Riverside District Plans Upgrades

Thu., May 14, 1998

By Kevin Blocker kevinb@spokesman.com

Riverside School District officials have mapped out a plan on how to spend the $2.6 million generated from a bond measure earlier this year.

“The prime focus will be on modernizing a wing of Riverside Middle School,” said Greg Minden, the district’s maintenance supervisor. “The entire building is scheduled to get air conditioning.”

Riverside Elementary School will get an updated cafeteria and expanded playfields. Both schools will also receive new telephone systems, he said.

Riverside High School may get a new gym floor and new ceiling tiles. The outdoor track will also get a new surface.

Technology upgrades have already started at Chattaroy Elementary School. A computer, printer and television will be installed in every class.

Vanderholm prepares for D.C.

Riverside High School junior Taunja Vanderholm will participate in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine from June 14-24 in Washington, D.C.

Topics to be discussed during the forum include breakthroughs in genetic, cancer and AIDS research, sports medicine, neonatal and pediatric research, computers in medicine, public health, clinical decision-making and bioethics.

The National Youth Leadership Forum is a nonprofit educational organization that sponsors highly specialized, career-oriented programs for outstanding high school students with demonstrated leadership potential.

Seniors earn awards, scholarships

Shadle Park High School Seniors Eric Forbes and Levi Penick won first place in the national Distributive Education Clubs of America competition in Denver recently.

Forbes and Penick won first place in overall Hospitality and Tourism Management, competing against 200 students in their category.

More than 12,000 students from every state and Puerto Rico participated in the conference.

Upon returning from the trip, Forbes was notified that he also received a Washington State Award for Vocational Excellence.

The award is one of eight offered statewide and includes an honorary scholarship that will pay for the first four semesters or six quarters of tuition at Forbes’ college of choice.

Meanwhile, in other national recognition awards, Shadle seniors Adam Lausche and Daniel Grimes earned recognition as “commended scholars” during National Merit Scholarship competition, and Jarrod Lowe earned recognition as a “commended scholar” from the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

Lausche also earned the Bausch and Lomb Science Award, and Kelly McGinnis earned the Xerox Award in computer science.

Northwood trio heads to nationals

Northwood Middle School eighth graders Joey Reeves, Holly Steele and Vicki Tollefsen won top honors in the recent Future Homemakers of America/Leadership Meeting held in Wenatchee.

With their gold medal performances, the three earned a trip to FHA’s national competition July 3-10 in New Orleans.

This is the first year Northwood has sent a group of students to nationals.

Reeves won his gold medal in Job Interview competition, and Steele and Tollefsen grabbed gold in Chapter Service Competition.

FHA is a club open to any student who participates in family and consumer science classes.

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