January 2015

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD
Nutrition and fitness manager, Northwest Kidney Centers

I love to read. I love to garden. I really love to cook. It comes as no surprise then that I love when all my favorite things are combined into a book about cooking or gardening.

Here are some fun books currently sitting on my coffee table. I highly recommend them:

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss. I suggest this book to everyone, men especially, who wants to learn how to cook. Ferriss doesn’t just teach you how to cook; this eclectic book is filled with great techniques for teaching yourself virtually any topic from how to make a basketball shot to how to kill and clean wild game.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Jan. 3
Boys basketball
Chief Sealth 67, Liberty 53
The Seahawks scored a super victory over the Patriots in non-league action Saturday.
Seattle Luth. 73, Shoreline Chr. 24
Seattle Lutheran routed Shoreline Christian in Saturday action.
Foster 59, Charles Wright 58
The Bulldogs edged out Charles Wright in a non-league game Saturday.
SCS 52, Interlake 47
Seattle Christian crunched Interlake in a Saturday non-league game.
Nathan Hale 54, Highline 44
Highline came up short against Nathan Hale on Saturday.

Girls basketball
Shoreline Chr. 57, Seattle Luth. 42
Seattle Lutheran took a loss to Shoreline Christian on Saturday.

Friday, Jan. 2
Girls basketball
Interlake 63, Mt. Rainier 43
The Lady Rams of Des Moines lost by 20 in Friday non-league action.

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

In an age of computer hacking and scams it is imperative to keep one’s private information secret. Every site that we visit on line therefore must be entered with a special password. The problem is that we then have to keep a file of passwords so that we can access the numerous accounts that we need to carry on our complex lives.

Once in a while I mess up and forget a password. Now don’t tell me I am getting old. It seems to be a common problem to forget at times. My explanation is that after a few years our memory banks are burgeoning with information and each little bit of stored data takes a little longer to access.

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Discovery Shop
4535 California Ave. S.W.
206 937 7169
We're starting the year with a 40% off sale on all outdoor coats and jackets to keep you warm now that winter's fully here. All items with blue tags are half priced and women's pants will also be reduced 50% starting January 11. If you've made a resolution to volunteer more in 2015, please consider cashiering, sorting and marking donations or making simple repairs on donations for us. In just a 4 hour shift each week you can make a difference and help us reach our goal of funding a cure for cancer. Come by or call the shop for more information. The American Cancer Society shop is open Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and all other days 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

By Tim Clifford

Suspect threatens victim while being arrested
At 11:43 p.m. on Dec. 28 police responded to a burglary-in-progress call from a residence on the 6000 block of 26 Ave. S.W. The victim informed dispatchers that she had heard glass shattering in the kitchen downstairs and was currently hiding in her daughter’s bedroom. She could also hear the suspects at that time going through her belongings in her bedroom.

As the officers arrived on the scene they spotted two of the suspects running away through the front gate and detained a third suspect as he was coming out of the front door. The first two suspects were apprehended one block away. A zip lock bag of marijuana, a small jar of marijuana and a ring were found on the suspects. The bag was bloodstained since one of the suspects had cut their hand while breaking the kitchen window.

After perusing this edition, I noticed that there was not a single item regarding the City of SeaTac, my hometown. Not even a single photograph. There was a photo of a Burien businessman at the old Zoopa restaurant in Southcenter, which is in Tukwila. As a matter of fact, all the photos in the Highline Times Des Moines News SeaTac News were of Burien, except the global picture of the Des Moines Marina. Did SeaTac not exist for your end of year edition? Nothing noteworthy occured in SeaTac? Surely there were some photos of happenings in SeaTac somewhere in your archives. Like the new Waterworks at Angle Lake Park, the new Sound Transit ligthrail construction from the SeaTac airport south to S 200th St and International boulevard, the annual SeaTac International Festival and the new 4th of July Fireworks/Carnival. Our City Council has it's contentious moments, too. There was a photo of a business in Fremont included in the Ballard News-Tribune, as well as of the city of Seattle.

New Year’s Eve check scam results in car chase
An attempt to cash a forged check at a bank in Burien resulted in a short car chase on the evening of New Year’s Eve that ended with significant property damage and two arrests. According to the Burien Police Department, the incident started at a bank near the intersection of 1st Avenue South and Southwest 148th Street after a man fled the bank after attempting to cash a bad check. A getaway car driven by a second suspect was waiting but police were already on the scene. Police attempted to pull the suspects over as they began to flee onto Highway 518. During the chase, the suspects started to spin out, striking a number of vehicles about to take the 509 onramp. The suspects fled the vehicle on foot and hid in nearby brush until police found and arrested them. The entire incident was only a matter of minutes but the cleanup and impact on traffic trying to merge onto 509 or enter 518 lasted well into the evening,

Crimes reported between 12/14/14 and 12/28/14

Home and Business Larceny/Burglary:

Leaders from early learning, K-12 and higher education as well as numerous youth and family services organizations have banded together to form a coalition supporting a cradle-through-college state investment strategy. A core principle of the strategy calls for the Legislature to invest in each stage of education and end the practice of pitting one part of education against the other, and of pitting education against health and human services.

“Cradle Through College is so important because K-12 systems can’t do it
alone. Our students need strong early learning as well as an affordable
higher-education system, with engaged community partners all along the
way,” said Highline Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Susan Enfield.

The Cradle Through College Coalition was announced publicly at the Road
Map Project’s Education Results Network (ERN) meeting on Dec. 4 in
Renton. Paola Maranan, Executive Director of the Children’s Alliance, spoke
to these issues at the meeting, saying, “A cradle-through-college investment
strategy recognizes that a child’s learning begins at birth, continues through

As the Superintendent of Highline Public Schools and a resident of the Highline community, I feel compelled to write this open letter. I am grateful to those of you who supported our bond measure last month, which fell just short of the 60% supermajority needed for passage. For those of you who opposed the bond, I also appreciate that you took the time and effort to engage in the democratic process and express your views.

On December 17, the School Board approved placing another bond proposal on the February 10, 2015 ballot. We are taking this step because in order to best educate our children, we must replace aging buildings and relieve the crowding in our schools. The proposal includes some savings gained from, among other things, eliminating the need for middle school interim sites, thus ensuring that our middle school students will not have two transitions during their middle school years.