I can't get too inflamed about the shooting skills of the vice president because of my long career of doing just about everything from skeet shooting to hunting.
I once brought home some unused clay pigeons after telling Elsbeth I was going skeet shooting, and she was furious because she had spent the afternoon looking for a recipe on how to cook them.
I have never hit a quail or a chukar.
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The 2003 Volkswagen Jetta driven by murder victim Nicole Pietz the day she disappeared was found last week.
Seattle police discovered the car in a downtown parking lot. They declined to give the exact location where it was found.
Pietz left her Lynnwood home to meet friends Jan. 28 and was reported missing by her husband Jan. 29.
Her body was found in bushes near Des Moines Memorial Drive and S. 145th St. in Burien Feb. 6.
The King County Medical Examiners Office said she died from strangulation.
Highline Public Schools’ English Language Learners (ELL) enrollment soared from 602 students in 1991 to 2,789 in 2005, according to the district’s demographic consultant.
More than 200 new students have joined Highline’s program each year since 2001, consultant Les Kendrick told school board members Feb.
The Highline Community Orchestra has scheduled its inaugural concert for March 28.
Music from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, the “Russian Sailors Dance” by Gliere, the “Grand March”, from Verdi’s Aida, and well known popular songs (“Cherish,” “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rain” and “Rainy Days and Mondays”) are on the program.
But, said director Allen Buthmann, “We are now in dire need of more players.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, high school kids flocked to the northwest corner of Pacific Highway South and Kent-Des Moines Road to dance at the Spanish Castle.
Soon, lease payments from a new Walgreen Drug Store at the site will help build public schools.
The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has acquired the 1.74 acres of commercial property in Des Moines in a swap for 320 acres in Puyallup.
State-owned trust land is managed to produce income to build schools, community colleges and universities, prisons, state mental hospitals and help fund co
Ninth and tenth grade students at North Highline's Evergreen High School are beginning to get a more personalized education by joining the school’s “small learning communities.”
The learning communities are designed to curb low graduation rates and enhance student passion for learning, said Mike Sita, small schools coordinator for Evergreen.
Through earlier focus groups and a range of surveys, Evergreen students, parents and staff agreed on three small schools: The Arts and Academics Academy; The School of Technology, Engineering and Design; and The Heal
Many “Band-Aids” have been applied to shore up Camp Waskowitz, the Highline Public Schools’ outdoor environmental education facility, since it was built in 1935.
“But now it’s time for major surgery” on the old camp structures, according to its director.
Roberta McFarland noted that when the district bought the camp near North Bend in 1957, volunteers nailed donated shingles to the dining hall roof and “did what they could to spruce it up.”
However, concrete was never poured between the building’s walls and
The Des Moines City Council voted unanimously Feb.
As a parent with children at Des Moines Elementary, I’m aware that our school generally requires funds for emergency repairs, as we lost two school days this year when the antiquated boiler blew, taking a fire door and a window along with it.
Des Moines Elementary is a marvelous school, and very well-maintained, but she’s old and occasionally needs to be patched up.
Once again, the community of the Highline School District has the opportunity to show its support for children and schools. And once again, the district is asking for voters to step up to the plate and vote YES to support the bond issue to rebuild schools in desperate need of remodeling and repair.
What a great opportunity of show our children that the nicest buildings in the community don't have to be the banks.
