Kids Excited About Indian Studies

FROM VALLEY VOICE page V5 (Saturday, March 22, 1997): Clarification The date of East Valley High School third annual Senior Citizens Dance has been changed to April 19.

Parents of eighth-graders at North Pines Junior High last week encountered jammed hallways, proud students and more varieties of cornbread than you can shake a rainstick at.

One evening last week, several dozen North Pines students set up exhibits showing what they had learned about Indian tribes ranging from the Spokanes to the Paiutes to the Inuits.

The hallways were wall to wall with parents, students and siblings.

“This is bigger than back to school night,” pronounced a pleased principal Dave Bouge.

The dioramas ranged from interesting to ingenious - chopsticks made great miniature teepee poles. At least one of the journals deserved high marks for candor: “Dear Diary - We learned about myths today, Jan. 17. Dear Diary - I didn’t do anything today, Jan. 18. Dear Diary - I didn’t do anything today, Jan. 19.”

Jan. 18 and 19, mind you, was a weekend.

But the food! Each exhibit included some sort of food. A few students set out salmon; one enterprising fellow made venison jerky; and several pots of chili smelled wonderful. But most creative was the gingerbread with green food-coloring.

Those Irish Indians, you know.

EV students go to nationals

Six members of DECA Distributive Education Clubs of America - at East Valley High School qualified for national competition.

“This is a record for me,” said John Savage, who has taught DECA for 11 years. “I’ve had five before.” But not six.

The state competition was last month near Seattle.

The students, who will travel to Anaheim, Maryland, at the end of April, are: Gabe Escobar and Staci Haye, public relations project; Nicole Griffith and Angie Simmers, chapter awards project; Kris Krustangle and Mary Ward, hospitality and tourism team event.

Escobar and Haye wrote a 40-page manual on a Halloween event promoting safe activities. The event, Nightmare on Mall Street, is orchestrate by East Valley students at University City Shopping Center.

Griffith and Ward wrote an 80-page volume on East Valley DECA chapter’s activities this season. “You might call it a professionally written scrap book,” Savage said.

Krustangle and Ward were given a problem to solve having to do with hospitality and tourism.

Poison prevention posters

Winners of Spokane’s annual contest for posters on poison prevention include third-graders Arlina Duong, Chester Elementary School; Lindsey Oakes, Freeman Elementary School; Courtney Landrus, Blake Elementary School, and Ryan Town, Trentwood Elementary School.

Fourth-grade winners include Jordan Carrell, Freeman, and Katee Nauert, Sunrise Elementary School; and fifth-grader Kelly Wright, Sunrise.

This is National Poison Prevention Week.

Grandparents dance at EVHS

Students at East Valley High School can waltz away the afternoon with their grandfathers and grandmothers next Wednesday.

It’s the third annual Senior Citizens Dance, at East Valley High’s commons, from 3 to 5 p.m. And it’s free. Senior citizens from across the Valley are invited.

The event is put on by Lynn Lauer’s community service class.

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