Rainey Coffin

Eastern Washington University recently awarded area high school seniors with a Presidential Scholarship for $2,000 for the 2009-’10 academic year. The scholarship was awarded to high school students with a cumulative high school grade-point average of 3.8 or higher or an SAT score of 1,250 or higher. Jared Sol will graduate from East Valley High School and is the son of Dirk and Penny Sol of Newman Lake.

Spokane Public Schools Superintendent Nancy Stowell is “Educating Spokane.” Spokane community members will be invited to call the school district’s live, hour-long, call-in show on KSPS channel 7, and have their concerns heard and their questions answered regarding the state’s budget and other issues affecting their schools. The show is scheduled for April 23 at 7 p.m.

The following list concludes Washington State University’s fall semester President’s Honor Roll for the 2008-2009 academic year. Students are listed by their hometowns. Spokane: Jacqueline Albi, Brandon Arthur, Jeren Babcock, Chrystal Bailey, Chad Baker, Mariya Vladimirovna Baldwin, Fred Barker, Brandon Barnes, Brittney Barnes, Ashton Barron, Kiira Bayman, Katrina Bech, William Bedient, Andy Belzer, Chad Bemis, Wesley Berg, John Bergeleen, Ross Bindler, Krystal Blackburn, Cory Honsinger Boone, Peyton Boone, Jacob Bopray, Sierra Brevik, Dev Brierley, Casey Brown, Eli Brown, Kayla Brown, Sean Brown, Laura Buchanan, Cassandra Burke, Logan Callen, Carolyn Campa, Nicholas Cantlon, Karleen Caples, Marissa Caryl, Jonathan Casto, Rachel Casto, Kathleen Chastek, Brandon Cheney II, Kara Christen, James Clark II, Emma Cloninger, Michelle Coburn, Jordan Comar, Matthew Conley, Christopher Coolbaugh, Ryan Cornell, Stacer Cox, Valica Coy, Lauree Crane, Jacob Crisp, Brett Crofts, Kimberly Croneberger, Aaron Cunningham, Michelle Curtis, Patrick Daly, Laura Davis, Leanna Davis, Jennifer Defoe, Jessica Donovan, Kalista Dubiel, Shurrie Dugas, Rheya Dunning, Michelle Egan, Jacqueline Eide, Mary Elhayek, Yevgeniy Elikh Jr., Jake Fisher, William Floyd, Allison Fortney, Molly Fuhs, Kimberly Fullenwider, Ashley Gaddy, Jason Gallaher, John Gallinger, Corinne Gavrun, Timothy Gay, Jayme Gilliam, Caryssa Gilmore, Elizabeth Gilroy, Michael Glockling Jr., Jason Graham, Kylie Graham, Ashley Grow, Jennifer Gudgel, Morgan Guske, Nicholas Hamad, Andrew Harbison, Brandon Harder, Brandon Hare, Kecia Harris, Ryan Hartman, Erin Harvego, Allison Hatcher, Michael Hauschild, Danielle Havens, Brandee Hawk, Daniel Healey, Serenity Henderson, Molly Hennessy, Christopher Hensz, Shane Hetrick, Stephanie Hjortedal, Amy Hoagland, Heather Hofstetter, Amanda Hohner, Jessee Holguin, Christine Hougham, Beta Hsu, Katherine Hubert, Jennifer Hunton, Tarin Hurst, Kera Ioane, Adam Jaccard, Mathew John, Benjamin Johnson, Brett Emery Johnson, Erika Johnson, Tracy Johnson, Lucas Jones, Ryan Jones, Leah Jordan, Susan Kadel, Lee Kaelin, Lindsay Kalin, Tanya Karg, Jared Karstetter, Ashley Kellogg, Michael Kestell, Iris Ji Hyun Kim, Alex King, Joseph King, Kacie Klein, Randall Klein, Savannah Klotz, Olivia Knouff, Larry Koffel, Julie Kolbo, Liliya Komarov, Kristen Kopczynski, Lira Kopytyuk, Diane Kovac, Cassandra Krum, Corinne Kubena, Inna Kuropatko, Jacob Labelle, Allison Lake, Brandi Laliberte, Cassidy Lange, Heather Lanning, Dana Larson, Eric Larson, Tim Laughter, Valentina Lavrinenko, Nathan Law, Jesse Lehman, Sean Leonard, Brian Loupe, Elizabeth Love, Hilary Love, Mike Lynch, Jason Macarthur, Jon Mackay, Tara Malone, Sarah Manfred, Brittany Marshall, Vitaliy Matsyplyuk Jr., Caitlin Mauk, Nicholas Maxey, Kendall Mays, Cory McCoy, Mandy McDonald, Jessica McFaul, Brittney McIver, Ryan McKinley, Amy McLean, Melissa McMicheal, Robin McMullin, Sara Merriman, Corinne Miller, Edward Miller, Erika Miller, Jessica Miller, Gavin Mitchell, Tony Montoya, Abigail Moody, Brianna Musser, Riley Myklebust, Shawn Neal, Lara Newburn, Tuyet Ngo, Tien Nguyen, Lucas O’Brien, Justin Overhoff, Seth Packwood, Malia Parayno, Haley Parsons, Kelcey Peters, Lexie Pettersen, Thomas Porter, Kenneth Powell, Sandra Powrie, Brian Presley, Angela Price, Natalie Pring, Kimberly Pyper, Bethany Rafter, Diana Rees, Aubrey Rehn, Daniel Renz, Chase Rhodes, Zac Rhodes, Bobbie Riley, Andrew Robinson, Sara Robinson, Elizabeth Ross, Jennifer Ross, Johanna Rothstrom, Casey Rowell, Lori Ruckhaber, Bradley Rumsey, Liliya Rusavskaya, Mara Ryan, Matthew Saling, Jessica Sandstrom, Abigail Sawhill, Jonathan Schillios, Brianna Schlaich, Ellen Schriner, Raechelle Scott, Belina Serafini, Sean Severson, Briana Sevigny, Stacy Sharratt, Amanda Side, Vicki Signer, Janelle Simpson, Tara Sistrunk, David Smith, Jennifer Smith, Norel Le’One Smith, Steven Smith, Melanie Solis, Mike Squicciarino, Sherrie St. Clair, Alex Stanley, Steven Steckler, Bogdan Petrovich Stepchin, Tiffany Stephens, Rebecca Stillwell, Austin Storhaug, Erica Strait, Graham Stream, Whitney Taffin, Kevin Takisaki, Kjerste Tangvald, Sean Thurston, Cooper Tieaskie III, Ryan Town, Kayla Trabun, Jovan Trent, Tuyen Truong, Nicholas Ulrich, Mark Underhill, Stephanie Underhill, Brittany Urso, Lindsay Urso, Michael Varga, Brittanie Vargo, David Villeneuve, Mays Houa Vue, Melinda Wallis, Neil Sanders Walther, Jacqueline Weller, Scott Wenke, Sara Werner, Joyce West, Kelsey White, Matthew White, Katie Whittaker, Erika Wier, Courtney Wilcox, Paul Wilkins, Chase Williams, Jason Gee-Tak Wong, Katrina Wood, Denise Wyatt, Glenn Wyrick, Nkohoua Yang, Jaemi Yoo, Julianne Zahl, Brian Zbylski, Tracy Zelenka, Ryan Zentz, Jennifer Zylak.

