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Community Transit Service Change: What You Need to Know

Will Khadivi — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:15:32 +0000

Starting February 20, Community Transit will be cutting 20 percent of its bus service by adjusting all local routes and reducing frequency of buses. These service changes will likely impact all MTHS students who ride Community Transit. Here are some major route adjustments around MTHS:

Route 112: The bus route that directly serves MTHS will be changed significantly. First, weekday frequency will be reduced to every 30-60 minutes while Saturday service will be reduced to every hour. This route will now run between Mountlake Terrace Transit Center and Ash Way Park and Ride and will no longer serve 56th Avenue or areas around Roger’s Market Place, Edmonds Woodway High School, or Edmonds Community College. Service to those places will now be in the newly modified route 119. 112 will also no longer stop directly at Lynnwood Transit Center (LTC), but will stop two blocks east at the intersection of 44th Avenue & 200th Street. Route 112 will now continue as route 113 at Ash Way Park and Ride.

Route 113: This bus route will now be from Ash Way Park and Ride to Mukilteo and will have the same time frequency as route 112. Route 113 will no longer serve LTC or Alderwood Mall.

Route 119: This route has been extremely modified from currently serving LTC and Alderwood Mall to after February 20 running between Ash Way Park and Ride and Mountlake Terrace Transit Center. This route will continue to serve Meadowdale High School but will now also serve Edmonds Community College, Edmonds Woodway High School, 220^th Street, and the area around Roger’s Market Place which will no longer be served by route 112.

Route 120: This bus route will still run from LTC to Canyon Park, however it will no longer serve Alderwood Middle School, the stores around Barnes & Noble, or the Alderwood Boys & Girls Club. It will now come every hour except during peak hours on both weekdays and Saturdays.

Route 130: This bus will now run from LTC to Edmonds Station and will continue to serve the Mountlake Terrace City Center, Mountlake Terrace Transit Center, and Aurora Village Transit Center. It is replacing the segment of route 131 between Aurora Village and Edmonds Station since route 131 is being completely eliminated. Route 130 will come every 30-60 minutes on weekdays and every hour on Saturdays.

Route 196: New route between Edmonds Station and Alderwood Mall. This bus will replace the service that is currently provided by routes 113 and 118 on 196^th Street and Alderwood Mall Parkway. It will not stop at LTC.

How to get somewhere on the bus starting at MTHS beginning February 20th:

Alderwood Mall:
- Take the northbound 112 to the intersection of 44^th Avenue & 200^th Street in Lynnwood and walk east to the stop for the newly modified route 115/116 and 201/202. Routes 115/116 will drop you off on the west side of the mall near JCPenney and routes 201/202 will drop you off on the east side near Sears and Target.
- OR: Get off the northbound 112 at 44^th Avenue and 196^th Street and walk east to the stop for route 196 to Alderwood Mall. Route 196 serves the stores around Barnes & Noble as well as the east side of the mall near Sears and Target.

Edmonds Community College:
- Edmonds Community College will now only be directly served by routes 115/116. From MTHS, take the northbound 112 to the intersection of 44^th Avenue and 200^th Street and walk west to the stop for the westbound 115/116.
- OR: Take the northbound route 112 to the intersection of 44^th Avenue and 196^th Street and walk west to the stop for the westbound route 196. Get off the bus at 196^th Street and 68^th Avenue and walk south four blocks.

Edmonds Woodway High School/Edmonds Stadium:
- Take northbound 112 to the intersection of 44^th Avenue and 200^th Street and walk west to transfer to westbound routes 115/116 and get off at 76^th Avenue and 212^th Street.
- OR: Take the southbound 112 to Mountlake Terrace Transit Center and transfer to route 119 and take to 76^th Avenue and 212^th Street.

Downtown Seattle:
- Take northbound route 112 to the intersection of 44^th Avenue and 200^th Street and walk west to LTC and take Sound Transit routes 511/512.
- OR: Take southbound route 112 to the Mountlake Terrace Transit Center and walk to the freeway station. Then take routes 511/512/513.

