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Interim learning chief named With her strong background in curriculum and instructional leadership, Karen Dickinson will support classrooms as Tukwila School District’s new interim assistant superintendent of teaching and learning now through the end of the school year.

“I am thrilled to have her,” said Superintendent Nancy Coogan. “Teaching and Learning is the core of work, and all of our teachers and students will benefit from Karen’s wealth of skills and experience. She is going to keep us moving forward, supporting classrooms and key instructional initiatives in critical ways. Most importantly, she is about doing what is best for all children, and that is in direct alignment with our entire organization.”

Dickinson will remain in the job through the end of the school year; the district will post the full-time position in February, according to Sara Niegowski, a spokeswoman for the

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Dickinson’s predecessor, Dr. Mellody Matthes, announced in December that she was resigning to accept a human resources position with the City of Redmond. An opening for her full-time replacement will soon be posted for hire in the new school year. During the interim, Dickinson will ensure that the position’s key functions — including Karen Dickinson districtwide professional development, implementation of Common Core State Standards and the new principal/teacher evaluation system, curriculum alignment, and Title 1 administration—continue seamlessly.

Dickinson is currently an education consultant for Common Core

professional development, model lessons, and data collection/analysis. She is particularly focused on equity- and inquiry-based classrooms, scaffolding for struggling and high-achieving students, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) development, and principal/teacher coaching in math, reading, writing, science, and social studies.

Previously, Dickinson has served as Associate Superintendent for School Support in Tacoma and Director of Curriculum and Instruction in Federal Way. Her classroom experience includes decades as a secondary language arts and journalism teacher as well as an assistant/adjunct professor of education administration at Pacific Lutheran University and University of Puget Sound. She expects to earn her doctorate in Education Leadership in June 2015.

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Tukwila Mayor Jim Haggerton has been elected to the 2014 Board of Directors of the Sound City Association (SCA), which represents 36 cities in King County and provides a regional voice for nearly one million people.

Haggerton is one of six new board members of SCA, which is governed by a 13-member board.

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SeaTac man shot while sleeping in bed An 18-year-old SeaTac man was shot early last week while sleeping in his bed, according to the King County Sheriff ’s Office.

The man told invesigators he was sleeping in his bedroom when some fire shots through his window at about 4 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 3400 block of South 176th Street, according to Sgt. Cindi West with the Sheriff ’s Office.

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King County prosecutors planned to amend charges against Christopher K. Wittman of Tukwila, now that a Marysville woman has died from injuries she suffered in an accident on State Route 509 Dec. 18.

Prosecutors will change one of two counts of vehicular assault to vehicular homicide against Wittman, 24, according to Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Barbara Eakins, 54, was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with life-threatening injuries after the multi-vehicle accident on SR 509 at about 5 a.m. She died of those injuries early last week.

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Wittman was drinking at a birthday party before his Chevy Malibu vaulted off a dead-end road and onto SR 509, landing - upside down - on the Eakins’ Mazda, county prosecutors allege.

The Mazda’s passenger side, where Barbara Eakins was sitting, bore the brunt of the Malibu’s force. Rescuers found her unresponsive and bleeding from the head, the Mazda’s roof compressed around her, according to charging documents.

Wittman has already pleaded not guilty to two counts of vehicular assault and one count of felony hit and run.

Wittman ran from the wreckage of the five-vehicle collision at about 5 a.m. on southbound SR 509 near South 116th Street, according to prosectors.

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pool staff seems pretty adept at attracting grant dollars to help meet the pool’s goal of universal access.

Anyone in a public business in South King County knows you need to tailor your business plan to meet the needs of a diverse community. Frankly, a business that doesn’t faces failure.

That’s why it’s so critical that pool programmers reach out to anyone who wants to swim, either for pure recreation or basically to learn how to keep safe around all our water.

The MPD board listened to concerns but rightly left alone the single-gender swims on Sundays at the pool. There was no discrimination; the pool wasn’t even open during those times that are used by a single gender.

So, now is not the time to restrict the use of the pool, if you want to look at it in strictly dollars and cents. Tukwila needs bodies in the water that will help pay for its operations with their fees. The pool belongs to everyone.

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The world lost one of its most important leaders in December.

