Highline
Community College
FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: October 14, 2009
CONTACT: Lisa Skari: (206)
870-3705; lskari@highline.edu
Event: Des Moines City Council Candidates Forum
Date: Monday, October 19
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Price:
Free and open to
the public
Location:
Highline Community College’s main campus, Building 7
Highline’s main campus
is located midway between Seattle and Tacoma at South 240th Street and Pacific
Highway South (Highway 99); address: 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, WA 98198.
Description: The forum will be a
moderated question and answer session to introduce the Des Moines City Council
candidates and their platforms followed by a town-hall style question and
answer session with the audience.
Sponsored by: Associated Students
of Highline Community College
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Highline
Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King
County. With approximately 18,300 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the
state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide
range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with
day, evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm
Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state
poet laureate Sam Green.