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One step at a time

Austin McDermott — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:55:07 +0000

The Road to the Dome is nearly complete. With a 72-33 win over the Everett Seagulls Tuesday
night, the Hawks have a 3.5 game lead in the WesCo 3A conference. There are seven games left in the
season, including three against teams with a winning record (Shorecrest, Shorewood, Glacier Peak, all of
which are conference games).

Though a 39 point win, the Hawks 10th by at least 20 points, it didn’t come easy. Reece Hoiby
and Cal Knapp, two Everett players, had a hard fouls on Ryan Shannon, Blake Fernandez, and Greg
Bowman . Shannon was horse collared when going for an easy layup, and Bowman was shoved from
behind on his own uncontested drive. Fernandez was tossed around a lot, once dealing with elbows
thrown in the direction of his head (not called a foul by officials) and getting tripped up or shoved
around on shots numerous times. Everett tried to send a message with strong defense but Terrace didnt falter. Hoiby finished with 6 points, and Knapp didn’t even score.

One thing worth noting however, was that Everett opened the game in a very effective 1-2-2
zone. Essentially, the Gulls always had a minimum of three, if not four defenders to defend any Hawk
that came into the paint. For about half of the quarter, the Hawks’ big men had to find a way to break
the zone, but eventually found the biggest hole in Everett’s strategy-there was no one left to guard the
three-point shot. Eric Moisant nailed two threes, and Fernandez added 15 points. Jesse Zerom put up 8
of his own, and Marquis Armstead tacked on 9. By playing the 1-2-2 zone Everett had allowed Terrace to go inside-out with strong guard play.

Once again, the Hawk’s defense shown through, with several blocked shots by Coby Russell,
Ryan Shannon, and Greg Bowman manhandling Everett down low, and on the boards. The Hawks have
beaten all of their last opponents already this year, so expect smooth sailing all the way to Tacoma.

Terrace totals: Armstad 9, Zerom 8, Moisant 6, Russell 6, Moisant 2, Ferandez 15, Bowman 13, Shannon
13, Lacase 0.

Everett totals: Richardson 7, Woods 7, Chacon 6, Hoiby 6, Thibou 5, Carr 2, Arends 0, Franklin 0, Knapp
0, Tran 0.

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MTHS Giving Tree helps students and families

Nick Fiorillo — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:34:57 +0000

For most people, the holidays are a time filled with happy festivities, traditions, home cooked feasts and the giving and receiving of gifts. Many low-income families may not be able to afford the costs of the holidays. That is why the freshman ASB started the Giving Tree.

The Giving Tree was set up in the front window of the main entrance. Leaves with gift requests from students and families of MTHS who are having hard times covered the window. There were over 200 leaves to start on that tree, numbering about 30-40 families. Everyone in the family got their own leaf including the parents.

“The Giving Tree is benefitting families in our community, where at least one of the kids goes to Mountlake Terrace or Brier Terrace and then we’re trying to help the whole family, so that’s why you’ll probably see things in there for parents, for little kids, everybody. We want to make sure the whole family has something for the holidays, for winter,” MTHS family advocate Ashley Johnson said.

There were over 100 gifts donated. There were also cash donations so gifts that had not been donated could be purchased and then given to families in need. The support from Mountlake Terrace was huge.

“Some of [the gift requests] are things that people want like games or a basketball, and there are other ones that people actually need like jackets and hats and scarves that they can’t afford,” freshman ASB representative Ali Hitchcock said.

The Giving Tree started because a lot of families weren’t able to get things from Salvation Army or Saint Vincent De Paul, organizations set up to help those in need, so the freshman ASB decided to help out those families as well as others who simply couldn’t afford to buy presents of their own.

Presents were collected until Dec. 14, wrapped on Dec. 15 and given to families on Dec. 16. Everything was done confidentially. “We want it to be anonymous,” Johnson said. “[We want] people [to] feel comfortable asking for help.”

