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After winning a tough tennis match on Friday, Lake Roosevelt student Rylee Pitner, to her delight, checked her email to see she had been selected for a Gates Scholarship. The scholarship, given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is given out to 300 students each year, nationwide, and will provide funding for Pitner's next five years of college. Pitner intends to study animal sciences at Washington State University. The website for the scholarship, www.thegatesscholarship.org, describes...
From building and flying their drones to constructing and racing a solar-powered car, to learning how to create a working hydropower model, the Foundation for Water Energy and Education’s Hydropower and STEM Career Academy has plenty of exciting fun to offer high school-aged students this June. The FWEE Hydropower and STEM Career Academy is at Rocky Reach Dam near Wenatchee from June 18 to 22. High school-aged students in Grant County are encouraged to apply to the academy before the May 4 deadline. The academy provides plenty of hands-on a...
Here are the students of the month for March from Lake Roosevelt Elementary....
Here are the Nespelem students of the month!...
Lake Roosevelt students competed at the Future Business Leaders of America state competition in Bellevue over the weekend, where Alan Nordine took fourth place in the Help Desk category. Nordine will compete at the national competition in Baltimore, Maryland, at the end of June. "[Nordine] had to wait in a holding room for about 20 minutes," said Susan Duclos, advisor to the FBLA club at Lake Roosevelt. "Once his name was called, he went back into the testing prep room where he was given his...
After five years leading the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors and a total of nearly a dozen years on the board, Joette Barry resigned Monday night because she is moving out of the district. “We’re the longest renters in the United States at the same address,” she joked after the meeting to explain the move. The house they’ve been renting in Electric City for years will be sold by its owner, who lives in Arizona. Joette and her husband, Jim, own a house in Coulee City and will be moving there within six weeks, but it won’t be...
Lake Roosevelt High School is again looking for volunteers in the community to put some time in to assist this year’s seniors with not only a graduation requirement but with helping them navigate the next step in their lives. The Oral Boards program puts community members on interview teams who talk with the graduate candidates after reviewing a portfolio of their best high school work. The interviews at Faith Community Church June 5-6 will give the students a sampling of what awaits in job interviews, provides them with helpful questions a...
They say "still waters run deep." That would be a good description of Gary Darnold, who informed the Grand Coulee Dam School District last week that he is retiring after teaching here for 42 years. Darnold is soft spoken, but his eyes penetrate you like he is taking your measure. It is highly unusual for a teacher, any teacher, to spend an entire career in one district. Darnold did, and will hang it up after this year's teaching assignment. With a bachelor's degree from Washington State...
Several school and other agency personnel are in Emmitsburg, Maryland, this week at the FEMA Emergency Management Institute taking training on school safety. In the forefront is Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Turner. Others in Maryland are elementary Principal Lisa Lakin; Randy Bowman, school maintenance; Stephanie Duclos, bus operations; and Tammy Norris, secretary. Other agency personnel include Randy August, Colville Tribes; Rick Paris, volunteer fire chief from Grand...
Here are the LR Elementary and Nespelem Elementary students of the month....
HIGH HONORS 3.5 – 4.0 SENIORS Robin Matt, Rylee Pitner, Keianna Vera, Aidan Derr, Dylan Steinert, Damian George, Kayla St. Pierre, Kayci Hanway, Bradley Wilder, Emily Abel, Dylan Jenkins, Chasity Williams JUNIORS Addison Hansen, Reagan Herndon, Hannah Wapato, Stephen Flowers, Liliana Clark, Gloria Michel, Anthony Nichols, Jaylyn Kensler, Alexus Hoffman, Kelsie Olbricht, Olivia Ludwig, Cassidy Reyes, Lauryn Alling, Kamiakin Moran, Chelsea Timentwa, Rainydawn Vargas-Thomas SOPHOMORES Ellie Hansen, Lorrinda Richardson, Brianna Whybark, Wensdae A...
Somebody has to lead the future of American business, and some of those somebodies could be Lake Roosevelt students in the after-school club called Future Business Leaders of America, which is sending four to a state competition. The club, led by staff members Susan Duclos and Stacy Davis, has 10 members, four of whom went to a regional FBLA competition in Wenatchee on Jan. 21 and qualified for the state competition in April in Bellevue, Washington. "The club's mission is to bring business and...
Here are the January Students of the Month!...
