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The Davenport graduating class of 2021 recently shared a cap and gown moment with their younger Gorilla counterparts, this year's graduating kindergarten class. Davenport's high school graduation took place Saturday, June 5....
DAVENPORT – Philanthropic Educational Organization Chapter N recently announced their 2021 scholarship recipients, Eleanor Telford and Amber Hamilton. Each of these graduating high school seniors from Lincoln County will receive a $500 scholarship while attending their chosen institution of higher education. The goal of these scholarships is to recognize young women graduating from Davenport and Reardan high schools who have a desire to seek growth in knowledge through education, a willingness to contribute to their c...
ODESSA – At Odessa Jr.-Sr. High School, a student must have a grade-point average of 3.50-4.00 to be on the honor roll, and honorable mention requires a grade-point average of 3.25-3.49. Grade values are based on the state transcript requirements and are as follows: A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-= 2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, F=0.0. High school Six OHS seniors achieved a 4.0 grade-point average: Kaya Curo, Tim DeWulf, Nicholas Larson, Jett Nelson, Maddie Scrupps and Pilot Weishaar. Joining them on the honor r...
Macklin Strode and Olivia Gies, both third-graders at P.C. Jantz Elementary School, were the winners of new bicycles donated by the local Masonic Lodge. Students who met their reading goals put their names into a drawing for the bikes....
Freshman members of the Odessa High School chapter of FBLA competed in the Lead4Change Student Leadership Program challenge in February. The team won second place and received a $500 charitable grant for its charity with their Frontline Flatbread Frenzy project....
Bremerton, WA – Once again the Odessa High School students in the Advanced Science Research program presented their independent science and engineering research on March 26 - 27, 2021 at the 64th annual but virtual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair from their own high school science laboratory. Among more than 120 students attending, these local scientists earned the following places in their respective categories, along with other top Washington state awards: Chloe Winkler – “TiO2/UV Based Photocatalytic Pretr...
DAVENPORT – The school board accepted six more resignations at its March 29 regular meeting, bringing the number of accepted resignations in 2021 to nine. Altogether, the district is losing over 100 years of experience to retirement. While district leadership doesn’t yet know exactly how it will fill all the vacant positions without breaking the bank, the board did give approval to at least begin advertising the positions so leadership can get a feel for who might be int...
ODESSA – The Board of Directors of Odessa School District #105 met in the library and the meeting was also available via ZOOM March 24, preceded by a workshop held in the district office to discuss the budget, ESSER fund planning and the school calendar/schedule. Present were board chair Ed Deife; board members Heather Valverde, Chris Crossley and Carmen Weishaar; Superintendent Dan Read; Principal Jamie Nelson; Assistant Business Manager Staci Claassen; Operations Supervisor Justin Parr and Athletic Director Bruce Todd. Boar...
ODESSA – The Odessa School District, in cooperation with Educational Service District #101, will be providing a Child Find Screening clinic on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. The screening will be offered at no cost to children of concern ages three through five. By identifying children at an early age, we can better prepare for their future educational needs. The screening will take at P.C. Jantz Elementary School. The screening itself takes about an hour to complete. During this time, a screening test will be administered to a...
By Natalee Hayes and DHS students Contributed to The Times HARRINGTON – Navia Bowdish, Kylee Buchanan and Allison Jorden, co-chairs of the chapter's Partnership with Business project have partnered with Roam Roasters, a coffee roastery out of Harrington, Washington. On January 22, they had the opportunity to participate in a tour led by Roam Roasters owner Shelley Quigley. As part of their partnership with Roam Roasters, the co-chairs learned first-hand about how the b...
ODESSA – Five inspiring students from the Odessa High School science department presented their independent science and engineering research at the Annual Eastern Washington Regional Science and Engineering Fair, held online March 10-11, 2021. Each completed the paperwork required, uploaded their video presentations and waited for the judges decisions. Although many of the special awards have not yet been released, these five scientists earned the following main regional a...
ODESSA – The Odessa FFA fundraising effort for the Warden Food Bank, following a fire that destroyed a potato shed with connections to the food bank, has concluded with donations of more than 2,000 items weighing approximately 1,760 pounds. Families with children enrolled in preschool collected 27 items, Kindergarten 91, first grade 128, second grade 35, third grade 135, fourth grade 246, fifth grade 89, sixth grade 379, seventh grade 29, eighth grade 253, freshmen 106, sophomores 29, juniors 19 and seniors 473. Three w...
ODESSA – Over the last few weeks before the winter break, students at Odessa High School and Junior High School were busy conducting independent science research entitled the Second Quarter Research Project. This project is designed to encapsulate the knowledge and the ability to formulate a testable research question, design and execute an experiment with quantifiable results, scientifically compare the experimental results with a control method and discuss their findings with the rest of the class via a formal p...
DAVENPORT – Elementary school principal Noelle Carstens was honored with two awards by the Washington State Business Education Association (WSBEA) and Western Business Association (WBEA) for her time as a business educator before she moved to administration last year. First, she won the WSBEA Merit Award-Secondary Educator award. "As an FBLA adviser, Noelle has provided many opportunities to Davenport students and encouraged her students to allow them to compete s...