The Giving Tree may become a MTHS tradition for the years to come, “I think the giving tree was a really good idea and that it should be a tradition because it really helps people out,” Hitchcock said. In a time that is so joyful for many, it is great to see the community coming together to help those who need it.

“I have been so impressed by how caring Mountlake Terrace [is]. So many people want to help and I think that is huge because sometimes we forget that the person sitting next to [us] may be in need…it’s been really awesome to see how much Terrace really cares about people.” Johnson said.

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Multicultural Week Performance Interrupted

Charlie Divers — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:27:53 +0000

During a Multicultural Week lunchtime performance on Jan. 10, the club Colores Unidos performed a series of Mexican and Latino dances including Cumbia, Banda, Bachacha and Macarena.

However, in the middle of second lunch at 11:41 a.m., freshman Joshua Wyant ran through the group of dancers shirtless. Alex Corona, a Colores Unidos member commented on the display and said it was disrespectful to the group.

Student behavior coordinator Anthony Williams, who also witnessed the spectacle, commented that it was obnoxious. “Those girls needed a lot of courage to do what they did,” Williams stated. “And [Joshua] needed a lot of courage to do what he did.”

After Wyant ran through the group, other students began to dance in more respectful manners with the performers, making things more interesting and fun for everybody. Even assistant principal Scott Morrison joined in and busted a few moves.

Wyant will not be given disciplinary action for his misconduct.

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Women’s Basketball: No. 10 Shorecrest outlasts Terrace in overtime, 83-74

AnhViet Nguyen — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:52:17 +0000

Despite trailing for most of the game, Shorecrest pulled out an 83-74 overtime victory over Mountlake Terrace on Friday night at the Terraceum.

Shorecrest (11-2, 8-1 WesCo 3A) entered the game as the No. 10 3A team in the state and was led by senior guard Brianne Lasconia’s game high 45 points. She scored 16 points during the fourth quarter comeback.

Lasconia had a chance to finish the game off in regulation when she was fouled after a quick steal with less than 10 seconds on the clock. She made the first of two free throws attempts which tied the game at 70 heading into overtime. Then, a final heave at the buzzer by freshman Shaian Pagaling nearly dropped in. In overtime, the Scots pulled away with a 13-4 run to end the game.

The Hawks (4-10, 2-8 WesCo 3A) led by as many as 15 points in the third quarter. Then, with the Hawks leading 55-43 entering the fourth quarter, the Scots began to turn up the pressure defensively, causing problems for the inexperienced Hawks. The Scots outscored Terrace 27-15 in the fourth quarter and never looked back.

“We’re inexperienced as a group in those situations and that’s what happens,” Mountlake Terrace head coach David Brophy said.

Terrace junior Taylor Smith finished the game with a season high 32 points including six 3-pointers. Pagaling added 14 points and sophomore Maddy Kristjanson had 12 points.

Mountlake Terrace’s offense was efficient, even dominant, throughout the entire game but it struggled late in regulation. Brophy also cited “defense, boxing out and rebounding” as things that the team must improve in order to stay competitive in a tough WesCo 3A league.

Fouls and free throws were also a key factor in the game. Shorecrest shot 23 of 35 from the free throw line while Terrace shot 19 of 25. The Hawks were whistled for 20 fouls in the second half, to the ire of the MTHS fans and pep band- two people were dismissed from the game after voicing their disapproval of the foul calls. By the end of the game, the Hawks were only had four players on the court since three players had already fouled out.

Shorecrest is one of the top teams in the local area and will look to make some noise when the postseason arrives. The Scots are well-positioned for a high seeding at districts, even though it is still a month away.

However, Brophy is pleased with his team’s overall performance after nearly taking out a top contender in WesCo 3A. The Hawks lost to Shorecrest 69-31 back on Dec. 9 and it was clear that Terrace had improved since then.

“We made strides tonight in terms of how we’re going to play basketball here at Terrace,” he said.

If the growth continues, this team might just find itself a district berth in February.

Next up: Jan. 17- Mountlake Terrace vs. Shorewood at the Terraceum, 7:15 p.m.

