Evergreen Middle School seeking your old phones, used cartridges
Evergreen Middle School will take your used printer cartridges and cell phones. Recycling these items has already netted the school a free computer.
Staff at Evergreen recycles the donations through the company, FundingFactory, to earn points in exchange for new computers, printers, scanners and cameras.
The program is arranged at no cost to the school, said Mike Gharst, teacher and technical coordinator. Gharst said people can drop off the old cartridges and phones at the school or make arrangements at a company site for a pickup. Credit would still go to the school.
“The company we work with sends us postage prepaid packages, and we just call UPS, and they pick it up,” Gharst said. “Last year, we were able to purchase a computer with the credit we had with the company. We should be able to do that this year as well.”
People can drop off empty laser and inkjet printer cartridges or old cell phones at the school’s office, 14221 E. 16th Ave.
Evergreen also is seeking to gain a new business partner to allow for student job shadowing and other support. A former business partner, Safeco, moved to another location. For more information on business partnering or the recycling program, contact Gharst at 228-4826.
U-Hi kids to trade punch lines
Performers with the University High School’s ComedySportz High School League will kick off their season Jan. 26.
ComedySportz is fast-paced, family-friendly improvisational comedy, played as a sport. Two teams of four players take turns making up scenes, playing games and singing songs – and the audience votes on which team they like the best. It’s all presided over by a referee, who keeps things moving, calls fouls and takes suggestions shouted out by the audience before each game.
The student performers include Derek Baziotis, Carly Jordan, Sarah Baxter, Forrest Duba, Sam Freeman, Gabe Bryan, Josh Hawkins, Andy Funke, Madison Frame and Tori Head.
If you’ve seen TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” that’s the basic idea, although ComedySportz’s two-team competitive format ensures a fast-paced, high-energy show. ComedySportz is appropriate for all ages and families are encouraged to bring kids.
For the Jan. 26 performance, the school’s theater opens at 6 p.m. and curtain rises at 6:30. Cost is $3.
‘Party with the Hawks’
Horizon Middle School’s Associated Student Body members set out to create a fun activity to get together with friends. This goal resulted in the first-time “Party with the Hawks” Jan. 27 at the school for students and their families.
The 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. gathering will include black light bingo, carnival games, drawings for prizes, a food walk rather than a cake walk, and a parent cafe that will include informal background music by jazz band and orchestra members.
Karen Kielbon, who teaches ASB and leadership classes as well as seventh-grade language arts and history, said the students have worked hard organizing the event, which will be a PTA fund-raiser. Tickets at the door are $5.
Also at Horizon, about 24 members of the leadership class invited Scott Finnie, an assistant professor in the Eastern Washington University African American Education program, to speak Friday at the school for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The students also prepared a PowerPoint presentation to help inform classmates about the civil rights movement and King’s impact.
All the stars will be there
Weather permitting, a Star Party with the Spokane Astronomical Society is planned Jan. 23 behind East Valley Middle School.
Middle school students must be accompanied by an adult during the 6 to 8 p.m. open house. Students and parents should sign in with teacher Georgi Delgadillo, who plans to stand out by wearing a glowing necklace.
For more information about Spokane Astronomical Society, check the Web site www.spokaneastronomical.org.
Read and feed program
At University High School, 63 students in teacher Elizabeth Rose‘s American Literature Classic classes recently read 14,837 pages for a program, “Read to Feed.”
Sponsored by the Spokane County Library through a grant, the program had students keep track of the pages they read. With U-Hi’s participation, the library donated a penny a page, and the students also contributed $25, to make a total $173 given to the Second Harvest Food Bank.