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P.E.O. Chapter DG of the Grand Coulee Dam Area is offering a $500 scholarship in memory of Jeanie Beery to a senior girl. You must have at least a 3.0 grade point average to be eligible to apply for the scholarship. The directions to apply for this scholarship can be accessed in the Senior Class Google Classroom or through Susan Duclos at LRHS Junior/Senior High School. The P.E.O. Scholarship deadline is April 9, 2021. The P.E.O. Sisterhood is an organization dedicated to helping young women further their education. This scholarship may be...
Tonight, 13 Lake Roosevelt High School students will be inducted into the National Honor Society, joining 18 of their peers. The students are being inducted tonight, Wednesday March 10, at 7 p.m., with some students to be present in the gym and some attending virtually. Students can invite two guests each to the physical event, which will also be live streamed online. The inductees this year are: Penelope Antoine, Ashley Baker, Camryn Carden, Chase Clark, Brit Egbert, Tanner Kiser, Landon Krohn, Elijah Rasmussen, Kawika Whalawista, Hunter...
Lake Roosevelt students competed in the Future Business Leaders of America regional winter conferences in the last two weeks of February, qualifying for the state competition which will be held from April 21-24. The competitions are held virtually this year. FBLA Advisors Susan Duclos and Stacy Davis provided The Star with a list of students who placed in the regional event. "Best wishes to you all at State," they wrote. "Congratulations Raiders!" Celeste Laplace and Lillie Laplace took first pl...
High Honors 3.5 to 4.00 Seniors Vanessa Ankney, Cameron Gaines, Kaimyn Scheib, Raven Clark, Rayann Steinert, Myka Boyd, Ashlyn Olsen, BrieAnn Whittaker, Everett Schmidt, Juniors Emma Marchand, Kaitlyn Nordine, Isaijah Derr, Ashley Baker, David Borden, Gemma Sacchi, Reniff Herndon Sophomores Kate Adolph, Brit Egbert, Elijah Rasmussen, James Downs, Penelope Antoine, Pyper Schmidt, Kawika Whalawitsa, Tanner Kiser, Camryn Carden, Enid “Emma” Bearcub, Jocelyn Zaugg, Justin Blueeyes Freshman Aaliyah Cheeney, Celeste LaPlace, Raeley Portch, Saw... Full story
GCHS Alumni Association Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will once again be awarding scholarships to graduating seniors and continuing education students. All Lake Roosevelt High School graduating seniors are eligible to apply, as are graduating seniors from other high schools and continuing education students who are descendants of anyone who attended Grand Coulee School District 55 previous to consolidation the fall of 1971. Continuing education students must have successfully completed one year of further education by the end of... Full story
Students on the Nespelem Middle School High Honor Roll with GPA: 3.4 - 4.0 FIFTH GRADE Anela Somday Walter Leach-Owhi SonjaRai Heldman Viviene Clark Ca’mahyah Finley SIXTH GRADE Furyus Louie Jorell Marchand Juel Swagger SEVENTH GRADE Norma Lowery Matthew Washington EIGHTH GRADE Lola Yazzie Champ Louie Taylor Thomas...
North Central, WA - GWATA and the Apple STEM Network launched the 2021 Virtual STEM Showcase, sponsored by Microsoft and Verizon Media on Monday, February 1st. The Virtual STEM Showcase is a six week event where students can submit STEM projects in six different categories and have them showcased online. The event is free and open to all grades K-12. STEM projects give students an opportunity to practice skills that will ultimately be valuable in their future careers. To help students make that connection the North Central Education Service...
SPOKANE, WA (01/27/2021)-- Spokane Community College lists 2,277 students on its honor roll for the 2020 fall quarter, which ended in December. The honor roll lists those students who achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or above in fall quarter. Students from the area include: Christine Giuliani of Almira, Amanda Starzman and Breauna Vincent both of Wilbur and Cameron Tillman of Nespelem. Community Colleges of Spokane is a dynamic, 12,300-square-mile state community college district that includes Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls...
American Legion Post 157 in Electric City, WA has placed their 2020-2021 school year scholarship application online at Washboard.org. The legion will be awardig one $1,000 scholarship and two $500 scholarships.... Full story
The Columbia Basin Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for students who are planning to attend university, community college, vocational or trade school in Fall 2021. Over 50 scholarships are available. Applications must be completed online. Visit www.columbiabasinfoundation.org for details. The scholarship application deadline is March 15, 2021....
MOSES LAKE - Boeing officials announced a $50,000 gift to Big Bend Community College's Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) and Commercial Pilot programs Dec. 1 as part of the company's Giving Tuesday initiative. Giving Tuesday is marked around the world each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The movement was created to promote charitable acts of giving. Statewide, Boeing gave $10 million in charitable grants to 95 nonprofit organizations on Giving Tuesday. The grants focus specifically...
