Highline schools offering youth sports camps this summer

New program aims to build fundamental skills

Jun 05, 2013

Press release:

Highline Public Schools Athletics is offering sports camps this summer for students entering grades 1 through 12. Twenty camps will cover ten sports: Basketball, Cheer, Cross Country, Dance/Drill, Football, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball and Wrestling.

The summer sports camp program is a new initiative of the school district. The camps are taught by Highline coaches and teachers, and are geared for young athletes at all levels of experience.

“Our summer camps program is an effort by district coaches to provide fundamental skills instruction to students throughout the district,” said Highline Athletic Director Terri McMahan. “It is an opportunity for younger students to learn from skilled coaches and high school student-athletes in a fun and instructional environment.”

Registration forms are available online at www.highlineschools.org/athletics. Information can also be obtained by contacting Debbi Mathews at debra.mathews@highlineschools.org, or 206-431-2418.

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Wage, working conditions petition presented to SeaTac officials on Wednesday, June 5

SeaTac Committee for Good Jobs press release:

Today the SeaTac Good Jobs Initiative takes a major step forward as supporters will file more than 2,500 signatures and call on the city to place the initiative on the November 2013 ballot. Only 1,541 valid signatures are required to qualify the measure in the city.

It took airport workers and their community supporters less than 4 weeks of door-to-door canvassing to collect the signatures. The signature total represents nearly half of all SeaTac residents who voted in the 2011 general election.

Workers and their supporters will deliver their signatures to the SeaTac City Clerk’s office with the help of a marching band, balloons and celebratory signs.

“Today we celebrate in SeaTac. Filing the initiative shows how the community is coming together in its care and concern for one another. When working families can be paid properly and thrive, our whole community benefits,” said Rev. Jan Bolerjack, pastor of Riverton Park United Methodist Church.

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Students from Des Moines win writing, art, and digital media contest in statewide prize presented by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center

Jun 06, 2013

Press release:

The Holocaust Center hosts an annual, statewide contest entered by more than 800 students in grades 5-12. This year, students from Kent Mountain View Academy took 1st and 2nd place in the 5/6 art division, and a student from Parkside Elementary took third place in the digital media category. View and read their entries at http://www.wsherc.org/writingcontest/WAC2013_winners.aspx.
Winners will be honored at an award ceremony and luncheon Sunday, June 9 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, Washington.

Art:
1st Place – Danielle Kim, 6th Grade, Kent Mountain View Academy, Des Moines. Teacher: Thanh Thu Do

2nd Place – Aria Saisslin, 6th Grade, Kent Mountain View Academy, Des Moines. Teacher: Thanh Thu Do

Digital Media:
3rd Place – Alyssa Vasquez, 5th Grade, Parkside Elementary, Des Moines. Teacher: Debbi Needham

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