Education notebook: Foundation awards 92 scholarships
The Inland Northwest Community Foundation has awarded 92 scholarships totaling $157,742 to students from Eastern Washington and North Idaho for the 2016-17 school year.
Scholarship recipients include Jaimie Woodland (Central Valley High School), Paul Young (East Valley High School), Audry Burgess (East Valley), Elizabeth McLean (East Valley), Bryce Pointer (East Valley), Tristin Twin (East Valley), Megan Paternoster (Freeman High School), Collin Jurenka (Gonzaga Preparatory School), Maisie Crane (Rogers High School), Conrad Weeks (Rogers), Maxey Cherel (Lewis and Clark High School), Alexander Choe (North Central High School), Z’Jataya Campbell (North Central), Clio Alexander (North Central), Catherine Forwood-Knorr (Shadle Park High School), Haven Davis-Martinez (University High School) and Jordan Willson (University).
Three teachers, Karin Steever (Continuous Curriculum School), Drew Vanderpool (East Valley) and Kristi Cysewski (Otis Orchards Elementary School), received the Kuehnle Family Teacher Scholarship, which recognizes teachers with high standards and excellent performance.
THEZONE receives grant
to provide access to food
The Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund has given an $85,000 grant to fund two projects in THEZONE, with which Spokane Public Schools is a partner, to provide access to healthy and affordable food.
THEZONE Mobile Market will work with local grocers, farmers and Second Harvest to deliver food that will be sold at or below market prices to high density, low-income housing complexes.
Green Schoolyards will create gardens and greenhouses in schools to grow fresh food for school kitchens. Staff, students and community members will learn about gardening, food prep and nutrition.
These gardens will also provide summer employment opportunities for students through a partnership with Project Hope.
Both programs will launch next spring.
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct names of Inland Northwest Community Foundation scholarship winners.