Liesl Vistaunet Gleaner copy editor Former Portland Adventist Academy communications director and marketing manager By Liesl Vistaunet Portland Adventist Academy Moves to Lose Teachers and faculty at Portland Adventist Academy participated in a friendly competition resulting in a weight loss of 115 pounds by 24 staff members over a ten-week period.The "Move It or Lose It" challenge was created by religion department tea... Read more Portland Adventist Academy Students Learn Cutting Edge Science Portland Adventist Academy honors anatomy and physiology students recently witnessed a heart surgery at the Oregon Health and Science University. The experience was highlighted with a lecture from Albert Starr, inventor of the heart valve.Visiting... Read more Light Rail Comes to PAA Portland Adventist Academy recently welcomed an extension of MAX, the Portland, Ore., area light rail train, to its front entrance.Mass transit is nothing new to PAA students. The school, 100 years old this year, has always had students who depend... Read more PAA Adds New S.A. Office of Environmental Coordinator Portland Adventist Academy Student Senate and Administrative Council approved the addition of the new office of environmental coordinator for the Student Association.Students voted Ben Ashlock, PAA senior, into office. "I can't imagine a better pe... Read more PAA Hires New Teachers and Staff Portland Adventist Academy welcomes: Tim Erich, Stephen Lundquist, Drechelle Larry, Jonathan Schaffer and Greg Damazo as new teachers and staff members.Erich joins PAA as head of the social studies department. He and his wife, Kristy, have two son... Read more PAA Student Scholarship Graduates Excel Despite the economic recession, the Portland Adventist Academy Student Scholarship program and its investors kept over 60 financially challenged students enrolled at PAA this year.Ian Bilinowich was one of those students. He graduated with a four ... Read more PAA Credits Feeder Schools for High Test Scores Portland Adventist Academy administrators attribute high test scores to Portland area Adventist elementary schools and families committed to Adventist education.Gale Crosby, PAA principal, thanked Portland Adventist Elementary School, Hoodview Jun... Read more PAA Students Find Service Impacts Hearts Before graduation, Portland Adventist Academy held its first all-school service day. The entire student body, staff, parents and community members participated in the event.Volunteers were divided into 25 groups and sent to various locations and o... Read more PAA Sponsors Third Trip for Gulf Coast Relief Portland Adventist Academy continued a three-year tradition by sending students to the Gulf coast of Mississippi for a Katrina relief mission trip this spring.PAA worked again with His Hands and Feet Ministries, a nonprofit group of Adventist fami... Read more PAA Staff Grows Faith by Hearing Portland Adventist Academy students and staff were challenged to commit to a 40-day New Testament listening program called Faith Comes By Hearing. Nine Adventist churches in the Portland area were inspired to join them.FCBH has recorded the New Te... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 11 Next page ››
Portland Adventist Academy Moves to Lose Teachers and faculty at Portland Adventist Academy participated in a friendly competition resulting in a weight loss of 115 pounds by 24 staff members over a ten-week period.The "Move It or Lose It" challenge was created by religion department tea... Read more
Portland Adventist Academy Students Learn Cutting Edge Science Portland Adventist Academy honors anatomy and physiology students recently witnessed a heart surgery at the Oregon Health and Science University. The experience was highlighted with a lecture from Albert Starr, inventor of the heart valve.Visiting... Read more
Light Rail Comes to PAA Portland Adventist Academy recently welcomed an extension of MAX, the Portland, Ore., area light rail train, to its front entrance.Mass transit is nothing new to PAA students. The school, 100 years old this year, has always had students who depend... Read more
PAA Adds New S.A. Office of Environmental Coordinator Portland Adventist Academy Student Senate and Administrative Council approved the addition of the new office of environmental coordinator for the Student Association.Students voted Ben Ashlock, PAA senior, into office. "I can't imagine a better pe... Read more
PAA Hires New Teachers and Staff Portland Adventist Academy welcomes: Tim Erich, Stephen Lundquist, Drechelle Larry, Jonathan Schaffer and Greg Damazo as new teachers and staff members.Erich joins PAA as head of the social studies department. He and his wife, Kristy, have two son... Read more
PAA Student Scholarship Graduates Excel Despite the economic recession, the Portland Adventist Academy Student Scholarship program and its investors kept over 60 financially challenged students enrolled at PAA this year.Ian Bilinowich was one of those students. He graduated with a four ... Read more
PAA Credits Feeder Schools for High Test Scores Portland Adventist Academy administrators attribute high test scores to Portland area Adventist elementary schools and families committed to Adventist education.Gale Crosby, PAA principal, thanked Portland Adventist Elementary School, Hoodview Jun... Read more
PAA Students Find Service Impacts Hearts Before graduation, Portland Adventist Academy held its first all-school service day. The entire student body, staff, parents and community members participated in the event.Volunteers were divided into 25 groups and sent to various locations and o... Read more
PAA Sponsors Third Trip for Gulf Coast Relief Portland Adventist Academy continued a three-year tradition by sending students to the Gulf coast of Mississippi for a Katrina relief mission trip this spring.PAA worked again with His Hands and Feet Ministries, a nonprofit group of Adventist fami... Read more
PAA Staff Grows Faith by Hearing Portland Adventist Academy students and staff were challenged to commit to a 40-day New Testament listening program called Faith Comes By Hearing. Nine Adventist churches in the Portland area were inspired to join them.FCBH has recorded the New Te... Read more
