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[ October 23, 2008; 7:00 pm; October 25, 2008; 11:00 am; 8:00 pm; ] Photos and Story by Janet Grella

You may have noticed that many Burien businesses are lending their storefront windows to students of Highline High School to promote this years’ Homecoming game, parade and dance.

The B-Town Blog caught up with HHS students Kady and Aljiggs late this afternoon as they painted some windows in Olde Burien:

This years’ [...]

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[ October 25, 2008; 5:30 pm; ]

Reba Gilman, Principal and CEO of Highline School District’s Aviation High School, will receive the Museum of Flight’s 2008 Pathfinder Award recognizing pioneering achievements in flying, engineering, education, operations, and manufacturing.

The award will be presented at the Museum’s William M. Allen Theater this Saturday, Oct. 25th. The evening’s program will start off with a [...]

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by Josh Hart
On Friday, Oct. 17th, during a high school football game between Renton High School’s Indians and the Tyee Totems, a brawl broke out at Neudorf Memorial Field in Tukwila.
Renton came into the game at 3-3 while Tyee came in winless.
After the game they both walked out with a postponed game.
Five minutes before the [...]

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Just got word from our friends at the Highline School District that the University of Washington Husky band will play at a pep rally Wed. night Oct. 22nd at 7pm to encourage middle school students to go to college.
As part of Highline’s Life After High School Fair (more info here), the Husky pep band will [...]

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From our sister site The White Center Blog comes news that last Saturday’s White Center Food Bank Harvest Dinner and Auction at South Seattle Community College raised “about $50,000.”
Read the full story here.
The White Center Food Bank serves not only the community of White Center, but parts of Burien as well.
If you’re so inclined to [...]

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by Josh Hart
Many of you don’t know about this new school in the area and that is Highline’s Big Picture High School.
I would like to inform you about this school for two reasons:
The first being that everyone should know about all the schools in the area and the other being that I am sick and [...]

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According to The Seattle Times (we were unable to attend the game due to familial obligations), the Kennedy (football) Lancers pulled off a great comeback to beat Renton’s Lindbergh High Eagles last night, 49-21.
This was Kennedy’s 22nd consecutive win over Lindbergh, and it puts the Lancers (6-1 overall, 6-0 league) as favorites to win [...]

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[ October 17, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ]

Burien Parks is holding its annual “Pumpkin Bash” tonight (Friday Oct. 17th) from 6pm - 8:30pm at the Burien Community Center, located at 425 SW 144th (map below).

The event is aimed at children age 12 and under, and will include:

Carnival games
Face painting
Costume contest (scariest, most creative and funniest, so get those Sarah Palin toddler glasses [...]

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The John F. Kennedy High School Lancers take on Renton’s Lindbergh Eagles tonight at 7pm at Highline Stadium.
Kennedy is playing well this year, and has beat Lindbergh 21 consecutive times.
Lindbergh (5-1 overall, 5-0 league) is looking to end that streak tonight as they take on Burien’s sixth-ranked Lancers (5-1, 5-0) in a game that likely [...]

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