June 2015

DES MOINES, Wash. — This summer White Center residents will be able to attend college courses in their own neighborhood at the YWCA Greenbridge Learning Center.

Beginning June 22, Highline College will offer a Medical Healthcare Interpreting course. Class meets Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Greenbridge Learning Center.

Highline will also offer College 199 on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. beginning August 27. This course provides students with tools to prepare for academic, employment and personal success.

“Highline College has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with Greenbridge and Seola Gardens, and we are excited to continue making college classes accessible to White Center” said Highline Director of Baccalaureate and Workforce Education, Tanya Powers. “We want our college to be accessible to the community and hope that offering classes here will make it easier for people to fit a college education into their busy lives.”

This coming Wednesday at 5 PM we will be conducting a free Golf Club Self Defense Seminar for women at the Umibushi Martial Arts College in Des Moines, Washington.

Our address is 22760 Marine View Drive in Des Moines which is right next to the Taco Time Resturant on the south end of town.

Please note this free seminar is being conducted as a community service in consideration of many women who may be assaulted by their intoxicated husbands during or after the US Open Golf Tournament.

Semper Fi, Hanshi Jim Curtis
206-422-8143 or umibush@yahoo.com
www.umibushi.com
www.nas-da.com

DES MOINES, Wash. — Dr. Jack Bermingham, president of Highline College, was recently honored by Mayor Zhu Minyang of Yangzhou, China as a 2015 Distinguished City Guest. Mayor Minyang’s presentation to Bermingham was shown on Yangzhou television news.

President Bermingham was one of 13 recipients this year, and was the only foreign honoree. He will be a guest of honor during the city’s 2500th Anniversary Celebration this fall. Yangzhou, a city of about five million, in Jiangsu Province is a sister city of Kent.

“This special recognition from Yangzhou reflects the exceptional work of some Highline faculty and staff in supporting this partnership,” President Bermingham said. “This award honors the good work by both Yangzhou and Highline in developing strong people to people relationships across borders that hopefully improve understanding between our two countries.”

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Renton scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth and final inning to wrest away a 10-9 victory overt the South Highline National Cubs in the District 7 Minors Tournament of Champions final Monday.

The Cubs had held as much as a 9-3 lead earlier in the game for ages 9-10 played at the Normandy Park City Hall complex.

The Tournament of Champions is for regular season teams that win their respective charter championships and is played under a single elimination format, while the upcoming all-star tournaments are double elimination.

All-Star baseball action will run Friday, June 26 through Friday, July 10 with all of the District 7 tournaments taking place at the PacWest complex located between Burien and SeaTac.

Along with the age 9-10 division, all-stars will be crowned in age 10-11, Majors age 11 and 12, Intermediate with 50-foot mound distance and 70-foot basepaths and Juniors age 13-14 on a full diamond.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

South Highline National captured first place in this year's District 7 Tournament of Champions for the Majors girls softball level.

The Nationals from Des Moines and Normandy Park wrapped up the title with a 9-4 victory over Renton.
The Tournament of Champions is for regular season teams that win the championships for their respective charters and is played under a single elimination format.

The upcoming all-star tournaments are double elimination.

The Arts in Nature Festival will return on August 22-23 at Camp Long in West Seattle. The festival is an eclectic experience of music, art, and performance in the woods of Seattle’s only camp ground. The diverse lineup of over 40 artists includes music from indie rock to traditional Japanese folk, plus dance performance, poetry, and audio/visual installations in the Museum of Sound.
 
Highlights of the artist lineup include Stranger Genius nominee Clyde Peterson, who will be presenting his multimedia installation Boating with Clyde and performing with indie rock band Your Heart Breaks. Karl Blau, iji, Mako & Munjuru, Hollow Earth Radio, and Althea Fantast Dance Collective are also on the lineup for the weekend.
 
The “arts in nature” concept encourages artists and audience members to engage in active participation both with each other and with the natural landscape of Camp Long. Performances will be intimate, ambient, and acoustic in four different venues throughout the park: in the Lodge, in a forested grove by the Pond, on the climbing Glacier, and in the Meadow.  
 

The Seattle South King Sluggers, a project of the South King Council of the Blind (SKB), is the first blind baseball team in the Seattle/South King area.
Beep Baseball is played on a smaller field and the rules are altered to give blind players an opportunity to hit the ball.  The ball emits a beeping tone which blind batters focus on, and the bases emit another tone giving runners audio cues to locate the correct base.

“This is a fabulous opportunity for blind and sighted folks to mix, mingle, and play baseball.  I am so proud that SKB took this on as a project,” says Gaylen Floy, SKB President.

“I believe with all my heart in blind people and their capabilities.  Where ever I’ve lived, we’ve had a beep baseball team; after living in Burien for only a year, I knew the Seattle area should be no exception.  It gives me tremendous joy to hear and feel the successes of my blind brothers and sisters as they gain more confidence in themselves through playing beep baseball,” said Kevin Daniel, SKB Treasurer and founder of Seattle South King Sluggers.

The Highline High School Alumni Association has awarded 21scholaships worth over $50,000 to 2015 graduating seniors at the Burien school.

The winners and their scholarships are, left to right in the top row. Olivia Beckham (Uli & Gayle Chi Mathematics), Julissa Gallegos (Donald Bunger Future Technology), Yusuf Ali-Halane (World Language Department), Citlaly Ramirez (Roger & Linda Walsh), Jacob Hines (Mavis Lukson), Hai Quang Le (Harry E. Lemon), Fredy Galpani (Roger & Linda Walsh), Nizama Djuderija (English Department) and Sidney Williams, Highline High college and career access specialist.

In the second row are Rodha Sheikh (Social Studies Department), Katie Gatto (Emily Nishimura Herod), Faith Todd (Science Department), Shelbianne Figgins (McEachern Family Fine Art), Cassidi Young (Roger & Linda Walsh), Diana Algomeda-Villada  (Dr. Alan Gunsul), and Adanech Makey (Mavis Lukson).

In the front row are Jonathan Soledad (Dick Dahlgard Photography), Kodie Frankele (Patti Burgess Future Teacher), Kyle Pitz (Music Department) and Kelvin Herbruger (Nancy Tully Memorial Business Department).

Ms. Annette Duvall has been named Athletic Director at Kennedy Catholic High School. Ms. Duvall has 19+ years of high school athletics experience serving athletes at all levels of district classification. Ms. Duvall currently serves as the Metro League Secretary and has served on the Sea-King District II Executive Board. She holds a Master of Science degree in Sport Pedagogy from Seattle Pacific University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education from Western Washington University.

Annette has most recently served as Athletic Director at Cleveland High School and was previously the Athletic Director at Bainbridge High School. She received Metro Athletic Director of the Year honors in 2010 and 2012 and the District Athletic Director of the Year award in 2012.

By Tim Clifford

In an unfortunate case of “wrong place, wrong time” a cab driver was seriously wounded in Des Moines Monday night after being caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting.

The 50-year-old driver, whose name has not been disclosed at this time, had just dropped off a fare at a home in the 21800 block of 30 Ave. S., a residential area that is close to the SeaTac city line. As the cabbie was driving away he noticed a green Ford Expedition, with its passengers hanging out of the windows and armed with guns, coming in the opposite lane. At the same time the driver also noticed three men standing across the street in front of a small apartment complex.

As the Ford was passing the cab its passengers opened fire in the direction of the three men on the street with an estimated fifteen rounds being fired. One bullet blew out the driver’s side window and hits the cab driver in the upper body, exiting through his lower right abdomen. The cabbie sped away and sought help at the 7-11 on 216 St.