White River High School will go back to the six-period bell schedule as a cost-saving effort and an educational enhancement move.
A Sweet Escape is what Enumclaw High School band boosters are promising community members at a fundraising dinner, dance and auction they are hosting.
Greg Rufener won the 100-yard freestyle and the Enumclaw High 200 freestyle relay finished second at the South Puget Sound League 3A and Western Cascade Conference subdistrict boys swim meet Friday and Saturday in Auburn.
The score from Thursday night’s Enumclaw-White River wrestling match would clearly indicate that the top-ranked EHS Hornets dominated their cross-river rivals 59-13 on their way to claiming another undefeated season and South Puget Sound League 3A title.
It was June 2005 when the Enumclaw School District closed the doors on its 50-year-old J.J. Smith Elementary School and merged it and its popular Magic Strings program with Southwood Elementary School across town.
In a cost-cutting move, the White River School District will combine its two 200-student elementary schools – Wickersham School of Discovery and Wilkeson – into one beginning in September.
Letters have been trickling into Beth Sprau’s office at Expressions at Enumclaw, written by people thanking White River High School senior Brittany Edmonson for putting together scrapbooks for their loved ones.
On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, about eight students showed up at Sandra and Dennis Smith’s Wilkeson home. Although the sun was out, temperatures were chilly as the group stood knee-deep in mud that had been pushed against their home by an overflowing Gale Creek. The students, clad in fire department hand-me-down boots and equipped with Red Cross-provided shovels, were tossing heaping loads of silt out of and away from the Smith’s garage.
Enumclaw levy on Tuesday’s ballot
There are a number of things the Enumclaw School District is doing well and a few things it needs to work on and that is exactly what district officials were hoping to find as the results of their first “climate survey” have been sorted.
When a student decides to withdraw from Enumclaw High School, the call goes out to Principal Jill Burnes and if possible, she drops everything to meet with that student.
Sam Lovelace and McKaela Kilcup placed third and the White River High girls wrestling team finished ninth out of 24 teams Saturday at Emerald Ridge in Puyallup.
The White River High boys wrestling team posted two more South Puget Sound League 3A victories last week, setting up a big finale for its make-up contest with Enumclaw Thursday night in Buckley and its Friday match with Clover Park.
