The inclusion of Dr. Jim Rice in a June 17 Times/News article on the guilty plea of Jayson Boehm was not meant to imply that Dr. Rice has been accused of wrongdoing or improprieties as a volunteer in the Highline School District's athletic programs.

Dr. Rice is a licensed physician and former head of the Highline Medical Center Emergency Department. He has never been accused of wrongdoing while offering low-cost physicals at Highline High School for the past 25 years.

Dr. Rice drove eight or nine wrestlers in a van to a wrestling tournament in Sedro-Wooley. District officials objected to the trip because it was out of the area and not authorized by administrators. No parents or students complained and there were no reports of improprieties.