April 2015

Highline Public School invites the community to join the School Board as it reviews the history, progress, and results of the district’s small schools on the Evergreen Campus and Tyee Educational Complex.

A Small Schools Review & Community Discussion is scheduled for May 27 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. The discussion will help district leaders plan for the future of small schools in Highline.

Students, families, staff, and community members are invited to share their experiences, ideas, and concerns about small schools.

This session is intended to provide an opportunity for the board and school community to see a variety of data and learn from others' perspectives on small schools.

Small Schools Review & Community Discussion
Wednesday, May 27
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Evergreen Campus cafeteria
830 SW 116th Street, Seattle

Similar meetings will be held on the Tyee Educational Complex in the fall.

By Tim Clifford

Dog, guns and cash taken in armed robbery
Two armed robbers stole several handguns, cash and a puppy from a man living on the 8600 block of 35 Ave. S.W. last week. The incident occurred just after midnight as the victim was returning home with his dog from his girlfriend’s house.
After parking under his van in the carport the victim was ambushed by two men, one white and one Hispanic, with handguns. The suspects ordered the man inside and forced him to lead them to a safe. Inside the safe were several guns, one of which the victim contemplated making a move for to turn the tables on the robbers. He quickly decided against this once he felt the barrel of one of the suspect’s guns against the back of his head.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Foster felled Evergreen, 5-1, Friday in a Seamount League boys soccer fray.
The Bulldogs kept their playoff hopes alive with the victory at Highline Memorial Stadium, improving their league record to 6-5-0 and their overall mark to 8-5-0.

The Seamount's two Class 3A teams lead the way, with Kennedy Catholic at 8-0-2 and Hazen at 8-2-1.
Lindbergh and Tyee are tied for third overall and for first among 2A teams at 6-4-1, followed by Foster at 6-5-0 and Highline at 5-6-0. Renton brings up the rear at 0-9-1.

Foster will finish off its season against Lindbergh, Highline and Renton.
"We've got a couple tough games ahead of us, and we have to win all three to get a good seed to sub-districts," said Bulldogs head coach Nasir Tura

Evergreen fell to 0-9-2 in Seamount League action and is out of the running for the postseason.
Desire Katameya scored first for Foster on Friday on a Naji Haji assist with 23:30 to play in the first half, then Ameer Kanawi struck on a Mohamed Duntow assist at 4:40.

Jalal Haji sparked the Bulldogs' second half scoring with 3:20 elapsed, knocking in a Sui Thang assist.

Shirley Peterson, 80, began her new life in Heaven April 21, 2015. She was born to Howard and Shirley Olsen December 30, 1934.

Burien has been her home since moving from Omaha, Nebraska at age 3. Her Daddy built their family home and Shirley’s playhouse on Des Moines Way years before SeaTac Airport was built; the area is now a park.

Shirley Attended Highline High School; her children were Pirates as well. She was a longtime member of Glendale Lutheran Church, where she married Alan "Bud" Peterson May 6, 1952.

She was a "one woman show" at Vince's Pizzeria where she hand-tossed pizzas in the 1950's. While her children were young, she enjoyed cooking at elementary schools in the Highline School District. At family gatherings and while wintering in Arizona, she was known for her love of preparing sourdough pancakes from a treasured family recipe that her parents brought from Alaska.

By Amanda Knox

ArtsWest is signing off their 2014-2015 season with a show that artistic director Mathew Wright admits is “ridiculous.” It’s thigh-jiggling, cornflake-tossing, spiky-haired fun.

It’s also much more than that. What ultimately strikes one about this story are the nerves. Larry the lawyer (Mark Tyler Miller) has got a lot of nerve to demand that his grape juice be “hand-squeezed.” Tim the teenager (Trent Moury) has got a lot of nerve to demand that his mom quit having fun lest she come across as cooler than he is. Punk-rock club owner Lewd Fingers (Brian Lange) has got a lot of nerve...well, clearly.

But the heart of the story is that the four heroines—Jetta (Chelsea LeValley), Carol (Ann Cornelius), Bev (Heather Hawkins), and Wendi (Janet McWilliams)—are unfulfilled females who have every reason to be on edge and find unexpected catharsis in letting loose with nerve and nervousness.

Mayor Murray will be taking a walking tour of Ballard with local neighborhood leaders to discuss neighborhood growth, housing affordability and ways the City can partner with the community to keep Ballard vibrant and livable. After the walking tour, at 11:30 AM, Murray will hold a 30 minute community Q&A session at Ballard Coffee Works.