Though South Africa is just about as far away from Tukwila as you can get on the globe, Nelson Mandela’s wisdom and vision – of inclusion, of humanity, of hope, of opportunity – could be tailor-made for our own racially and economically diverse community. Here’s one of his core tenets that dovetails with my own personal and professional life journey: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Education is not just powerful. It is the most powerful. It doesn’t just change lives. It changes the world. As educators, we must remind ourselves of this truth daily (hourly?). The alluring alternative – just like in your own busy life – is to let the urgent outweigh the important.

For example, pipes and sprinkler heads burst at Cascade View and Tukwila Elementary in the freezing weather before break. The logistical challenges were daunting. Hundreds of students were displaced from their classrooms and materials and equipment were ruined. It was stressful. It was messy. More than once we considered the need to cancel school. Throughout the crisis, however, every staff member – from teachers to maintenance workers to bus drivers – looked past the disorder to unwaveringly ask: What’s best for students? They were determined to run school as normally as possible, despite makeshift class spaces and materials. I could not have been prouder.

We are striving to model that intense student-focus at the district level, too. As such, I am immensely pleased to announce our new interim Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, Karen Dickinson.

When her predecessor resigned mid-December, my top priority was to continue classroom services and support uninterrupted. Teaching and Learning is the absolute heart of our work, and Karen is going to keep us moving forward with critical functions such as implementation of Common Core State Standards and the new principal/teacher evaluation system, curriculum alignment, and Title 1 administration. Karen knows her stuff ! She has served in similar roles in Tacoma and Federal Way schools. She currently consults in the areas of professional development, model lessons, instructional coaching, and scaffolding for all levels of learners. Welcome, Karen!

Over winter break, I spent time reflecting on these big events –Mandela’s passing, our damaged schools, and the new administrative expertise at the core of our work. While unconnected, each gave me a unique opportunity to consider the power and purpose of our daily endeavors in schools. It’s all about children – every name, every need – and educating them to the best of our ability no matter what the obstacles.

That is my mantra for the New Year (but, please – this first-year superintendent doesn’t need any more unexpected events to further drive that point home). Happy 2014!

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There are probably few cities the size of Tukwila that have a swimming pool.

That community asset could have been lost, arguably a second time, had not voters decided to take it upon themselves to pay to operate and maintain the pool.

But Tukwila stepped up in 2011 and created a new government agency, the Tukwila Pool Metropolitan Parks District, to own the pool and contract with the City of Tukwila to operate it.

The transition has not been without controversy. There is concern about the pool’s finances, but the MPD board is addressing those budgetary issues with a conservative plan that sets aside money for maintenance and repair needs in the future and a marketing plan to attract more swimmers to the pool.

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Look within to meet community needs Leadership. How do we define it? It’s not easy in a political context, but we know it when we see it. The new mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, and the new Seattle City Council member, Kshama Sawant, support a minimum wage of $15 an hour. They recognize that a good process is necessary. A committee of stakeholders has been formed to work toward the goal. It is the support of the elected individuals that leads the way and reflects leadership and conviction.

Some Tukwila council members focus too much on process and too little on leadership. Council members, what efforts can you get behind that lets the less fortunate in our community know that you care about them? Higher minimum wage? Funding human services in a sustainable fashion? Must we wait for other communities to show us the way? Trust that progressive social goals will have the support of most of our community.

It is likely that some City Council

members will run for mayor in 2015. If the past is prologue, it is also likely that those campaigns will reveal little about the specific vision of candidates. Minimal campaign coverage by media makes it easy for candidates to play it safe. But we can hope.

Tukwila Reporter columnist Chuck Parrish can be reached at chuckparrish2009@gmail.com.

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Renton Civic Theatre takes in Hi-Liners after fire The musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” produced by the Hi-Liners, is running through Jan. 19 at the Renton Civic Theatre.

Produced by the Hi-Liners, a Burien-based production company, the classic play tells the story of an Elvis-type rock and roll singer, who is about to be inducted into the army. It features the songs “Put on a Happy Face,” “A Lot of Livin’ to Do,” “Kids” and “Spanish Rose,” among others.

Renton Civic Theatre Artist Director Bill Huls reached out to the Hi-Liners, after the group’s regular space, the Burien Annex Auditorium, was damaged by fire and smoke Dec. 10 in a suspected arson.

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ried Charles Murphy in 1871 who died two years later of unknown causes. On Aug. 24, 1875, Mary Jane Murphy Gilliam died of a presumed communicable disease. Certain epidemics were rampant in King County throughout that decade. Gilliam lived out his days as a single man, a respected pioneer of the Duwamish Valley, and was buried by local Duwamish Native Americans on the Black River.

