September 2007

Foster weathered a Seattle Christian comeback in a girls volleyball match, beating the visiting Warriors in four games, 25-22, 15-25, 25-19, 25-21, a week ago Monday.

"It's a better start than last year," said Bulldogs head coach Tina Brooks, in her second year. "We won three games all year last year."

This four game match was closer than the score, not that the scores were that far apart.

In game one, SCS and Foster were at 16-16 and then 22-21, Foster leading both times, before a couple miss hit shots spelled fate in that one for SCS.

Football

Evergreen 66, Sumner 8

Evergreen towered above Sumner in a non-league game at Sumner played Saturday, Sept. 8.

Nuisance motel shut down

September 7-Citing safety violations and illegal activities, city officials issued a cease-and-desist order against the 3 Bears Motel and revoked its business license.

Located at 2717 S. 216th St.

Ethelda Burke has been appointed Tukwila schools' interim superintendent, effective Oct. 17. The Tukwila School District Board of Directors at a regular board meeting on Sept. 11 made the appointment.

Burke recently resigned as Deputy Superintendent in the Tacoma School District.

"Walk Out on Homelessness" will be staged Saturday, Oct. 6, at 10 a.m.

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.