October 2008

SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Pressure!

THAT was what happened. So put an “x” by “it,” or exclaim “it,” or capitalize “it,” but that was the key why the Kennedy football team remains undefeated and the Lindbergh Eagles no longer have a “O” in the loss column in this big season game won by the Lancers, 48-21, at Highline Memorial Stadium Thursday.

Pressure!

The Lancers improved to 6-0 while the Eagles dropped their first in the Seamount to 5-1 in this game that had a lot of pressure in it.

SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Mount Rainier swept the girls and boys cross country team wins over Highline, Evergreen and Tyee in Seamount action at the Evergreen High School 3.1-mile course Thursday.

The girls are 4-0 this season while the boys are 6-2.

Tuesday, Oct. 14

Volleyball

Kennedy 3, Lindbergh 0

Ashley Eniko scored 14 kills and three blocks for the Lancers in last Tuesday’s win while Emily Jovanovich racked up 10 kills.

Katie Key recorded five aces and 16 assists and Emily Lockett had one ace and 19 assists.

Kennedy won the overall match, 25-10, 25-11, 25-11.

A historic ballfield in Southwest King County, with one of the few remaining wooden grandstands in the state of Washington, will receive an extensive makeover thanks to the annual Boeing Mariners Care Athletic Field Grant. The $100,000 grant, which will be formally awarded on Friday, September 26, during a pre-game ceremony, will be used to renovate and upgrade the playing field at Des Moines Field House Park Ballfield #1.

Millions of people around the globe have been gasping from a daily dose of headlines suggesting that just maybe we are once again in the grip of the dreaded recession or worse, the return of the historic depression that descended on the world with the stock market crash of 1929.

Our spirits have been jounced up and down till we have scrambled brains trying to cope with the daily good news/bad news dose emanating from Wall Street.

I was nine when this happened before. A barefoot boy. Eighth from a family of ten. We were living in a rented two-story house in Portland.

A couple of months ago, when SeaTac Mayor Ralph Shape announced that Councilman Joe Brennan was in the hospital, I shrugged.

Joe's always in the hospital. The paramedics arrive with lights flashing, load Joe into the van and rush him to the hospital. The doctors replace some body parts, sew him back up, and he bounces back.

This year, hadn't he been to the hospital 19 times?

The articles that the Highline Times has printed over the last couple of weeks about the arts and education in the Highline School District represent concerned parents and district administration. What is missing from this conversation is the voice of music teachers, the ones doing battle on the front lines for kids and music programs. As a music educator of many years here, I want to offer some facts and a historical perspective from which the community can draw its own conclusions.

"THE ARTS" - this expression is loosely thrown around in the Sept.

safe and reliable

Hi, my name is Tad Drysdale and I would like to tell you the truth about Skateboarding on the streets, first off I'd like to say that the girl in the photo should be wearing a helmet for sure just like someone on a bike should. That being said, I have ridden my longboard down that hill probably hundreds of times, and there is nothing less safe about it than riding a bike.

Skateboarders are no less visible than a bike and what most people don't understand is that skateboards or longboards do have brakes.

transportation

The article regarding Dangerous skateboarding in Seattle (Page B-1, Oct. 15) is one that I believe will be an upcoming attraction for lawmakers in the near future.

Bikes are considered vehicles in the same way as cars, and I think in the future skateboards will be also. I personally put roughly 10 miles under my board a week commuting. I skate in the bike lanes or sidewalk and sometimes the street. Fortunately, my hometown has wide streets but unfortunately no bike lanes.

What it really comes down to is common sense. What is common sense?

suggestions

1. Three wheeled vehicles are the only ones which must pay peak season surcharge even if they buy a 20-ride pass. It is ludicrous that a trike or sidecar rig is treated as an oversized vehicle and subjected to peak season surcharges in addition to the oversize vehicle surcharge they already have to pay.

2. Three wheeled vehicles do not have the re-value card option available to them.

3. Southworth needs a 7:15 a.m. boat from Southworth to Fauntleroy.