DAVENPORT – Throughout the end of January and beginning of February, 22 members of the Davenport FBLA chapter virtually attended the FBLA Winter Business Leadership Conference. Our members competed in a variety of events including, but not limited to: accounting, website design, parliamentary Procedure, sales presentation and economics. The following is a list of our winners who will move on to compete at the FBLA State Business Leadership Conference: 6th Place Accounting I - Tate Foster-Nonnemacher 3rd Place Advertising - B...
DAVENPORT – Davenport Elementary held a Kindness Week February 8-11! Each day of the week there was a kindness theme: You Matter Monday, Thankful Tuesday, There for you Wednesday, and Gorillas are Crazy for Kindness Thursday! Thursday included a red & white/gorilla gear dress up day. It was great to see everyone's school spirit! Throughout the week students had the opportunity to participate in our own version of "The Great Kindness Challenge," where students tracked c...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School FFA chapter is among more than 8,739 chapters of the National FFA Organization located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. It is a school-based, national youth-leadership development organization comprising more than 760,000 student members ranging in age from 12 to 21. FFA encourages students to explore careers in the food, fiber and natural-resource industries. National FFA Week is Feb. 20-27. It provides an opportunity for FFA members to share agricultural education with their fellow s...
OLYMPIA – The summer months are coming to an end. Children are heading back to school, but they are experiencing summer learning loss and now require remedial education. Every year, teachers say the first month of school after the summer break is spent discovering what the students have retained and then reviewing what they’ve forgotten. This learning loss disproportionately affects indigent students according to a 2016 American Education Research Association study. Substitute Senate Bill 5147 proposes a four-year, year-round...
DAVENPORT-- FBLA Week at Davenport High School was Feb. 1-4. Throughout the week, students had the opportunity to dress up including Suit Up, Activity/Club, and FBLA Colors (Red, White, and Blue). The main focus of the week was to contribute to the National FBLA Philanthropy, March of Dimes. March of Dimes supports the health of all mothers and babies. March of Dimes funds research to improve the health care that mothers and babies receive. March of Dimes affects families at...
ODESSA – Alyssa Iverson of the Odessa High School FFA Chapter reports that the local chapter is hosting a food drive for the Warden Food Bank. The food bank there is currently struggling following the potato-shed fires that took place a couple of weeks ago. They are in dire need of non-perishable food items and ready-to-eat meals (things easy for a child to heat up and eat), i.e. soups, mac-n-cheese, rice, canned goods, etc. Those who would like to make a monetary donation are asked to make checks payable to Warden Food B...
ODESSA – At the Jan. 27 meeting of the school board, Odessa School District Superintendent Dan Read reviewed the latest Lincoln County COVID case counts, followed by discussion of specific cases and the few quarantines initiated during the week of Jan. 18. A three-day break from in-person instruction occurred Jan. 20-22 for all students as a precautionary measure to monitor for any potential spread. School was back in session with in-person learning on Jan. 25. Read reminded board members that the new “Healthy Washington” reo...
ODESSA – On Feb. 2, all of the schools in the Bi-County were invited to participate in the 11th Annual Bi-County STEM Challenge. Out of the districts of Reardan, Davenport, Wilbur, Creston, ACH, Ritzville, Sprague, Lind, Liberty, Spangle, Soap Lake, Odessa and Harrington, only Odessa and Wilbur-Creston logged in virtually to compete in the annual science-based “Junkyard Wars.” Each school assembled a team of five students to vie for the traveling trophy. Team Odessa consi...
ODESSA – “They Saved our Life, So Have a Slice” was the slogan developed by Odessa High School freshmen for their Lead4Change service project. They set a big goal: Show our appreciation to all of Odessa’s frontline workers who have kept our community safe this year by cooking and delivering 400 flatbread pizzas. Their project was called “Frontline Flatbread Frenzy.” The freshmen carefully planned and organized the event, which allowed the entire chapter, with careful social distancing and safety protocols, to make and de...
ODESSA – The first-semester honor roll and list of students receiving honorable mention are given below. A student must have a grade-point average of 3.50-4.00 to be on the Honor Roll, and Honorable Mention requires a grade-point average of 3.25-3.49. Grade values are based on the state transcript requirements and are as follows: A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-= 2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, F=0.0. High School Odessa High School seniors achieving a 4.0 GPA are Nicholas Larson, Jett Nelson, Maddie Scrupps and P...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School Athletic Hall of Fame committee (consisting of 11 members) has been hard at work preparing for its 2021 induction of athletes, coaches and contributors. The committee has been meeting in Odessa, where most of its members live, although the group’s vice president and Odessa graduate Jon Heimbigner comes all the way from his home in Spokane. The group’s president is Larry Weber. One member of the committee, Terrie Weishaar, asked to be relieved of duty due to health issues and the fact that she i...
