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Teacher Sandy Hood addresses 50 Lake Roosevelt Junior High eighth-graders at a ceremony Wednesday recognizing their passage into the ranks of high school. - Jacob Wagner photo...
High Honors 3.50 - 4.00 Seniors Rylee E. Pitner, Khani R. Priest, Dylan R. Jenkins, Robin K. Matt, Aidan A. Derr, Dylan J. Steinert Juniors Hannah J. Wapato, Addison A. Hansen, Stephen G. Flowers, Lilyana J. Clark, Evan Harris, Olivia A. Ludwig, Anthony M. Nichols, Lauryn T. Alling Sophomores Ellie R. Hansen, Lorrinda L. Richardson, Brianna M. Whybark, Wensdae E. Antoine, Kyle I. Edmo, Anysthesia Wendt, Megan R. Abel, Michael S. Laramie, Lindsey P. Weaver, Nicholas A. Engeseth FreshmEn Vanessa S. Ankney, Lillie A. LaPlace, Bryn K. Chaffee,...
A large number of absences from school is a larger factor than are poor test scores in not finishing high school. That’s one of the key points made in a presentation by Lake Roosevelt teachers Brian Daniels and Jeremiah Seekins at Monday’s Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting. “Chronically absent,” is defined as missing 10 percent or more of a school year, or 18 days or more, whether they are excused absences or not. The state average for chronic absenteeism is 17 percent, with Lake Roosevelt schools combined being at 25 percent...
Lucy Ross is the 2018 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 applicant’s academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities, and educational goals. Lucy, a graduate of Wilbur-Creston High School plans to attend the University of Washington and earn a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in Education with the hope of becoming a High School English teacher. While maintaining her perfect 4.0, Lucy has b...
Local students making the Dean’s List for Winter Quarter 2018 at Eastern Washington University include the following: Samantha Turner, Kayley Duclos, Brian Stanger, Ashley Lezard, Jennifer Montecucco, Rickyna Sam and Jazmine Sumner....
Here are the April and May Students of the Month at Lake Roosevelt Elementary...
The Lake Roosevelt High School graduation will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 9, at the gymnasium in Coulee Dam, where 34 seniors will be walking on the stage to get their diplomas. Readers can find a special section focused on the graduates inside this issue of The Star. The Lake Roosevelt 8th grade recognition ceremony will take place on Wednesday, June 13, at 10:30 a.m. in the gymnasium, where 50 eighth-grade students will be recognized. There were 712 full-time-equivalent students in the Grand Coulee Dam School District reported for...
Students and teachers are being surprised with gestures of kindness on their lockers, walls, doors, and desks in Lake Roosevelt Elementary. Christi Berry is having students in her SHARP Kids morning group tape heart shapes with inspiring quotes on them to color up the school a bit. "I started this project right before spring break and told the kids we need to spread kindness in our school," Berry said, saying she wanted the place covered before the end of the school year. Berry has the kids,...
Raider athletes were honored for excellence in athletics as well as academics at a state and nationals send-off assembly on May 24. Going to the national Future Business Leaders of America competition is Alan Nordine, who will travel to Baltimore, Maryland, at the end of June. Nordine had placed fourth in the "Help Desk" category at a state competition in Bellevue in April. Nordine encouraged younger students at the assembly to join FBLA. Going to state for track were Elijah Harris (high jump...
"We're very lucky to have her," Lake Roosevelt kindergarten teacher Jan Erickson said about Fern Blaylock, who volunteers daily with the kindergarten classes and recently received an award from the North Central Educational Service District. Blaylock does activities with three kinder garten classes, ranging from art activities to reading and writing activities, math, and more. Several years ago, she decided to start riding the school bus at a time when some kids needed instruction in how to...
Change is in the air in the Grand Coulee Dam School District, including the resignation of the Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School principal. Principal Mark Herndon will resign from that position and take on a new position as the Career Technical Education/Career/Alternative Learning Environment director and teacher. The CTE will be opening this fall as an institution whose goal is training students in skills they can use toward professions as they enter adulthood, starting with a certified nursing assistant training program in fall of 201...
Faces of young racers express a wide range of emotions as they take off from the starting line at Lake Roosevelt Elemetrary's Mini Bloomsday race Friday, an annual event that takes place just before Spokane's big Bloomsday race. - Scott Hunter photo...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District would like to see a skill center in the area, a place where junior and senior high school students can learn practical skills that will help them land jobs after high school. Superintendent Paul Turner visited the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center in Moses Lake on May 4, observing classes for certified nursing assistants, culinary arts, advanced manufacturing, and entrepreneurship and marketing. "There's an international nursing shortage, so by starting...
