White Center Now: The blog about White Center

Back from the Nickelsville sweep (22 arrests in all). I will link here to a full report with video that I will be filing at West Seattle Blog a bit later. Meantime, switching gears in a HUGE way, the White Center Now mailbox just yielded this, and I wanted to be sure to pass it along:

My name is Alfred Johnson and I am the Football Booster Director for Evergreen High School.

On behalf of Head Coach David Lewis and his Staff, I would like to invite the community to come out
to the first Home Game for the Evergreen Wolverines Varsity Football Team.

The game is this Saturday, Sept 27, 2008 at Highline Memorial Stadium.

The game starts @ 7:00pm.

As stated before, this is the first Home Game for the Wolverines this season and we would love for the community to come and support our boys as they battle Tyee High School.

Thank you for your support and hope to see you at the game.

Go, Wolverines!

Just found out about this “Coach Who Makes a Difference” feature with Coach Bethany Tate from Evergreen HS volleyball. Congratulations!

That shelf of quirky collectibles (if you’re over 40 like me, the lunchboxes may strike a note of nostalgia!) graces the office of Mount View Elementary‘s new principal Mark Demick, who says they’re just items he’s picked up “along the way.” And what a way it’s been, bringing him from his first teaching job in the farming community of Delano, California — where parent/teacher conferences were sometimes held at vineyard worksites – to this new role in White Center. Read on to find out more about him, why he’s excited about the job, and what he hopes to do: Read the rest of this entry »

From the Highline School District eHighlights blog: Three schools (none in White Center, though) are now using the district’s new online info system eSIS – and by next school year, all schools in the district are expected to be plugged into it. Read more here; also check out several other new posts on eHighlights, including a $10,000 grant for the New Start High School library. Meantime, watch White Center Now later today for our interview with Mount View Elementary’s new principal, following his first week on the job.

Not your usual yard sale. Spotted on CL – “preschool closing sale,” Saturday and Sunday. Here’s the ad; here’s a map to the sale location.

We posted a reminder a few days back, and now the big day’s here. Still looking for info? Here’s the Highline Public Schools website; here’s the one for Seattle Public Schools. And it’s time for drivers to keep an eye out for school zones and buses, too. (Any back-to-school pix? E-mail us!)

Looking ahead to the start of school tomorrow for Highline Public Schools (Seattle too, if you’re on that side of the line): One of White Center’s public schools has a new principal – Mark Demick is starting his first year leading Mount View Elementary, after almost a decade of principal work in Federal Way. Here’s his online message to families.

If you’re not already a regular user, Highline Public Schools‘ web site has tons of information for families, well-organized and specific. That includes bus schedules for each school; they’re all linked here. If you’re in Seattle Public Schools‘ service area, general transportation information is here – though not specific stops, which are available on a phone hotline – plus maps to walking routes for each school. Wednesday is the first day of classes in both districts (private schools’ start dates vary; Holy Family, for example, starts Tuesday).

West Seattle Montessori is moving into a location by the White Center Library, since its longtime WS location is the site of a new Harbor Properties development. That’s old news, but this isn’t: WSMS had been talking with Harbor about having a home in the new building at its old site, but Harbor told us this morning that those talks are no longer under way — apparently the cost and effort of moving into one new location, only to vacate it a year or so later, wasn’t going to work so well.

Football’s an all-weather sport – good thing, since according to this Times blog post, the Evergreen High School football team is scheduled to start practicing just after midnight, and it’s not likely to be your typical summer night.