing Field - bringing 60 more flights a day - would certainly qualitfy as positive economic development.
If some Alaska or Horizon planes also moved from Sea-Tac, the sometimes sleepy
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(Editor's note: Rhoda Stockwell, who participated in this local anti-war rally, provided the Times/News with a first-hand report.)
Highline-area anti-war protesters joined in a candlelight vigil at First Avenue South and Southwest 148th Street on Aug. 17 to show their support for Cindy Sheehan.
Some 120 persons who took part in the vigil also called for an end to the killing in Iraq.
The event was organized by Southend Standing for Peace, a neighborhood group affiliated with the Seattle S.N.O.W.
More than 150 nurses demonstrated outside Highline Medical Center on Aug.
