September 2008

Heat pours it on

The boys’ U13 Highline Premier Football Club (HPFC Heat) captured first place in the Nike Cup in Lake Oswego, Ore. The tournament took place July 27 - 29 and the Heat played four games before making the championship. They won three games and tied the fourth to go into the Championship game, which they won in dramatic 1-0 fashion.

The team is made up of 15 boys from the Burien and West Seattle areas. The coaches of the team are Don Preiss and John Frank.

Fall signups begin

Fall 2008 youth soccer registration is now open.

Boating

Coast Guard Auxiliary

Ongoing

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Des Moines Flotilla No. 32 regularly offers Boating Safety and Seamanship courses in the Federal Way and Des Moines areas.

They cover the full range of boating safety subjects, including federal requirements, basic piloting, marlin spike, seamanship and boat handling.

The instruction is free, although there is a nominal fee for the student text and work books.

Eighth Avenue South in Des Moines between South 223rd Street and Kent-Des Moines Road will be reconfigured in mid-September for northbound one-way traffic only.

In the meantime, crews are relocating mailboxes, installing signs and painting white edge lines, according to Brandon Carver, associate city transportation engineer.

Council members approved the traffic revision for a one-year trial on a 5-1 vote last month.

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.

Highline College student Joseph W.

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.