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Museum calendar • Jan. 16, 7 p.m.: Regular monthly meeting at Tukwila Heritage and Cultural Center, 14475 59th Ave. S., Tukwila. All are welcome to meet the new chairperson, Joan Hernandez and hear about plans for 2014.

• Feb. 8, noon-4 p.m.: Open house, Tukwila Heritage and Cultural Center. Tour the center and bring photos and stories of your family to share.

• October: Military Road & Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Telegraph Arrival in Washington Territory.

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Born in Yorktown, Va. William H. Gilliam arrived into the Washington Territory on Oct. 12, 1852, at age 23. He spent the winter scouting the area and ultimately staked his claim June 1, 1853. His land claim bordered another well-known Duwamish settler named Joseph Foster to the north and Abraham Bryant to the south.

Gilliam came to Puget Sound as a skilled tradesman and a cooper (barrel maker), but engaged in farming the rich river bottomland and clearing the surrounding abundant timber.

During the Indian War of 1855, Gilliam served as first lieutenant in the volunteer defense regiment of Captain C.C. Hewitt’s Company H. When Hewitt’s company disbanded, he signed up with Landers Company A, which was active until July 29, 1856. Damage claim records filed with the Territorial Government showed that many Duwamish settlers, including Gilliam, had their homesteads burned by hostile Indians. After the hostilities subsided, he began to rebuild and work his land claim with renewed hope for the future. Gilliam and Foster became entrepreneurs and formed their own logging company, floating the logs via the Duwamish River into Elliot Bay to Henry Yesler’s Seattle mill.

Still working to prove up his donation claim and complete the filing process, Gilliam, along with neighbor and business partner Joseph Foster, appeared before D.S. “Doc” Maynard, King County commissioner. Foster had sworn under testimony that William Gilliam had been living on his stated claim continuously from June 1, 1853, to June 1, 1857, “excepting when driven off by hostile Indians.” Finally on March 24, 1863, Gilliam and Foster appeared at the Territorial Land Office in Olympia where Foster again verifies Gilliam’s continuous occupation of his claim.

Gilliam pays the filing fee and receives clear title – a patent – to 160 acres of prime White River bottom land.

By 1867 Gilliam was appointed Seattle postmaster and opened the Post Office in a two- story warehouse built by Henry Yesler on the south side of his wharf. William Gilliam was also a charter member of the Seattle Library Association, along with fellow Duwamish settlers, Joseph Foster, George Holt and Henry Van Asselt.

In 1873 at 43 years of age, Gilliam married Mary Jane Russell, who was the daughter of White River pioneer Samuel Russell.

Mary Jane was formerly married to Charles Terry in 1856 at Point Madison on the Suquamish Reservation. Chief Seattle was one of their honored guests. Terry died of tuberculosis in 1867. Mary Jane then mar-

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“We are constantly seeking out opportunities to make sure everyone feels comfortable and welcome,” said Kindle.

Those Sharks are the Tiger Sharks, formed last summer so young kids can swim recreationally and have the fun of competing against other youth swim teams in South King County. And there’s the Tukwila Turtles, a successful team of special-needs swimmers.

“We love the Turtles,” said Kindle, who coaches the team with Malcolm Neely, the city’s aquatics program coordinator. “There Amy Kindle wasn’t a team in Tukwila aquatics program the area for any specialist of the kids with special needs to participate.”

2014 is shaping up as a year to move forward for the Tukwila Pool and build upon the already-established programs. The board of the Tukwila Pool Metropolitan Parks District recently adopted a budget that sets aside $50,000 a year for future capital improvements.

The parks district isn’t flush with money and, in fact, in the next few years expenses will outstrip revenues. But to delay when that happens, the district is going to beef up its outreach to the community to get more fee-paying customers in the water.

The pool itself is its best marketing tool. It’s marketing tagline? “We’re all in” After a months-long closure for a $1.66 million renovation, the pool reopened in February 2013, with a fresh new look and feel.

“It’s a great selling point because our pool is cleaner and nicer than any pool around you can find,” said Rick Still, Tukwila’s parks and recreation director. And it’s operating “very efficiently,” he said, one of the goals of a $660,000 grant the city received for the renovations.

Swimmers – young and old – were waiting for the popular waterslide to reopen after a closure

“We are constantly seeking out opportunities to make sure everyone feels comfortable and welcome.”