The walking tour will start at Starbucks (2200 NW Market St.) at 10:00 AM. From there, the Mayor and participants will visit businesses on Market St., then points of interest around the Ballard Commons, followed by visits along the Ballard Avenue corridor concluding at the Ballard Coffee Works (2060 NW Market St.) from 11:30 a.m. to noon.

Thursday, April 23

1. Baseball

Highline 5, Sammamish 4
The Pirates prevailed in a non-league game against Sammamish.

Boys soccer
Lakeside 4, Chief Sealth 0
Chief Sealth took a loss in Metro League action Thursday.

Track and field
Highline-Foster-Kennedy
Kennedy defeated Foster, 102-32, on the girls side in Thursday's meet and 74-59 on the boys.
When compared to Lindbergh the Bulldogs of Foster lost, 88-40, in boys action and 99-26 in the girls portion, while the Highline girls lost, 109-34, to Lindbergh and the boys lost to the Eagles, 103-23.
Other combinations did not compete in the meet.
Evergreen-Tyee
The Evergreen and Tyee team split up and went against Hazen and Renton separately Thursday.
The Evergreen boys lost, 79-53, to Hazen and 102-38 to Renton, while the Tyee boys lost, 107-21, to Hazen and 116-9 to Renton.
On the girls side, Evergreen took a 118-29 loss to Hazen and a 93-44 loss to Renton. The Tyee girls lost, 143-3, to Hazen and 119-9 to Renton.
Mount Rainier-Todd Beamer

By Ed Shepherd
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Not sanctioned at the WIAA level as a season sport, but popular among high school kids, nonetheless, is lacrosse. Boys and girls teams are littering our area and are all over the state. They include Bellevue, Kent, Tacoma, Burien, Thomas Jefferson and Seattle, even Silverdale and over the mountains, in Wenatchee, too, in the 33-team club girls league. "Lacrosse is a lot of fun," said Kennedy Catholic coach Natalie Merrill, who is in her first year coaching the Lancers along with her assistant, Ashton Woodcock. But Merrill has auspicious roots for the sport.

"I started the high school lacrosse team at Kennedy when I was a sophomore in 2008," said Merrill, who graduated as a Lancer two years later. But she didn't graduate in 2010 until she led the entire WGLA (Washington Girls Lacrosse Association) in scoring and was the MVP. Now, having just gone to Washington State University for four years, playing college level lacrosse there, getting a B.A. in psychology, graduating in 2014, she is back from the Palouse, coaching the sport she loves and founded for the Lancers.

Swedish Ballard will open a new Level II Nursery on Monday, April 27. The Level II Nursery allows for premature babies— born as early as 34 weeks gestational age — to receive specialized, around-the-clock care from a trained team of experts.

Premature babies often face health challenges that require special interventions such as feeding support, intravenous therapy or supplemental oxygen. Previously, infants born at Swedish Ballard who needed specialized neonatal care were transferred to other area hospitals. With the new Level II Nursery, these infants can remain at Swedish Ballard with their families.

“This special care nursery was been made possible by the combined efforts of our team here at Swedish and the dedicated members of our community,” said Jennifer Graves, Chief Executive and Nurse Executive, Swedish Ballard. It is the realization of our dream to provide exceptional care in Ballard that spans the entire pregnancy and birth experience. It is our hope that the Level II Nursery will inspire confidence in each and every expecting mother who comes to Swedish Ballard, especially those more likely to have a high-risk pregnancy.”

information from Southwest Seattle Historical Society

Jan Koutsky won the prestigious Teacher's Choice Award from the International Reading Association for her book, My Grandma, My Pen Pal (Boyds Mills Press - April 2002) for its ability to inspire writing between generations of family members. She writes about the special bond that grows between a grandparent and grandchild through letters and visits.

The public is invited to this FREE series from 5 to 7PM on Friday, May 1st, at Barnes & Noble/Westwood Village.

My Grandma, My Pen Pal speaks to a special relationship between a grandmother and her grandchild. Although they didn't live near one another, the two planned projects and shared thoughts, problems, drawings, recipes, and experiences in letters they wrote over the years. Later, the adult child realizes how shaky her grandmother's familiar handwriting has become. After Grandma's death, the now grown woman discovers that her relative kept a memory book of their letters, photos, and postcards, and readers discover the book they have been reading is Grandma's memory book.