Local students win energy essay contest
Three Monroe students have won prizes in the second annual “Living Evergreen” contest sponsored by Allied Waste and Snohomish County.
The students wrote essays reflecting on the use of renewable energies and how to improve and expand use in their communities and the state.
Monroe winners are:
Katelyn Keelen, 11th grade, Sky Valley Education Center: first place, high school.
Luke Meader, seventh grade, Hidden River Middle School: second place, middle school.
Danika Cole, sixth grade, Park Place Middle School: third place, middle school.
Katelyn wrote about learning about environmental issues from her parents and at school, and how it made an impression.
She drives a Prius hybrid and composts her horses’ manure for local growers. She is involved with recycling at school and home.
Luke wrote about his first awareness of environmental issues when he was in fourth grade: A teacher taught a unit on salmon hatching and how pollution was affecting salmon runs.
Danika’s essay was on what Washington state is doing to use renewable resources, and the different ways people in the community can make the planet “more green.”
Students on design school dean’s list
Local residents have been named to the fall quarter dean’s list at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.
Full-time undergraduate students who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or above for the quarter receive recognition on the dean’s list.
These students include: Cassandra Anderson of Snohomish, Alexandra Bear of Lynnwood, Zachary Rudolph of Everett and Christopher Turpen of Freeland.
4 win Lake Stevens Apple Awards
Lake Stevens School District employees won awards for creating a positive, caring and productive school environment through exceptional effort, dedication or performance in their areas of responsibility.
November recipients of the Apple Award are: Kim Majors, a third- and fourth-grade teacher at Highland Elementary; Mike Miller, a ninth-grade science teacher for Cavelero Mid High School; Jessica Simonson, a fourth-grade teacher at Hillcrest Elementary; and Laura Wellman, a Spanish interpreter for Lake Stevens School District.
Awards are scheduled to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lake Stevens School Board meeting in the Educational Service Center.
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