The Tukwila Pool hosted kids in a Tukwila Community Center Christmas break program. ON THE COVER: Kamille Julien and Izahna Nkeze power down the pool. Dean A. Radford, Tukwila Reporter

by Public Health – Seattle and King County. To comply with federal regulations, the point where water is pumped from the pool to the slide had to be changed for swimmer safety. That work has been done and inspections were pending.

The pool offers an extensive schedule of swimming lessons, starting at a young age.

The pool has expanded its programming with the help of a $48,000 grant from Seattle Children’s Hospital, Health King County Coalition and Public Health. A goal of the grant is to ensure that programs are equitable and provide access for all to the pool, especially for swim lessons.

Under the grant, the pool is providing a voucher for a session of swim lessons for every third grader in the Tukwila School District,

McMicken Heights Elementary School and the Academy Schools. That program is continuing this year.

The Tukwila Pool is expanding its relationship with the Tukwila School District. It’s the home pool for the Foster High School girls swim team.

There’s talk of forming a Foster boys team, but a stumbling block is federal Title 9, which mandates equal access to sports for girls.

Right now, there are not enough girls turning out for sports at Foster to allow the addition of another boys sports.

This year Foster added a PE swim class, one for boys (11 in the morning class) and one for girls (12, the last period so they won’t miss their next class because they’re doing their hair). [ more Pool page 10 ]

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Pool teaches life-saving skills [ POOL from page 7] Part of the reason for the single-gender PE classes is that some students weren’t comfortable swimming with the opposite sex, which echoes the need for the singlegender swims on Sundays.

“Some of the people in our community have different beliefs about participation in activities when you’re not covered in a certain way,” said Kindle.

The single-gender swim was challenged as discriminatory, which a state commission rejected. Kindle pointed out the pool had been closed at the times those swims are now offered. Participants pay a fee to swim, adding to the pool’s revenue.

The PE classes and the sessions geared toward specific populations or age groups (teen swims) play an important roll in teaching everyone to swim. Drowning is a leading cause of death in children and Tukwila’s immigrants are at risk because many haven’t had a chance to learn to swim.

“From the district’s perspective, we want all of our students to have the skills and knowledge to not only succeed in the workplace but to live healthy, happy lives,” said Sara Niegowski, the Tukwila School District spokeswoman.

“Especially in the Pacific Northwest, we are surrounded by water and water sports, but many of our students have never had exposure to swimming. So not only are swim lessons an important safety factor, but swimming is a lifelong activity that people enjoy to stay active,” she said. [ more POOL page 11 ]

Keeping watch over the pool

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Some of Jennafer Price Cargill’s favorite metaphors have to do with water.

Take “dive right in.”

That’s what she’s doing at the Tukwila Pool, metaphorically speaking, as the first executive director of the Tukwila Metropolitan Park District.

She’s no stranger to the water. Price Cargill, who moved to Tukwila in 2010, was a competitive synchronized swimmer in California, where she grew up.

She’s a self-described pool rat and passionate about swimming. And those metaphors? “I really do think that way.”

Price Cargill is the first and only employee of the park district, making $45,000 a year. Two city employees, Malcolm Neely and Any Kindle, will continue to oversee the operations of the pool.

Her background is in organizational management, not pool management.

“They didn’t need someone with pool expertise, because they have a great staff,” she said.

What was needed was someone to manage all the pieces and connect the park district with city officials and the community, she said.

“It’s being that hub that keeps everything else moving smoothly,” she said, looking at the “big-picture stuff and not getting into the nitty-gritty.”

Price Cargill will work mornings at the pool and at home. The public can reach her by phone at 206-267-2350.

Price Cargill lives not far from the pool,

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Jennafer Price Cargill is the Metropolitan Park District’s executive director. Dean A. Radford/ Tukwila Reporter

in the first house she has owned. She’s already spent time in the pool – with her son Trevor, who turns 3 in February and is learning to swim.

She’s excited about the pool’s future.

“As a community member, I have an enormous amount of excitement for what can and will happen here in the future and what is already happening here,” she said.

Price already has become a part of Tukwila, something she wanted to do from the beginning.

She is a member of the City of Tukwila Human Services Advisory Board and on the Tukwila Pantry board. She was the regional director of Girl Scouts of America in South King County.

She considers herself a human-services professional who has learned how to squeeze every dollar out of a budget.

“I felt like this literally couldn’t have lined up better for me in terms of what I was looking for personally in my life and what they needed and what I had to offer,” she said. “It was kismet.”

