Beginning Jan. 1 Community Transit’s paper bus transfer distribution system was eliminated, and replaced with the One Regional Card for All (ORCA) card.

ORCA cards serve two purposes in the world of community transit; firstly, as a means to pay initial bus fare, and secondly as an electronic bus transfer that will last up to two hours after riders purchase their bus pass. The ORCA card costs extra for the bus transfer aspect of the card, along with however much more your wish to put on it to pay for bus fare with. This new system mimics other single-pass programs found in large cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, and Washington D.C.

The card is currently free, but beginning Feb.1 they will cost five dollars. They will last for three to five years.

In the past riders have been able to pay their fare upon entering the bus, received a paper bus transfer, and been allowed to transfer as many times as they wished within the next few hours depending on when they purchased their original fare.

“I bought an ORCA card like a week ago,” said sophomore Community Transit rider Laura Karnoski. Karnoski uses Community Transit daily and finds fault with the new regulations enforced alongside the ORCA card.

ORCA cards eliminate the need to carry change, but also cut down the time allotment riders used to have to transfer with significantly.

Karnoski used to have to transfer three times a day to get to school but lately her father has been driving her to school, “partly because we cannot afford the ridiculously high cost of bus passes, and unbelievably, because it’s just cheaper to buy gas,” she said.

“[The ORCA card] discourages users from taking the bus, especially people to have to take the bus, the same people who take the bus because they can’t afford a car,” Karnoski said, “This is no battle for inflation.”

Sophomore Hunter Goncalves got her ORCA card at Westlake Center in August when they first came out. Goncalves lives out of district and takes community transit every day, to and from school, transferring one time each way. “I do like [the ORCA card] though. It’s handy and it’s cute,” Goncalves said. “It’s easier because you just swipe the card. It makes me feel cosmopolitan.”

Although Goncalves prefers the ORCA card to paper bus passes she pointed out that riders used to be able to purchase a month long bus pass that would give them unlimited rides all month long, but bus passes are no longer available.

“It’s obvious [community transit] needs money. But instead of raising their fare to $1.25, they should hold car washes or cookie dough fundraisers,” Goncalves said.

Two men from Mountlake Terrace are now threatening to sue the city after their request for a business license to open a medical marijuana dispensary was rejected.

Todd Madison and Aaron Panagos have both been using marijuana in the place of painkillers, which they claim never worked for them, for years. After running a business out of their homes for almost a year now, the two decided to open up a public for-profit dispensary.

In September, they applied for a business license to open a Botanical Urban Dispensary Service (BUDS) in Mountlake Terrace. But in early October, Madison received a letter from the city, denying the business license request. A later appeal to the rejection was also denied. Now the two men are threatening to sue the city if they are not allowed to open their medical dispensary.

Madison and Panagos’ business license request has crossed into some unprecedented territory- Although Initivatve 692, which was passed in 1998, legalized medical marijuana in the state of Washington and gave physicians the right to recommend medical marijuana to their patients, federal laws make the sale or possession of marijuana as a whole illegal.

These two contradicting laws make a decision much more difficult to justify.

Stated in a letter addressed to Madison, “the sale of marijuana through a medical marijuana dispensary is not allowed as an outright permitted use or as a conditional use in any land-use zone within the City of Mountlake Terrace.” Under another city ordinance, the possession of marijuana is prohibited. The selling of this drug also violates the Washington State Uniformed Controlled Substances Act.

But in 1998, voters passed Initiative 692, known as the Washington State Medical Marijuana Act. This law allows physicians to provide a 60-day supply of marijuana to patients with conditions including glaucoma, AIDS, cancer, chronic pain and nausea. The Washington Administrative Code also specified that patients can possess a supply of 24 ounces of marijuana, or allows the patient to grow up to 15 plants. None of these laws “authorize or provide for a storefront dispensary delivery system for medical marijuana.”

“The two letters were the only action that has been taken,” Scott Hugill said, the Assistant City Manager, who was the head of this matter.

Madison and Panagos’ threat to sue is still up in the air.

Upon returning from winter break MTHS cafeteria lunch-goers found a drastic change had taken place in the school lunch lines. Previously plastic bagged milk, of the chocolate and white variety, had been replaced with the cardboard carton version students may remember using five years to the prior in Nov. 2002.

The district originally switched from cartons to bags in 2002 to help reduce the volume of solid waste going into landfills.