President Rylie Pitner leads a ceremony of the Lake Roosevelt High School Chapter of the National Honors Society as new and existing members are sworn in April 25. From left, LorRinda Richardson, Anja Wendt, Wensdae Antione, Lindsey Weaver, Michael Laramie, Kyle Edmo, Megan Abel, Pitner, Advisor Jesse Utz, Dylan Jenkins, Aiden Derr, Keianna Vera, Dylan Stienert, Kayla St. Pierre and Khani Priest take part. Not pictured but also sworn in: Malcolm Carson, Addison Hansen, Olivia Ludwig, Loryn...
Grand Coulee Dam American Legion Post 157 is accepting applications for its annual $1,000 scholarship. This year’s scholarship is in memory of Brandon Buche. Applications are available at ACHS, LRHS and WHS school offices, and are due May 4. For more information, contact gcdalpost157@gmail.com....
The Grand Coulee Dam School District announced some staffing changes at their last school board meeting. The vice principal at the high school, Charlie Pierce, will be a full-time administrator again, and will no longer teach a construction class. The safety officer position is going to be eliminated, and the vice principal, along with a paraprofessional, will be taking on those monitoring duties. The elementary school vice principal position will be eliminated and replaced with a dean of students. A dean of students, unlike the VP, will not...
After winning a tough tennis match on Friday, Lake Roosevelt student Rylee Pitner, to her delight, checked her email to see she had been selected for a Gates Scholarship. The scholarship, given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is given out to 300 students each year, nationwide, and will provide funding for Pitner's next five years of college. Pitner intends to study animal sciences at Washington State University. The website for the scholarship, www.thegatesscholarship.org, describes...
From building and flying their drones to constructing and racing a solar-powered car, to learning how to create a working hydropower model, the Foundation for Water Energy and Education’s Hydropower and STEM Career Academy has plenty of exciting fun to offer high school-aged students this June. The FWEE Hydropower and STEM Career Academy is at Rocky Reach Dam near Wenatchee from June 18 to 22. High school-aged students in Grant County are encouraged to apply to the academy before the May 4 deadline. The academy provides plenty of hands-on a...
Here are the students of the month for March from Lake Roosevelt Elementary....
Here are the Nespelem students of the month!...
Lake Roosevelt students competed at the Future Business Leaders of America state competition in Bellevue over the weekend, where Alan Nordine took fourth place in the Help Desk category. Nordine will compete at the national competition in Baltimore, Maryland, at the end of June. "[Nordine] had to wait in a holding room for about 20 minutes," said Susan Duclos, advisor to the FBLA club at Lake Roosevelt. "Once his name was called, he went back into the testing prep room where he was given his...
After five years leading the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors and a total of nearly a dozen years on the board, Joette Barry resigned Monday night because she is moving out of the district. “We’re the longest renters in the United States at the same address,” she joked after the meeting to explain the move. The house they’ve been renting in Electric City for years will be sold by its owner, who lives in Arizona. Joette and her husband, Jim, own a house in Coulee City and will be moving there within six weeks, but it won’t be...
Lake Roosevelt High School is again looking for volunteers in the community to put some time in to assist this year’s seniors with not only a graduation requirement but with helping them navigate the next step in their lives. The Oral Boards program puts community members on interview teams who talk with the graduate candidates after reviewing a portfolio of their best high school work. The interviews at Faith Community Church June 5-6 will give the students a sampling of what awaits in job interviews, provides them with helpful questions a...
They say "still waters run deep." That would be a good description of Gary Darnold, who informed the Grand Coulee Dam School District last week that he is retiring after teaching here for 42 years. Darnold is soft spoken, but his eyes penetrate you like he is taking your measure. It is highly unusual for a teacher, any teacher, to spend an entire career in one district. Darnold did, and will hang it up after this year's teaching assignment. With a bachelor's degree from Washington State...
Several school and other agency personnel are in Emmitsburg, Maryland, this week at the FEMA Emergency Management Institute taking training on school safety. In the forefront is Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Turner. Others in Maryland are elementary Principal Lisa Lakin; Randy Bowman, school maintenance; Stephanie Duclos, bus operations; and Tammy Norris, secretary. Other agency personnel include Randy August, Colville Tribes; Rick Paris, volunteer fire chief from Grand...