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threatened and then eventually saved the pool.

About five years into the city’s ownership, the Great Recession hit. Tukwila, like other cities in the state, was strapped for cash and faced difficult decisions about how to cut services.

The Tukwila City Council put the future of the pool – and a new funding source – to a vote of the people in August 2011. Voters readily approved the formation of the Tukwila Pool Metropolitan Parks District, 62 percent to 38 percent, and agreed to tax themselves to pay for its operations and maintenance.

The City of Tukwila transferred ownership of the pool building to the parks district, whose commissioners are the seven Tukwila City Council members. The district contracts with the city to run the pool;

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The phone number is 206-267-2350.

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cross,” said Still – and sooner than originally expected. But there’s still time to make budget adjustments and increase pool participation to lengthen that time horizon, he said.

After studying the issue, the parks district board opted not to increase fees this year to use the pool and participate in its programs, because of the potential to dampen pool use.

“And it didn’t increase that revenue that much for the hard feelings that could occur,” Still said.

When the city raised fees at the Tukwila Community Center, participation was reduced by about 50 percent, he said.

“We didn’t want that to happen here,” he said.

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The Tukwila Pool is a much different place from the one Malcolm Neely found in December 2002. King County was handing off its Forward Thrust pools. Everything was pretty much gone; backhoes were taking away the garbage cans.

“The Grinch had been here and took the crumbs,” said Neely, the aquatics program coordinator who was the first employee of the Tukwila Pool, then owned by the City of Tukwila.

All that was left was the water in the pool.

From that low-water mark, Neely and the City of Tukwila went about bringing in equipment, computers and phones. Neely hired lifeguards and developed the pool’s early programming. His job title is aquatics program coordinator.

The pool opened in early 2003. “It was a lot to do in a short amount of time,” Neely said.

The pool’s finances improved dramatically, thanks to improved customer service and to more swim programs for the Tukwila community, said Neely and Kindle.

Now 11 years later, Neely says, “It just feels like a new start.”

A lot happened in those 11 years that

Neely and Kindle are city employees.

The parks district has hired its first and only employee, Jennafer Price Cargill, as executive director. She’ll serve as the link between the parks district and the community and City Council and oversee broader issues at the pool.

The land under the pool is owned by the Tukwila School District, which leases the land to the parks district for about $10,000 a year.

A Tukwila Pool Advisory Commission advises the City Council on pool policies, just like other formal city commissions.

Still, the city’s parks and recreation director, says the parks district “is in a strong financial situation.” Reserves are growing in a $50,000-a-year lifecycle budget that will pay to replace those parts of any pool that eventually wear out starting in about seven years.

While some have suggested the city or parks district should just build a new pool, Still said that that’s not why the parks district was formed. It’s job is to operate the pool. However, to buy land and build a new pool would require a request for more money, he said.

If there is a financial cloud it’s that the point in which expenditures outstrip revenue will occur in about five years. Revenue is growing at 1 or 2 percent a year, but there’s a 4 percent-a-year increase in expenditures.

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Chamber honors outstanding members The Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce recognized outstanding businesses and individuals from Burien, SeaTac, Tukwila, and Des Moines at the Annual Recognition and Awards Luncheon at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Tukwila on Jan. 10 The chamber’s Board of Directors recognized the efforts, commitments and achievements of businesses and organizations that help make the Burien, Des Moines, SeaTac and Tukwila communities viable places to work and live.

There were awards for Large Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year, Ambassador of the Year, Business Advocate, Outstanding Community Service and Outstanding Leadership.

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Ambassador of the Year Winner: Steve Emery

Steve Emery with Prime America is someone you can call and he will do what he can to help. When he received a last minute request to drive a parade car for the Burien 4th of July parade, he was more than happy and excited, to help the Chamber. Steve also volunteers his time to visit new and renewing members of the Chamber. He served as a Golf Tournament Golf

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Business Advocate of the Year Winner: Scott Ostrander

Scott Ostrander has gone above and beyond in demonstrating outstanding commitment to advocacy on behalf of business rights in Southwest King County. For the past several years Scott has been on the Hotel Steering Committee working with the cities of SeaTac and Tukwila to establish a Tourism Promotion Area (TPA). With Scott’s continuous efforts and support, the hotel community is excited to potentially have this in place in the near future, so the Seattle Southside Visitors Center can build upon its already existing programs of building and promoting the area where all businesses and communities benefit. Scott has been fully committed in advocating for the business community. His strong values and vision to improve the overall business community in Southwest King County is priceless.

