August 2021

Jerry's View: White Center -- I Wanted It To Change

By Jerry Robinson

Publisher Emeritus 1920 ~ 2014

EDITORS NOTE: What follows is an excerpt from the Autobiography of Jerry Robinson entitled Listen to your Father which was published in 1996. Hence some of the references to "current" events are now out of date. Nonetheless it provides some insight into what White Center was like in the 1950's

It was my first month as Publisher, Editor, Reporter, Salesman and Janitor of the White Center News. It was January of the year 1952. White Center was just emerging as a bustling shopping center on the southern border of Seattle, and remnants of its salty past still clung to its merchant body.

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Renewed, remodeled and ready: Highline High School sets tour and opening dates
Community grand opening ceremony & tours scheduled for Thursday, October 21

information from Highline Public Schools

Almost 100 years after Highline High School first opened its doors in 1924, HHS students and staff start school in a brand new 230,000-square-foot building in September. You're invited to the community ribbon cutting ceremony and to tour our new school designed by Bassetti Architects and built by Skanska USA. Come see these features and more....

  • Historic main entrance reconstructed with the original terra cotta
  • Stained-glass pirate artwork inside the main entrance
  • History wall that tells the school story in the lobby and outside the new 1,500-seat gym
  • State-of-the-art career and technical education classrooms, science laboratories, fine arts and other classrooms
  • Intimate 400-seat theater
  • Commons area linking the new north and south wings, with soaring natural wood beams

 

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Night Out in your hood and in the West Seattle Junction Tuesday Aug. 3

With Covid protocols in place and a rising number of delta variant infections Night Out, the annual neighborhood gatherings meant to heighten crime prevention awareness and increase neighborhood support will look a little different. Still, participation matters and if a gathering is taking place near your home, consider being part of it.

Please follow local, state, and federal guidelines for safe gatherings, review the following:

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Rose Marie Price

Rose Marie (Sissy) Price passed away peacefully on July 3, 2021, in Kirkland, WA at the age of 89.

She was born in Van Hook, North Dakota May 13, 1932 to Rose Ella Genevieve and Fred C. Ellis.  She graduated from Van Hook High School in 1950 and married James (Bobby) R. Price on October 8, 1951.

Sissy was small in stature but big in energy.  She was a wife, caregiver, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.  

She and her family moved to Seattle in 1966 and started a career at The Boeing Company where she retired after 26 years.