February Hot List
February 26, 2013
Movie: “Beautiful Creatures”
Based on the novel “Beautiful Creatures,” by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this film was released on Valentine’s Day and has grossed almost $17 million worldwide. This supernatural love story is set in the deep South, where two star-crossed lovers, Ethan and Lena, learn more about the dark pasts of their families and town. Ethan is a young man longing to escape his small town and Lena is the intriguing new girl at his school.
If you like the fantasy genre, this will be right up your alley with an exceptionally strong cast that is absolutely spellbinding.
Band members are local rock stars
February 26, 2013
Jacob McCaslin and his band, Jacob McCaslin & Roll the Credits, are finally getting a taste of fame.
The band, formed about two and a half years ago, recently released its first music video, a cover of “Get a High,” by the UK band Mama’s Guns. In less than a month, the video generated more than 100,000 views on YouTube.
Lee Xie
Skyline High School
“We got nothing but great responses, and we couldn’t be happier with how much attention it has brought the band,” McCaslin said. “We are all just so thrilled about its success and having more and more people discover our music.”
District unveils Skyline High School stadium plans
February 5, 2013
Superintendent Steve Rasmussen has given the Issaquah School District the OK to move forward on a nearly $6.5 million facelift for the stadium at Skyline High School.
Rasmussen signed off on the project Jan. 24, the day after he and the school board received a presentation on the topic during the board’s regular business meeting.
The improvement project includes moving the home side to the west side of the field where new covered aluminum bleachers will have seats for 2,500 Spartans fans. New support facilities, including locker rooms, restrooms and concessions, will form a horseshoe around the south end of the field where a large scoreboard will be a feature element.
Liberty High School construction costs rise by $138,000
February 5, 2013
The Issaquah School Board approved an increase of $138,328 to Liberty High School’s construction bill Jan. 9.
Most of the 13 items that accounted for the increase range between $1,000 and $6,000, including $4,668 to restore power to the parking lot lighting, $3,599 to reconnect cold water in the boiler room and $2,031 to demolish greenhouses that were not originally shown on the drawings. The change order also include two big ticket items — $77,207 for electrical conduit additions to provide power to the stadium expansion in Phase 3, and $21,596 to add an ADA bridge to the temporary locker rooms.
The increase, which includes $12,000 in taxes, brings Liberty’s construction bill total to $19,989,583.
Students qualify for DECA state competition
February 5, 2013
Hundreds of students, working individually and in teams, recently competed in the Area 4 DECA competition at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
Many qualified for the DECA state contest March 7-9 competing in categories including accounting, marketing, retail, entertainment management, business law and ethics, financial services, travel and tourism and sales.
Nominate schools’ ‘green’ achievements for King County honor
February 5, 2013
NEW — 4 p.m. Feb. 5, 2013
Nominate eco-conscious students, teachers, staffers, volunteers and programs — or even entire schools — for the King County Earth Heroes at Schools awards program.
The awards program aims to honor people and entities for contributions to environmental protection and student environmental education. Honorees in past years included programs related to recycling, restoring habitat, composting lunchroom waste and growing pesticide-free gardens. Issaquah School District campuses typically perform well in the awards.
The program encourages self-nominations. Or, colleagues, classmates and the public can nominate potential Earth Heroes. Find nomination forms and the list of 2012 winners at http://1.usa.gov/y5Hpzf. Call 206-296-4477 to learn more.
Students express mixed feelings about Skyline lunches
January 29, 2013
A standard public school is expected to serve lunch on a daily basis under specific dietary regulations. However, whether students actually like the options provided is not something that is enforced.
Sampurna Basu
Skyline High School
Skyline High School has many daily options for lunch, ranging from the featured hot lunch of the day to a wide array of salads. In addition, there is a Student Store where students can purchase Yoko’s Teriyaki and other lunch choices. All meals are strictly regulated by the Issaquah School District so each serving size is no more than 300 calories.
At the average lunch table, varied responses come in reaction to these seemingly fair conditions.
Club serves Liberty High School’s lunchtime favorites
January 29, 2013
Veronica Austin
Liberty High School
Most Liberty High School students recognize the DECA store as a favorite purveyor of fine smoothies, snacks and Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, but few really know what goes on behind the scenes.
To get a better understanding of this Liberty staple, I asked senior Elizabeth Rutherford, a DECA store manager, to take me through a typical lunch:
Even before the bell rings for lunch, the DECA store is already preparing for the onslaught of hungry Patriots.
“If our teachers let us leave early, we try and get a couple of panini on the grill and open up a cash register early,” Rutherford said.
“We are usually busy for the first half of lunch,” she said, adding that each worker in the store has a job to do. There are “cashiers, panini makers, pizza twist people, smoothie makers, and runners” with managers like Rutherford supervising.
Students bypass lackluster lunch at Issaquah High School
January 29, 2013
Jacob Brunette
Issaquah High School
Every day, hundreds of students buy lunch from the Issaquah High School cafeteria. With three lines and a wide variety of available food, students are free to pick and choose what they want to eat on any given day.
Recently, however, there has been concern about the healthiness of school lunch, and IHS does not do a stellar job at providing students with healthy options.
To begin, only one of the three lunch lines provides the typical school lunch, made by the kitchen staff and changed daily, while all three have pizza every day.
Eastside Catholic High School needs more vegetarian fare
January 29, 2013
Shreya Tewari
Eastside Catholic High School
Eastside Catholic High School’s food is provided by a lunch program called No Junk that works with several different private schools across the area.
The program advocates offering balanced food options while keeping special considerations in mind as well, i.e. gluten allergies, etc.
No Junk offers breakfast at Eastside every day before school for those who should choose to arrive early and purchase it. The regular options include breakfast burritos, cinnamon rolls, croissants, hash browns, bagels, juice, cereal, fruit cups and yogurt, while occasionally including a special hot option such as pancakes or French toast.