“Although they were recyclable in the past, wax milk cartons are currently not accepted for recycling,” Edmonds School District Resource Conservation Specialist Pandora Touart saidc.

“At that time [Nov. 2002], the cost difference between milk cartons and pouches was not significant and the district was able to save money [by making the switch],” Edmonds School District Food Service Director Barbara Lloyd said. This switch saved money because the size of dumpsters in use could be reduced along with the number of times per week the dumpsters were emptied because not as much waste was being produced.

The decision to switch back to milk cartons was a district wide decision and was implemented in all schools on Jan. 4.

The main reason for this recent switch back to carton milk was to save money. Over the past few years, the cost of the pouches has escalated and the price difference between the pouches and the cartons has become significant. The use of cartons will save the district $128,000.00 annually.

“In maintaining a balanced budget, we constantly have to perform a cost/benefit analysis on the decisions and actions we take. At this time, it is too expensive for use to offer the pouches anymore,” said Lloyd.

“It’s heartbreaking to go back to a container that is not recyclable,” Assistant Superintendent Marla Miller said.

The Edmonds School District has recently reevaluated their Internet filtering levels for teachers in the district. Beginning Oct. 12, 2009 online communities, chat, instant messaging, games and newsgroup sites were unblocked on staff profiles.

Before new sites were unblocked however, teachers were required by the district to watch a six-minute informative video that reviewed the appropriate use of the sites that were opened to them.

“With today’s advances in technology, our filtering system can now differentiate between staff and students. This means we have the ability to [create] a new Staff level for filtering, thus allowing all teaching staff access to these important resources from their schools while maintaining the stronger filtering levels for students,” said Kim Mathey, ESD Libraries and Instructional Technology Manager, in an e-mail to district employees.

This censorship reevaluation can be traced back to budget cuts earlier in the year that eliminated the Library and Information Systems Coordinator position, whose job entailed dealing with requests for unblocking sites.

Since the position was eradicated, requests for unblocking sites (stemming mainly from teachers) had piled up and response time had been elongated. The new separate staff filtering level has cut the number of requests by half.

Despite these changes, every filtering level in the district will continue to have pornography, dating profiles, spyware, hacking sites, proxies and gambling sites blocked from their profiles. Filtering at the student level will be reviewed in late fall 2010.

English teacher Ryan Niman has been instrumental in monitoring district filtering levels since he first became involved with the cause in Jan. 2005. At this time the district made the decision to block chat, IM, malicious code, and blogs from all school profiles. “Why block a blog, anybody can sign up for a website and post whatever they want on it,” said Niman.

Niman successfully worked last spring to unblock blogs, and has been working with Mathey to give teachers access to override the filter entirely. “I was promised last spring that would happen, and I’m kind of disappointed it hasn’t yet,” Niman said.

Among more educational uses, Jessica Walton had used this reduced censorship to access her Farmville from school.

“Of course I only [play Farmville] on my lunch break. I don’t play it on my free period, because that is when I do work for my classes,” Senior Experience, Chef 1 and Child Psychology teacher, Jessica Walton said.

Walton regularly competes with Kimberly Nelson on this Facebook sponsored game; both teachers are on level thirty-three, with Nelson about two thousand points ahead of Walton. “I’m coming in sick tomorrow, so I will have time to get ahead of her then,” Walton said.

Walton has also used access to Facebook to connect on a more personal level with her students. “I think it has increased my ability to relate with students who have Farmville. Be it if it is just how any chickens they have,” Walton said.

For the first time in many Terrace students’ memories of the school, there has been active maintenance on the roof above the gym. Construction on a new gym roof began over Winter Break, becoming less and less subtle as students came back to school. Numerous detrimental and inconvenient leaks have spurred this replacement, including, but not limited to: the interruption of homecoming coronation ceremonies, basketball games, and overall quality of the school’s aesthetic.

The roof was originally planned to take a month to complete, but this far it has been difficult to pin a completion date. Due in part to rainy weather, uncharacteristic of the season, there have been time extensions, and it is expected to take longer than projected for the project to be completed.

If all goes according to plan, it should take about another month to complete.

It may be surprising to some that the school is able to pay for this renovation, as the budget this year has been decreased so substantially.

“The money to pay for this project comes from the district’s capital projects fund,” Principal Greg Schwab said.

“This is a separate fund from the district’s operating budget. So in terms of an effect on our budget as a school, we won’t be negatively impacted. I believe the total cost for this work is $130,000. We will have more work done on our roof in the future as the entire school’s roof needs to be replaced,” Schwab said.

