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Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev visited the Pacific Institute in West Seattle on May 16. His visit was part of a seven day trip to the United States. CLICK THE PHOTO ABOVE TO SEE MORE

SLIDESHOW: Bulgarian President visits the Pacific Institute in West Seattle

May 16, 2012

During a seven day visit to the United States, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev together with 40 other government officials and delegates, visited The Pacific Institute (TPI) in Seattle on Wednesday, May 16.

The visit is part of a multi-city trip to strengthen US – Bulgarian connections in business, commerce, and education. A 3-hour reception at the Institute’s headquarters in West Seattle included welcome speeches, introductions of local government and business leaders, media sessions, and commitments by The Pacific Institute to assist the Bulgarian leadership in a wide range of development efforts.

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West Seattle High School baseball coach Velko Vitalich gets a Mohawk after telling his team he'd get the haircut if they made the state playoffs. As you can see, they made it. PLEASE CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR MORE

SLIDESHOW: Playoffs and a Mohawk; WSHS baseball coach makes good on his postseason promise

By Ty Swenson

May 16, 2012

West Seattle High School baseball head coach Velko Vitalich and assistant coach Brian Tupper made a promise to their Wildcat squad a few weeks ago: You make the playoffs; you can give us Mohawk haircuts.

Well, guess what?

With a 2-1 victory over Liberty on May 16 and an upcoming 3A regional playoff game against Timberline on Saturday, May 19, the coaches’ fate was sealed.

The kids have gotten Mohawks at playoff time for years as a superstitious tradition, and Tupper said he would do it too if they kept on winning.

“(Tupper) said, ‘How about you coach?’ In one of my dumber moments I said, ya, I guess I could do that,” Vitalich said before the cut. “And now we are at State, so I guess I’ll have to pay up.”

“Hope it doesn’t look too bad because I have a banquet to go to Friday and a coaches’ meeting tonight, so probably a lot of hat wearing the next few days.”

PLEASE CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR MORE

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Seattle Youth Symphony

West Seattle string students perform Side-by-Side with members of the Seattle Youth Symphony. Students in the program get extra instruction through an outreach effort offered by the SYSO. Student involvement with music has proven to be beneficial in several key ways. Their next concert is May 20.

Southwest Seattle Strings project brings music lessons to local schools

By Patrick Robinson

May 15, 2012

Music and music education are sometimes thought of as secondary when compared to the reading, writing and mathematics basics. But The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO) is having an impact not just on music appreciation but on the test scores and lives of those they can include.

In 2008, the New York based Wallace Foundation granted $7.7 million dollars to local arts groups with $500,000 going to the SYSO. They expanded their partnership with the Seattle Public Schools through The Southwest Seattle Strings Project.

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