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Today’s Business Awards and have continued to achieve excellence in staying engaged and active in making sure our communities stay vibrant. They also support international community efforts through The Jerome Foundation and The Andreoli Family Foundation. Baker Commodities plays an essential role in protecting the environment. Their manufacturing facilities help to alleviate the nation’s problems of over-burdened landfills. They utilize stateof-the-art technology to preserve a clean and safe environment.

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Small business of the year winner Segale Properties is a locally owned real estate holding company that has been extremely supportive of the Chamber through Executive Board service, event sponsorships and promoting activities to benefit Chamber Members. The company has recently constructed a brand new transportation link that will help to stimulate the local economy. Segale Properties has a legacy of community commitment since the Chamber’s inception 25 years ago.

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In competition she’ll compete against girls or even against boys if both wrestlers agree to do so, said Kalalau.

Because Foster’s team is relatively small, as are other Seamount League wrestling teams, some wrestlers often don’t compete in league meets because they don’t have an opponent.

So, wrestlers gear up for the post-season by going to tournaments – almost every weekend – to compete.

“We need the mat time,” he said.

“That’s how the kids get good.”

Besides Woyvodich, at 126 pounds, Kalalau is anticipating that other Foster wrestlers will go to the regional tournament, including sophomore Luis Cuellar at 113 pounds and sophomore Mark Schenck at 132 pounds.

Cuellar could make it to state, he said.

Others possibly headed to the post-

season are co-captain David Patton and Daynon Jackson.

Cuellar, Woyvodich and Patton all won their matches by falls against Kennedy Catholic Jan. 9. Kennedy won 48-30.

Kalalau has lived the life of a highschool wrestler including the challenge of making weight. He wrestled at 138 and 145 pounds. He was close to a state championship.

“I didn’t make weight by senior year. That’s why I get so mad when our kids don’t make weight because that was my year,” he said.

Kalalau keeps coming back because of the positive impact his wrestlers say he’s made on their lives and to continue coaching his wrestlers from Showalter.

“That’s the biggest thing,” he says of what he hears from his wrestlers who keep in contact.

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Wrestling is a tough sport, says Foster High’s wrestling coach, Patrick Kalalau.

“But it will take them (his wrestlers) a long ways in life,” he says of the sport at which he excelled in high school in Hawaii.

Kalalau has coached at Foster for nine years, including a stint as football coach. He also coaches wrestling at Showalter; one of the middleschool wrestlers still with him is Cale Woyvodich.

Woyvodich is a junior who has placed fourth in the state wrestling tournament the last two years at 120 pounds. He can attest to the sport’s toughness – and Kalalau’s insistence on hard work.

“He pushes you to your limits,” says co-captain Woyvodich. “Hard work is something he drills into you. It’s something that we will have forever.”

Woyvodich’s goal this year is to win at state. He still has another year to reach that goal, but he’d rather have two championships than one.

He’s still figuring out what he’ll do after high school, but his coach says he has the talent to wrestle after he graduates.

On the mat since he was about 5 years old, Woyvodich wrestles nearly year-round, says his coach. “He’s good,” says Kalalau.

Last weekend, the wrestlers went to a tournament in Sultan, except for Woyvodich, who went to one with his father Ed (an assistant coach) that’s expected to draw state-caliber wrestlers.

Kalalau is certain Woyvodich will make it to state, hoping “he will go all the way.”

“It’s just a matter of being in the right state of mind,” Kalalau said.

Kalalau has about 15 wrestlers on his team, including a girl, junior Brittany Ra. She recently became eligible to compete but has been getting prac-

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January 2014

Welcome Karen Dickinson, interim Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning This is one of the most essential positions in the Tukwila School District for supporting student learning, and Karen will keep all major initiatives moving forward seamlessly through the end of the school year—a top priority after her predecessor resigned in December to accept another job.

Karen has a strong background in curriculum and instructional leadership; she has served as Associate Superintendent for School Support in Tacoma and Director of Curriculum and Instruction in Federal Way. She is currently an education consultant specializing in pro-

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Tukwila School District #406 www.tukwila.wednet.edu 206.901.8000 4640 South 144th Street Tukwila, Washington 98168

Board of Directors: Mark Wahlstrom, President 206.243.9855 Steve Mullet, Vice-President 206.244.7553 Mary Fertakis 206.767.6053 Dave Larson 206.244.2313 Alicia Waterton 206.248.4302 Superintendent: Dr. Nancy Coogan 206.901.8006

fessional development, data collection and analysis, equity- and inquiry-based classrooms, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) development, and principal/teacher coaching in core subject areas.

