Rogers, G-Prep Students Pull Together For Community
Students at Rogers and Gonzaga Prep High Schools recently collected more than a thousand coats for the Coats for Kids program and a more than a thousand pounds of food for The Spokane Food Bank.
“It strengthened my faith in the ability of a community to pull together for the necessary and important cause of fighting hunger,” said Lisa Merlini, coordinator of the Northeast Community Center’s food pantry.
The students presented 1,100 coats to Coats for Kids and 1,435 pounds of food to the food bank last month.
“Four students came to the pantry window and told me they had a donation for the pantry in the back of their truck,” Merlini said. “I never imagined it to be the quantity that ended up piled high on the floor.
‘You Can’t Take it With You’
The Mead High School theater department will perform the Pulitzer Prize winning classic, “You Can’t Take it With You,” beginning Nov. 17 and concluding Nov. 20.
Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. each evening in the Mead High School Theater. Ticket prices are $5 for adults and $4 for students.
For more information, call play director Karen Brathovde, 465-7000.
Rogers to host auction
Rogers High School is hosting its second annual dinner and auction to benefit the ASB and the family of Gary Kight on Nov. 21.
Kight, a former teacher and coach, died of leukemia on Sept. 16. Proceeds will cover financial needs not covered by medical insurance.
The auction will be held at the commons at Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, 4000 W. Randolph Road.
A silent auction and social are from 5 to 6:30 p.m., dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and the oral auction will begin after dinner.
Tickets are $20 per person. For tickets or more information call Debby Chandler at 353-4518, or Kathy Heckler, 484-3174.
Student entries selected for book marks
Eight students from the Deer Park and Riverside School Districts won artist book mark contests to celebrate the grand opening of the Deer Park Library.
Their works were reproduced and distributed at the library’s opening last week.
Students selected as winners were Travis Gibson, second grade, Deer Park Elementary; Dustin Kasinger, third grade, Riverside Elementary; Sara Fisher, fourth grade, Arcadia Elementary; Jake Taylor, fourth grade, Chattaroy Elementary; Brian Mickavicz, sixth grade, Deer Park Middle School; Elizabeth Stinger, eighth grade, Riverside Middle School; Jennifer Olmer, junior, Deer Park High School; and April Craig, senior, Deer Park Alternative School.
Winners received a $25 prize.
Ridgeview needs help to make grant work
Ridgeview Elementary School is looking for volunteers to be mentors.
The school received a Washington Reading Corps Grant and acquired the HOSTS Language Arts Program, recognized by the Department of Education as the national model for mentoring students in schools.
The school is using the program for 165 students - kindergarten through sixth grade - however, more mentors from the community are needed.
The program currently has 69 trained mentors providing 180 sessions per week for 82 students.
But only 16 of the 82 students are getting the four half-hour mentoring sessions. And there are 83 students with no mentors.
Anyone interested should call Patty Arthur or Jen Kuster at 353-5278.
Kijima named Teacher of the Month
Debra Kijima, who teaches fifth grade at Wilson Elementary School, has been selected Eastern Washington University’s Teacher of the Month for October.
Kijima, the science in-service instructor for fifth grade teachers in District 81, received the 1991 NASA Honors Teacher Award for Aerospace Education.
In 1992 she was the Present Science Lead teacher and developed the flight curriculum for the district.