High school students win ESD 101 art honors
ARTISTS AT EAST VALLEY High School keep piling up awards. A reception at Auntie’s Bookstore on Wednesday afternoon will recognize these art students and other regional winners from the 2005 Educational Service District 101 High School Art Competition. In recent years, several East Valley students in Pam Smith‘s art classes have taken top honors.
This year, 12 EVHS students received ESD 101 regional awards.
First-place honors went to Erin Stanley, with a pastel self-portrait drawing, and to Bryce Fisher, with an acrylic abstract portrait painting. Three second-place award winners were Alla Litoshyk, Christine Strong and Ong Xiong, all with self-portraits done in pastel.
Zack Deboodt won his second-place award with a clay sculpture.
Third-place winners were Anja Goetzinger‘s graphite drawing and Sagun Harper‘s pastel drawing. Honorable mentions include Ashley Vaughn‘s drawing in pastel and Krista Rosencrans‘ clay sculpture.
Three additional awards are given each year. East Valley won two of these, including Superintendents’ Best of Show Choice Award received by Dan Scully for a graphite drawing, and the ESD 101 Staff Best of Show Choice Award, which was presented to Jessie Labrie for a pastel drawing.
Professional prints of these two drawings will be made, framed and hung in the permanent collection at ESD headquarters in Spokane at its Regal Street location. Each student will receive a cash award of $40.
Other Spokane Valley high school students drew the attention of judges as well. A Central Valley High School student, Dane Knudson, got a third-place award for a clay sculpture titled “Grandma & Grandpa’s House.”
His teacher, Sue Mihalic, said Knudson is an advanced pottery student who created the sculpture replicating a home his grandparents had built a long time ago and recently sold. He worked from photographs and gave the sculpture to his grandparents as a Christmas present, Mihalic said.
Another student from West Valley High School, C. Vennum, won a third place and an honorable mention for two pieces entered in the contest.
All first-place winners will continue on to Olympia to compete in the 2005 OSPI All-State High School Art Competition. The OSPI Awards Ceremony in Olympia will be May 20.
Blood drive to benefit WVHS grad
A blood drive on Tuesday will benefit a West Valley High School graduate who has leukemia.
Blood donations from the drive will be earmarked for Evan Abel, WVHS class of 2002, with additional pints going toward the community’s needs. The Inland Northwest Blood Council and the WVHS National Honor Society group plan to hold the event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the school’s gymnasium.
WVHS is at 8301 E. Buckeye Ave. For more information, contact Sue Shields at 924-2150.
CV FBLA members earn awards
Fourteen members of Central Valley High School’s Future Business Leaders of America Chapter received awards at the Northeast Region FBLA Winter Competition held Feb. 15 in the Spokane Valley.
The following students were recognized: Mallory Beschta, second place in accounting 1; Grant Beschta, fourth in accounting 1 and third in business math; Ryan Poppe, third in banking and financial systems; Julia Allen, first in business procedures and fifth in impromptu speaking; Jason Wurz, third, business procedures; Jordan Kennison, third in computer programming; Christopher Driver, first in introduction to parliamentary procedure; James Lyons, first in networking concepts, first in technology concepts, third in visual basic programming, and third in who’s who in FBLA.
Additional winners included: Kayla Lockhart, fifth in public speaking 1; Anthony Eisele, fifth in visual basic programming and fifth word processing 1; Ariel Allen, fourth in word processing 1; Alicia Martin, third in word processing 2, Andrea Avenger and Anthony Xin, fourth in emerging business issues.
Students placing in the top five in their event qualify to attend the state FBLA Business Conference in Spokane in April.
Also qualifying for the State Leadership Conference are James Lyons and Josh Tempel for local chapter annual business report; Tempel and Michael Hays for March of Dimes report; and Jasmine Pugh, Kristy Brooks and Eric Jensen for local chapter scrapbook.
FBLA is an organization for student leaders preparing for business careers.
EVHS to present “Mouse”
Beginning next week, East Valley High School will present “The Mouse that Roared.”
The play will run at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and next Saturday and March 10-12. Each performance will be held at East Valley High School, 15711 E. Wellesley Ave.
Tickets are $5, adults; $3 for seniors and youth without an ASB card; and free for students with an ASB card.
The cast features 28 students. Main cast members include: Brandon Anderson as Count Mountjoy; Krystine Jolstead as WAC Debbie; Casi Anderson as General Snippet; Jean Sanquinet as Miss Wilkins; Derek Nelson as President; Angela Shearer as Mary; Daniel Scully as Professor Kokintz; and Jared Jolstead as Will Tatum.