At Mountlake Terrace:

Shorecrest – 14 17 12 27 | 13 – 83
Mountlake Terrace – 21 20 14 15 | 4 – 74

Hawks: Froehlich 2, Dashiell 5, Smith 32, Romanowski 5, Pagaling 14, Kristjanson 12, Kerr 4

Scots: Shattuck 0, Lindsey 0, Lasconia 45, Jones 5, Schlachter 1, Monson 0, Chibuogwu 9, Greenburg 12, Uppinghouse 11

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Hawks defense tightens up in win at Shorecrest

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:39:59 +0000

Despite trailing for the entire first quarter of tonight’s game, the Hawks never looked like they weren’t in control at a packed Shorecrest gym and in front of a Comcast television audience. The Hawks remained undefeated with a gutty 47-31 victory that was once again won on the defensive end of the floor.

Junior guard Marquis Armstead usually draws the toughest defensive assignments for the Hawks. And sometimes – like in the first half tonight – that impacts his offensive game. Armstead drew the Scot’s top scorer, 6 foot 6 inch senior Emmanuel Chibuogwu Jr. and held him in check.

But, the Hawks play team defense and have a roster full of guys who know how to play tough, hard-nosed “D.” So, when Armstead and the Hawks came out of the locker room at halftime with just a two-point lead, it was senior post Ryan Shannon who was guarding Chibuogwu. Armstead promptly lit up the Scots with two devastating treys. By the time Shorecrest coach Brian Fischer could call a timeout, his club was down by eight and would never recover.

Yes, Terrace trailed 13-11 after the first quarter, but the Hawks had the momentum and had solved Shorecrest’s offensive game plan. Terrace would not allow the Scots to score in double figures in any other quarter.

In fact, the Hawks have kept that amazing streak alive throughout this entire season: No opponent has made it through a game without being held to single digits in at least one quarter of the game. Defense like that usually wins games and the Hawks are now 14-0 overall and 10-0 in WesCo 3A.

Guard Blake Fernandez led the Hawks and all scorers with 17. Armstead finished with 16. Posts Greg Bowman and Coby Russell along with guard Jesse Zerom each added four points apiece and Shannon had two.

The Hawks travel to Shorewood on Tuesday to face the T-Birds before returning to the Terraceum for an unusual Thursday night game against Marysville-Getchell.

At Shorecrest:

Mountlake Terrace – 11 09 10 17 – 47
Shorecrest – 13 05 09 04 – 31

Hawks: Jesse Zerom 4, Andrew Moisant 0, Blake Fernandez 17, Ryan Shannon 2, Marquis Armstead 16, Greg Bowman 4, Eric Moisant 0, Lauren LaCasse 0, Coby Russell 4.

Scots: Conin Oishi 3, Ryan Canfield 2, Trevor McCoy 2, Liam O’Neill 2, Emmanuel Chibuogwu Jr. 11, Keith Shattuck 11, Alex Horning 0, Zach Lawson 0, Max Nelson 0, Masamba Njadoe 0, Dylan Pontrello 0.

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“Come To School Late” protest goes bust

Will Khadivi — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:36:29 +0000

About 10-15 MTHS students came to school late to protest administration’s recent practice of scanning the ID cards of students who are late to school at the front door. They were planning to cause a jam of student traffic at the door, but when they arrived, not a single student was carded.

The protest was started organized through an event on Facebook called “Come To School Late” which had over 130 MTHS students saying they planned on attending or might attend.

“I’m really disappointed because I had about 100 people [say they were attending] and only about 10 people showed up,” senior Jordan McKinney said. McKinney created the event on Facebook.

When the students who were participating showed up and entered the front door, they were greeted with high-fives from ASB representatives and holiday music blasting on a stereo.

“It looks like administration knew, so someone blabbed,” McKinney said.

When assistant principal Peter Schurke was asked if he knew ahead of time about the protest, he replied: “No.”

“We don’t necessarily scan every day and this morning we decided that we weren’t going to scan; we were going to trust students to be on time,” Schurke said.

