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Seattle Thunderbirds, Kent-Meridian High School, join forces for Jan. 7 match at ShoWare Center

Published 11:46 am Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Seattle Thunderbirds are based out of Kent
The Seattle Thunderbirds are based out of Kent

The Seattle Thunderbirds and Kent-Meridian High School are teaming up for an evening of school spirit Friday at the Kent ShoWare Center.

Kent-Meridian’s DECA and video-production students will be “taking over” the T-Birds’ hockey game to raise money for K-M, as well as to promote the school in the community.

K-M is selling special tickets, the proceeds of which will go back to the school. They can be purchased by calling teacher Megan Morgan at 253-373-4073, or by e-mailing her at megan.morgan@kent.k12.wa.us. The tickets are $22 – half of which will go back to K-M.

Kent-Meridian, incidentally, is where a number of high-school-aged T-Birds are students, as they stay with their billet families.

K-M will be a presence at each major event that night. That includes Kent Schools Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas dropping the first puck of the game, K-M students singing the American and Canadian national anthems, a K-M Zamboni ice-machine rider during intermission, and an intermission tricycle race between K-M students and staff.

K-M cheerleaders will be out on the ice leading the crowd in cheers, and K-M’s mascots will pal around with T-Birds mascot Cool Bird.