Mt. Spokane Jazz Bands Win Awards In Pasco

Mon., June 5, 2000

Compiled By Cheri Robel

Mt. Spokane High School’s Wind Ensemble, Jazz I and Jazz II competed at the Columbia Basin College Jazz/Concert Band Festival in April.

Jazz I was overall winner with all sections winning outstanding section awards. Eight students received outstanding soloist awards. They are: Matt Chitwood, piano; Mike Frederick, guitar; Kevin Gaunt and Chris Teal, drums; Lars Olson, trumpet; Chris Parkin, tenor sax; Evan Smith, trombone; and Josh Simon, baritone sax.

Two Jazz II members, Ryan Iverson, alto sax, and Ryan Dunham, drums, also won outstanding soloist awards.

The Wind Ensemble received a gold medal and Mt. Spokane High School won the outstanding overall music program award in the triple A division.

Sarah Thilo, a senior at Lake City High School, has received a $750 Steve Omi Memorial Scholarship. She won the scholarship based on scholastic and athletic accomplishments. She will be attending the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., this fall.

Sarah James, a member of Coeur d’Alene High School Key Club, won the Sandy Nininger Award for the Northwest’s Best Key Clubber. She competed against 4,800 students. The school’s Key Club also won the best T-shirt contest and outstanding achievement awards out of 481 Northwest clubs.

The following Spokane residents competed in the Northwest Regional Fiddle Contest at East Valley High School in April. Each of the contestants placed in the top five of their division:

Kelly Schuh, young adult division; Tyson Jones and Dennis Ludiker, junior division; Casey Driscoll, junior division; Alyssa Dorr, small fry division; and 4-year-old Haden Duncan, youngest fiddler.

Six students at Central Valley High School qualified at the Future Business Leaders of America State Conference in Bellevue to compete at the National FBLA Conference in Long Beach, Calif., in July.

The qualifiers include the first place team of Chris Dockrey, Bryan Krislock and Tessa Masterson in emerging business issues debate; and the first place community service project team of Rachel Burnham, Chelsey McKnight and Katie Tasca.

Several other students received state awards: Angela Wilson, first in electronic calculator and fourth in business calculations; Tana Depew and Rochelle Smith, second in business graphics; and the second place parliamentary procedure team of Kara Blizzard, David Daines, Dockrey, Krislock and Luke McCandless.

Also recognized were Chris Mims, Catie Rose Sherry and Sarah Temple for the second place scrapbook for Central Valley; Krislock, Mims and Dockrey for the fifth place annual business report; and Mims, Emily Crossen, Sherry and Temple for the organizers of the March of Dimes project from Central Valley which raised more than $1,500.

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