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Ashley Aven was granted the first Ashley Aven Senior Athlete of the Year Award on May 24 at Meadowdale High School. “It was amazing,” Ashley said. “I thought it was just going to be a [certificate], but it was a shiny, blue plaque, and I also got $500 and flowers.”

As a band student in the full IB (High School International Baccalaureate) program, Melanie Llona would go to school from 6:30 to 3 p.m., get home, do homework for 6-8 hours, and then go to bed.

For three weeks, students in Room 3 at Westgate Elementary shared their classroom with 50 free, fluttering butterflies.

It was raining on Saturday, but volunteers still showed up at 9 a.m. to don gardening gloves, shovels and rakes at Edmonds-Woodway High School. About 55 students, four parents and one teacher volunteered to pick up trash, weed and mulch at Edmonds-Woodway for Campus Cleanup Day on Apr. 17.

After the doctors at Children’s Hospital told Ashley Aven in January that she had only two months to live, she made a list of all the things she wants to do before she dies. At the top of the list were trips to the Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Pike Place Market, and a vacation in Palm Springs, Calif. to celebrate her 18th birthday on Apr. 6.

By Lynnwood High School’s registration deadline for its Hoops for Haiti basketball tournament, the school had just 10 teams signed up. Not wanting to cancel the tournament, LHS extended the deadline. Within a week, 60 teams had registered for the tournament.

Never did Vera Yeremeyeva imagine she’d go from cooking in her kitchen to speaking at a national conference. But she did. Ten years ago, Yeremeyeva was just an immigrant from Ukraine. Just an expecting mother of six. Just a housewife.

Art isn’t confined to an art gallery, and now neither is Edmonds-Woodway High School’s art show.

At Meadowdale Elementary, students aspire to be the Eagle of the Month.

Sixth graders at Meadowdale Elementary are sponsoring a shoe drive for Haiti earthquake relief until Feb. 11. So far, the school has collected about 500 shoes.

First graders at College Place Elementary helped load boxes and bags of shoes into a car on Thursday to be sent to Haiti.

Students at Edmonds Elementary turned into clay-sculpting Picassos earlier this month with the help of a resident artist.

Beacon photos by Pat Ratliff Naji Moore-Taylor goes airborne to score six points against Lynnwood.Heavy rains did not stop Meadowdale Mavericks from playing...

Beacon photos by Pat Ratliff

Beacon photos by Pat Ratliff

The future of Kamiak basketball looked pretty bright during the recent hoops camp Knight players and coaches held last week for boys entering grades 4-...

Mariner and Kamiak athletes had strong seasons this year with many selected for the 2009 All-Western Conference teams. League coaches chose the baseball...

Kamiak state champion swimmers Tyler Carriker and Chris Lynch sign letters of intent to Seattle University. The two will earn their college educations ...

Kamiaks Chris Guinn fires another strike in the Knights defeat of Monroe. In what seems to be a regular part of the Kamiak Knights approach to winning ...

Track fans wont have to worry about splinters in their behinds this week.The Mukilteo School District is closing off the main grandstand area at Goddard...