Wrestler Chosen For Conference Sean Wheeler Will Attend Youth Leadership Assembly
Lakeside High School senior Sean Wheeler has been selected to attend The National Young Leaders Conference from Oct. 28 to Nov. 2 in Washington, D.C.
The conference is a leadership development program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit.
Wheeler will be among 350 students attending the conference.
“I think this will be a great opportunity for me,” Wheeler said before leaving for the nation’s capital. “I want a career in the Secret Service or as a U.S. Marshall, so getting a chance to go back there and see what I need to do will be good.”
The National Young Leaders Conference is sponsored by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization.
“The conference provides the opportunity for students, like Sean, to distinguish themselves as tomorrow’s leaders,” said Michael Lasday, the council’s executive director.
“Scholars not only gain knowledge and experience here, but the hope is to provide them with a sense of accomplishment and an increased ability to face the challenges of the future,” Lasday said.
Wheeler is a member of Lakeside’s football and wrestling teams and carries a 3.0 grade-point average.
He was nominated to participate in the conference by Lakeside wrestling coach, Scott Jones.
Wheeler said he plans to attend North Idaho College or Central Washington University to pursue a career in criminal justice.
Deer Park makes the grade
Some might say that Deer Park and its surrounding neighbors are behind the times. However, on May 16, 1995, voters in the Deer Park School District showed they had a vision for educating their kids.
Voters in the school district passed a $5.5 million school-bond measure for upgrades to two of the town’s four schools on that day.
The bond issue passed by a margin of 62.7 percent.
District publicist Lisa Johnson said out of a total of 23 bond measures that were voted on statewide that day, just six passed.
“And we were the only district in Eastern Washington that approved a measure,” Johnson said.
Deer Park and the communities surrounding it have been growing in recent years.
The school district’s enrollment had been increasing at a rate of 2 percent for five years until it climbed to 6 percent for the 1996-97 school year, said district business manager Wayne Leonard.
He said district enrollment grew another 6 percent this year.
In the past, district voters shot down five measures from March of 1988 to September of 1992. Passing the 1995 measure ended the district’s 18-year drought of failed measures.
The money from the 1995 measure was used for major renovations of Arcadia Elementary School and Deer Park Junior High School.
Remodeling of the elementary school was completed in the spring while the junior high was just recently finished.
On Monday, student body representatives at Deer Park Junior High School served as hosts and tour guides as they showed off the new building to the public.
Fall Festival
The first annual Deer Park Junior High School Fall Arts and Crafts Fair will be held on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is sponsored by Parents for Excellence, and the event is free and open to the public.
, DataTimes