Valley Christian School students, staff log hours of outreach service

Students from Valley Christian School spent three hours Friday volunteering throughout the community as part of their first Friday of the month service hours.

Both students and staff volunteered at Spokane Community Warehouse, Women’s and Children’s Free Restaurant, Ross Point Conference Center in Post Falls, the HUB Sports Complex, Spokane Valley Food Bank, Valley Meals on Wheels, Spokane Christian Academy and at their own school.

In another outreach effort, seventh-graders spent time last month serving the residents of Anna Ogden Hall at a catered tea party.

The home economics class invited the residents to the school for tea, scones and salad.

High school students helped by plating the food and managing the back room details while the seventh-graders served residents.

Spokane Teachers Credit Union recently awarded $500 grants to area teachers. According to a news release from STCU, the grants are to be used to “enhance students’ classroom experience, whether a basic need or something special.”

Among the teachers who won grants:

• Amanda Mortensen , a seventh- and eighth-grade math teacher at Evergreen Middle School in the Central Valley School District;

• Julie Dodge , a special education teacher at East Valley High School; and

• Brian Hutchinson , a science teacher at St. George’s School.

The teachers were selected by a drawing, which they entered during back-to-school kickoff events STCU attended in 23 school districts in the area.

This is the second year STCU has held the grant drawings.