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FRIDAY, May 18, 2012
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Speaking out against drinking and driving
BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com
Thanks to Title IX, Yonni Mills finally stepped off the sidelines and onto the volleyball and basketball courts for Shorecrest High. The current Bothell High athletic director, who graduated from Shorecrest in 1975 and later placed at nationals as part of Washington State University’s volleyball squad, had always watched her younger brothers play organized ball — and now, it was her chance. On June 23, 1972, Title IX allowed women equal access to athletic opportunities. It is also identified by the name of its principal author as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. “To be involved in anything organized, I felt like I had just died and gone to heaven,” Mills said last week. “I was in that first group that finally got to do something, so I was super-excited to be in high school and be able to do anything.” And when she made the team at WSU, her excitement level rose even more, because she was playing on a bigger stage. “In my eyes, it was one of the
coolest experiences I’ve ever had,” she said. Mills didn’t receive her WSU chenille varsity volleyball letter until 2007 — because they didn’t hand out letters to women early on — and she proudly displays it in her Bothell High office. It was a few decades late, Mills says, but at least she finally got hold of the letter.
MURRAY, SOUNDERS CELEBRATE
To celebrate 40 years of Title IX, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray from Bothell teamed up with Seattle Sounders Women soccer players Megan Rapinoe, Stephanie Cox and Sydney Leroux to speak to a crowd of female athletes on May 2 at Garfield High in Seattle. “Forty years ago, 37 words threw open the doors to athletics, education and success for millions of young women in our country,” Murray said. Title IX reads: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to [ more TITLE IX page 6]
ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
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Are people driving safely on SR 522? BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com
As Jay’s Cafe owner Misty Qureshi glanced out the window of her business at the two smashed vehicles — one sitting on all four tires and the other laying on its side — she feels that driving has become a bit chaotic on Northeast Bothell Way, or State Route 522, in Kenmore. “I think the accident happened because of this median in the middle,” she said on May 7, “because people try getting out — any hole, they just see it, which is wrong. They’re not supposed to violate that, but they do it anyway.” In the second major accident (one was fatal) on SR 522 in the last three months, Northshore Fire Department public-information officer Wendy Booth said in a press release that witnesses stated that at about 10:33 a.m., a beige vehicle traveling eastbound on the 7500 block of SR 522 crossed the centerline and struck a westbound black SUV head-on. Qureshi called 911 to report the accident while a passerby checked on the victims. Fire personnel used extrication tools to remove occupants from the two vehicles. One occupant was in critical condition and transported to Harborview Hospital, and another occupant was in serious condi-
Two vehicles sit in the middle of State Route 522 in Kenmore after a May 7 head-on collision. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter tion and transported to Evergreen Medical Center. Two other vehicles were involved, but no additional injuries were reported. Nancy Morgan of Kenmore was on her way back home from the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store when she spoke with the driver of a vehicle that was sideswiped [ more SR 522 page 5]
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Sen. Murray, Northshore women wave the Title IX flag
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U.S. Sen. Patty Murray waves a Seattle Sounders Women scarf at a recent Title IX discussion at Garfield High. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
Bothell High senior Abby Leonard addresses her class about the dangers of drinking and driving on May 10 during a simulated DUI drill featuring the Northshore Fire Department and the Bothell Police Department. Leonard portrayed a girl who died in a two-car accident on prom night. For story, see page 11.