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Review Written and Compiled by Isabel Funk
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This week’s AP schedule was as follows: Monday: AP Chemistry, AP Spanish Literature and Culture, AP Psychology Tuesday: AP Spanish Language and Culture, AP Art History, AP Physics 1: Algebra Based Wednesday: AP English Literature and Composition, AP Japanese Language and Culture, AP Physics 2: Algebra Based Thursday: AP United States Government and Politics, AP Language and Culture, AP Environmental Science Friday: AP German Language and Culture, AP United States History, AP Studio Art, AP Art Drawing • Former Seahawks player Jeremy Lane was charged with a DUI for driving while high through Mercer Island. • Starting May 4 and continuing through May 20, Youth Theatre Northwest is performing an adaptation of “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.” The are performing at Parish Hall Theatre on Mercer Island. • On May 9, in Las Vegas, 10-year-old Aaliyah Tygrit shielded her 18-month-old brother from a gunshot, taking the bullet herself. She and her mother were both shot in a Walmart parking lot when two men opened fire on each other.
• President Trump announced Thursday that he will be meeting with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. The meeting will mark the first meeting ever between a sitting United States President and a North Korean leader. • Three American prisoners were freed as a sign of good faith between North Korea and America. The prisoners were greeted by President Trump at the airport upon their return to the states. • A fourteen-year old shooter injured a student at Highland High School in Palmdale California. The suspect was apprehended a mile away from the site of the shooting.
• Dana Berejka was named U.S. Presidential Scholar by the U.S. Department of Education. She and 160 other high school seniors were honored with this award. • On May 5, the Crest Learning Center greenhouses opened the annual MIHS Horticultural Plant Sale. The sale will be open again May 19, June 2 and June 9. • In an attempt to increase voter turnout, an ordinance funding prepaid ballot stamps was passed overwhelmingly by the King County Council in a vote on May 7. • The state Supreme Court will hear an appeal to the King County Superior Court ruling that attempted to block Initiative 27 from being presented to voters. Initiative 27 seeks to ban safe drug consumption sites in King County.
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• The Lummi Nation of Washington has a new totem pole displaying an orca, salmon and other sea life. They have embarked on a more than 7,000 mile journey with this totem pole to Seaquarium in Miami in an effort to bring home Tokitae, the last remaining killer whale captured from Puget Sound. Of the dozens of whales captured and put in aquariums in the 1970s, Tokitae is the only still alive, and Seaquarium has repeatedly refused to release her. The Lummi Nation proposes bringing Tokitae to a netted cove off Orcas Island where she can reunite with the 76 remaining members of her pod.
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