Rogers teacher Szabo wins grant

Carlotta Szabo, a language arts teacher at Rogers High School, has been awarded a Classroom Mini-Grant and Professional Development Scholarship Award by the Northwest Professional Educators

Szabo will use the funds to purchase materials to enhance vocabulary instruction and help students with varying levels of vocabulary development. Her goal is to provide individualized instruction to motivate her students to higher achievement and raise students’ scores on standardized tests.

The Northwest Professional Educators is a nonprofit, nonunion, professional educators’ organization whose focus is on students as the educators’ highest priority and on improving the professionalism of education.

Rogers Junior ROTC Drill medals in Northwest competition

Members of the Rogers High School AFJROTC Drill Team competed Jan. 15 at the Northwest JROTC Drill and Rifle Conference Cascade Division Drill Meet at Crook County High School in Prineville, Ore.

Team members placed in every category entered.

Winners included: Unarmed Drill Team, third place; Unarmed Drill Team Commander, Ashley Hadley, third place; Color Guard No. 1, third place, Color Guard No. 2, fourth place, Physical Fitness Team No. 1, sixth place. Individual Drill Down, first place to Josh Arnold.

Teams from 41 schools in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana took part in the competition.

The top performers at the regional competition have a chance to travel to Daytona Beach, Fla., in June for nationals.

G-Prep’s placement test planned

All eighth-graders interested in attending Gonzaga Prep next school year are invited to take the required freshman placement exam. There is no need to pre-register, and you need to attend only one of the sessions: Feb. 4 from 5 to 8 p.m. or Feb. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon at the school, 1224 E. Euclid Ave.

Plan to arrive 10 minutes prior to exam time. The exam fee is $10. For information, call 483-8512.

South school seeks old photos

Lincoln Heights Elementary is planning an open house so former students can tour the old facility before the building is demolished and rebuilt later this year. The open house will probably be in late May or early June.

One planned part of the event is a continuously running slide show that would include pictures from all the decades. The facility, built in 1953, was originally a first- through eighth-grade school.

Principal Mike McGinnis is asking the public for photos to scan

for the slide show. The photos will be returned after they are scanned.

For information, call the school at 354-3300.

St. George’s offers campus tours

Parents and students who want to learn more about St. George’s School can tour the campus and have questions answered.

An all-school open house is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, and an open house for kindergarten through fifth grade is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 12.

To register for a visit, call the Admissions Office, 466-1636, ext. 304, or e-mail Debbie.duvoisin@sgs.org.

Open house at Assumption

Assumption Catholic School, 3618 W. Indian Trail Road., will hold an open house and tour of the school at 6 p.m. Feb. 4 in celebration of Catholic Schools Week. There will be student presentations and ice cream served at 7 p.m. in the school gym. For information, call 328-1115.