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Tuesday afternoon school staff and officials started to say farewell to Supt. Dr. Dennis Carlson, who retires at the end of June. Here incoming Superintendent Paul Turner, left, presents a framed picture of the new school to Carlson. He also received a proclamation from State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Randy Dorn, and ESD Superintendent Dr. Richard McBride, proclaiming Wednesday, June 8, "Dr. Dennis Carlson Day." He also received a Pendleton blanket from the Colville Business Council... Full story
The Grand Coulee Alumni Association May 18 finalized plans for an all-school reunion and awarded more than double the number of scholarships they have in recent years. The all-school reunion will start Friday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., and continue with a potluck on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Scholarship applications were read with the purpose of selecting one male and one female student of Lake Roosevelt High School to receive the two $500 scholarships normally awarded by the alumni association. After much deliberation, the association decided to award... Full story
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Higher education officials Monday announced two new agreements aimed at giving future community and technical college transfer students a jump start on bachelor’s degrees in computer science or music. The new “major related programs” are specialized versions of Washington’s decades-long direct transfer agreement, which allows students to finish the first two years of their bachelor’s degrees at a community or technical college and then transfer as juniors. The new agreements go one step further by including credits that apply d... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District received a clean audit for its financial statements and for federal grant compliance for 2015, according to a preliminary report that was shared with the school board last Tuesday night. The audit from the Washington State Auditor’s office cost the district an estimated $9,500. The report stated that the next audit will be in 2017, and cover accountability for public resources, financial statements and federal programs. The district was advised that this future audit would cost about $19,500. The current a... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam Federal Employees Association is proud to present two $500 scholarships to Rebecca Coffland, of Grand Coulee, and Cassandra Payne, of Electric City. Their achievements and success set an example for others to follow. The GCDFEA is a non-profit service and recreation organization dedicated to support its members and the current and retired employees of Grand Coulee Dam and the federal agencies in the Grand Coulee Dam area.... Full story
Peter J. Rise, of Elmer City, will graduate June 11 from Oregon State University with a Master of Science in Statistics, the school announced last week. Rise graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School in 2010.... Full story
Jake Marshall Adkins, 2006 Lake Roosevelt High School graduate, has received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed undergraduate work at Washington State University in 2010 (B.S. Chemical Engineering) and graduate studies at Arizona State University in 2012 (M.S. Chemical Engineering). He graduated from the School of Medicine with honors and will practice Diagnostic Radiology. Adkins’ hospital appointment includes a transitional year at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington. This w... Full story
LR Elementary announces April students of the month... Full story
A trip by the senior class at Lake Roosevelt High School to San Francisco was approved the the school board May 23. The trip had been outlined to the board earlier, but approval was held up pending completion of paperwork. The board learned that 25 seniors have signed up for the trip and will take off for California on Sunday, May 29, along with five adults who will be accompanying this year’s senior class. The seniors and adult chaperones will leave by school bus at 3:30 a.m., Sunday to go to Seattle, where they will catch a flight to San Jose... Full story
The Raider tennis doubles team of Jordan Charles and John Drapela traveled to Omak last weekend to try to make it to the state tournament, falling short of that goal by one match. In the first match of the day, Charles and Drapela faced the district tournament’s top seed from Chelan. They tried hard but fell short by the match scores of 6-3, 6-3. In their first consolation match, the team faced Flodin and Brulotte from Cascade. After losing the first set, Charles and Drapela forged ahead to take the victory 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Charles and Drapela s... Full story
COULEE DAM — Average attendance in Grand Coulee Dam School District for the month of May was 679.24, the school board learned last Monday night. The district budgeted for 680 students and this is the first month since September last year that the attendance has been below budget. The high month was in December, when the average was 689.97. The Grand Coulee Dam School District has renewed its contract with the Keller District to provide maintenance of its bus fleet. The cost of the service is $850 a month plus cost of parts and tires. N... Full story
Students were recently selected as March students of the month.... Full story