The following is a continuation of Washington State University’s fall semester President’s Honor Roll for the 2008-2009 academic year. Students are listed by their hometowns. Moses Lake: Mick Aney, Rebecca Bertram, David Bross, Jennifer De Hoog, Keyne Dirks, Amy Fitzgerald, Cameron Frederick, Ashley Haight, Jason Hirst, Anna Hirz, Dana Johnson, Laska King, Derik Lefave, Sarah Mitchell, Lynnsee Moberg, Lichele Palmer, Brittany Prado, John Rackham, Daniel Reis, Michele Roseburg, Elizabeth Sieverkropp, Darcee Smith, Megan Stoker, Rachel Weaver, Morgan Yearout, Sara Zamora.

Area high school students were recently honored at North Idaho’s first Congressional Award Ceremony at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene. Bronze medals were awarded to Blake Alfson and Sariah Vieira of Lakeland High School, Jennifer Brooks, Jordan Finney-McRoberts and Megan Kobrick, of Lake City High School, Coleman Paul Boyer of Coeur d’Alene High School, Kate Johnson of Coeur d’Alene Academy, and home-schooled students Daniel Hooper, and Caitlin O’Linger.

Washington State University recently announced local students named to the fall semester president’s honor roll. Students are listed by their hometowns. Airway Heights: Heidi Medford, Jessica Pilgrim.

Gonzaga University recently announced students named to the fall semester President’s List for the 2008-2009 academic year. Students are listed by their hometowns. Colbert: Scott Griffith.

Five students from the Coeur d’Alene School District have been invited to compete in the 2009 Idaho Geographic Bee Friday at Boise State University. The students will be among 100 elementary and middle-school-age kids who qualified to be in the contest. Max McSwain, a fourth-grader from Borah Elementary, Connor Robertson, a fifth-grader from Fernan Elementary, Sarah Klader, a fifth-grader from Hayden Meadows Elementary, sixth-grader James Soderling from Canfield Middle School, and Clayton Gersten, an eighth-grader from Lakes Middle School, first competed at the school level, and then took a test which they submitted to the National Geographic Society. The top 100 scorers are now on their way to Boise.

Spokane middle school students know their math. And, they proved it at the MATHCOUNTS competition, recently held at Northwood Middle School. The St. George’s team, Justin Heftel, Kashif Ravasia, Erin Kaya and Taryn Stamper, placed first and qualified for the state competition March 21 at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. Northwood placed second; Sacajawea received third place; Lakeside was fourth place; and Garry placed fifth.

