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JULY 23, 2014 | 5
W•O•R•D•S of the Week
AN INDEX OF RECENT NEWSMAKERS
SMOKE
Heavy haze covered the
Flathead Valley late last week as massive wildfires ripped across Washington and Oregon making it hard to breathe for sensitive groups. Much of the smoke cleared out Sunday.
SHOOTING
Two suspects in a shooting and robbery last week along Interstate 90 in Missoula County were arrested in Seattle on July 21. Katherine Grace Evans, 34, and Troy Anthony Miller, 30, are accused of attempted deliberate homicide and robbery. The victim’s name or condition has not been released.
GAZA
Fourteen days after armed conflict in the Gaza Strip began, at least 500 Palestinians and 25 Israeli soldiers were dead, as of July 21. Israel began a large offensive against Hamas on July 8 and began a major ground invasion on July 17.
BUS BABY
A Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy and two Tribal Clinic workers in Elmo helped deliver a healthy baby boy after his mother went into labor while riding a bus on July 15.
(STORY, PAGE 29)
Dow Powell, right, district representative for the construction project at Whitefish High School, shows Shawn Watts, center, a map of the CAMAS wing while on a tour of the facilities with Brett Allen, left, and Kate Orozco. GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
Whitefish High W
School’s CAMAS
HITEFISH – Students who have ever wondered how an artistic verve evolves into a career, or what application a certain creative talent or technological savvy might
is the Curriculum of the Future
have in the “real world,” will discover some clarity at Whitefish High School’s new cutting-edge performing arts and technology facilities.
Called the Center for Applied Media, Arts and Sciences, or CAMAS, the new $2.89 million facility stands poised to become a state-of-the-art hub of theater, music and technology studies at the revamped Whitefish High School.
Shawn Watts, a Whitefish School District trustee, said the ac- ronym CAMAS is significant because it is also a robust and vibrant wildflower native to Montana.
The thrust of the CAMAS philosophy is to integrate “right brain” and “left brain” disciplines in an expanded, comprehensive curriculum, empowering students to compete in an interconnect-
See CAMAS PAGE 26
Building project to include cutting-edge performing arts and technology facilities
By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Beacon
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