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Marsyville student Nolan Erickson (center) and Jordan Telschow (left) recently handed out food and warm clothing to homeless people in Seattle.
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Laurel Cheap (left), with the Pilchuck Audubon Society, recently presented a check for $250 to Lindsay Washo, a fourth-grade teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School in the Lake Stevens School District. Washo recently received a Classroom Conservation Award from the Pilchuck Audubon Society.
 
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Published: Thursday, January 22, 2009

School winners

Marysville student helps homeless in Seattle

A Marysville student Nolan Erickson, who is a senior at the Marysville Arts and Technology High School, recently collected more than 450 pieces of clothing and led a team of volunteers who handed out clothes, food and blankets at the University District's tent city in Seattle. The group worked with the Bread of Life Mission in Pioneer Square.

Nolan organized the project with the help of his youth pastor at Marysville First Assembly of God. He assembled a team of volunteers from four Marysville churches to help, held a clothing drive and worked to earn money to buy dozens of hooded sweatshirts and jackets. The group also made sandwiches and handed them out to the homeless people at the tent city.

Fourth-grade teacher wins conservation award

Hillcrest Elementary teacher Lindsay Washo recently received a Classroom Conservation Award from the Pilchuck Audubon Society.

Washo was one of seven recipients for the $250 award, which is given annually to elementary teachers in Snohomish County.

Washo teaches fourth grade in the Lake Stevens School District. She recently helped the 26 fourth-graders in her class create water conservation posters during a physical science unit she taught on water.

Washo plans to use the money to purchase fiction and nonfiction books about water use and conservation. The books are expected to be used for lessons and student-led book clubs. She also plans to share student conservation tips with other teachers, students and the community.

Students from View Ridge, Penny Creek, Cedar Wood, Jefferson, Cedarhome, Discovery and Liberty Elementary Schools also are expected to benefit from the Classroom Conservation Awards this year.

The award program, which is in its third year, has given $6,500 to Snohomish County teachers to date.

Applications for the conservation awards can are available at www.pilchuckaudubon.org.

Everett school names Students of the Month

Gateway Middle School in Everett recently named its Students of the Month for September, October and November. The students, listed by their grades, were:

September:

Sixth grade: Elisha Yates, Mitch Weholt, Pierce Milton and Andrew Perkins.

Seventh grade: Clara Kaputska and Chris Knapp.

Eighth grade: Courtney Roscoe, Megan McGrath and Destiny Mora.

October:

Sixth grade: Sydney Seiber, Andrew Ang, Tanya Pichinevskiy and Rachel Ottinger.

Seventh grade: PJ Basto and Sydney Virgen.

Eighth grade: Kalena Laurent, Madeline Miller and Baily Brindle.

November:

Sixth grade: Shannon Prendergast, Grayson Livingston, Natalie Johnson and Trevor Pence.

Seventh grade: Joey Koch, Tristan Taylor, Danny Franklin and Pius "Tim" Gonzalvo.

Eighth grade: Rachael Loghry and Emily Abernethy.

Mukilteo school names Students of the Month

Harbour Pointe Middle School in Mukilteo recently named its December Students of the Month.

The students were chosen for representing the theme "Communicators," an attribute from the International Baccalaureate Profile which is defined as those who understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language and in a variety of modes. Communicators work effectively and willingly with others.

The students, listed by their grades, were:

Sixth grade: Matthew Bettencourt, Mikayla Chor, Will Kramer and Ingrid Straume.

Seventh grade: Carlos Guichard, Andrew Kim, Salena Taylor and Nellie Vasiliev.

Eighth grade: Aurash Arvani, Emma Cleland, Natalia Rodgrigues, Dustyn Turner and Gregorio Zamora.

Everett students honored by Rotary Club

Two Everett students, Jennifer Beck of Everett High School and Alexi Stavang of Cascade High School, recently were named Rotary Club of Everett Students of the Month for January.

Students are chosen monthly for the award by school counselors for achieving significant scholastic records and for participating in extra-curricular activities.

Marysville education program awarded $7,000

The Marysville Cooperative Education Program recently received a community grant for $7,000 from the Fred Meyer Fund to help purchase new playground equipment for Quil Ceda Elementary School.

The school's Parent Teacher Student Association had worked on purchasing the equipment for the past two years.

The Marysville Cooperative Education Program is a kindergarten through fifth-grade program in the Marysville School District housed at Quil Ceda Elementary School.

The Fred Meyer Fund community grant program is administered by advisory committees made up of Fred Meyer employees from each Fred Meyer store, plant and warehouse. The committees research nonprofit organizations in their communities and then award grants, which are funded by donations from Fred Meyer employees and customer donations in the store's Make Change Count coin boxes.

The grants are awarded in the four western states where Fred Meyer operates.



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