Three separate donations were approved at Monday’s Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting. The three donations, all attributed simply to “Raider Community Supporters,” are: $140 to the senior class; $832 to the senior class; and $183 to senior high girls’ basketball....
Parents and students at Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School who prefer distance learning to in person school for whatever reason have a choice in what style of distance learning they choose. Now called the LRHS Virtual Academy, the school is asking parents to sign up at a website that explains two options for the Virtual Academy, both the APEX online curriculum, and a live/virtual synchronous instruction. The synchronous instruction includes attending, from the internet, a teacher’s live classroom classes happening in real time , while A... Full story
A Lake Roosevelt Schools tradition will take an online route Wednesday when students honor veterans with a program to honor them over a Zoom presentation. The Lake Roosevelt Associated Student Body and Chorus will offer the event on Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. The program will include the Pledge of Allegiance, the National Anthem, songs by the chorus, a PowerPoint presentation of local veterans, personal testimonies and the playing of Taps. The event is free to everyone and can be reached either by an online Zoom connection o... Full story
A fox and gingerbread figure poke up out of the sunroof of a car to collect candy from emergency responders at Lake Roosevelt Schools. The PTA's Trunk or Treat event Oct. 29 drew a long line of cars with kids anxious to get out for fun. "I just finished passing out over 200 bags of candy to excited, smiling little ones," said Sara Kennedy, the dean of students and Teaching and Learning coordinator for the junior/senior high school as she thanked the PTA. "I think everyone needs little happy...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District will continue offering a free meals program this school year through Dec. 18, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Sack breakfast and lunches can be picked up from 10:30- to noon at the Lake Roosevelt Elementary School for any child up to age 18....
Lake Roosevelt Schools started Tuesday, beginning with conferences on the details of this first all-online quarter of the 2020-21 school year during the pandemic. Students and their parents or guardians arrived outside the school, where they had their temperatures taken and were asked about health symptoms. Inside, they picked up T-shirts, info packets, and checked out Chromebooks, one per household for now. When another order of the devices comes in, there will be one for every student. The...
Documents addressing options for Grand Coulee Dam School District students have been posted on the district website. An Aug. 19 letter from Superintendent Paul Turner to the community, parents, and students touches upon aspects of reopening school, including: • a strict protocol to enter the school, • understanding educational options, • the first day of school being Sept. 8, with student academic participation beginning Sept. 11, and • conferences being held Sept. 8-10 will make sure parents and students are familiar with the online platfor... Full story
You can listen in on the Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting tonight, July 20, at 5:30 p.m., in which they will discuss the upcoming 2020-21 school year. There will be no public comment period at the meeting. The meeting can be accessed on Zoom at https://gcdsd.zoom.us/j/677070515...
A video showing the full ceremony of Lake Roosevelt High School’s class of 2020 is now available to view on YouTube. The video can be found on YouTube under the title “Lake Roosevelt High School Graduation 2020,” and a link will be included in the online version of this article. The unusual COVID-19-era outdoor graduation on June 13 took place on LR’s football field and followed social distancing guidelines put in place for the pandemic, which limited the number of people who could attend, kept those attending in their cars, limited the num...
Teachers who have been working in online teaching and learning for decades understand the potential and power of the tool called technology, but it's not about the tech. The following is from a May blog post by the author, now retired from teaching for 31 years in Nespelem and still an advocate for the use of tech to inspire and teach, with the right emphasis. This article online will link to her post, which contains more than 30 links to resources for teachers, at https://ww... Full story
Schools are looking at how to successfully implement changes that will be put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a new Star survey seeks the opinions of local parents, students, and staff members. Last week The Star reported on changes schools are facing for the 2020-21 school year after guidelines were released by the state’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Those guidelines include rules such as those requiring all students and staff to wear face coverings and maintain a distance from one another. Those rules ha... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors on Monday: approved Superintendent Paul Turner’s new three-year contract at an annual salary of $128,392. Turner first became superintendent in 2016. decided not to allow sixth-graders to participate in sports alongside seventh- and eighth-graders. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association recently voted to allow sixth-graders to participate in sports with seventh- and eighth-graders, but left it to individual districts to determine their own policies on the matter. decided t...
Brianna Whybark is the 2020 recipient of the $500.00 scholarship awarded by local Chapter DG of P.E.O. International. The scholarship application process includes a review of the applicants’ academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities, and educational goals. Brianna is a graduate of Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr. High School. She participated in the Running Start program to gain college credits while in high school and plans to attend Washington State University to begin her pursuit of a degree in pharmacy. P.E.O. is a P...
Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association selected 12 recipients to receive $500 scholarships this year. Four graduating seniors include Lake Roosevelt High School Valedictorian, Ellie Hansen, who plans to attend WSU for an education in sports medicine, specifically physical therapy. Ellie is the daughter of Steve and Hope Hansen of Coulee Dam. Seniors from high schools other than Lake Roosevelt eligible on the basis of being direct descendants of a former student of School District 55 include: Liberty Croutch, the granddaughter of the late...