October 2015

By Michele Smith

On October 14th citizens from across the district held the first Capital Facilities Advisory Committee (CFAC) at the Highline Public Schools Educational Resource and Administrative Center. A 40 member committee was elected to develop a long term facilities plan including a future bond measure.

Following a harsh report by KOMO News earlier this month claiming Highline high school is rat infested and mold ridden, the committee was formed and is tasked with developing a plan to present to the school board in June of 2016 which could include rebuilding and remodeling or tearing down and replacing the building all together. After the report, an extermination plan was initiated to deal with the rats and the room with the mold (which is not a student area) was closed off completely and air quality inspectors brought in to assess the damage.

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Highline boasts a long list of well-known and accomplished alumni and dozens of grads you haven't yet heard of who are poised to make their mark on the world.
 
Highline is launching a year-long social media campaign highlighting successful alumni.  Each month, one successful, high-profile alumnus and one up-and-coming alumnus will be featured on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
 
The features include a short video clip of the alumnus. The community is invited to follow along by using the hashtag #HighlineAlum.
 
For the month of October, Highline is featuring Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden, a Highline High School graduate.
 
“This is just a fantastic area. The natural beauty is amazing, but more importantly, the people of this area, the students that go to these schools in the Highline School District, the teachers, the staff, it’s just a fantastic area. I hope we all work together and make this place better, and better, and better in the years ahead,” said Brad Tilden.

The #HighlineAlum campaign aims to inspire our students to dream big, graduate high school, and go on to accomplish great things.

If Sofiya Yakubovskaya were living in Russia today, her tattoos would peg her as a criminal.
 
Since moving to the U.S. with her family in 1999, the 25-year-old Highline College student has acquired seven tattoos.
 
“In Russian culture, it’s been ingrained into our brains to believe that only criminals get tattoos,” said Yakubovskaya, who has lived in Federal Way since 2001. “Other cultures are not that way.”
 
A former tattoo apprentice, Yakubovskaya is working part time as an assistant in the college’s new Student Art Gallery, which is set to open in October with its debut exhibition, “Tattoo Stories.” Yakubovskaya hopes the upcoming exhibition of tattoo art will change some people’s perceptions of tattoos.
 
“I get a lot of looks of disapproval—usually from the elderly—when they see my tattoos. Other times, total strangers have complimented me on them,” she said. “In the past, there have been a few people who told me my tattoos make me less attractive. It’s hurtful, but in the end, I love my work.”
 

Photo by Patrick Robinson. Shot from Henderson Street SW.

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By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Still earns five saves for St. Martin's

BILLINGS, Mont. – The Saint Martin's University women's soccer team fell 2-0 Saturday afternoon at Yellowjackets Field against Montana State University Billings despite getting five saves from Mount Rainier High School graduate Chelsie Still.
It was only Still's fourth game played at goalkeeper.
"Conceding the two goals in the first half was a difficult task," said Director of Soccer Rob Walker. "Chelsie Still stepped up in to help with our goalkeeping temporarily and had a good second half with some heady saves and good distribution. All in all a tough day but we are looking forward to our game versus Western Washington on Tuesday."
The Saints fall to 1-11 overall and 0-8 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, while MSUB moves to 6-5-2 overall and 4-4-1 in league play.
Saint Martin's is back in action on Tuesday at the SMU Soccer Field to see Western Washington University at 3 p.m. The Saints game on Nov. 22 against Mills College has been cancelled.

McPherson, Viks win 16th straight

By Amanda Knox

Sometimes there is melancholy. Explicable or inexplicable, there just is. There’s no shame in it, though to bear melancholy is to feel uncomfortable, awkward, pained, disquieted, humbled. At least this is how I feel, also because I cannot help but to bear my emotions legibly. Where uplifting emotions move across my face with exuberant animation, opposite emotions that cause me to feel weak and vulnerable freeze my features. A blank expression on my face is as sure a sign of distress as tears. When I experience a negative emotion such as melancholy, my solution is often simply to brace myself and hope to get through it.

My coworkers recognized it a mile away. A gentle, sympathetic discussion arose.

“It must be something in the air,” Phil said. “The change of the season.”

Dean said, half-jokingly.“You should go on an epic quest for happiness,”
An epic quest for happiness? I wondered. That’s just melodramatic enough that it might work.

The issue of what to do with the homeless in Seattle is a fundamental problem that dates back to well before the 1930s. It’s been with us longer than black berry thickets. Incidentally, the City’s solution has not changed much over the last 80 years: transitional housing in constantly short supply. In fact it’s even worse than what the city did during the Great Depression.

Although the City has devoted millions of dollars to constructing housing and offering services for the homeless, they have not been able to keep up with the boom of individuals living unsheltered. Just this year the King County One Night Count recorded 21 percent more men, women and children sleeping with no shelter compared to last year. There were 3,772 through out the county and 2,813 in Seattle.

The City’s response? Last July the Mayor rolled out a plan to establish three tent city encampments in Seattle to house the growing number of homeless people. Each encampment will provide shelter for up to 100 people. The one in Ballard will house about 50.

Meanwhile, financial and income inequality is at an all time high, rents are staggering.

Here’s some numbers: