Team Fresh Faces – Yolanda Altamirano
January 30, 2009 by TJ
Filed under Unleashed Team
Meet the team! Members of the 2008-09 Unleashed crew are charged with serving as the eyes and ears of their campuses, communities and generation. Their job is to document issues and ideas, events, people, places and things that are important to today’s young people, particularly the young people in Central Washington. This group — the [...]
Read more »Team Fresh Faces – Laura Aguilera-Flemming
January 30, 2009 by TJ
Filed under Unleashed Team
Meet the team! Members of the 2008-09 Unleashed crew are charged with serving as the eyes and ears of their campuses, communities and generation. Their job is to document issues and ideas, events, people, places and things that are important to today’s young people, particularly the young people in Central Washington. This group — the [...]
Read more »Yakima Music Club honors high school seniors
January 30, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Stories
Twelve seniors are being honored by the Yakima Music Club.
The club, established in 1898, recognizes Yakima Valley high school seniors each year by holding a senior showcase.
This year’s showcase concert takes place Thursday, Feb. 5 at 1:30 p.m. at The Seasons Performance Hall, 101 N. Naches Ave.
Students being honored are:
• Taylor Breitenfeldt, a tuba player [...]
Washington Apple Education Foundation announces new scholarships
January 30, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Other Stuff
The Washington Apple Education Foundation is offering some new scholarships this year.
The new scholarships were started by Tieton’s CPC Apple Company and Olson’s Honey of Yakima. Stemlit Growers, Inc. also added another scholarship to those it already gives through the WAEF.
In all, the foundation will provide about $225,000 in student aid this year.
The WAEF Universal [...]
Fresh Faces: Gage Neiffer
January 28, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Fresh Faces
Name: Gage Neiffer
School/year in school/age: Riverside Christian, freshman, 15.
Activities/hobbies/clubs: Piano, video games, basketball, football, science, boy stuff.
Favorite food: Any bread with sauce on it.
Favorite movies: “Tommy Boy,” “Forrest Gump,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Pulp Fiction.”
Favorite book/writers: “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Favorite music, musician, or bands: The Ramones, Detektivbryan, [...]
WAVE scholarship deadline is approaching
January 28, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Other Stuff
It’s time to apply for the Washington Award for Vocational Excellence, or WAVE, scholarship.
Career and technical education students can get applications from their school counselors.
The scholarship is awarded by the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. The grants provide as much as $6,720 in tuition per year.
Eligible students have finished a college and technical education [...]
Winter wonderland at White Pass
January 28, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Featured Stories, Stories
Winter weekends at White Pass Ski Area offer a visually vibrant array of snow-filled fun.
Skiers zip by in bright ski suites, youngsters wobble down shallow slopes as they learn to ski, and picturesque pines and mountainsides surround the lodge.
On Saturday, Jan. 24, three Unleashed photographers bundled up and headed out to capture their unique visions [...]
Davis High School library welcomes community members
January 24, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Featured Stories, Stories
By GEORGIA GEMPLER
UNLEASHED STAFF
Noise. It’s one thing you wouldn’t expect to find in a library.
Yet, at the Davis High School Library and Media Center, noise is the essence of a day-to-day operation. The library, says Lynne Greene, the director of the library media center, has the “atmosphere of planning for our futures.”
And it offers much [...]
How far we’ve come
January 22, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Columns
By COLLEEN FONTANA
UNLEASHED STAFF
Inauguration Day 2009 is a day I will always remember.
At Davis High School that morning, we watched the swearing in ceremony projected on a wall in the auditorium. I was jittery and excited, and so were many other students.
For the first time in the history of this great nation, we were inaugurating [...]
Just say ‘No Stank You’
January 22, 2009 by Adriana Janovich
Filed under Other Stuff
Anti-tobacco teens heading to the movies this weekend could end up on the screen themselves — at least the small screen.
From noon to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, local anti-tobacco volunteers will be at the Majestic Theatre, 1919 S. 14th St. in Union Gap, to take photos of teens for possible use in the No [...]
