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The Columbia Basin Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for students who are planning to attend university, community college, vocational or trade school in Fall 2021. Over 50 scholarships are available. Applications must be completed online. Visit www.columbiabasinfoundation.org for details. The scholarship application deadline is March 15, 2021....
MOSES LAKE - Boeing officials announced a $50,000 gift to Big Bend Community College's Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) and Commercial Pilot programs Dec. 1 as part of the company's Giving Tuesday initiative. Giving Tuesday is marked around the world each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The movement was created to promote charitable acts of giving. Statewide, Boeing gave $10 million in charitable grants to 95 nonprofit organizations on Giving Tuesday. The grants focus specifically...
Three separate donations were approved at Monday’s Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting. The three donations, all attributed simply to “Raider Community Supporters,” are: $140 to the senior class; $832 to the senior class; and $183 to senior high girls’ basketball....
Parents and students at Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School who prefer distance learning to in person school for whatever reason have a choice in what style of distance learning they choose. Now called the LRHS Virtual Academy, the school is asking parents to sign up at a website that explains two options for the Virtual Academy, both the APEX online curriculum, and a live/virtual synchronous instruction. The synchronous instruction includes attending, from the internet, a teacher’s live classroom classes happening in real time , while A... Full story
A Lake Roosevelt Schools tradition will take an online route Wednesday when students honor veterans with a program to honor them over a Zoom presentation. The Lake Roosevelt Associated Student Body and Chorus will offer the event on Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. The program will include the Pledge of Allegiance, the National Anthem, songs by the chorus, a PowerPoint presentation of local veterans, personal testimonies and the playing of Taps. The event is free to everyone and can be reached either by an online Zoom connection o... Full story
A fox and gingerbread figure poke up out of the sunroof of a car to collect candy from emergency responders at Lake Roosevelt Schools. The PTA's Trunk or Treat event Oct. 29 drew a long line of cars with kids anxious to get out for fun. "I just finished passing out over 200 bags of candy to excited, smiling little ones," said Sara Kennedy, the dean of students and Teaching and Learning coordinator for the junior/senior high school as she thanked the PTA. "I think everyone needs little happy...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District will continue offering a free meals program this school year through Dec. 18, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Sack breakfast and lunches can be picked up from 10:30- to noon at the Lake Roosevelt Elementary School for any child up to age 18....
Lake Roosevelt Schools started Tuesday, beginning with conferences on the details of this first all-online quarter of the 2020-21 school year during the pandemic. Students and their parents or guardians arrived outside the school, where they had their temperatures taken and were asked about health symptoms. Inside, they picked up T-shirts, info packets, and checked out Chromebooks, one per household for now. When another order of the devices comes in, there will be one for every student. The...
Documents addressing options for Grand Coulee Dam School District students have been posted on the district website. An Aug. 19 letter from Superintendent Paul Turner to the community, parents, and students touches upon aspects of reopening school, including: • a strict protocol to enter the school, • understanding educational options, • the first day of school being Sept. 8, with student academic participation beginning Sept. 11, and • conferences being held Sept. 8-10 will make sure parents and students are familiar with the online platfor... Full story
You can listen in on the Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting tonight, July 20, at 5:30 p.m., in which they will discuss the upcoming 2020-21 school year. There will be no public comment period at the meeting. The meeting can be accessed on Zoom at https://gcdsd.zoom.us/j/677070515...
A video showing the full ceremony of Lake Roosevelt High School’s class of 2020 is now available to view on YouTube. The video can be found on YouTube under the title “Lake Roosevelt High School Graduation 2020,” and a link will be included in the online version of this article. The unusual COVID-19-era outdoor graduation on June 13 took place on LR’s football field and followed social distancing guidelines put in place for the pandemic, which limited the number of people who could attend, kept those attending in their cars, limited the num...
Teachers who have been working in online teaching and learning for decades understand the potential and power of the tool called technology, but it's not about the tech. The following is from a May blog post by the author, now retired from teaching for 31 years in Nespelem and still an advocate for the use of tech to inspire and teach, with the right emphasis. This article online will link to her post, which contains more than 30 links to resources for teachers, at https://ww... Full story
Schools are looking at how to successfully implement changes that will be put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a new Star survey seeks the opinions of local parents, students, and staff members. Last week The Star reported on changes schools are facing for the 2020-21 school year after guidelines were released by the state’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Those guidelines include rules such as those requiring all students and staff to wear face coverings and maintain a distance from one another. Those rules ha... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors on Monday: approved Superintendent Paul Turner’s new three-year contract at an annual salary of $128,392. Turner first became superintendent in 2016. decided not to allow sixth-graders to participate in sports alongside seventh- and eighth-graders. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association recently voted to allow sixth-graders to participate in sports with seventh- and eighth-graders, but left it to individual districts to determine their own policies on the matter. decided t...