Administrators have been scanning the barcode on the ID card of late students for the past month in an effort to reduce the amount of students coming into school after 7:20 a.m.

“We were standing here watching incredibly huge numbers of students walking through the door after the tardy bell had rung,” Schurke said. “The numbers of students coming in the building [late] were just so huge that we decided we had to do something.”

Mixed reactions toward administration’s attempt to reduce student tardiness

“This is simply to promote awareness that we want students to be in class.”

Eliminating the morning tutorial time at the beginning of the year has led to most students arriving within the same 20 minute period, thus increasing traffic.

“We’ve been working with the city planner to try and work on the traffic patterns,” Schurke also stated. “[Also to] improve the traffic flow into the school.”

Whether they showed up or not, about 10 percent of the student population joined the event on Facebook which implies that administrators still have some convincing to do.

“I wanted to start to bring awareness about all these ridiculous rules that have been started this year,” McKinney said.

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Goncalves at the center of Occupy Seattle

AnhViet Nguyen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:18:07 +0000

Hunter Goncalves

A little over a year ago, then-junior, Hunter Goncalves was the girl’s swim captain competing for a state swim title. Now, instead of swimming, the 17-year-old Goncalves is actively involved in the Occupy Seattle protests.

She grew up in a politically active family and has participated in protests in the past-although not on the same scale as the Occupy movement. Her parents were generally supportive of her joining the protests.

“They just told me ‘don’t get arrested’,” Goncalves said.

She loves history but “wasn’t really inspired by anything” she was learning in school.

“Typical civil rights activists don’t really interest me other than that they are fighting for something they believe in,” Goncalves said.

The Incident

On Tuesday Nov. 15, Goncalves was arrested for allegedly attempting to swing a stick at a police officer. Multiple reports from various media outlets say that the 17-year-old teenage protester did not hit the officer but was grabbed by another officer on a bicycle.

The story doesn’t end there.

According to Goncalves, “I was arrested for literally stepping over the yellow line in the road. I was assaulted by one member of our altruistic [Seattle Police Department], who grabbed a black flag I was waving, pulled me across his bicycle, and dragged me around. Several comrades grabbed me in an attempt to pull me from the SPD’s grip, but the SPD whipped out pepper spray and sprayed them all.”

These were not the only people who were pepper-sprayed by the police. Later that day, an 84-year-old woman and a pregnant woman were both pepper-sprayed by Seattle police officers at the Occupy protests. Those incidents were widely reported on local and national media.

Goncalves was not held on bail because she is still a minor, but she said that several of her friends were arrested and held on bail. Goncalves’ parents had mixed reactions following the incident.

“[To] my dad, it just felt humorous for some reason. My mom was initially very angry but she calmed down after talking to people that were around me,” she said.

Personal Motivation

Goncalves has a multitude of reasons why she decided to forgo her senior year of swimming and to participate in the Occupy Seattle movement, which is growing day by day.

“America is corrupt, there’s no arguing that, and the list of reasons I have for protesting are almost infinite. The divide between the ultra rich and the people who can’t afford food is widening at a disgustingly uprising rate,” Goncalves said. “The middle class is almost nonexistent, yet there is still the dumb puritanical belief that America is a place where opportunity is abundant and where if you work hard enough, you can succeed, which is simply not true anymore and has been proven as not true by years and years of social and economical research, which people with privilege and legislative abilities, the people in power, simply ignore, and screw the rest of us over.”

She said she cannot stand the lack of progress in America. She does not understand why our elected “leaders” are motivated by myriad amounts of money, instead of serving the people.

“There still is a social stigma even within populations of people in poverty that poverty is a result of being lazy, which leads to a culture where we ignore it for the most part and feel slightly guilty about but for the most part just kind of wish it goes away,” Goncalves said.

This is just one of many reasons Goncalves brought up in an interview on Monday. She also said she feels strongly against the ideas of capitalism and monopolies. The economy, she said, has been “disassociated from reality.”

