School briefs

Published 3:01 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008

DeBeck excels

in Nebraska

Dallas DeBeck was named to the fall 1999 Dean’s List at Dana

College in Blair, Neb. DeBeck is majoring in religion at the four-year private

liberal arts and sciences college. He is the son of Ed and Mary DeBeck of

North Bend.

In order to be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must

maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 or better.

Students have

a can-do attitude

The students at Fall City Elementary busily collected more than

9,000 pounds of non-perishable food items which were donated to local

food banks. Paula Young’s fifth-grade class brought in more than 2,000 pounds

to the cause.

The food was donated to Mount Si High’s annual food drive. The

high school students then distributed the food to area food banks.

Poets emerge from SMS

Poems written by 22 students from Snoqualmie Middle School were

chosen to be published in Creative Communication’s upcoming book,

“A Celebration of Northwest’s Young Poets.”

Teacher Hope Nichols said the eighth-grade students wrote five

poems and selected the best one to submit to the contest.

The selected poems were as follows:

“My Uncle” by Anthony Allres; “Grandpa” by Kristen Berndt;

“Nature” by Jaclyn Boals; “October”

by Liana Felt; “Rivers” by Kelly

Fletcher; “October” by Tyson Gmeiner;

“Ode to Dane” by Kyla Hein; “Why Did

You Have to Go?” by Candi Nicole Johnson; “Ode to a Veteran” by

Rachel Kelnath; “Autumn Leaves” by Amy Keogh; “October” by Ashley

Kober; “My Grandparents” by Dustin

Krenz; “Welcome to the Panhandle” by Harrison Meyer; “Basketball” by

Zoe Nelson; “October Nights” by Chandra Rappin; “My Mom” by Jennifer

Riley; “Home” by Lizzie Sherwood;

“October” by Elizabeth Short; “October

is Near” by Nick Swanson; “Dad” by Tyler Troutman; “Ode to Opa”

by Becca Vikari; and “Spring” by Jessica Wada.

Because SMS had so many winners, the school will be

recognized with a Poetic Achievement Award in the book. This honor is reserved

for the top 10 percent of the schools who entered the contest. The schools

are chosen based on the number and quality of the entries accepted.

Creative Communication officials report that they receive thousands

of entries in the contest, however, less than 50 percent of the poems are

chosen for publication.