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Highline Schools Foundation is pleased to announce they awarded over $122,000 in grants to teachers and staff in support of Highline Public Schools.
The foundation’s grant program supports classroom innovation and equity. It provides teachers and staff funds that support student success in Highline Public Schools. Excel Grants provide up to $2,500 for a project that benefits a group, classroom or school. An Impact Grant provides up to $10,000 for a program that impacts a large group of students. This year the review committee funded 92 Excel grants and two Impact grants.
“Being able to provide teachers and staff with grant funding is critical,” said Anne Baunach, Highline Schools Foundation Executive Director. “Grants put resources for student success directly into the hands of teachers and staff, who understand what our students need to be successful!”
by Tim Robinson
Did you ever visit your grandma and notice her home had a characteristic smell? Maybe it smelled like cooking or mothballs or grandpa? Strong memories of aromas linger.
As a kid, my folks would take the family for a visit in Seattle during the summer. We were suburban kids living in McMicken Heights by SeaTac Airport. Grandma and Grandpa lived in a two-story house in Seattle, with a cellar where grandpa kept his rose cuttings and begonia bulbs. He was an avid the gardener in the 40's and quite proud of his work. Grandma invariably had something cooking on the stove or in a pressure cooker.
We'd walk in around lunch time to see the boiling pots and fresh food being prepared. And the smell of mothballs. (Mothballs, were and are small melon tool sized balls of concentrated Napthalene, now banned in many countries as a harmful pesticide, but who knew then?).
By Dan Mackaman for Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission
A life-threatening drug addiction was the last thing Paul ever thought he’d have to battle.
“I was doing great,” he says. “I had a good life. But somebody I loved died suddenly. I had a lot of trouble coping with that, and that’s when I started using. I pretty much lost everything I had because I was spending all my money on drugs.”
Then one night, Paul nearly died.
“Someone shot at me. I called my sister in Florida and she freaked out. She went online and found the Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission and told me they had a bed open in their recovery program.”
At the same time, Paul had another, even bigger, motivation to get sober — his new son, Joaquin. “I didn’t want Joaquin to go through the same things I did growing up.”
The Mission’s Recovery Program helped Paul start a new life
Sen. Kevin Ranker (D-Orcas Island) and Rep. Strom Peterson (D-Edmonds) announced last week they are introducing companion bills in January, 2019, at the state legislature to address plastic pollution and recycling contamination due to plastic bags. The reusable bag legislation will build off the existing 23 local ordinances already in place in Washington.
“Right now, there are more than 86 million metric tons of plastic in our oceans and the equivalent of five grocery bags of plastic trash for every foot of coastline spills into the oceans annually,” said Sen. Ranker. “We must lead with bold progressive action to stop plastic waste from ending up in our oceans.”
Strom Peterson was the city council member in Edmonds who championed the first reusable bag ordinance in Washington in 2009.
“The problem of plastic bags has only gotten worse since then. They are causing a major contamination problem in our recycling and compost streams,” said Rep. Peterson.
A King County Superior Court Judge put the brakes on SDOT’s Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link project, ruling Thursday that the Environmental Impact Statement is incomplete and deficient.
Judge Samuel Chung sided with the Ballard Coalition, agreeing that the EIS failed to adequately disclose the economic impacts that the Shilshole Avenue section of the bike trail will have on longtime businesses in the area. Judge Chung ordered the City to redo the analysis to disclose the impacts.
For two decades the City of Seattle has focused solely on routing the last 1.4-mile section of the Burke-Gilman Trail along Shilshole Avenue. Shilshole is one of just two industrial zones remaining in Seattle, and the only location with sufficient access for the water-dependent maritime industries that have been there for a century or more. Judge Chung ruled that the bike trail would put these companies – and the family-wage jobs they provide – out of business for good.
David Smith didn’t start out to be an artist.
He’s a technologist and scientist after all, a graduate of MIT who fell into his now lifelong love of glass while studying for a degree in Materials Science and Engineering. But he took a class in ceramics (he’s been throwing pots since he was five years old), and then MIT changed the class, re-naming it. He could get credit for it, so he took it again. But down at the end of the hall they were doing something else. Blowing glass. “I’ve got to get into that,” he tolkd himself and soon found himself consumed with the magical material.
by Sarah MacKay
Here is Sherri Wallace of Jan’s Beauty Supply who is a hair goddess and longtime master of remedies for any kind of hair, she and her crew will patiently surmise what is needed among vast options of hair shampoo, conditioner and anything you may need for your mane. You’ll immediately see her kind eyes, perfectly coifed hair and full attention for the customer upon entering the store. She has hair recipe cards for every person who purchases products from this cozy, fully stocked beauty supply shop on California Avenue, one of the oldest remaining businesses in downtown West Seattle.
You will be asked a few questions about your hair after which staff will promptly direct you to the best product. No hesitation, they’re confident after 34 years of consistent care for generations of customers. Grandmothers, mothers and daughters pass on Jan’s Beauty Supply; it’s that kind great of a business.
By Ken Robinson
Managing Editor
From up here on the hill, some of the antics of officials in the valley below strike us as odd. The most recent example is the frothing over luring a hockey team to Seattle. And rebuilding Key Arena so young men have a place slap a puck around.
We held our own naming contest and the winner is The Seattle Fishsticks. This name was chosen because it is emblematic of the fish history of our town and the addition of a sport involving sticks to hit things with. Baseball uses a stick, too, but only until the player gets on base. In hockey, a player carries his stick like a sword while he is on the ice.
By Jean Godden
In November, two East Coast cities received momentous news: they have been selected as the second North American headquarters for Amazon, the e-commerce goliath that Seattle landed for little more than the city's good looks.
Long Island City in New York and Crystal City in Virginia won Amazon's HQ2 bidding war but paid dearly for the privilege: a collective $2 billion in tax credits, rebates and other incentives. That's what it took to attract Amazon and its jobs, 25,000 per city. It's costing Long Island City about $48,000 total per job; Crystal City will be paying $22,000. The cities also had to promise Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a helipad -- something he's failed to score here.
