Mt. Spokane holds dance team meet

Thu., Jan. 24, 2008

The Spokesman-Review

The Mt. Spokane High School Dance Team will host an invitational dance team competition Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in its gym at 6015 E. Mount Spokane Park Drive.

Dance teams from schools throughout the area will compete in different forms of dance such as pompom routines, hop-hop, drill and more.

The theme of the competition is “Dance Your Heart Out.”

Tickets are $3 for students with ID and $5 for adults. For more information, call the school at 465-7200.

Deer Park

Quilt show names ribbon winners

Mavis Gibson of Colville won the first-place ribbon at the recent Winter Delight Quilt Show with her red, white and black, king-sized quilt called “Star Spin.” The quilt was machine-pieced by Gibson and professionally machine-quilted by Stella Berendsen.

Terry Engleman of Spokane’s North Side, was awarded the second-place ribbon with her hand-quilted, needle-turned appliquéd quilt named “Baltimore Album My Way.”

Third-place ribbon was won by Lorraine Haynes, also of Colville, with her appliquéd quilt of “Dogs of All Sizes” which she machine-quilted herself.

Spokane

LC student wins Miss Spokane title

McKenzi Novell of Lewis and Clark High School has been selected as Miss Spokane’s Outstanding Teen 2008 in a ceremony held Jan. 18.

She is an honor student, a member and choreographer of the school’s drill team and a member of the LC golf team. She plans to use her year of service as Miss Spokane’s Outstanding Teen to promote teen involvement in after-school tutoring programs at the elementary school level.

Novell is a tutor at Hutton Elementary School.

She received a $500 scholarship, expenses to participate in the state competition, the Spirit of Spokane Community Service Award, the Miss Photogenic Award and the Modeling Award for a grand total of $700 in scholarships.

First runner-up was Chloe Maier of Freeman High School, and second runner-up was Madison Martin also of LC.

Spokane

Chase nominations are being accepted

Friday is the deadline to submit nominations for the Chase Youth Awards, which will be held March 27.

Categories to nominate youth in kindergarten through the 12th grade, or adults 18 or older no longer enrolled in high school include community involvement, courage, creativity, diversity, leadership, personal achievement and the “Jim Chase Asset Builder” adult award.

Nomination forms are available online at www.chaseyouth.org, or call the Chase Youth Commission at 625-6440.

SPOKANE COUNTY

Writing contest accepting entries

Area high school students are invited to submit essays or poems on how they would respond to peer pressure similar to that felt by German citizens in the days leading to the Holocaust.

The creative writing contest is part of the Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust service scheduled for May 1. The author will read the winning essay or poem at the service and will be presented with a keepsake commemorating the achievement by James Waller, a Whitworth College psychology professor and the author of “Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing.” The winning submission will also be published in The Spokesman-Review.

Essays should be between 500 and 1,000 words and should respond to the following:

“Think about what social conditions and individual personality traits enabled ordinary people to become perpetrators of the Holocaust and other more recent genocides. Keeping this in mind, imagine you and your friends dealing with such conditions and the tremendous amount of peer pressure attempting to corrupt your moral compass. How would you respond?”

Students are asked to view the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s three-minute video featuring pictures from a Nazi photo album at nytimes.com/packages/ html/arts/20070919_ ALBUM_FEATURE/ index.html.

Submissions should be typed and double-spaced in Microsoft Word format, with the student’s name, phone number, e-mail address, school name and grade level on the fist page only, and any reference material should be annotated at the end of the piece.

E-mail submissions to never again-spokane@comcast.net by March 1.

Fit for Bloomsday signup under way

Kids have a few more days to sign up for the annual Fit for Bloomsday program at local elementary schools. Once kids sign up they stay after school every week to walk to get in shape for Bloomsday.

Children interested in signing up must do so at their school by Monday. Schools who have not yet signed up can visit www.bloomsdayrun.org to get their school involved.

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