At a recent basketball game was forced to forfeit by because a rival team refused to play on the wet courts.

“We’ll continue to try and hold events in the gym as long as the leaks do not pose a safety hazard. We have cancelled some basketball games but it is hard to predict in advance if we will need to cancel future events as it really depends on the weather,” Schwab said.

Last weeks’ womens’ basketball game against Meadowdale was moved to Friday, and the Shorecrest game was rescheduled for Jan. 30.

“It’s frustrating that we couldn’t play in our gym. We were all in our mindset for playing and then we had to reschedule,” said varsity women basketball player Teryn Bouche.  

Administration has taken this leaky roof problem seriously, and acted to fix the leak. However, the effects of water damage can be seen on the particleboard ceilings within hallways, classrooms, and other workspaces, and have caused many distractions in the school’s visual disposition.

The elements are beginning to show their wear and tear on Terrace, and it is likely that more reconstructive maintenance will be scheduled soon, for other parts of the building.

“So long as it is dry outside, it will be dry inside,” said Schwab.

Beginning Friday Jan. 20, Washington state registered voters will receive their mail-in ballots for the Feb. 9 elections.

The School Programs and Operations Levy has been re-added to Snohomish County’s ballot by the Edmonds School District, reinstating an old tax nearing it’s expiration date.. Other districts in state went further than ESD to add additional funding issues to their ballots.

This tax is not new, nor does it add on to pre-existing taxes; it will simply replace an old levy that expires in 2010, and the public will be paying on average the same as they currently do, Edmonds School District Superintendent Nick Brossoit said.

The state has projected it will receive even less funding for the next school year, and the public is growing concerned about where educational resources will come from Brossoit said.

“In the current economy, there are understandably concerns about fiscal matters,” Brossoit said.

“State funding issues will get sorted out in this legislative session, and then we will thoughtfully go through the open process we use to build our operational budget for next year,” Brossoit said.

The levy makes up 20 percent of the district’s General Fund, which funds additional teachers to keep class sizes smaller, new textbooks, student transportation, special-needs services, athletics, music and drama.

It does not however supply new busses or the money needed to rebuild buildings that money comes from different district funds.

“All is considerably better if our General Fund budget has a revenue foundation that includes the replacement of the local programs and operations levy,” Brossoit said.

Information on this replacement tax has been made available electronically on the district Web site as well as in the form of hand outs at school board meetings.

BEN MILLER

J.R. Celski

Born: July 17, 1990 in Federal Way (now lives in Long Beach, California)

Sport: Short Track Speed-Skating

J.R began inline skating when he was three years old and slowly moved up the ranks as he got older. In 2004, when Celski was fourteen, his parents decided that he should move to a location where the best possible coaching would be available.

So that year, his brother went with him to Long Beach where they lived together so that J.R could work with the very talented Dutch speed-skating coach Wilma Boomstra. After living in California for two years, J.R. decided to move back to Washington and give up his goal of becoming a professional skater.

After a year however he moved back to California to continue his dream. This time his dad came with him, while his mom stayed and kept her job in Washington.             “There is not one word that can describe what my family has been to me,” Celski said. “Dedication and sacrifice don’t even cover it because they have done what most parents would think would be crazy.”

Celski was seriously injured by his own skate during the olympic trials, but has been cleared by doctors to participate and is optomistic going into the 2010 Olympics.             This will be his first Olympic games, and although he has drawn many comparisons to superstar Apolo Ohno, Celski has a very different style of skating. He is one of the most aggressive skaters out there, and his aggressiveness may lead to medals, or it might lead to disqualifications (Celski was disqualified in the 500m for being reckles). He is a bright young star who, along with Apolo Ohno, will try to take down a very tallented South Korean team.

Patrick Deneen

Born: December 25, 1987 in Redmond (now lives in Cle Elum)

Sport: Moguls

Nicknamed “The Rocket” by 1994 Olympic Moguls champion, Jean Luc Brassard, because of his trademark speed. Deneen doesn’t often have the cleanest runs, but his speed allows him to compensate for a few minor technical errors he might make.             After being voted rookie of the year in 2008, he jumped onto the radar when he came out of nowhere to win the 2009 World Championship in Inawashiro, Japan. This came after he took 47^th place in Canada and 45^th in Utah earlier that year.

