And the Winner Is... Blue Mountain Television Blue Mountain Television recently won two international awards for news coverage of last year’s Columbia Complex Fire.Dan Thesman, station manager and reporter, Lowell Mann, editor, and Dan Pyke, photojournalist, were awarded two bronze Telly awar... Read more
Upper Columbia Academy's Teacher of Excellence Gayle Haeger Ask any of Gayle Haeger's hundreds of biology students, past or present, if she deserves a teaching award, and the answer will be the same—a resounding yes! On Feb. 24, she was officially recognized with the 2007 Teacher of Excellence Award from t... Read more
Newport Church Hosts Health Seminar The Newport (Wash.) Church, members of surrounding churches and community visitors were blessed in February with the health ministry of Paul Volk, called New Start Plus. This international health lecturer shared some of the latest research in heal... Read more
Academy Choir to Perform at Carnegie Hall Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) Choraliers have been invited to perform at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City. The invitation came from Jackson Berkey, a choral arranger and writer, and the keyboard artist for Mannheim Steamroller.Berk... Read more
Musical Horizons Expand at UCA Students Share Talents With Others Curtis Anderson, music department chairman, and Dean Kravig, band instructor, together with the administration, have added a strings program through the Spokane Youth Orchestra to Upper Columbia Academy’s (UCA) music options. Private string lesson... Read more
John Deming Receives Award John Deming, principal of Walla Walla Valley Academy (WWVA) for the past 14 years, received the Excellence in Leadership Award at the Alumni Awards Celebration, Feb. 24, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was recognized for his dedication and leadership i... Read more
Dedication of Production Studio Hes Alive Television, KHBA Channel 39 Sitting behind a camera, I was excited to witness and videotape the dedication for the new production studio for He’s Alive Television, Sabbath, Feb. 3. I was looking at a mission field—the set of the new production studio—beginning to perform the... Read more
Sewing for the Lord Ginger Brockman, retired teacher and member of the Newport Church, is “sewing for the Lord.” Her love of sewing started as a youngster when she sewed clothes for her dolls on her mother’s treadle sewing machine.Several years ago Brockman learned t... Read more
UCC Men's Retreat A Time for Prayer, Study and Fellowship If you’ve ever attended a men’s conference, you’ll understand why I decided to make the five-hour drive from northwest Montana over to Camp MiVoden in Northern Idaho for the Upper Columbia Conference Men’s Retreat on March 16–18. This was my first... Read more