By completing 12 or more graded credits with a grade point average of 3.75 and above, Daniel Loch, of Coulee Dam, earned a listing on the Winter 2016 President’s List at Big Bend Community College. With GPAs of 3.33 to 3.74, two local students were named to the Vice President’s List: Madisyn Byam, Electric City, and Alexis Tanphantourath, Grand Coulee.... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam PTA hosted what they hope will be the first annual Lake Roosevelt Schools Science Fair last Friday at the LRHS gymnasium, where 23 students from kindergarten to seventh grade, participated. Fourteen judges from various scientific backgrounds evaluated projects in three different grade divisions: kindergarten to second grade, third and fourth grade, and fifth through seventh grade. Participants answered judges’ questions about their projects and did demonstrations of their findings. The winners in each grade division r... Full story
Seven local students were honored on the dean’s list at Eastern Washington University for the winter quarter. Earning at least 12 quarter hours with a grade point average of 3.5 or better were Drew Desautel, Karah Duclos, Rebecca Adams, Samantha Turner and Luke Night Wolf, all of Coulee Dam; and Ashley Lezard and Marvin Frank, both of Elmer City.... Full story
Three local students graduated in the fall from Washington State University last week as graduates in their respective areas of study, the school announced. Nicole Ashley Cleveland, of Elmer City, earned a bachelor of arts in business administration; Cade Cooper Egbert, of Grand Coulee, earned a bachelor of science in civil engineering; and Jeremy George Hemmer, of Mansfield, earned a bachelor of science in animal sciences.... Full story
Olympia — Washington state high school juniors and seniors with an interest in law enforcement as a career will have an opportunity to spend a week this summer learning about the roles and job opportunities within law enforcement. Applications are being accepted for the 39th Annual Washington State Kiwanis Youth Law Enforcement Camp to be held at the Washington State Patrol Academy in Shelton from July 10 through July 16, the WSP said in a press release. Applications can be downloaded from wsp.wa.gov, under “Outreach.” The application deadline... Full story
Jesse Morris Adkins was named to the Dean’s List at University of Washington for Autumn 2015 Quarter. To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must have completed at least 12 graded credits and have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (out of 4).... Full story
COULEE DAM—The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved a number of personnel changes at its meeting Monday night. New hires include Alissa Mansker, assistant leader of fourth- and fifth-grade SHARP Kids programs; Jaron Trotter, morning leader of first- through sixth-grade SHARP Kids programs; Hope Hansen, eighth-grade track coach; Jess Cavender, seventh-grade track coach; and Lisa Carlson, seventh-grade track coach. The school board granted a leave request for Jennifer Hare, who is a specialist programs paraprofessional at Lake Roosevel... Full story
A number of school elementary students are taking part in the Colville Tribal recycling program. The contest is on, with students from Nespelem, Lake Roosevelt, Keller, Inchelium and Paschal Sherman competing to see which school can collect the most plastic number-one and -two bottles before Earth Day, April 22. Tribal Recycling has placed bins in all the schools and asked students to collect and deposit plastic bottles.The school with the most bottles (by weight) will receive a $200 gift certificate during the Earth Day celebration at the... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam American Legion Post 157 is calling for all area graduating seniors (LHRS, ACH, and Wilbur) to apply for its $1,000 scholarships. Please see school guidance or scholarship counselor for an application, or call Jim Brakebill at 509-631-1839 for more information, or email gcdalpost157@gmail.com.... Full story
Okanogan County School Retirees Association is seeking applicants for their $1,000 scholarship. The applicant must be of at least a college junior standing from Okanogan County and committed to a career in an educational field. Applicants may apply now to the association. The application must be postmarked no later than Monday, May 2, 2016. The application is on the website at www.okanogancsra.com or may be received by contacting Homer Hedington at hedingtonhj@communitynet.org or calling 509-422-2954. You may also contact Bill Laws at... Full story
The Lake Roosevelt Elementary bands and chorus will hold a concert in the LRHS gym at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 23. Coming in April, the Lake Roosevelt junior and senior high bands and choir will perform at the same location. The April concert is a change in the schedule that originally called for the JH/SH group to perform the same day. The postponement accommodates a band member's recuperation from unanticipated surgery. The date will be announced....
Representing the Lake Roosevelt schools at the North Central Washington Regional Spelling Bee March 24 are Dylan Wiles and Showaway Hunt. Wiles is in seventh grade and the son of Jeannie Duclos. He won on the word "resume." Showaway Hunt is the second school champion and in the sixth grade. His parents are Jeremy and Rebecca Hunt. If either of these students are unable to attend, Lillie LaPlace will be the alternate attendee. The winner of that contest will go to Washington, D.C., for the 89th... Full story
Two fifth graders from the “highly capable” program made presentations before the Grand Coulee Dam School District board Monday night and held members spellbound with their subjects and quick wit. Dustin Bertrang and Lilly Button had earlier, along with others from the group, made presentations to third graders. The two researched and developed their information, wrote it out, and delivered their subjects as well as any presentations during the evening. “Those are hard acts to follow,” commented the next presenter before the board, Athleti... Full story
