Preparing to discuss environmental issues

September 10, 2009 3:09 pm
Skyview Junior High eighth-graders Hailey Hunt and Jenna Hyppa practice their speeches prior to the groundbreaking cermony of the Brightwater Environmental Educational Community Center Thursday morning. The center
Skyview Junior High eighth-graders Hailey Hunt and Jenna Hyppa practice their speeches prior to the groundbreaking cermony of the Brightwater Environmental Educational Community Center Thursday morning. The center

Local school instructors, students and King County officials attended a groundbreaking cermony of the Brightwater Environmental Educational Community Center Thursday morning. The center, to be located at 228th St. S.E. and State Route 9 in Woodinville, will open in 2010.

Pictures feature former Northshore science instructor Mike Reid and King County photographer Ned Ahrens; Skyview Junior High instructor John Schmied and his students Jenna Hyppa and Hailey Hunt.

John B. Hughes will discuss the center in his Sept. 16 Reporter column.