January 2007

Redemption in the face of furious frustration rang in a victory Friday.

Mired in a two of 10 shooting night against a suffocating and extending 2-3 zone defense, Marcus Tibbs stepped up with an iron resolve to drive the No. 5 state ranked Decatur boys basketball team past crosstown rival and No.

If you did not know it, February was decreed "Heart Health Month" in 2004 by none other than the President of the United States, claiming in a press release then that "64 million Americans suffer from one or more forms of cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, and congenital heart defects."

The P.O.T.U.S.

To the Editor:

Your paper's coverage proves the school board was right.

Seth Bynum's slanted piece entitled "Board silences global warming film," combined with Bill Johnson-Miles' nearly full-page letter to the editor which ended in a call to arms, clearly indicate the film is controversial.

I applaud the board for applying policy 2311.

If the film misrepresents some facts and reputable scientists arise to clarify the topic should we not listen?

Of course global warming is controversial.

To the Editor:

As one of the "handful" of parents opposed to the showing of "An Inconvenient Truth" in classrooms, I felt compelled to respond to your article and the letter to the editor submitted by Bill Johson-Miles.

First, I am puzzled by the assumption that only a very few parents are concerned. I believe there are more of them out there than you might think. Unless someone has taken a poll of Federal Way parents, I don't think one can assert how many or few there are.

In a Senior Night slam, Decatur 12th grader Devon Jones puts his Federal Way High School opponent, Darren Faber, into a move you'll likely see used more in the WWF than on the high school wrestling mat. Faber fought back, however, scoring six points on Jones. The Gator Jones won the match 16-6, but as consolation for his opponent, Faber was the only Federal Way wrestler in the first six matches not to get pinned. Photo by Seth Bynum.

The Federal Way School Board announced last Tuesday at its twice-monthly meeting that district teachers can resume showing "An Inconvenient Truth," a film of slideshow findings on the topic of climate change and global warming.

The decision ends a 14-day moratorium on presenting the film in Federal Way classrooms, installed by the Board on January 9.

Board Vice President David Larson aired the motion in request of a moratorium on showing the film until the board could determine the extent to which Federal Way teachers had used the documentary in the classroom, and whether

Each week we gather the police report from a printed dispatch log available to the public at the FWPD Headquarters. In order to maintain accuracy in the facts presented herein, we make every effort to reprint the narratives exactly as they are presented, without adjustments in grammar or style.

Traffic stop and records check turns up fugitive

1. Federal Way officers stopped the driver of a white 1995 Chevrolet near the intersection of 27900 Pacific Highway South. The traffic stop took place after 1:30 a.m. on January 10.