Karen’s time here will be focused on implementation of the Common Core State Standards and new principal/ teacher evaluation system, curriculum alignment, and Title 1 administration.

The opening for the permanent Assistant Superintendent position will be posted in February with a start date of July 1.

The easiest and one of the most important New Year’s resolutions Tukwila School District families, please add this to your list of goals for 2014: Make sure your contact information is up to date at your school. A current phone number is especially important because this is the only way a school can get a hold of you during an

emergency with your child.

Go to your school’s main office to check what contact information is currently on file and to make any changes. And remember: Let your school know right away if your phone number, address, or email changes.

Get social with the Tukwila School District Connect with the Tukwila School District on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with alerts, important information, and every-day fun happenings in our schools. www.facebook.com/tukwilaschools www.twitter.com/tukwilaschools

1080 in September 2014 State increase in mandatory educational hours Have you heard about the law in Washington that increases the school year from a minimum of 1000 hours to 1080 hours for students in sevenththrough 12th-grade beginning this fall?

Tukwila along with districts across the state are discussing how to best add the extra hours to the school year, which will require increasing the minutes in the school day, increasing the days in the school year, or some combination of both. To complicate the decisionmaking, the state Legislature has not fully funded the 80 additional hours.

Tukwila administrators are currently working on various scenarios which will be evaluated based on what is best for student learning, logistically feasible for transportation, and affordable for the ongoing operations budget. More information will be available in the coming months.

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In their own words: Students speak out about their local and global experiences A filmmaker, journalists, and Fulbright Scholar share their stories • Junior Nandina Cengic has produced and entered “Wicked,” a documentary about violence against women, into the Girls Impact the World Film Festival. The film features Foster High students and staff sharing their experiences and ways to move forward. Watch it at: http://bit.ly/1lBavVg (or search Nandina Cengic Wicked).

• “I have friends from every continent—well, except Antarctica ... Martin Luther King would have been proud.”

KUOW, our local National Public Radio affiliate, aired senior Ardo Hersi’s story about the changing diversity at Foster High School in early January. Listen at: http://bit.ly/1lBazo6 (or search KUOW peace at Foster High).

• “I know I’m just one person, but if

one person doesn’t do something, then nobody’s going to do anything.” KUOW also aired junior Hassan Abdi’s story about passionate Foster High teacher Andy Giron in early January. Listen at: http://bit.ly/1ghvTLa (or search KUOW Andy Giron).

• “Sit back, relax, and read as I describe how I watched students, faculty, and staff come to know me not at President Obama, Lil’ Wayne, or James Harden, but simply as Teacher Mycal ...” Foster ’08 alumni Mycal Ford wrote about teaching in Taiwan as a Fulbright Scholar recently on his blog at: http://bit.ly/1bS0Wcb (or search Mycal sharing diversity in the Taiwanese classroom).

Not your father’s (or mother’s) school cafeteria food anymore!

By Craig Huckins, Tukwila School District Food Services District One of the constant and biggest challenges for school districts across the nation is getting more students to regularly eat the healthy meals that are served at school. Teenagers, as we know, can be especially choosey eaters, and it is an ongoing challenge for middle- and high-school food service departments to provide meals that are not only nutritious and meet the strict USDA requirements but are also cost effective for the school to prepare and serve; then, of course, they have to pass the taste test—if kids won’t eat it, why serve it?

The Tukwila School District food services department is rising to the challenge at Foster High and Showalter Middle School with “restaurant-quality” menu choices: This is the standard we aim for as we provide a menu of options each day. In fact, both schools have between 10 and 20 different lunch entrees every day. We feature items that teens are familiar with seeing on restaurant menus such as rice bowls with teriyaki chicken, General

Tso’s chicken with vegetables, chicken mole, sweet-and-sour or orange chicken, hand-crafted jumbo burritos, strawberry or pineapple/mandarin granola yogurt parfaits, chef salads, Oriental chicken salad, Caesar salad, hand-made specialty pizza (cheese, pepperoni, vegetarian, chicken bacon ranch … ), and a build-your-own hoagie bar from which students can pick and choose their favorite meats and veggies. (Are you salivating yet?)

