Wrestling team honors seniors between dual losses
January 30, 2009
The Mount Si wrestling team honored its seniors in between a pair of home duals Jan. 29.
Some of those seniors then returned the favor with impressive mat wins.
The Wildcats lost to former league rivals Skyline, 44-34, and Issaquah, 48-19. But senior standouts Ryan Makela and Ryan Ransavage combined to go 3-0 on the night with a fall, a technical fall and a decision victory.
Ryan Ransavage goes for a pin during Mount Si's match with Issaquah.
Mount Si seniors present final projects
January 29, 2009
Half of the seniors at Mount Si High School have completed a year-old graduation requirement: the culminating senior project.
Starting in 2008, the Washington state Board of Education required that all seniors in the state present a culminating project before they graduate. The board allowed each school district to form its own unique culminating project guidelines, allowing districts to ask students to complete projects ranging from in-depth research papers to volunteer work.
Senior Ryan Oswald, left, presents his culminating project to judges Kathryn Lerner and Ann Beard in the Mount Si High School library.
Hospital district settles on new site
January 29, 2009
If all goes according to plan, King County Hospital District No. 4 could break ground at a new site by October 2009.
The health district has a contract to purchase land on the west side of Snoqualmie Parkway north of Interstate 90, within the boundaries of Snoqualmie.
“The new hospital will have a better location. It will be more visible. People will see it and use it more,” said Rodger McCollum, CEO of Health District No. 4.
A rendering of what the new King County Hospital District No. 4 complex will look like
North Bend moves forward with climbing wall plans
January 29, 2009
A climbing wall, a leaky roof and impact fees were discussed at North Bend’s Jan. 20 City Council meeting.
City Administrator Duncan Wilson presented the council with a plan to have interested companies prepare designs for the centennial climbing wall at Torguson Park, before deciding on a company to build the project.
Wilson said that the nature of the project lends itself to a design-build approach, where the city will select the company to build the wall based on their designs.
Torguson Park is the planned site of a future climbing wall in North Bend.
Fake gun scare causes school lockdown
January 28, 2009
An individual who brought a fake gun to the Two Rivers Campus caused the lockdown of both Two Rivers School and North Bend Elementary Jan. 28.
John Urquhart, spokesman for the King County Sheriff’s department, said the department received a 911 call from a concerned citizen who reported seeing an individual with what appeared to be a gun drive onto the Two Rivers campus. Read more
Boundary talks heat up
January 28, 2009
School board holds meeting to discuss possible transfer
Community members either clapped approvingly or muttered angrily at a public meeting discussing a Broadhurst petition for annexation from Snoqualmie Valley Schools Jan. 22.
The Snoqualmie Valley School Board listened to two presentations — one pro-petition and the other anti-petition — and then allowed audience members to comment either for or against the neighborhood’s transfer.
Parent Mary Alice Colvin explains why she is against a requested transfer by the Broadhurst neighborhood at a public hearing held by the Snoqualmie Valley School Board.
Flood damage assessed in Snoqualmie
January 28, 2009
Snoqualmie’s City Council heard an update on flood damage estimates and recovery efforts at its Jan. 26 meeting.
Public Works Operations Supervisor Mike Roy told the council that the city has collected 733 tons of flood debris and expects to collect as much as 800 tons by the end of the week. Read more
Twin Falls students help design a school of the future
January 27, 2009
A group of girls at Twin Falls Middle School has designed a school in the shape of a giant water molecule.
The students hope their polarized molecule will shine at an upcoming regional design contest. Since October, the group of about seven has met every Tuesday to work on the School of the Future Student Design Competition. To enter, the students need to submit an optional model of their proposed school, write a 750-word essay about their planning process and rationale and present a PowerPoint about their project.
Twin Falls Middle School students, from left, Shannon Acker, Natalie Chow, Lydia Petroske, Marissa Busby, Emma Houghton and Aja Corliss hold a cardboard model of their school and the proposed elementary school. Not pictured is Katie McGrath.
Chief Kanim students enter national writing contest
January 27, 2009
With Walt Disney’s “Bedtime Stories” in theaters, Chief Kanim Middle School’s seventh-graders are up to some story telling of their own.
For a grade-wide project, students in Meghan James’ and Paula Young-Keeffe’s language arts classes wrote bedtime stories and saw the movie on their own nickel. The effort was part of a national writing contest the teachers learned about in which students compete against each other to see who can come up with the best story.
School notes 1-29
January 27, 2009
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