Deneen got off to an early start with skiing. His dad owned a ski shack, and put Patrick on skiis when he was only eleven months old. He started off as an alpine skier, but then focused his attention on freestyle instead.

“It just looked like so much fun” Patrick said, “and I tried it and it was even more fun than it looked.” Hopefully Deneen can use his speed and his training (190 days a year) to bring home a gold for the very young U.S team.

Nicole Joraanstad

Born: November 10, 1980 in Seattle (now lives in madison Wisconsin)

Sport: Curling

Even though she got a relitively late start on the sport, Joraanstad’s coaching made up for the lack of time. Her dad played on nationally competitive curling teams and  introduced her to the sport when she was fifteen. Joraanstad played in the U.S. junior nationals her first year, and decided to focus solely on curling. Three years later she moved to Wisconsin for college, and to be closer to the center of curling in the United States. She is the youngest member of team McCormick and is currently the team manager.

Torin Koos

Born: July 19, 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnisota (now lives in Leavenworth)

Sport: Cross-Country Skiing

Torin is the son of former olympic athlete Shaun Koos, who was on the national biatholan team. Koos, who had dreams of being an Olympic athlete since second grade, seemed destined to be a track runner. In fact, his skiing career took off when he was in college, which is fairly late for an Olympic trainee. Since then he has been all about skiing and has plenty of Olympic experience having made the team in 2002, 2006, and now 2010. His best shot for gold will be in the individual sprint. Hopefully Koos comes home with a medal, especially since the United States has not won a cross-country skiing medal since the 1974 olympics.

Scott Macartney

Born: January 19, 1978 in Crystal Mountain (now lives in Kirkland)

Sport: Alpine Skiing

Macartney grew up in the snow on Crystal Mountain and has been skiing his whole life. He also graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in economics. This will be the third time Macertney has been on an Olympic team, and has definitely felt the ups and downs of the sports. He has endured more than his share of crashes, one of which gave him a sever concussion. He was doing about 90mph and hit the last jump wrong, which caused him to land sideways and smack his head on the ice. Macartney then slid the remaining distance to the finish line. Even though the crash put him out of commission for quite a while, he continues to love the sport and train without fear.

Apolo Ohno

Born: May 22, 1982 in Federal Way (now lives in Salt Lake City)

Sport: Speed Skating

Ohno is two medals away from becoming the most decorated winter Olympic athlete in United States history. He is one of the most popular, if not the most well known, athlete on the U.S. team, due to his great success as a skater and his appearance on “Dancing with the Starts”, which he won.

This year Ohno will be skating in all three speed-skating events, as well as the relay, giving him four chances to win a medal. His resumé includes five gold medals, three Olympic games, and ten consecutive national titles. Look for him to be just as strong this year as ever.

Christian Niccum

Born: January 27, 1978 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (now lives in Seattle)

Sport: Luge

Growing up in Woodinville, Niccum loved to skateboard, wakeboard, and ride BMX. But when he took a simulative luge run down the Seattle hills, once again, he fell in love. Niccum has been a fixture on the U.S. luge team for years now and, even though he may be getting older, he still has the determination and skill necessary to compete at the Olympic level.

Niccum and his luge partner Dan Joye are currently solidified as the U.S. second fastest team. Niccum also had to overcome a devistating crash that resulted in a grade three concussion and forced him to miss two World Game events, and he barely made it to the 2006 olympics. This may be one of his final chances, so expect his team to compete and place well.

Bree Schaaf

Born: May 28, 1980 in Bremerton (still lives in Bremerton)

Sport: Bobsled

After initially starting with skeleton, Bree switched to bobsled. She is very new to the sport but has untapped potential as well. Last year, not only did Schaaf win U.S bobsled rookie of the year, she also was the U.S national bobsled champion. Since she is so new to the sport, she may not be able to match up with some of the more experienced bobsled drivers in the Olympics. However, her raw tallent might be enough for her to surprise some people and maybe even medal in the 2010 Olympics.

Karen Thatcher

Born: Febuary 29, 1984 in Bryn Mawr, Pa (now lives in Blain Minnesota)

Sport: Hockey

This will be the first olympic experience for Karen, but she is hardly inexperienced. She won the world championships with her team in 2007 and 2008, and was named to the 2007 Worlds team. After graduating from college, Karen moved to Blain, Washington, so she is very excited to be close to her friends and family who can support her in Vancoover. Thatcher also had to overcome an injury (torn mcl) but appears to be in great shape now and is ready to lead the U.S women’s hockey team in their persuit of gold.