Just like with a healthy breakfast, it’s important for students to have a nutritious lunch to help them learn for the entire school day. If your own child is resistant to a proper mid-day meal, please encourage him or her to check out the restaurant-quality food being served right in their own school cafeteria today! Go to www.tukwila.wednet. edu to see how your family may qualify to get these delicious meals for FREE or to make on-line deposits into your child’s account at no cost.

Fast and Fun Food Facts (from randomhistory.com) · Water accounts for 55-70 percent of our body weight, and typically a minimum of six to eight glasses of water is needed to keep the body performing at optimal levels. A 20 percent loss of fluid from the body is usually fatal. · Temperature can affect appetite. A cold person is more likely to eat more food.

Back to school for the teachers! During professional-development time on a Wednesday morning in December, middle- and high-school teachers came together to train in Common Core State Standards with local literacy expert Scottie Nash.

· A person will usually swallow around 250 times during dinner. · Americans collectively consume approximately 900 billion calories each day

What a bargain! Half-priced sports tickets Jan. 15 and 16 Retail stores aren’t the only places to get screamin’ deals after the holidays: Come support your Foster High Bulldog athletes in mid-January with half-price admission. The eligible events are: • Wednesday, Jan 15 - Basketball (girls at Foster High School, boys at Lindbergh High School; 5:15 p.m. Junior Varsity and 7 p.m. varsity) • Thursday, Jan 16 - Wrestling (at Foster High School, 5 p.m. junior varsity and 7 p.m. varsity) The half-priced cost is $3 for an adult, $1 for seniors (62 years and older) and children, and $2 for visiting students with an ASB card.

Bowl-licking good attendance! Students in Lisa Ring’s fifth-grade and Jodi Wicks’ kindergarten classrooms demonstrated the importance of being present and on-time every school day when they won an ice cream celebration for best attendance at Tukwila Elementary for the month of November.

· Insects such as termites and ants provide 10 percent of the protein consumed worldwide.

Where insects are an integral part of a diet, they contribute as much as 40 percent of protein. (Don’t worry though; bugs are NOT on any of our school menus.) · A person will eat an average of 35 tons of food in his or her lifetime or 1,500 pounds of food a year.

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Free Gardening Classes Offered Cascade Water Alliance is offering free gardening classes through April to help you have beautiful, healthy landscapes while using water efficiently. Cascade and its members — Bellevue, Issaquah, Kirkland, Redmond, Tukwila, Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District, and Skyway Water and Sewer District — are offering the following classes. Many will be scheduled so check our website often.

To see more classes, or to register, please visit Cascade Gardener at www.cascadewater.org, or call 1.800.838.3006.

FOOD GARDENING Edible Landscapes for the Homeowner Jessi Bloom Grow easy edibles that are low maintenance, resilient, and sustainable! s Thursday, February 13, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Redmond Senior Center, 8703 160th Avenue NE, Redmond Grow Your Own Food Forest Kimberly Leeper and Jacqueline Cramer Incorporate fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, and much more into your landscape. s Saturday, March 1, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

21 Acres – 13701 NE 171st Street, Woodinville

Secrets of Companion Planting in Your Edible Garden Laura Matter and Carey Thornton Learn how to choose communities of plants that grow well together. s Saturday, February 15, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Bellevue Nursery, 842 104th Avenue SE, Bellevue PLANTS & GARDEN DESIGN Create Beauty in Your Garden with Native Plants Susie Egan Discover a treasure trove of beautiful native plants. Transform your urban lot into a glorious natural paradise. s Thursday, February 20, 2, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Bellevue City Hall, Room 1E-108, 450 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue Doing it Right the First Time — Successful Garden Design Meghan Fuller Get the tools you need to create a design that is functional and meets your unique needs. s Saturday, February 22, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Blakely Hall, 2550 NE Park Drive, Issaquah Strategies for Weed Control Ladd Smith Strategies for weed control; learn about integrated weed management. s Thursday, February 13, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 17th Avenue NW, Issaquah

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Bellevue Nursery, 842 104th Avenue SE, Bellevue Transform Your Dry Shade into Lush Beauty Marianne Binetti Learn how to add color and drama to your landscape even in the most difficult situations. s Saturday, February 22, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

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IRRIGATION Northwest Gardens without Automatic Sprinklers Marianne Binetti Learn how you too can enjoy a colorful, lush garden free of automatic watering. s Saturday, February 15, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

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