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“There is an ASB presidential elections coming up and a speech and debate competition this month at Snohomish High School. I am practicing for the impromptu extemporaneous category. It will be my first time.”
Kelsey Ferguson, sophomore
Discovery returns with student signatures
The Space Shuttle Discovery, scheduled to land Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will carry back to earth the signatures of about 400 children from Everett’s Immaculate Conception-Our Lady of Perpetual Help School.
Last spring, kids in classes from kindergarten through eighth grade signed a poster for the Student Signatures in Space project, co-sponsored by Lockheed Martin and NASA.
Kathy Pierson, leader of the school’s science club and the mother of eighth-grader Hannah Pierson, said the poster was signed by students, teachers and two priests associated with the Catholic school, the Rev. Bryan Hersey and the Rev. Dennis Robb.
Immaculate is one of about 500 schools taking part in the program. Giant posters sent to each school are photographed, and the images travel in a digital format, Pierson said. After the shuttle’s return, astronauts will be photographed with the posters. Those pictures are returned to the schools.
“I took it from classroom to classroom with four colored pens,” Pierson said.
Mukilteo book fair raises money for classrooms
The Mukilteo Schools Foundation will host its annual book fair at Borders bookstores at both the Alderwood mall and Everett Mall on Nov. 17 and 18.
Participants will receive a 10 percent discount on purchases on those two days, of which the Mukilteo Schools Foundation also will receive 10 percent of the proceeds of the sale. The foundation will then use the money to buy fiction and nonfiction books for Mukilteo classrooms.
This year, the foundation hopes to buy 12 sets of books for each middle school.
Those interested in the book fair must visit the following link for a coupon to participate in the book fair: www.mukilteo.wednet.edu/departments/pr/info/pdfs/BookFair.pdf.
Second annual youth council coming to Everett
The Everett Mayor’s Youth Council will host a second annual Washington State Youth Leadership Summit from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 17, in the Weyerhaeuser Room at the Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave., Everett.
The event, titled “Leading the Way,” will connect youth ages 14 to 18 with elected officials, business leaders and nonprofit organizations and will also give the students the opportunity to meet peers from across the state.
Registration is $10 thanks to sponsorships by Hyundai of Everett and Brien Motors. For more information or to register, call Drew Simshaw at 425-257-7113.
Edmonds alumni group offers ski scholarship
The Edmonds School District Alumni Association offers a ski school scholarship for a seventh- or eighth-grade student in the district.
The Wesley Birkett-Smith Ski School Memorial Scholarship is in honor of a Meadowdale Middle School student who loved to ski.
The scholarship pays for transportation, lessons and lift tickets for a season of skiing at Stevens Pass. Applications are now in each K-8 and middle school in the Edmonds School District and online at www.edmonds.wednet.edu/about/alumni.cfm. Applications are due by Nov. 19. Call 425-481-1080 for more information.
Benefit concert at Everett High on Saturday
Everett High School will host a benefit concert and art auction for their music department at 8 p.m. Saturday.
The concert will feature jazz and inspirational music, including “Harmonic Horizon.”
Watercolors of Cynthia Ferguson will be displayed in the theater during the night of the benefit concert.
The event will be in the high school’s Little Theatre, 2416 Colby Ave., Everett. Tickets at the door will be $10, with doors opening at 7:30 p.m.
Actor Tom Skerritt to discuss schools, arts
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts and Whidbey Island Writers Association is proud to present “An Afternoon with Tom Skerritt.”
Skerritt will discuss the course public education has taken in the past 25 years: budget cuts eliminating arts and history programs from early educational curricula and the impact of these changes on students’ self-worth.
“An Afternoon with Tom Skerritt” is at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 youth.
To purchase tickets, call the WICA box office at 360-221-8268 or visit www.wicaonline.com.
Edmonds students offers advanced classes
Learn more about advanced academic offerings in the Edmonds School District
High school programs include honors, advanced placement and international baccalaureate.
Parents who would like to learn more about middle school and high school honors programs, advanced placement and international baccalaureate in the Edmonds School District are invited to an informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at the former Woodway High School, 23200 100th Ave. W., Edmonds.
For more information, call 425-431-7157.
County Red Cross pushes to educate public on flu
The Snohomish County Chapter of the American Red Cross is making pandemic flu education available to every student in the Everett School District in the form of take-home information.
In cooperation with the district’s superintendent and a grant from the Howarth Trust, the chapter is providing 20,000 copies of the Red Cross’s Pandemic Flu Family Preparedness Guide for distribution to all elementary, middle and high school students.
Besides English, the brochure has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Korean and Vietnamese, among the most common languages spoken in Snohomish County.
Requests from schools for translations in other languages will be coordinated with a chapter community partner, Refugee and Immigrant Services Northwest.
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