Sandpoint Waldorf School will host “A Day in the Life of a Waldorf Student” on Tuesday, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the school, located at 2007 Sandpoint West Drive in Sandpoint. The evening program will give parents, teachers and other community members the opportunity to see Waldorf’s education firsthand. Participants can experience a math lesson, a language arts assignment, and a physics experiment.

With the approval of the 2009 bond, Spokane Public Schools will continue with plans to upgrade Spokane schools. According to a school district press release, improvements for Longfellow and Garfield Elementary schools will begin in May with new roofing, insulation, flooring and much-needed air systems. Each project will cost approximately $3.5 million. Seven other “1980-era prototype” schools will also receive upgrades during the next six years.

Lake City High School students are putting their pennies to good use. Through March 27, the students are participating in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program. The national program raises funds to research cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma research, and for patient services.

The following s the remainder of Eastern Washington University’s fall Dean’s list for the 2008-2009 academic year. Students are listed by their hometowns. Veradale: Julia Allen, Shannon Anderson, Kelsey Baycroft, Adam Bernbaum, David Bolton, Nick Burger, Nikita Burlakov, Amber Carnine, Brian Carpenter, Jacqueline Churchill, Kristen Coghill, Alison Doerschuk, Wesley Eagleburger, Jon Faulks, Scott Froehlich, Tyler Gates, Debra Giroux, Paul Gorka, Laura Haskins, Samuel Herman, Quinn Hoener, Amanda Hoff, Benjamin Houle, Jaime Jahns, Ryan Johnson, Christopher Johnson, Linda Khoury, Bryce Kingsley, Leslie Krueger, Mackenzie Lawrence, Michael Long, Daniel Mackay, Lauren Mandler, Daniel McDermott, Chelsea Moore, Sean Moss, Yara Nemri, Chi Nguyen, Zachary Nordstrom, Rachelle Parsloe, Luke Perkins, Matthew Peters, Derek Phillips, Emily Reid, Brittany Rigby, Patrick Rooks, Tammy Sammeli, Alisha Schelley, Samuel Schlaich, Krystal Schneider, Joshua Seagrave, Thomas Shalloe, Kelley Shaw, Tondi Sperline, Kaydee Sporleder, Neil Stapish, Kristina Staples, Matthew Stewart, Karl Stranberg, Adam Stranberg, Benjamin Thew, Bradley Thew, Sara Thompson, Devey Thurber, Michael-Ray Tibbals, Amanda Tilley, Tatyana Tupikova, Ashley Underwood, Wyatt Volkman, Justin Wagner, Alicia Watson, Megan Weedmark, Martin Wheeler, Casey Whitehead, Megan Woodburn, Tyler Woodburn, Tanner Woolf, Andrew Woolf, Jessica Zizzi.

Jill Ferguson, a second-grade teacher at Indian Trail Elementary, 4102 W. Woodside Ave., and her students’ care where they are. Ferguson and her students were recently awarded 500 books when they won the “Care Where You Are” national sweepstakes, sponsored by Scholastic Book Clubs.

Jill Ferguson, a second-grade teacher at Indian Trail Elementary, 4102 W. Woodside Ave., and her students’ care where they are. Ferguson and her students were recently awarded 500 books when they won the “Care Where You Are” national sweepstakes, sponsored by Scholastic Book Clubs.

The following is a continuation of the Eastern Washington University fall dean’s list for the 2008-09 academic year. Below are area students named to the list. Mead: Jenna Ainslie, Anna-Marie Banks, Tanya Barton, Sheila Benak, Jeffrey Boyd, Keri Burden, Kristin Curl, Lauren Defelice, Jamie Fowler, Katelyn Franklin, Alesha Franklin, Jacqueline Goldman, Curtis Haynes, Jonathan Hilliard, William Hughbanks, Meagan Keith, Cameron Marks, Sabrina McKinney, Bree Meracle, Michael Moore, Darcy Morlan, Matt Pignataro, Ryan Platz, Veniamin Potapenko, Rebecca Thompson, Danyel Thorson, Joshua White, Natalya Wolter, Tyler Wood, Brianna Woodworth.

The Coeur d’Alene School District’s Safe and Drug Free Schools programs and the Lakes Middle School Parent Teacher Student Association will hold two assemblies on Wednesday, about Rachel’s Challenge. Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Her father, Darrell Scott, developed Rachel’s Challenge after approaching a Congressional House Judiciary Committee on issues regarding school violence. The nonviolence school program was created in memory of his daughter.

On Sunday at 2 p.m. the MayHAM will begin when Ferris High School’s Ham on Regal Players hits the stage for a special opening performance of “MayHAM at the Museum.” Teachers, parents, preachers and more make up the Regal Players, who who have been putting on the show for 46 years. Regular shows begin Wednesday and run through March 14, at 7:30 p.m. A matinee performance will be March 14 at 1:30 p.m.

Lakeland High School seniors are raising funds for their all-nighter graduation party – with another party. On March 14 the graduating class will hold silent and live auctions and a luau in the high school commons. Dinner and the silent auction begin at 5 p.m. and include dessert. The live auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. Participants will have to join the “island” festivities to find out if the evening will include the traditional roasted pig and leis.