Protesting in Seattle

During her phone interview with the Hawkeye on Monday evening, she sat out on the rooftop of a house on 23rd Avenue and Alder Street, which happens to be directly across from Garfield H.S. in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The group has also occupied a building on 10th Avenue and Union Street.

She makes the trip down to Seattle whenever she can to join her fellow “comrades”.

“We have moved into neighborhoods and [our] mentality [is to] utilize graffiti and resistance and property destruction to our ends,” she said, although she realizes that many people may not be fond of those actions.

She plans on joining port laborers, who cannot unionize, in the West Coast Port Strike on Dec. 12 as well, and encourages anyone to come.

“Occupy is a mindset, so start living by it. Refuse norms, work against capitalism, and fight oppression in every form. Everyone has an undeniable right to live without having to subject themselves to an absurd amount of struggle,” Goncalves said. “Build networks, find people who share your ideas, talk with each other and begin organizing. Change is inevitable, be a part of it!”

Current status

Goncalves has been heavily involved with Occupy Seattle events since November.

Yesterday, in fact, she decided to drop all three of her classes at MTHS and transfer all credits to Seattle Central Community College, which ironically is a controversial public area currently occupied by protestors.

Seattle Central Community College has been trying to evict about 100 campers for several months now, as sanitation and security issues have cost the college about $20,000 a week.

Goncalves will continue to protest against what she feels are unacceptable social norms.

“From a more philosophical stance, we are born, live and then die. In that time period, we suffer enormous hardships, have to deal with failing social expectations, and are told we have to work our backs off to be happy. We are never completely happy and we are never completely free; we are always constrained by people telling us to do this and to do that, we never completely own anything, our profits are never ours, no matter how much you try to convince yourself. Otherwise you are always striving to fulfill some unfillable ideal of how to live; you are always striving towards someone else’s insatiable and unattainable goal,” Goncalves said. “I don’t want to live like that. I want to be myself, I want to be free from this bullshit. So, is that really what we’re supposed to do with our lives? Life is precious, I don’t believe in an afterlife and I don’t believe in doing things you’re not totally enthusiastic about. What a depressing species we have become.”

As of now, Goncalves won’t back down from what she has said.

There isn’t a clear solution or an end in sight.

She will continue to fight by protesting, even if there are others who may not share her same viewpoint.

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Unexplained occurrences

Serena Urrutia — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:33:50 +0000

By Serena Urrutia

Feature Editor

Halloween has passed, but everyone always appreciates a good mystery about the school they attend. If you’ve been attending MTHS long enough you will have probably heard about people encountering strange things happening in the school, especiall

“I don’t really know who she is. We think she is a female ghost, because she seems to be most active around our male theatre technicians. She has been know to play pranks on techies and likes to play with the lights in audience area. We call her Gertrude, which she seems to be satisfied with.”

Jeannie Brzovic

drama instructor

These encounters are nothing of the fourth kind or trip to the French opera, but more along the lines of having odd things happen while working on an upcoming play or during drama class.

Serena Urrutia | The Hawkeye

A student roams the eerie halls of Mountlake Terrace High School with every little subtle movement of her footsteps filling the penetrable silence.

According to drama teacher Jeannie Brzovic, these trickeries have been going on for a while, “The theatre ghost was in residence before I got here. I don’t really know who she is. We think she is a female ghost, because she seems to be most active around our male theatre technicians. She has been know to play pranks on techies and likes to play with the lights in audience area. We call her Gertrude, which she seems to be satisfied with, and sometimes we put her name in the program, which also seems to make her happy. We have found that when her name appears in the program there are fewer unexplained problems and pranks. There was one photo taken by one of our student techies, and next to him was a blurred glowing figure of a woman. I think that was the moment that I started to believe there might actually be something to the rumor.”

Unfortunately the photo taken by the former student could not be located, but those who did see it were instantly convinced that there actually might be something supernatural there

On top of the story of the possibility of a ghost wondering in the theater, some of you may know that the Hawkeye students stay behind at school late into the night on school days as well as on weekends, and have said to experienced weird things happening while we walked through the school.

