September 2007

The Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence, a local non-profit that raises money for all of the Highline Public Schools, will hold its second annual community "Rock 'n' Roll Dance and Luau" on Saturday, Sept. 22.

The dance will take place on from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Normandy Park Cove, 1500 S.W. Shorebrook Dr.

At this year's dance, the Foundation will launch a musical instrument drive. All guests are invited to bring a new or used musical instrument.

Normandy Park Towne Center officially opened to the public on Sept.

Slightly more than half (56.4 percent) of the Highline district's high school seniors have passed required state tests and are on track with class credits to graduate this spring.

However, 84 percent have passed both the reading and writing sections of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) and would qualify to graduate if they accumulate enough class credits in their senior year.

This year's seniors are the first class that is required to pass both portions of the WASL to graduate.

The requirement to pass the math WASL has been postponed, but tho

After six years of planning and negotiating, the city of Burien finally has approved the purchase of a nine-acre portion of the Seahurst Park area for $750,000.

Council members voted 5 to 1 at their Sept. 10 meeting to approve the purchase. Councilman Gordon Shaw cast the lone dissenting vote.

In 2001, the council directed city staff to look into avenues of generating revenue to purchase the land. A value of $750,000 subsequently was assessed by the city, and that amount was stated in the contract with the landowner.

SeaTac City Council members picked a familiar name Sept.

Burien council members are pondering their next move in the wake of a recent state Court of Appeals decision that upheld a $10.71 million judgment against the city.

This is the latest chapter in an ongoing land-use dispute that began before Burien was incorporated. "We're considering [an] appeal. I think it's likely we will," Burien City Manager Mike Martin said last week.

"There's a lot at stake.

Preliminary work got underway Sept.

My thanks to Paula James of Boulevard Park and Sara Schaper of SeaTac for their letters, "Morality View Explained" and "New Testament Cited."

Right on, girls. It's too bad that those walking in darkness might not get to see the "light."

Bob Rockwell

North Highline

The Christians here in the Highline Times quoting and referencing the Bible are so amusing, because over 90 percent of these Bible-quoting Christians have no real clue of the true origins of what they cite.

Honest scholarship reveals that the Jewish Scriptures, called TaNaKh (what Christians mistakenly call the Old Testament), was redacted in waves, beginning in the 7th Century BC (with those pre-Exile writings totally void of any afterlife beliefs) through the final works in the 3rd Century BC (where the idea of a political savior and afterlife beliefs first appear), with a set can

To Des Moines City Councilman Dave Kaplan and Fellow Council Members:

First, I want to thank you for taking personal time to respond and to work with me on the sling launch problem at the Des Moines Marina.

The City of Des Moines is very fortunate that in a city of 29,000 people only you seven volunteers are willing to devote personal time to holding Council positions.