Career and Technical Education (CTE) at Mercer Island High School is taking the spotlight this year. As technical and vocational job opportunities continue to grow, Eastside school districts are funneling more resources into preparing students for these careers.
According to Mercer Island High School CTE Coordinator Mark Roschy, a growing number of Island students are turning a keen eye to this academic arena. And the job-market is calling.
This year’s freshmen set on attending a four-year college in Washington have a new laundry list of academic requirements to complete. In June, the State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) passed new admission requirements — approved by the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) — for all Washington baccalaureate institutions.
Arrests
Police arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of committing car prowls around 3:50 a.m., Sept. 16, in the 6000 block of 84th Avenue S.E. According to the police report, an officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation and determined that several items in the car were previously reported stolen by an Islander. Property belonging to a second victim was also recovered and returned.
In 2004, during the last presidential election, I was teaching kindergarten in Philadelphia. When a boy walked into my classroom one morning in October wearing a giant, star-spangled pin bearing a candidate’s name, I immediately knew what we would be discussing during circle time.
The Mercer Island boys golf team has dominated during the past three years, including one state, two league and two district titles. On Thursday, the Islanders went up against their 4A twin in Woodinville, the defending 4A KingCo champions. Despite a good effort from a young Islander team, the loss by just two strokes, 178-180, makes a third league title an uphill battle.
The Mercer Island cross country team followed up its big win at the Edmonds Invitational to open the season with an in-league victory over former rival Issaquah, which moved to 4A, and new rival Garfield.
Tent City 4 resident Viree Warnerf, far right, plays bingo at Tent City as children Anna Bolger (white shirt), Georgia Mattox (striped tank top), Isabel Bolger (middle), Paige Brandon (standing in back, white shirt) and Tent City resident, Jamie, far left, check the results.
Public Safety Day is between 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sept. 27, at the North Fire Station, 3030 78th Ave. S.E. For adults and kids to learn about safety and meet local police, firefighters. Donations to the Northwest Burn Foundation will be accepted. 275-7607.
The Island’s D.A.R.E. program is facing a dead-end street. City leaders are thinking about abandoning the decades-old program that statistically has failed to prevent alcohol and drug abuse among Island teens.
A group of Islanders to be selected by the mayor will now deliberate the fate of the very crucial and dangerous intersection at Island Crest Way and Merrimount Drive.
Re-introducing Bob Baker I’d like to re-introduce Bob Baker, a Mercer Island resident, who is the 41st District Republican candidate…
Elizabeth N. Johnson, of Mercer Island, died on Sept. 7, 2008. She was 95. Born Jan. 25, 1913 in Pendleton, Ore., Mrs. Johnson was preceded in death in 1995 by her husband, Chester H. Johnson, who was a member of the Associated General Contractors organization. As a couple, they took great joy in their annual boating trips on “Mercer Girl” to Alaska for over 20 years. She was a devout member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Mercer Island and a resident of Covenant Shores for 11 years. Mrs. Johnson is survived by her sisters, Kathryn Myhre of Port Townsend, Wash., and Margaret Moody of Santa Maria, Calif.; and her brother, Frank Norwood, of Port Townsend, Wash.
Elsie Hansen Boyle began her life in Seattle one hundred years ago and died in Seattle on Sept. 6. In the intervening years, she moved more than 50 times. She traveled to five continents and lived in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand, in addition to many places in the United States. She graduated from Olympia High School and worked her way through the University of Washington. Her first job after graduation was teaching high school English in Bremerton. She eventually took a job teaching English at the University of the Philippines and became a ghost writer for the Filipino president. In Puerto Rico, she edited the English language newspaper; years later, she taught English at Thamasaet and Chulalongkorn Universities in Bangkok, Thailand. Her sense of adventure often put her at the maelstroms of the 20th century. She was a tourist in love with Goethe when she visited Berlin in 1936 and witnessed first-hand the Nazi dictatorship. She was in Beijing when the Japanese invaded, and she escaped on a train to Shanghai. She married an American naval officer, Lt. Peter Boyle, who was at the time on the Yangtze River Patrol. For the next 40 years, her life was entwined with the U.S. Navy, first in Honolulu and Midway Island during the Korean War, and Japan during its reconstruction. She also lived in Saigon for four years before the Vietnamese War. In each place, Mrs. Boyle taught English freely to students who continued to keep in touch with her during the rest of her life. Other volunteer work included Save the Children, Lincoln Hospital in San Francisco, The Navy League and local church work in every place she lived. She was also an avid bridge player on every continent.
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