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[ January 6, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Curious about the potential Annexation of parts of White Center into Burien?
The City of Burien will be holding its first in a series of informational open houses on Tuesday, Jan. 6th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm at Shorewood Elementary School, located at 2725 116th Street in Burien (map below).
Here’s what the city says about the meeting: [...]
by Marilee A. Cogswell
Manager,
White Center Library
Holiday Greetings to all my new Readers from your White Center Library Empress of Information™!
While I truly enjoyed the recent snowfall, and the subsequent studying to determine if indeed any two snowflakes are exactly alike (alas, they are not…but I vow to keep looking!), it’s nice to be [...]
Here’s some preliminary info on school closures/delays for the White Center area for Monday, Dec. 15th:
CLOSED MON. DEC. 15th:
Shorewood Christian School
STARTING 2 HOURS LATE:
Holy Family School
Best bet though is to access SchoolReport.org, which gets info directly from school districts.
OTHER SCHOOL CLOSURE SOURCES:
Seattle School District
Highline School District
KING-TV
KOMO News
KIRO-TV
Also, don’t forget to listen to an AM news [...]
[ December 3, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Shorewood Christian School’s bell choir will be playing holiday music tonight (Wed., Dec. 3rd) at Westfield Southcenter Mall, starting at 7pm at the dining terrace of the food court.
They’ll return for another performance on Wed., Dec. 10th, starting at 1pm.
According to Hope Kerkof:
Westfield Southcenter invited the bell choir from Shorewood Christian School located in West [...]
The video above (courtesy WCB Reader Hope Kerkof) shows how 24 students from the 5th grade class at the White Center-area’s Shorewood Christian School helped out the Burien-Highline Food Bank on Tuesday, Nov. 25th.
The 5th graders volunteered their time and helped hand out food at the Burien-Highline Food Bank in Burien. They came prepared [...]
[ December 15, 2008; 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] It plays a huge role as part of this area’s “secret passageway” to downtown Seattle, and it often allows one to get into town within 10-15 minutes.
We’re speaking of course about the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which will be the topic of a public meeting on Monday, Dec. 15th, from 5pm to 7:30pm in downtown Seattle.
Everyone [...]
Cascade Designs Lee Getzewich helps Explorer West Middle School students build snowshoes.
White Center’s Explorer West Middle School kicked off their winter outdoor program Tuesday Nov. 18th when the school’s 6th-grade students worked on a snowshoe construction project with Lee Getzewich, MSR Snowshoe Product Manager for Seattle-based outdoor gear manufacturer Cascade Designs, Inc.
This was the [...]
[ November 13, 2008; ] When Shorewood Foursquare Church learned about the food shortage at the White Center Food Bank, they decided to take action and offer a Food Drive.
Sue Cross, Administrator for Shorewood Foursquare Church, explains:
“When we became aware of this food shortage crisis, we just had to get involved. We want to help get the word out [...]
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King,
from a speech delivered in 1967
by Mark Neuman
Contemplating the Giant Triplets
I am embarrassed to admit that, at age nine, I knew more about [...]
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