May 2008

The Washington State Supreme Court will visit and convene at Highline Community College on May 5-6.

On Monday, from 1:20 to 2:30 p.m., six justices will participate in a campus-wide forum in Building 7, hosted by HCC's Honors Department. Community members are invited to attend.

The court, with all nine justices, will sit in actual session on Tuesday to hear oral arguments on three cases, two in the morning and one in the afternoon. Live coverage by TVW will be provided.

The cases include No. 80532-6, Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound (appellant) v.

Maybe it's a good thing the $50,000 donated Del Taco football/soccer scoreboard is not up yet, because between the 13-0 thrashing it took from a Todd Beamer soccer blast over Spanaway Lake and a 6-0 score on it of TJ throttling rival Decatur, it might have just cried "no mas" and bent its steel over.

TJ avenged a 2-1 loss to their Gator rivals of earlier this year.

"They came out and just killed us last year," said coach Dave Hanson.

The city of Des Moines has carried over $309,712 less from 2007 than planned, city council members were told April 24.

City Manager Tony Piasecki said he has to sit down with Finance Director Paula Henderson to figure out how, or if, this will affect the budget for 2009 which will be based on the 2007 year end financial report as well as projected income for 2008.

In the fall of 2007, the year-end balance was projected to be $1,370,813.

Highline Community College's Science Seminar returns for Spring Quarter with a full line-up of programs on the scientific world.

Now in its eighth year, Science Seminar continues to draw crowds every Friday afternoon for a number of reasons, said coordinator Dr. Eric Baer.

"I think that there are a few key things that keep it going," Baer noted.

Thursday, April 17

Baseball

Federal Way 10, K-M 0

Austin Weber won on the mound for the Eagles Thursday, allowing only

two hits in five innings.

Jarred Lee had three RBI for Federal Way and Brandon Robbins hit

2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI and Mike Vlhovic also homered.

Fastpitch

TJ 2, Kentridge 0

Jessica Dickson threw all eight innings for the win Thursday, striking

Solar energy proved its power Sunday as it helped energize a large crowd at the First Annual Sustainable West Seattle Festival. The festival boasted more than 20 exhibitors of nearly 50 organizations and businesses promoting environmental sensitivity as well as a stage featuring speakers.

The Arbor Heights Elementary School plant sale and rummage sale merged this year for the first time. The four year old, annual event is a PTSA fundraiser, whose proceeds go to benefit the music and art programs at the school. Cori Roed, PTSA President and in charge of the plant sale said "The sale raised more than $5000 last year."

The plants were purchased at wholesale through Bell-R Plants in North Highline (between White Center and Burien).

A gravel barge split partially in half, making both ends sink south of Harbor Island around 4 pm Friday, May 2nd. The barge, next to Ash Grove Cement Company was apparently offloading when the incident occurred. A crane atop another barge was brought in to remove some of the heavy equipment on the barge. One person was pulled off the barge but no injuries were reported. One boater who was nearby at the time said, "It felt like a earthquake."

Landscape architect Jim Yamaguchi of Nakano Associates unveiled his final plan of the controversial two-acre-plus Myrtle Reservoir Park layout at the third of four public meetings hosted by Seattle Parks and Recreation. Project manager Virginia Hassinger hosted the meeting Thursday night at the High Point Community Center.

Be aware that the pigeon-drop scheme is underway in the Roxbury area. Last week, a victim stopped to help a well-dressed man who seemed confused. The well-dressed man began explaining his situation with some of the terminology that is the clue to the pigeon-drop scheme: large amounts of money coming from a foreign country (in this case Sierra Leone); searching for someone to trust with the funds; asking the victim to put up some of their own money to prove they are trustworthy, and so on.