School Briefs

Learn to tutor young readers

Powerful Partners, a volunteer program in the Edmonds School District, will offer a free volunteer tutor training Aug. 22-23 for anyone interested in helping a child learn to read.

Volunteers are required to attend both days. The training runs from 9 a.m. to noon at Meadowdale Elementary, 6505 168th St. SW in Lynnwood.

The training teaches how to be a successful school volunteer, how to teach reading and how to work one-on-one with a child. It also features a practice session with elementary students.

Preregistration is required: call Chris Hansen at 425-431-7155.

Powerful Partners is a coalition of five schools: Beverly, Edmonds, Lynndale, Meadowdale, and Seaview Elementary.

Free, reduced-price meals

Families interested in applying for free and reduced price lunch can determine their eligibility by viewing the Edmonds School District policy at any district school or the district’s administrative offices at 20420 68th Ave. W.

The policy is for children who qualify for meals served under the National School Lunch and/or School Breakfast Programs.

Application forms, with a letter to parents or guardians, are being sent to all homes. To apply for free or reduced-price meals, households must fill out the application and return it to the school. Additional copies are available at each school’s main office. The information provided on the application will be used to determine eligibility and may be verified at any time during the school year by school or other program officials.

Students build for hurricane victims

Edmonds Community College students with Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County will participate in Operation Home Delivery, building and shipping a home to Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina victims Aug. 19.

The building begins in warehouse space provided by King County on the Brightwater treatment plant site in Woodinville. In eight hours, about 20 volunteers will frame a three-bedroom home to be sent to the Bayou Area Habitat for Humanity affiliate in Thibodaux, La.

The project was funded by a $75,000 grant from Habitat for Humanity International.

The next Habitat for Humanity Cornerstone training will be at the Brightwater warehouse in September. Community members are invited to participate and learn how to build a Habitat for Humanity home. Call 425-640-1190 for information.

For more information about Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County call 425-258-6289, e-mail mfears@habitatsno-homish.org or go to www.habitat-snohomish.org.

For information about pre-apprenticeship construction industry training at Edmonds Community College call 425-640-1604, send e-mail to business@edcc.edu or see http://cit.edcc.edu.

Donate old cell phones to EdCC

Edmonds Community College students training for careers as cyber-crime fighters will dissect the data contained in cell phones and personal digital assistants in Information Security, Digital Forensics and Network Security classes this fall.

The college seeks donations of many types of cell phones and PDAs so students can learn how to work with the various kinds of software used in the devices.

To donate, send e-mail to Steve Hailey at shailey@edcc.edu or call 425-640-1377. Donors will be recognized on the computer information system’s Web site: http://cis.edcc.edu/.