“I am going to go to Lake Chelan and go snowmobiling (for Christmas vacation, which started Dec. 15). I’m in wrestling so we have a week off. Other than that, hanging out with friends and celebrating Christmas with my family. We have finals coming up right after Christmas break. That’s pretty big.”
Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School in south Everett recently broke ground on its new Heath Hall.
The academic building is named for John R. “Jack” Heath, an Everett businessman who helped build the Sather Manufacturing Co. foundry. Heath died Feb. 2, 2005, at age 71 and was noted for his many years of quiet philanthropy.
The $5 million, 41,000-square-foot building will have six science labs, nine classrooms, music, drama and fine arts rooms, along with offices.
Snohomish High School recently received two pieces of high-end computer numerical controlled, or CNC, machining equipment worth $120,000.
Haas Automation Inc. of Oxnard, Calif., donated the machines for school use through the 2007-08 school year after the school district bought two other machines for $90,000, using funds from its vocational education budget.
The lathes and mills are on par with those used in industry, including a more complex “four-axis” machine that was donated, the school’s first.
Students in the high school’s computer-aided design and machining pathway classes will work with the equipment.
The Northshore School District recently received a $2,500 grant from the Allstate Foundation for its traffic safety education program.
The grant will be used to provide partial scholarships for high-school students who need financial assistance to pay for new-driver training classes.
The current fee is $380.
When the state cut funding for traffic safety education in 2002, the district was forced to raise the fee to cover costs, school spokeswoman Susan Stoltzfus said.
Such classes are required for new drivers under age 18.
The Stanwood-Camano School Board will consider approving a $115,297 bid at its Jan. 2 meeting, completing the final phase of its district office remodeling project.
It’s the last piece of a 1998 bond approved by voters that also built two elementary schools, among other projects.
The work to be awarded on Jan 2 would add a classroom for training teachers and a curriculum library to store sample textbooks and materials.
The recommended low bid from Simon Home Services is above the $112,443 budget.
Business director Gary Platt said the district can cover the shortfall with investment earnings and other revenues before the project is completed sometime in March 2007.
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