Cascade View educator named teacher of month
May 23, 2012
Cascade View Elementary School teacher Kristin Yoshikawa won the Snoqualmie Valley-Issaquah Macaroni Kid Teacher of the Month award for April.
The award’s nomination described Yoshikawa, who teaches first grade, as “one of the teachers that the kids love.”
Yoshikawa received a $100 gift certificate to The Woodman Lodge, courtesy of the Cascade Team Real Estate Agency.
She also received a gift certificate for a massage at Therapeutic Health in North Bend and a plaque from Issaquah Trophy and Awards.
Shannon Roubicek, a teacher at Snoqualmie Elementary School won the March award. Cascade View physical therapist Claudine Fairchild won the February award and Twin Falls Middle School teacher Kyle Wallace won it in January.
SES principal takes job in Wenatchee
May 23, 2012
Cori Pflug, the principal at Snoqualmie Elementary School, has accepted the job of principal at Sunnyslope Elementary School in Wenatchee.
Pflug’s decision ends a 25-year career in the Snoqualmie Valley, the last 10 as Snoqualmie Elementary principal.
She owns a home in Leavenworth, 20 miles outside of Wenatchee, and will relocate with her husband in August.
District administrators have begun the search for her replacement, Pflug wrote in a letter to Snoqualmie Elementary families.
“My years at this wonderful school have been the best years of my professional career,” she wrote. “I have many great memories of SES that I will always cherish.”
Five students make WWU honor roll
May 23, 2012
Two students from Snoqualmie, two from North Bend and one from Fall City made the honor roll at Western Washington University for winter quarter.
Julia Monique Dorn and Morgan Scott Green, of North Bend; Paige Diane Ormiston and Chelsea Noel Smolke, of Snoqualmie; and Shaun Kelly Murphy, of Fall City, completed at least 14 graded credit hours during the quarter and finished in the top 10 percent of their class.
Smolke finished with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average.
Mount Si student wins merit scholarship
May 23, 2012
Riley Edwards, a student at Mount Si High School, won a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship to college, according to a press release.
Edwards and 2,499 other students were chosen from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists. Winners are judged on skills, accomplishments and potential for success.
Bases for the decision included grades, academic records, difficulty level of subjects studied, standardized test scores, leadership and contributions in school and the community; an essay; and a letter of recommendation from a high school official.
Fifty students from Washington received scholarships. A new group of winners was scheduled to be announced May 23 and July 9.
Valley resident graduates from California college
May 23, 2012
Snoqualmie resident Brittany Whims graduated May 5 with a Bachelor of Science in business from Azusa Pacific University, a private Christian University in Southern California.
Fake car crash manages to leave Mount Si students stunned
May 23, 2012
Chace Carlson had everything.
A bright future and big dreams of becoming an Air Force pilot. A great run as a Mount Si High School soccer player. A fine reputation as a student rep on the school board.
Now he was dead.
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Valley student Kallin Spiller earns state honors for letter
May 17, 2012
Contributed Seventh-grader Kallin Spiller (center) was honored as a finalist in the state’s Letters About Literature contest May 12. Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, left, and First Gentleman Mike Gregoire attended the ceremony in Olympia. Spiller wrote a letter to Dr. Seuss about the impact his book, ‘There’s a Wocket in My Pocket,’ had in her life.
Dead for 21 years, Theodor S. Geisel still gets letters.
“His books were my favorite when I was little to read with my family,” wrote Snoqualmie Middle School seventh-grader Kallin Spiller, the author of a letter to Geisel, better known by his fictitious medical degree and his middle name, Dr. Seuss.
Spiller’s letter to the children’s books author made her a finalist in the statewide Letters About Literature contest, where children write letters to their favorite authors.
Valley teacher selected for Harvard course
May 17, 2012
Memo to Snoqualmie Middle School teacher Connie Logan: As of June 25 and until July 20, she may not drive a car.
She has to drive a cah. And has to pahk it in the yahd.
Logan has earned a spot in “Golden Compass as Moral Compasses: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fairy Tales and Fantasy,” a class at Harvard University, in Boston.
Logan was one of 15 teachers selected to attend “Hah-vahd” over the summer. Hundreds of people applied for the four-week class.
“To be admitted, I had to write an essay and submit a résumé,” Logan wrote in an email. “I got the call over spring break.”
Maria Tatar, a renowned Harvard professor of Germanic languages and literatures of folklore and mythology will teach the class, alongside guest lecturers, Logan added.
“This class will allow me to interface with experts in the field as well as educators from around the U.S.A.,” said Logan, who will live for a month in Harvard’s Adams House.
The National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the class, all out-of-pocket expenses paid.
Girl Scout Troop wins second in skills contest
May 17, 2012
The Valley’s Girl Scout Troop 42403 won second place in the Outdoor Skills Competition in Carnation in late April.
Twelve troops competed in skills such as first aid, knot tying, knife safety and outdoor cooking. The girls from the troop, fifth-graders, also built a bench out of ropes and twigs; and cooked a brunch with eggs, cheese, onions and peppers, alongside apple sauce, sausages, muffins and coffee.
Competition took place at the Girl Scouts of Western Washington’s Camp River Ranch in Carnation.
‘Race To Nowhere’ film is coming to the Valley
May 17, 2012
Mount Si High School will offer a showing of “Race to Nowhere,” a documentary describing the pressure to perform and achieve that affects today’s schoolchildren and its consequences, like burnout among educators and depression among children.
The school scheduled the show for 6:30 p.m. May 21. Admission is free, but seating at the school’s auditorium is limited. Get tickets at www.raceto-nowhere.com/epostcard/5971.
The movie is rated PG-13.
