Marysville Alternative High School
“We are getting down to graduation time. We are going to the Pacific Science Center next month. We are going to have a barbecue, and we will play volleyball and beach ball at Kayak Point.”
Erick Williams
12th grade
Students from Everett Community College’s Ocean Research College Academy will host a beach education day from noon-2 p.m. Saturday on Possession Sound near the Mukilteo ferry terminal.
The public is invited to join students and teachers, who will meet at noon at the public access parking lot north of the ferry terminal. During low tide, students will demonstrate research sampling methods on the waterfront. Participants can join a crab count.
The Ocean Research College Academy is an early college program for high school students, one of the first in Washington. The academy is sponsored by EvCC and received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
High school students earn up to two years of college credit for free while attending ORCA classes full-time at EvCC. Up to 60 students are accepted every year.
For more information, call academy director Ardi Kveven at 425-267-0156.
With its principal moving on, Post Middle School in Arlington has a new leader.
The Arlington School District has hired Brian Beckley to lead Post beginning in July. Beckley is an assistant principal at Evergreen Middle School in Everett.
He replaces Eric DeJong, who will lead the new Haller Middle School in Arlington next fall.
Monroe School District will continue to put the bulk of its Initiative 728 funds toward reducing class sizes, under its proposal for 2006-07.
More than 60 percent of the $2.8 million the district expects to have on hand will be put toward extra teacher salaries, similar to past years.
School leaders also hope to continue and expand other programs supported by the state school improvement dollars that voters approved in 2000. Those include training for teachers and after-school and summer programs.
Mountlake Terrace High School’s parent group will hold a garage sale from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. May 6 at the high school, 21801 44th Ave. W.
Proceeds will benefit the parent-sponsored senior graduation party held after commencement.
For questions and more information about donating items for sale, call Kira McLauchlan at 425-670-1667 or Kim Runkel at 425-486-4274.
Chain Lake Elementary School PTA will hold a Wild West Round-Up fundraising auction at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe.
Tickets are $15, which includes a barbecue dinner.
For more information, e-mail the auction committee at clepta_auction@verizon.net.
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