Our own photo graphics editor, Heidi Lara-Flores, has claimed hearing weird noises while heading down to the news room to work, “ I was walking down to the room and heard doors and shuffling noises, and thought it could be one of the other staff, but he had left as I was coming in so that was ruled out. I also thought it could have been one or the janitorial staff but, it was much too late for them to still be here.” This was not the first time something odd has happened to one of the staff, and it certainly wont be the last time as long as the school is standing.

Though this has absolutely nothing to do with ghosts it makes you wonder about what happens after school hours.

One night a terrace alumnus and his friends were goofing around one night and decided to come to the school. Once here they walked to the to the back of the school, by the art rooms, and climbed on top of the fenced of air ventilation system to the roof.

After getting on top of the roof they walked a little ways to the very top of the roof and found a small door that seemed to be open. The hatch or knob seemed to be unlocked and only opened from the outside.

The alumnus and his friends decided on going inside and found themselves in a long small hallway. Along the left side were doors, and when they opened these doors they found a single chair and single light hanging from the ceiling.

At the very end of the hallway there was another door with another chair inside, but along with the chair on the back wall there seemed to be chains hanging on the wall. In The corner of this room there was also a ladder that looked to have led to an opening outside.

They climbed up the ladder and found themselves on a small type of balcony. It was very dark and they hadn’t brought any type of light source, but after looking around a bit up there they found what they think were rags with blood on them.

Once they had found this they quickly decided that they had better leave, and only spoke to friends about there strange finding, and dared not tell administration because they would, of course, be expelled.

There could be many explanations to this story, but no one will ever know. Only you can decide whether our school has unexplained events or places hidden in it or it’s history.

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Hawks win the battle of the unbeatens

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:30:56 +0000

Erase any doubt you may have had: These Hawks are for real.
And they have the Mountlake Terrace High School Holiday Tournament Trophy to prove it.
Not convinced yet? Just ask previously unbeaten Snohomish, who came into tonight’s game ranked No. 5 in the Seattle Times 4A poll.
Final score: Hawks 63, Panthers 41.
Snohomish senior guard Luke Hamlin, who came into tonight’s game averaging more than 24 points per game, was throttled by the Hawks’ stifling defense and held to a season-low 10 points. Fellow guard Kevin Yates led the Panthers with 13.
That was indicative of the tough man-to-man defense that the Hawks smothered the Panthers with tonight. No matter how hard Snohomish tried, they couldn’t get anything consistent going. In fact, the longest scoring streak for Snohomish during the entire game was just six points on back-to-back treys midway through the 2nd quarter.
On the other hand, the Hawks were typically balanced on offense with senior post Coby Russell leading the way with 19 points and 13 boards. Junior guard Blake Fernandez contributed 12, junior guard Marquis Armstead had 13 and senior post Ryan Shannon had 9. Russell was a man on a mission with several steals, blocks and two emphatic dunks – the most spectacular one coming on a two-thirds court pass from junior guard Jesse Zerom.
The Hawks went on a back-breaking nine-point run early in the 3rd quarter and never looked back. Terrace also had four runs of six points.
Besides being unbeaten, the Hawks kept another impressive streak alive – in each of their 10 games, the Hawks have held their opponents to fewer than 10 points in at least one quarter.

At the Terraceum:

Snohomish – 07 13 11 10 = 41
Mountlake Terrace – 16 16 20 11 = 63

Hawks: Jesse Zerom 3, Andrew Moisant 0, Blake Fernandez 12, Ryan Shannon 9, Michael Lotz 0, Marquis Armstead 13, Greg Bowman 0, Eric Moisant 7, Lauren LaCasse 0, Coby Russell 19.

Panthers: Kevin Yates 13, Luke Hamlin 10, Mitchell Stewart 0, Russell Crippen 5, Gabe Reichenberger 2, Josh Bauska 4, Josh Baird 5, Ty Carlson 2, Wyatt Harrison 0, Darian Caldwell 0.

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