#33 Teryn Bouché

Position: guard

Grade: 12

Varsity experience: Freshman, junior, and senior years (9,11,12)

Personal goals for the season: “To always give 110% whether at practice or in a game.”

Goals for the team: “Win more games than last year and to play as a team and know where everyone is on the court without having to think about it. And dedication, always.”

Pre-game ritual: “Listening to music with Cori. I used to listen to “Hey, Steven” by Taylor Swift, before every game.”

Interests: “I love to read and going to the [Broadway] theatre. I love watching musicals!”

Favorite movie: “Phantom of the Opera… the one with Gerard Butler.”

Favorite basketball memory: “Probably playing on my rec team when I was younger because now I’m playing on the same high school team with [those girls].”

Most anticipated game: “Meadowdale. We came so close to beating them in over time last year. I want them to be scared of us”

Idol or mentor: “My dad because he’s really patient about the game and got me into it. He supports me with everything and is always there to help me and encourage me.”

Favorite basketball player: “I like Lauren Jackson, but it’s really hard to say.”

#22 Corinne Pingul

Position: guard

Grade: 12

Varsity experience: 4 years

Personal goals for the season: “My personally goals are to be a good role model for younger players and to get everyone involved in the game.”

Goals for the team: “Working to play like a unit, and to understand each teammates playing styles and bring what they have to the court.”

Pre-game ritual: “Listening to music with Teryn.”

Interests: “I love to dance, sing and recite lines from movies.”

Favorite movie: “Any movie that has good quotes cause there’s just too many!”

Favorite basketball memory: “Freshman year when I would trip while doing lines. I got the nickname “Mop” for sweeping up the floor.”

Most anticipated game: “Meadowdale because I really wanna beat them; We always come so close.”

Idol or mentor: “Eleanor Roosevelt.”

Person who got you involved/interested in basketball: “My dad. He sighed me up in kindergarten; been my coach since I was a little kid.”

Favorite basketball player: “I don’t like pro players. I prefer college teams and there’s been too many good players to pick one.”

Favorite basketball movie: “Heart of the Game.”

#24 Mindy James

Position: guard

Grade: 11

Varsity experience: 3 years

Personal goals for the season: “To cheer the team on cause I’m injured, and to get more wins than last year.”

Goals for the team: “Get more wins than last year…”

Pre-game ritual: “I listen to my iPod to pump up; usually something country.”

Interests: “Softball, hanging out with friends, family, facebook & myspace.”

Favorite movie: “Finding Nemo.”

Favorite basketball memory: “Playing at the Key Arena for championship game for my rec team [in 8th grade].”

Most anticipated game: Lynnwood

Idol or mentor: “My family!”

Person who got you involved/interested in basketball: “Mom. My brother plays hockey and I wanted to play but mom said no. So now I play basketball.”

Favorite basketball player: “Michael Jordan. He’s an all around player and that’s the type I want to be.”

Favorite basketball movie: “Like Mike.”

It was about ninety minutes before the district wrestling tournament and the crowd could feel excitement in the air. Anxious wrestlers mulled around in the locker rooms and gyms waiting for their chance to take their opponent down. Amid these anxious wrestlers, some may have caught a glimpse of a Terrace wrestler wearing multiple jackets and sweat pants, running around outside and away from all the activity.                         One may have thought he was trying to warm-up, or he was simply calming his nerves, but that was not the case. Eric Quintero was attempting to lose four pounds before the weigh-in at the start of the meet. When he started running, Quintero weighed 116 pounds, but when he stepped onto the scale just ninety minutes later, he had lost the four pounds necessary to drop him into a lower weight class. He admits that this is not at all healthy, but he felt that it was necessary for him to do well in districts and makes it worth it.

Quintero ended up placing very well that day and qualified to be a state alternate. This year looks to be even better. He weighed in at 116, but once again must cut down to 112. However, instead of being able to drop weight whenever he wants, there are some new rules in place. The WIAA (Washington Interscholastic Activities Association) is putting in new standards for weight loss during the season because of all the dehydrated and malnourished athletes that made themselves sick just to drop weight classes.

According to Quintero, “I didn’t eat much food at home, I just had sips of water, and I went to sleep in sweats [to lose weight by sweating overnight].”

