CV graduates can keep in touch on Web site
A new Web site will not only keep Central Valley alumni in the loop about activities but also save the Alumni Foundation thousands of dollars.
This spring, the Alumni Foundation was awarded a $14,300 grant from Foundation Northwest.
This money has been used to create a mailing list of all CV High graduates and send them a newsletter. By last summer, the database of addresses totaled more than 10,000, or about 75 percent of all graduates.
The original idea was to mail a newsletter to alumni, at about $3,000 per mailing. The first newsletter will be mailed next week. In the process, the group came up with a high-tech option to the newsletter, and future newsletters will be sent via e-mail and posted online only.
All Bear alumni can go to the Web site to communicate – www.alumniproject.org. Eventually, each graduating class will have its own page, bulletin board and e-mail contacts.
An official announcement and demonstration will be made at an alumni night, 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at the school, 821 S. Sullivan Road.
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Share your best fall snapshots with us
We’ve got another project for Picture Perfect, our weekly community scrapbook of photos from Spokane Valley readers. We’d like to see your best fall snapshots, the type of pictures that show why this season brings out the best in Spokane Valley.
Think of harvest festivals with apple cider, decorating for Halloween, trick-or-treat costumes and fabulous fall scenes. Send us your party pictures, hay ride snapshots and pumpkin patch finds.
We’ll publish your slice-of-life photographs for free. Just send them in via e-mail or put them in an envelope and deliver them the old-fashioned way.
Please include a few sentences giving a detailed description of the photograph, where it was taken, what was the occasion, Include names, ages and hometowns of everyone in the shot. Photographs will be returned.
Send submissions to Valley Voice photo editor Liz Kishimoto at lizk@spokesman.com or send a letter to: Picture Perfect, Liz Kishimoto, Valley Voice photo editor, The Spokesman-Review, 13208 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99216.