Brianna Whybark is the 2020 recipient of the $500.00 scholarship awarded by local Chapter DG of P.E.O. International. The scholarship application process includes a review of the applicants’ academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities, and educational goals. Brianna is a graduate of Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr. High School. She participated in the Running Start program to gain college credits while in high school and plans to attend Washington State University to begin her pursuit of a degree in pharmacy. P.E.O. is a P...
Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association selected 12 recipients to receive $500 scholarships this year. Four graduating seniors include Lake Roosevelt High School Valedictorian, Ellie Hansen, who plans to attend WSU for an education in sports medicine, specifically physical therapy. Ellie is the daughter of Steve and Hope Hansen of Coulee Dam. Seniors from high schools other than Lake Roosevelt eligible on the basis of being direct descendants of a former student of School District 55 include: Liberty Croutch, the granddaughter of the late...
The Nespelem School Board of Directors announced their selection Tuesday of Dr. Effie Dean as the new superintendent/principal of the school. Dean will be joining the school district beginning July 1, 2020. Dean is replacing Dr. Mary Hall, who has retired as superintendent. Dean will also be assuming principal duties, replacing Marcy Horne. In the last three years, Dean has served as the assistant superintendent at the Royal City School District, Hall said. She has also served for six years as principal and director of special education at...
In an effort to give students access to the internet, which they may not have at home, the Grand Coulee Dam School District has expanded Wi-Fi signals to access the internet outside of Lake Roosevelt Schools and at the former middle school. A student can sit in a vehicle and access the internet if needed to do work for the new “distance learning” method of education that schools are using during the COVID-19 pandemic. Superintendent Paul Turner told the school board during a Zoom meeting April 26 that expanding internet signals outside the bui... Full story
Time is running out to submit applications for Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association scholarships. The applications must be postmarked by Friday, May 1, 2020. The awards are open to high school graduating seniors and college students who are direct descendants of former students who attended any of the Grand Coulee School District 55 schools. College students must have successfully completed at least one year of college. Also eligible to apply for the scholarships are all Lake Roosevelt High School graduating seniors from the class of...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District is holding their regularly scheduled board meeting electronically via Zoom tonight at 5:30 p.m. The meeting is accessible to the public by clicking on this link: https://gcdsd.zoom.us/j/677070515... Full story
Misty Krohn is one of six teachers in the 29 school districts of the North Central Washington Educational Service District awarded a grant related to the study of the Lower Grand Coulee recently. Krohn, who teaches kindergarten at Lake Roosevelt Elementary, will get the $300 for her project to create a science center in her classroom. The Friends of Lower Grand Coulee (FLGC), in partnership with the North Central Education Foundation (NCEF), provided the opportunity to encourage study of the Lower Grand Coulee area this spring. Because of...
Time is running out to submit applications for Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association scholarships. The applications must be postmarked by Friday, May 1, 2020. The awards are open to high school graduating seniors and college students who are direct descendants of former students who attended any of the Grand Coulee School District 55 schools. College students must have successfully completed at least one year of college. Also eligible to apply for the scholarships are all Lake Roosevelt High School graduating seniors from the class of...
Karen Pace, who has been the music teacher at Lake Roosevelt schools for the past five years, and Terry Owen, who has been driving bus for LR for the past 32 years, will be honored with excellence awards next month. Superintendent Paul Turner announced the winners to school staff Feb. 27. Turner said both Pace and Owen received multiple nominations from their fellow staff members. The awards are organized by the North Central Educational Service District, Turner said, and Pace and Owen will be among those honored at its Excellence Awards Banque...
Public school students will soon have a greater understanding of their sexuality, sexual abuse and the importance of consent under a new law passed by Washington state legislators. Senate Bill 5395 requires all public schools in Washington state to give public school children in kindergarten through 12th grade a comprehensive sexual education. The curriculum must follow certain requirements, including encouraging healthy relationships, teaching students about sexual violence, educating them on consent and being inclusive of all students....
Special detectors may be installed at Lake Roosevelt Schools to address “rampant” vaping at the school. Vaping, which delivers nicotine to the user without tobacco present, is said to be dangerous to the health of anyone by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and especially to the development of adolescent brains. But students can vape discreetly, even in classrooms, with the devices used to vape being particularly small and the vapor itself often odorless and dissipating quickly. Getting some tech help to address the situation is...