Anna Marie Schaefer receives Gold Award

Anna Marie Schaefer has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award for the project, “Knitting to Give Warmth.”

Schaefer, a junior at Lewis and Clark High School, collected 276 knitted and hand-made hats from the St. Thomas More Shawl Ministry, Girl Scout troops in Colville and Brownie troops in Beaverton, Ore.

The hats were donated to the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, St. Margaret’s Shelter and Anna Ogden Hall.

Schaefer keeps herself busy. Not only is she a member of the Girl Scouts, she is a member of Theater Ballet of Spokane, plays the piano and is design editor of The Vox.

She hopes to one day work in fashion design.

Sharpen those pencils, again

State WASL testing will begin Monday for all students in grades three through eight.

Testing in reading, math, writing and science will continue through May 4 for those students.

High School sophomores and students who have not yet passed will also begin taking the math and science portions of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning on Tuesday. The reading and writing portions were administered in March.

The high-stakes exam is a requirement for graduation, however, legislation that would delay requirements for the math and science portions of the exam won approval from both the chambers of the Washington Legislature.

Both Gov. Chris Gregoire and Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson proposed delaying the math graduation requirement in November, after results from last year’s exam showed that 49 percent of sophomores failed the math portion of the test.