Trio named to receive vocational excellence award

Thu., May 4, 2006

By Kandis Carper kandisc@spokesman.com

Tiesha McCain and Lauren Quick from Ferris High School and Christina Voedish from Lewis and Clark High have been named to receive the Washington Award for Vocation Excellence.

The WAVE program was created in 1984 by the Legislature to recognize and reward students who excel in career and technical education.

This award is administered by the state Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board.

Three winners are selected to receive the award from each legislative district.

McCain’s education field is medical laboratory technology, Quick’s is marketing and Voedish’s is nursing.

The WAVE award pays undergraduate expenses for two years at higher education institutions within the state.

Book drive challenge

Woodridge Elementary School on the North Side and Wilson Elementary School on the South Side are competing to see which school can collect the most books in a book drive challenge beginning Monday and continuing to May 19.

Students are asked to bring books from home that they have outgrown or to purchase a new or used book to donate.

The challenge is meant to spark enthusiasm and bring in a lot more books.

The classroom from each school that collects the most books will be honored with an ice cream party given by KHQ.

Over the past 10 years, the Success By 6 book drive has distributed more than 40,000 books to children.

Adams teacher selected

Tina Owen, a fifth-grade teacher at Adams Elementary School, has been chosen for a School Employee Credit Union of Washington grant.

The grant will allow her to participate in a weeklong workshop at the Colonial Williamsburg Institute in Virginia.

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