He was constantly drained of energy, but his passion to succeed overrides the complaints of his body. He is not alone with this mentality either. Wrestlers across the nation and around the world are aware of their weight classes and many athletes do things like Quintero to drop a few pounds and get into a lower weight class, whether their ways are healthy or not.

Taylor Call also runs to keep weight off. Over thanksgiving break alone he ran twenty-five miles “to keep off the weight from thanksgiving dinner,” he told the Hawkeye.  Mrs. Shannon, the athletic trainer at MTHS said, “athletes were dehydrated and malnourished, so [something needed to be done] to keep them healthy. The old system allowed athletes to lose as much and as often as they wanted. There was not a lot of control.”

The WIAA has taken notice to this and changed the system. Now, wrestlers cannot drop as many weight classes as they want during the year. The WIAA also mandating skin fold measurements along with urine tests to calculate the body fat percentage of athletes and the minimum weight class the athlete can participate in. A male wrestler has to stay at 7% body fat or above for the entire season, or, if they are starting below 7% body fat, they cannot drop any weight classes.

Females have the same guidelines, but with 18% instead of 7%, for obvious reasons. There is an appeal system for those athletes who feel that their original assessment was incorrect, but this process forbids parent or coach involvement and has to be done by a certified weight assessor that did not originally test the athlete.

There are mixed reactions to these new rules however.

“Even though these new weight rules are meant to keep wrestlers healthy, it shouldn’t limit us to how much we can lose,” commented Quintero.

Mrs. Shannon on the other hand likes the new rules. “Yes, I do. I believe that the controls in place for weight loss keep athletes healthy and safe – two attributes that are unquestionably vital for success in athletics,” she explained. “These controls protect the athletes from becoming overly dehydrated or malnourished; this means that the athletes’ bodies are consistently ready for training and competition thereby increasing the athletes’ opportunities for success.”

She does have one complaint though. “Where I have some misgivings and disagree is the minimum [body fat] percentage for females. I believe it is set too low and so leaves female wrestlers vulnerable to conditions and disorders that would negatively impact their overall health and safety and thus their ability to participate fully and successfully.”

Terrace does have at least one female wrestler this year, with the possibility of more coming out in the future. So even though the new rules have made significant changes perhaps for the better, there is still some controversy. This season will be a good parameter on how efficient the new rules are.

Hi. I’m sitting at my dark gloomy computer on this dark gloomy day writing this column, and can’t help but feel that all the energy in the school has been sucked out by some boring, malevolent force.
There’s really nothing gravitating me towards Mountlake Terrace other than a desire to fix my broken grades that were neglected during Homecoming, football playoffs, and Macho Volleyball. If you’re encountering the same problems, try what I’ve found to be an excellent way to cope: complain.
It could be because the day is only about ten minutes long now. During summer it didn’t really get dark until eleven, and now it feels like bedtime at four thirty. This can do terrible things to one’s mood.
We’re also suffering from a relative chemical deficiency of Vitamin D, which our bodies absorb through exposure to sunlight. This affects disposition, and also causes rickets, which Forrest Gump had as a child. We have been collectively hit by rocks thrown by three bullies on bicycles.
If we’re not careful, we might not break out of this funk and win the Heisman Trophy, rescue Lieutenant Dan, play ping-pong, buy a shrimp boat, run, and finally marry Jenny like our friend did. Luckily, ASB has the answer! Just do as I say and everything will be awesome!
Football was fun. Though it ended abruptly, we got to witness the most successful season in Terrace history. It was great to see people going to games not only as some kind of social event, but to support a winning team playing important games. That feeling doesn’t have to end with getting manhandled by Central Kitsap.
Basketball is coming. It’s an even better environment, with no rain (actually the gym roof leaks so no guarantees), wind, or cold. The crowd also has a better opportunity to affect the game, sitting inches away from the court.
The first game is at home against Lynnwood on December 4. Come to the boys and girls games to watch the PPP races at halftime. Terrace students and basketball go together like peas and carrots.
November’s Most Helpful Staff Member to ASB is Mr. Sullivan. Not the awesome shop teacher from Brier Terrace, but the even awesomer choir director at Terrace. When Stew needed the National Anthem sung on short notice for the Veteran’s Day assembly, there was only one teacher willing and able to help.
His students consistently win competitions and awards all across the Northwest, and he has helped introduce hundreds of students to the History of Rock and Roll, and one of the two best instruments in the world, the guitar. He squished my sandwich last year and I wasn’t even mad.
Bye.