Linnea Torkelsen, Linnea Torkelsen UCA development director By Linnea Torkelsen, Linnea Torkelsen UCA's Community Table Forges Personal Connections Though Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) is only about a mile from the little farming town of Spangle, Wash., the interaction between the academy and the community has been minimal. This school year, however, has been different thanks to a new outreach... Read more UCA Students "Go MAD!" Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) just began its second decade of operating their unique community service curriculum, HOPE Task Force, and fresh things are still happening.Cheri Corder, director of the curriculum, says the goal is "to increase student... Read more HOPE Task Force After 10 years of operating an aggressive, innovative community service program as part of the school curriculum, Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) is taking that program (HOPE Task Force) to yet another level.Through HOPE, the school cancels classes o... Read more What Do You Do with 23 Trumpet Players? UCA Initiates Gifted Musician Scholarship i>. . . and dear Lord, you know that more than half my band is graduating in May. I’m loosing all my trumpets and tubas. I need saxaphone and clarinet players and I don’t know where I’m going to get them. Please provide for my needs in these areas... Read more
UCA's Community Table Forges Personal Connections Though Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) is only about a mile from the little farming town of Spangle, Wash., the interaction between the academy and the community has been minimal. This school year, however, has been different thanks to a new outreach... Read more
UCA Students "Go MAD!" Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) just began its second decade of operating their unique community service curriculum, HOPE Task Force, and fresh things are still happening.Cheri Corder, director of the curriculum, says the goal is "to increase student... Read more
HOPE Task Force After 10 years of operating an aggressive, innovative community service program as part of the school curriculum, Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) is taking that program (HOPE Task Force) to yet another level.Through HOPE, the school cancels classes o... Read more
What Do You Do with 23 Trumpet Players? UCA Initiates Gifted Musician Scholarship i>. . . and dear Lord, you know that more than half my band is graduating in May. I’m loosing all my trumpets and tubas. I need saxaphone and clarinet players and I don’t know where I’m going to get them. Please provide for my needs in these areas... Read more
