Organizations host father-daughter dances for Valentine’s Day
January 29, 2013
Dads, it’s time to ask your daughters to dance.
Liberty High School is inviting elementary school students and their fathers to a Daddy Daughter Dinner Dance in the Liberty Commons on Feb. 8.
Maple Hills Elementary School students visit Capitol
January 29, 2013
The fourth-grade students of Maple Hills Elementary School got an inside look at how laws are made Jan. 17 when they visited the state Capitol in Olympia.
While there to learn about state government, the children met up with state Rep. Chad Magendanz, R-Issaquah, and asked him questions about his new job.
Local runners raise money for colon cancer
November 13, 2012
Local runners made strides in the fight against colon cancer Nov. 4 when they banded together for the Get Your Rear in Gear event at Marymoor Park, winning an award for raising the most money.
Team Marcy’s Mojo was comprised of nearly 50 area family members, friends and neighbors who gathered to honor Marcy Rand, of Maple Hills. Rand died of colon cancer in July.
Issaquah schools receive $150,085 in donations
October 16, 2012
Programs and classrooms in the Issaquah School District got a $150,000 boost last month in the form of donations.
The various gifts were approved by the school board during its regular meetings Sept. 12 and 26.
The first allotment, $90,750 was approved Sept. 12 and included a $56,250 check from the Issaquah Schools Foundation. The money is set to be divided among four district programs — $12,750 for financial literacy, $18,000 for high school robotics, $7,500 for middle school robotics and $18,000 for pre-K summer school.
Issaquah History Museums unveils oral history treasure trove
August 28, 2012
For decades, old cassette tapes sat squirreled away in the Issaquah History Museums’ expansive collection.
The cassettes, long relegated to gathering dust, contained oral histories from early residents and intimate details about a bygone era — Issaquah in the early 20th century, as a coal- and timber-fueled boom started to wane and decades before explosive growth transformed the area into subdivisions and shopping centers.
The cassettes in the oral history collection ranged in date from 1958 to 1993, but little information accompanied the tapes, so museum staffers and volunteers could only speculate about the contents.
Until now.
Student stacker piles up cups, accumulates titles
July 24, 2012
Benjamin Royce
In second grade, Benjamin Royce found his passion: speed stacking plastic cups.
Now, he will travel to Houston from July 27-28 to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games Sport Stacking Championships. This is the first year stacking has been a part of the games.
Because stacking is a worldwide sport, Benjamin said he’s excited to go and see world record holders and about 350 stackers.
The World Sport Stacking Association invited him because he placed in the top tier of his age division at the Northwest regional tournament. There, he also received two first-place and four second-place medals.
“All the tournaments were very exciting because you get to see all the really fast people,” Benjamin said.
There are three different stacks players make with different amounts of cups. For example, three stacks of three cups that are built into three pyramids, erected and taken down from left to right.
Maple Hills Elementary School musical pays homage to rock
June 12, 2012
Lacey Williams, Drew Cain, Bailee Hawkins and Aden Bryan (from left) rock out on stage June 7 during Maple Hills Elementary School’s fifth-grade musical ‘Rock and Roll Forever.’ Photo by Lillian Tucker
To celebrate the end of the year, fifth-graders at Maple Hills Elementary School did what many of them enjoy most — performing.
“I love entertaining people,” Andrew Intonti said.
Issaquah School Board is unhappy about King County’s school site decisions
May 8, 2012
Members of the Issaquah School Board were unhappy to hear last week that a district-owned 80-acre property is most likely unusable.
“We own the land. If the county wants to condemn it then they can pay us and we’ll go find something else,” board member Brian Deagle said.
The board got the bad news at its April 26 meeting, when it received an update about the recent recommendations of the King County School Siting Task Force.
In his presentation to the board, Steve Crawford, director of capital projects for the Issaquah School District, explained that one of the recommendations is for Issaquah to basically give up the nearly 80 acres of land it owns on Southeast May Valley Road. The $1.4 million property, which sits between Squak Mountain to the north and the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill to the south, is outside of King County’s urban growth boundary.
Issaquah PTSA honors outstanding volunteers at Golden Acorn Awards
April 3, 2012
The primary decorations were orange construction cones and yellow caution tape. Winners were described in terms keeping with that theme, such as construction tools or architects. One winner from the Issaquah School District PTSA Council was described as “the construction glue” that holds the council together.
Gathered in the commons of Pacific Cascade Middle School, the Issaquah PTSA Council held its annual Golden Acorn Awards ceremony March 27.
Not counting the several winners from the districtwide PTSA council, the night honored approximately 75 winners from 23 PTSA units, said Becky Lawrence, vice-president of elementary schools for the PTSA council. A committee of PTSA leaders from each school picked the winners from their individual schools, Lawrence added. As you might expect, criteria included what PTSA members have done for their schools, but also the district and their involvement in the community as a whole.
Maple Hills Elementary remains closed as other Issaquah School District campuses reopen
January 23, 2012
NEW — 6:20 a.m. Jan. 23, 2012
Maple Hills Elementary School is closed Monday due the ongoing power outage in the school’s neighborhood, Issaquah School District officials announced.
Students at other Issaquah School District campuses return to classes Monday after a weeklong break due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and subsequent snow days.
Officials raised concerns about heating Maple Hills Elementary after the power returns, and the ability to get systems running normally after the outage ends.
The snow-related interruption impacted the finals schedule at Issaquah, Liberty and Skyline high schools, as well as athletic and extracurricular events across the district.
School administrators adjusted the finals schedule to adapt to the snow days.
Monday is a review day at Issaquah High and Skyline. The finals half-days fall on Tuesday and Thursday.
Because school websites remain unavailable, Liberty students should prepare for finals from periods 3 and 4 on Monday, periods 7 and 8 on Tuesday, periods 1 and 2 on Wednesday, and periods 5 and 6 on Thursday.
