Rainey Coffin

Students from St. George’s School competed in the U.S. History Bowl Championships in Washington, D.C., on April 25-27. The History Bowl Team placed 55th, competing against more than 100 high school teams. The team is Cody Mekus, Kashif Ravasia, Zhe Pan, Alaina Jacobsen, Hunter Olsen, and coach David Holte.

Rogers High School senior Mashalya Combs won a Gates Millennium Scholarship. The scholarship, established with a $1 billion grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is awarded to 1,000 highly motivated minority students throughout the United States and Puerto Rico each year.

“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere” when Lewis and Clark High School Tiger Drama performs “Seussical the Musical.” Performances will be April 24-26 at 7 p.m. in LC’s auditorium.

Northwest Christian Schools’ Knowledge Bowl Team used their smarts to bring home the title of State 2B Champions at the State Knowledge Bowl competition on March 22 in Arlington. The students competed in a round of 50 multiple-choice questions with a 35-minute time limit, followed by four preliminary oral rounds of 50 questions each. Their intelligence and understanding brought them to the semi-final and championship rounds, which included oral rounds of 50 questions each.

The drama students at Saint George’s School will perform Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert’s comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance” beginning Wednesday in Saint George’s Founders Theater, at 7 p.m. The show will continue March 28 and March 29. The musical is a story about Frederic, played by John Hatheway, an apprentice who joins a band of soft-hearted pirates and falls in love with Mabel, played by Caroline Hammett and Malinda Wagstaff, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, played by Kyler Hayes. Bound to his apprenticeship until his 21st birthday, Frederic must be loyal to his pirates for the next 63 years because he was born on Feb. 29 and technically only has a birthday in a leap year. Mabel vows to faithfully wait for him, giving him solace and the will to carry out his duty.

Holmes Elementary Principal Steve Barnes will be the Principal on Parade at Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. Barnes will ride in the parade with fourth-grader Makai Johnson, the student who nominated him.

The organization National History Day has chosen an essay by Mt. Spokane senior Kayla Uplinger to help define the theme “Leadership and Legacy” for the 2015 competition. Uplinger’s essay was one of two essays chosen to help define next year’s theme for students, according to the group. A press release from the organization said her essay stood out because of her “ability to go beyond the dictionary description of leadership and legacy and produce examples of historical events and figures that exemplify and illustrate these ideals.”

Area dance teams competed in the 2014 Shadle Park Dance Invitational on Saturday. The event included dance teams from Mt. Spokane, Shadle Park, West Valley, Ferris, Rogers, North Central, Lewis and Clark, and Mead high schools, and was a qualifier for districts. Dance teams from Mt. Spokane, Shadle, Ferris, Rogers and West Valley qualified for district competition.

A stained glass window based on Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” was installed at the entrance of Deer Park Elementary School. The project was coordinated by retired teacher and volunteer Monte Moore. He worked on the mosaic with the school’s kindergartners, first-graders and second-graders.

The Mt. Spokane High School Dance Team earned first place in the Hip-Hop division and third place in the Drill division at the Dance the Plank competition at Rogers High School on Jan. 18. The Mt. Spokane dancers are Chloe Smith, Jennifer Havens, Mikayla Stoker, Emily Simpson, Carley Hancock, Delaney Breazeale, Lauren Schmitt, Eden Davis, Makenna Bergeson, Andrea Smith, Lauren Udlock, Tatum Holestine, Olivia Prater, Whitney Demarest, Meagan Rydholm, Shaylah Hancock, Corri Budge and Hannah Smith.

The Deer Park Home Link drama students will perform “Alice in Wonderland” in the Ken Fisher Theater at Deer Park High School at 2 and 7 p.m. Jan. 17 and 18. Deer Park’s production differs from the childhood story most know, where Alice follows the White Rabbit down his hole to Wonderland and meets strange and interesting characters before waking up and realizing it was all a dream. In Home Link’s version, the play begins at the home of Alice Liddell, played by Cecilia Moeller, spending the afternoon with her eight sisters: Cheneen Schliep as Elizabeth, Laurel Brown as Gwendolyn, Alysse Moss as Margaret, Katie Fowler as Catherine, Sarah Levering as Charlotte, RaeAnn Knight as Cecily, Reba Carlson as Claire, and Grace Basta as Constance.

The Ferris High School ASB officers plan to camp out in their annual Freezin’ for a Reason fundraiser. The students will spend three nights and four days, beginning after school today, huddled around a campfire and sleeping in tents on the edge of the new Ferris parking lot on the corner of 37th Avenue and Ray Street. Their goal is to raise awareness of homelessness and hunger and add to the shelves at Second Harvest Food Bank.

Lewis and Clark Tiger Drama will entertain audiences with its production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Dec. 5-7 and Dec. 12-14 in the auditorium at 7 p.m. The musical, set in the 1920s, tells the story of small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, played by Vanessa Butler. Millie leaves her home in Kansas for the bright lights of New York City, determined to marry – for money, not love. While enjoying her “thoroughly modern” flapper lifestyle, Millie finds friends, an unexpected romance, and trouble, when she almost gets mixed up in a white slavery ring. The show is full of razzle-dazzle, fun musical numbers and, of course, tap dancing.

The eighth-graders at St. George’s School will perform William Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 7 tonight in St. George’s Founders Theater. The production is an annual tradition for the school.

North Central High School drama students will entertain audiences with their production of “Steel Magnolias,” a story of six friends who share their lives and the town gossip at Truvy’s Beauty Salon. The show begins today at 7:30 p.m. in the NC Performing Arts Theatre. Performances continue Friday and Saturday and Nov. 20 through Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a 2 p.m. matinee on Nov. 23.