September 2008

After calling for annexation of a southern portion of North Highline on May 19, Burien withdrew its proposal on August 28 due to procedural conflicts.

While rules regulating annexation will change this October, Burien is currently unable to move forward in the process because the proposed area for annexation overlaps with the City of Seattle.

Mike Martin, Burien city manager, said he hopes that by withdrawing the previous request the future proposal will be considered for its merit instead of wasting tax dollars by debating the process in which it was presented.

Highline Public Schools' Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) results for 2007-08 generally mirror those across the state; scores are on an upward trend overall since testing began in 1997, but students are not making progress as quickly as they need to, according to district administrators.

Though many schools improved, most did not make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind (act-even schools in which students gained more than one grade level in a year's time.

For a school to make AYP, a certain percentage of students

The Port of Seattle Police Department is offering a unique opportunity to learn about the many challenges facing local law enforcement.

It's called "Citizen's Academy" and consists of a once a week, 10-week program offered at Sea-Tac International Airport.

The Port operates the airport.

The purpose of the academy is to develop positive relations between Port police and the community at large.

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This weekend, if you venture out to the Highline Performing Arts Center, you will believe in fairies.

You will also decide that you never want to grow up, go to school, learn to be a parrot and recite silly rules.

But, most of all, you will believe that a boy can fly.

The Hi-Liners have done it again.

The South King County youth theatre organization has mounted an impressive and enchanting production of "Peter Pan," complete with stunning costumes, colorful scenery, athletic choreography, more than capable singing and children who fly.

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Failed water tanks caught the attention of Highline School Board members at their Aug. 27 meeting.

Board members signed off on the completion of a water tank project at Camp Waskowitz.

Waskowitz is the district's outdoor education facility near North Bend.

The statue and pedestal were draped with an olive-colored parachute silk, loosely tied with blue twine.

Saturday afternoon, the sky was blue, the sun was warm, and the breeze was cool - perfect weather.

The tide was high and the 44-foot Yankee Clipper anchored off the boardwalk at Alki. The fireboat Leschi sprayed fans of water in the bay.

Under one green canopy, people sold more commemorative bricks, available for purchase until the end of the year, for installation next summer. Boy scouts armed with maps helped people locate their bricks arrayed around the pedestal.

Harald Sund had found a couple dozen scouts who were at the original dedication. About a dozen attended Saturday, wearing names tags saying, "I was there."

The four Sea Scouts who unveiled the statue in 1952 sat in red folding chairs on the edge of the plaza, with their wives and their sons and their grandsons.

The closure of Spokane Street has been postponed one week.

The crew with the Seattle Department of Transportation needs a few extra days to finish repaving a nearby section of First Avenue South. Meanwhile, Spokane Street must stay open, part of the detour route around the repaving.

South Spokane Street, the lower roadway, will be closed on Tuesday, Sept. 16 (previously scheduled for Sept. 8th). It won't open again until mid-2010.

Eastbound lanes, between Second Avenue South and Fourth, will be closed to all traffic.

Find out more about the closure of Spokane Street, the widening of the Spokane Street Viaduct, a new Fourth Avenue exit, the replacement of the south end of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, improved Metro bus service to West Seattle during construction, the year-round service of the Elliott Bay Water Taxi, what will replace the central waterfront portion of the Viaduct....

All at a transportation open house next week.

The forum, sponsored by the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce, will be 6:00 to 8:00, Tuesday evening, Sept. 9 at West Seattle High School.

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One hundred and two years after President Grover Cleveland unveiled the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, our own Ms. Liberty will be unveiled Saturday, September 6, at 1:30 pm, recast and on its new pedestal.

Two days earlier, she was lifted from her crude confinement in a pickup truck bed, hoisted into the sky, and set down, with dignity, onto four bolts that fastened her to the new pedestal. Seattle Parks and Recreation project manager Patrick Donohue, along with colleagues Rod Hammerbeck and Mark Bentley did the heavy lifting.