Alison Boggs

1. J. Carney 2. A. Dickey 3. J. Evans 4. M. Richmond 5. B. Schmauch 6. K. Temple 7. S. Yoke 8. B. Blakesley 9. H. Carlson 10. L. Diener 11. J. Halttunen 12. J. Hildahl 13. B. Norquist 14. R. Shogren 15. S. Tate 16. K. Olson 17. J. Freeman 18. B. Bishop 19. J. Burningham 20. B. Enevold 21. T. Garner 22. A. Gibson 23. K. Kimbrough 24. C. MacDonald 25. R. Monson 26. G. Rapp 27. A. Richardson 28. G. Rivers 29. S. Sander 30. S. Santens 31. R. Stone 32. E. Thompson 33. E. Drozdov 34. H. Beese 35. P. Kelly 36. K. Stansbury

Burglars were licking their chops waiting for people to head out of town for the Memorial Day weekend. At least nine Spokane homes were burglarized late Friday and early Saturday as the holiday weekend began.

A visit to North Central High School by several University High School parents and teachers put Erik Ohlund over the top for the job of principal at U-Hi. "The people who worked with him had nothing but good things to say about him," said Wally Stanley, Central Valley School District's personnel director.

1. Lilac Queen carrie Keyes of Shadle Park High School shares a royal wave with the spectators lining downtown streets. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Underdog prepares to battle the city skywalks. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Jeanne Baynes and her 9-year-old daughter Brittany have had their poems published in the 1995 Calendar of Black Children. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Students with learning disabilities have a better chance at finding jobs thanks to a school-to-work program at East Valley High School. The program stumbled to a start last year. This semester, 11 students - from sophomores to seniors - have worked unpaid for about two hours per day at a variety of businesses.

'Do you want to say one, two, three, four, five in Japanese?" Minako Harada asked a room full of elementary school students. "Yeah," the students chorused back.

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The Central Valley School Board plans to find a new principal for University High School by May 22. Twenty-one people - 18 men and three women - applied for the position which will be vacated when principal Dennis Hill accepts a position with district administration. One of the applicants was African American; the rest were white.

Teacher Bob Bohlen leads the West Valley High special project science class in a discussion of upcoming projects. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Jeff Jones, a Japanese and math teacher at East Valley High School, "makes me look forward to coming to class every day," a student wrote. John Siverson, an East Valley Middle School custodian, "is the kind of man who will do anything to please people," noted a teacher. "He's a teacher in the true sense of the word."

Three Spokane Valley high school seniors won full rides at any public college or university in Washington. They were named Washington Scholars - along with 143 other students across the state - by the state's Higher Education Coordinating Board last month.

Almost 450 students, teachers and staff members at South Pines Elementary wore tie-dyed T-shirts during the school's Imagination Celebration. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

East Valley teacher John Swett, in white shirt, with students Steve Miles, Maggie Anderson and Jamie Jones in the school's greenhouse. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Fearing budget cuts from the state Legislature, Central Valley School District this week announced a hiring freeze. But district officials quickly reassured teachers and principals that no schools would go short-staffed.

Spokane Valley school districts are scrambling to plan tighter budgets in anticipation of a funding cut by the state Legislature. All of the districts estimate their budgets will be cut by several hundred thousand dollars, regardless of whether the Legislature finally passes the House version of the state budget, the Senate version, or a compromise budget. East Valley School District Superintendent Chuck Stocker estimates his budget will be cut by about $100,000 if the the Senate's version of the budget is adopted. Under the House version, EV could lose up to $1 million, Stocker said.

1. With the help of special teacher Pat Angove, Chanelle Hill, a blind student at East Farms Elementary, works on a Braille writer, a computer, and most difficult of all, a chalk board. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Hill takes classmates on a trip around the globe, by touch. 3. Chanelle leads teacher Pat Angove and classmates on a tour around the globe. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 4. Jennie Wiecks and Chanelle Hill are more than friends in their East Farms Elementary School class.<

East Valley School District has been successful in hiring female administrators in recent years, but employing minorities is still a struggle. "I would beg, borrow and steal if I could get people of ethnicity to come and talk to me," said Darryl Isotalo, EV's affirmative action officer.

Gina Bourgeous' travel brochure for the planet Mercury promises a good time. "Be sure to bring your sunscreen," the advertisement for the hottest planet demands. "The hot tubs will burn you to the bone." The creative writing exercise is part of Otis Orchards Elementary's astronomy program, developed partly by two starry-eyed teachers.

As eighth-graders advance to East Valley High School, a math competency test could help determine where they're placed. For years, say EVHS math teachers, students have been placed incorrectly, which has had disastrous effects. "All kinds of kids were dropping out and failing," said Dave McCarty, head of EVHS's math department.

Two Spokane Valley eighthgraders were expelled Tuesday after one brought a cap gun to school and the other waved the toy around. One boy had the black and brown revolver-style cap gun in his backpack, said North Pines Junior High School principal Dave Bouge. The other waved it in the air near students loading onto buses. "You could buy this at Pay Less (Drug Store) for $3," Bouge said, holding up the toy gun. But waving it in the air near other students and teachers, he said, "sends a terrorizing image."

East Valley School District's maintenance department might soon have a new home. The school board recently approved a two-year lease that will enable the department to move from its present home at 22300 E. Wellesley to spacious new quarters at 18202 E. Euclid.

For the past two weeks, East Valley High School students have been racing with pennies. The result is $300 to be donated to the Spokane Valley Center for Sharing to help elderly people buy medications.

During her spring cleaning on Saturday, Robbi Castleberry stepped over a carpet of broken glass in her scuffed cowboy boots.