Local students on SCC honor roll The fall 2017 honor roll list at Spokane Community College includes several students from local region, who made the honor roll status, by earining a 3.0 grade point average or higher while attending full time with at least a 12-credit class load. Named to the SCC list were Cameron Tillman and Matt- hew Tillman, both of Nespelem; Charles Hunt and Tyler Weimerskirch, both of Coulee City; and Alexander Dye, of Hartline. SCC is one of the largest community colleges in the state and serves more than 20,000 students...
Here are the December 2017 Students of the Month!...
Lake Roosevelt High School seniors are planning on a little salt water fun when they take their annual trip, June 1-3. Advisors Tammy Norris and Aaron Derr, and seniors Aidan Derr, Bradley Wilder and Rylee Pitner, presented their plan to the school board Monday night. So far, some 20 seniors, out of a class of 43, have signed up for the trip that will take them by train from Spokane to Portland, then by bus to Astoria, where they will prowl the Oregon Coast for a couple of days before their return, using both the bus and train back to Spokane....
DAM KEGLERS TEAM W L Team 6 55.5 24.5 Colville Lites 40 40 Native Spirit 35.5 44.5 Team 5 34 46 The Melody 32 48 High Game: Ron Staggs 267; Candy Weed-Butz 184 High Series: Chance Epperson 680; Candy Weed-Butz 515 THURSDAY MIXUPS TEAM W L San Poil Valley 46 30 Flying J 42 34 X Men 42 34 Good Ol' Boys 37 39 The Crew 35 41 *GG's + Chance 26 50 High Game: Jesse Vieira 253; Candy Weed-Butz 204 High Series: Jesse Vieira 709; Candy Weed-Butz 518 Splits: Amber Olson 5-7; Mae Stensgar 5-10 WEDNESDAY SENIORS Karen M. 118+126+93=337 Frank E....
A concert of Lake Roosevelt Elementary’s fifth-grade band, plus a chorus of kindergarten, first-grade and second-grade students, will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 25. The performance will be held in the elementary school gym. The K-2 chorus will be featured singing in the Salish language and reciting “lovely poems and songs by the different grade levels,” said district Music Teacher Karen Pace....
Here are the November Students of the Month at Lake Roosevelt Elementary....
Local students earn North Dakota honors Bismarck State College in North Dakota announced last week its President’s Honor Roll for the Fall 2017 semester, which included five local students. Kevin Hassaj, George LaPlace, and Daniel Skinner each earned a spot on the honor roll, which required a 3.5 grade point average or above while taking 12 semester hours of classes. Hassaj and LaPlace each were noted for achieving a 4.0 GPA. Also noted for a 4.0 GPA were Daniel Boyer, of Electric City, and Andrew Allsbrook, Coulee City. The school’s BSC Nation...
Nespelem School District will conduct an annual review tonight of its Indian Policies and Procedures as they relate to Impact Aid and Indian Education, the school said. The district will take input and suggestions, and answer questions related to the Indian policies, procedures and programs established to ensure parents of Indian students and members and officials of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation equal opportunity for input into the Nespelem School District and its Indian Education Plan. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m....
The SHARP Kids program at Lake Roosevelt Schools held a Family Fun Night Christmas Party on Dec. 12, with parents, children, and SHARP staff. Hot chocolate and chili dogs were served, and activities included making pinecone/peanut butter birdfeeders, paper gingerbread men creation, beading, gift tag making, cookie decorating, a photo booth, and more. Also on display were samples of work from the staff of the school newspaper, "The Crimson Galleon," and photography students' work, for which...
Lake Roosevelt Schools received a $6,000 check from a grant from the Music Matters Distribution Fund at their holiday band and choir concert on Dec. 13. "I was very happy and excited, and started a shopping list immediately," said music teacher Karen Pace. "I have already purchased some new instruments and will be purchasing a set of acoustical sound shells to go around the performers." Pace plans to reapply for the same grant for next school year. "It is a team effort, as I have to have princip...
November students of the month at Nespelem School include, from left, top row: Ema Bearcub, Harlen Dick; middle row: Jennilia Whitetemple, Rylin Michel, Virgil Bearcub; bottom row: Russell Simpson, Brooklyn Tillman, Lelesa Swimptkin, Anela Somday. Not pictured: Edward Dick, Aiden Picard...
School buses passed a surprise state inspection recently, school mechanic Levi Seylor advised the school board Monday night. Normally, Seylor told the board, inspections are made in the summer months. This time the district buses got a surprise inspection and passed it with only some minor problems, Seylor stated in his report to the board. The surprise inspection was of 25 percent of the district’s bus fleet. If a bus fails to pass inspection it is immediately taken out of commission. Seylor went on to report that he has passed his G1 c...