Enumclaw High School Spanish teacher Molly Chang found the school’s recent staff meeting a bit surreal when she became the focus.
“Time flies” goes the old adage, and the time has rolled around again for the Carboando Historical School District to place its capital projects levy that supports technology before voters.
Kibler Elementary School teacher Julie McGrath sat in front of her first-grade students and explained how they were going to take the stamp they created in an earlier class – a fish cut out of sticky-back foam and glued on to a wooden block – dab it lightly with ink and stamp a pattern across a piece of material.
This could be the season it all clicks for NASCAR Sprint Cup hometown hero Kasey Kahne.
White River wrestling coach Joe Klein was beaming Saturday night. Not only did his boys team put five wrestlers into the state tournament, but so did the Hornets’ girls team. Plus, the Lady Hornets carried home a fourth-place finish from the regional tournament Saturday at Emerald Ridge, finishing one point behind Enumclaw with host Emerald Ridge and Rogers tying for the title.
Jenny Paterson, Chantelle Bailey, Rose Johnson and Breanna Flaquinti are already making history as part of the first girls wrestling team to represent Enumclaw High at Mat Classic, the state wrestling tournament Friday and Saturday, but they’re not finished yet. The quartet hope to bring home some hardware for the trophy case as well.
Enumclaw High will lead the charge with two individuals and two relay teams into Friday and Saturday’s Class 3A state swim championships at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. Preliminaries begin at 5:45 p.m. with finals slated for Saturday evening.
If anyone knows that anything is possible at a state tournament, it’s White River High wrestling coach Joe Klein. As a former Hornet state champion and assistant coach, he has seen it all.
Hornets send record 14 to state with seven regional champions
The learning for Enumclaw High School art students began with Native American artist Katherine Arquette from the Muckleshoot Tribe. The class work that followed her visit centered around resources from Cathy Calvert, the EHS Native American coordinator, and a field trip to the Seattle Art Museum to experience “S’abadeb – The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists.”
The Collins Alternative Programs task force is almost ready to make its recommendations for changes in the school that is offered as a cooperative by the White River, Enumclaw, Orting and Sumner districts.
When the Enumclaw Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1949 received the national VFW’s Fred C. Hall Memorial Outstanding Post Special Project Award Thursday night, no one in the audience at the post home was surprised.
When Alan Bown walked away with both the left-hand and right-handed world arm wrestling titles in 2002, he also walked away from the sport – until recently.
