East Valley teacher hosts annual walk to raise awareness about rare cancer
By MARY PEGGINS RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL It was a beautiful Saturday at Sarg Hubbard Park for the third annual Washington Walk for a Cure on April 14. Seventy-five people participated to increase public awareness of the rare cancer Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST). Some even came from as far as Seattle and Portland. The walk raised [...]
Read more »Gangs, uniforms on minds of law enforcement panelists
By RUSS SHEAN Davis High School Every so often, the Unleashed team will explore a topic of interest to the community. Then a lucky team member will be selected to write about the experience and offer the mysterious “teen perspective” on the subject. On March 21, the Unleashed team hosted a panel of law enforcement [...]
Read more »Why don’t you get a job?
By COURTNEY FRANZ For the Yakima Herald-Republic As the temperatures are rising and pencils are being put down, teenagers will soon be on the prowl for a summer job. For the past year, Kolten Manz, a sophomore at West Valley High School, has been looking for a job and hasn’t been able to find one. [...]
Read more »Unleashed now accepting applications for next year’s team
It just started feeling like spring, and we’re already looking ahead to select this fall’s Unleashed team. Applications are now being accepted for the 2012-13 year, which officially starts in late summer. We are opening the pool for applicants earlier this year. But don’t wait. The early application deadline is May 31, and the final [...]
Read more »Chinese artists projects unite communities
May 13, 2012 by sklepach
Filed under Featured Stories, Stories
By ALEC REGIMBAL WEST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Have you ever thought to yourself: Yakima has a real problem with gangs, crime and poverty. If so, read on. In March, Yakima was heralded with the news that Lily Yeh would be visiting the city to provide her insights into the problems that concern citizens in their [...]
Read more »Davis High School hosts two naturalization ceremonies
By GEORGIA GEMPLER DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL Davis High School played host this year to two naturalization ceremonies – on May 1, when 49 people became U.S. citizens, and on Feb. 16, when 47 attained citizenship. Six of those in the February group and four who took part in the May ceremony were in the citizenship [...]
Read more »Theater a passion for actress, director
By CIARA HANSEN NACHES VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Acting is a career that allows you to get into a fantasy world by portraying a character in a dramatic production. Directing shows your ability to put on a spectacular show and stand behind the scenes. Just ask local actress and director Megan Antles. “Acting is reacting,” she [...]
Read more »PNWU preparing to graduate first class of osteopaths
By OLIVIA MOORER LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL In 2004, a conversation among officials for health services in Washington, Montana, Idaho and Oregon sparked the concern about physician shortages in the Pacific Northwest. Four years later, in the fall of 2008, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences was born in Terrace Heights. Many people know that [...]
Read more »Opera company founder is living her dream in the Yakima Valley
By CIARA HANSEN NACHES VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL In this world, everybody has an aspiration in life. People like to taste the reality of success and be proud of their own accomplishments. One person with great ambition is local music teacher Debra Hardy Stilley, founder of the Yakima Valley Opera Company (YVOC). “I enjoy teaching and [...]
Read more »Presence of Girl Scout camp keeps hopes alive
I never was a Girl Scout. (Surprising, I know!) My sole experience with the Girl Scouts happened, ironically enough, while I was working with the Boy Scouts. In 2010, I got a job working at a Boy Scout camp in Hawaii. The camp was located in the hills above Waimea Bay on Oahu’s North Shore. [...]
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