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The trophy case rests in South Kitsap High School’s band room, cluttered with accolades for performances from California to New York.
But even for band director Gary Grams, the Wolves’ latest opportunity feels a little different.
Band members are making final preparations before they perform Dec. 7 in the 70th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Attack Commemoration.
Balance is one universal technique that should be applied to all aspects of one’s existence in order to attain the optimal quality of life. Of late, the international community has come to question the effects of physical training on the human body.
Previously, it was taken as given, that physical training leads to a well-rounded individual. This myopic view automatically glorified the athlete as a superior physical form of the homo-sapiens.
The only other dimension added to this analysis was that of academics, and even personal life and activities tended to get overshadowed. Many are still blind followers of the same rule.
Book lovers will have several opportunities to shop for new and used children's literature at annual holiday sales the first weekend in December.
Sales that benefit various causes are scheduled early next month at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, the Bellingham Public Library and at libraries in Blaine and Ferndale.
Spurred by two standout performances in cross country, Western Washington University ranks ninth in the first set of fall Division II Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings for 2011-12 released Wednesday.
The Vikings accumulated 114 points as they placed 10th in the men's division and 12th in the women's division at the NCAA Division II national championships last Saturday in Spokane.
Kyle Lindor, a senior at Woodinville High School, has signed a national letter of intent to play men's golf at Western Washington University beginning in the fall of 2012. Making that announcement was Viking coach Steve Card.
Lindor was the KingCo 4A titlist this fall, winning by four strokes, and has qualified for the state championship in May.
Gov. Chris Gregoire tried to sell her idea for a temporary sales tax increase to replace budget cuts to a classroom of college students on Tuesday, but only about half of the students raised their hands to say they would vote for the plan to bring in an estimated $494 million through 2013.
Gregoire said she considered 185 different revenue options and a slew of budget cuts before picking the half-cent tax as part of her plan to deal with a projected deficit of $1.4 billion.
The flyer and I landed in Matt Krogh's Bellingham office on the same October afternoon. I had stopped by to hear why he thought building the country's largest coal port just north of town was a bad idea; the four-page full-color mailing had arrived to try to convince him otherwise.
That day, tens of thousands of the flyers filled mailboxes in the northwest corner of Washington state. "These people have a lot of money," says Krogh, who works with the nonprofit RE Sources for Sustainable Communities in Bellingham. Indeed, promoting the port is Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, owned by Warren Buffett's holding company; Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company; and SSA Marine, the world's largest cargo terminal operator, half of which is owned by Goldman Sachs.
It's an idea that's gaining traction: shortening the 180-day school year to save the state money.
Superintendents in Snohomish, Island and Skagit counties first pushed the idea of cutting the school year by five days. Gov. Chris Gregoire initially balked, but this week changed her mind and now supports reducing the school year by four days. Still, she wants to avoid that and other cuts by increasing the sales tax statewide by a half-cent.
For the second time in three years, Western Washington University junior outside hitter Marlayna Geary received honorable mention recognition on the American Volleyball Coaches Association West Region all-star team announced today.