What a Difference a Dean Makes Think back to your boarding school years and you may remember a dean who made a difference in your life. One such dedicated man, John Willis, is doing just that at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA).This is Willis' third year as UCA's boys' dean, and he... Read more
SJA Students Take Field Trip What do you get when you take two teachers and 27 excited students to see three amazing exhibits? You get a recent overnight field trip to Seattle with Spokane Junior Academy (SJA) students in grades seven to 10.SJA has a long history of traveling... Read more
Jumping for Joy YACS Jump-rope Program Yakima Adventist Christian School (YACS) began a jump-rope team just after Thanksgiving 2006. Thirty students in grades one through six, along with some older students to help, work out every Wednesday after school. This energetic group of boys an... Read more
Walk-a-thon At Milton-Stateline Adventist School Milton-Stateline Adventist School completed its fourth annual walk-a-thon for health and school improvement on May 4. Nearly all the students participated, showing incredible school spirit. Students in preschool through eighth grade walked in the ... Read more
Hermiston Jr. Academy Eighth-graders Go South of the Border Joshua Aguilar and Joshua Peterson, two eighth-graders from Hermiston Jr. Academy with their teacher Randy Foss, his wife Jamie, and Lolita, Joshua Aguilar's mother, went to Ensenada, Mexico, for their annual eighth-grade mission trip this spring.... Read more
WWVA Seniors Serve in Florida If you had been in the Filsbury Neighborhood of Vero Beach, Fla., on the mornings of April 19 and 20, you would have seen a group of grinning young people, carrying black garbage bags and picking up trash, or wielding rakes and shovels. Clearly, t... Read more
Colleen Nilsson Dedicated Librarian for 39 Years At Milton-Stateline Adventist School Colleen Nilsson has completed her 39th year at Milton-Stateline Adventist School (MSAS). She has worked for MSAS for her entire career, filling the roles of librarian, teacher and administrative assistant. She has touched the lives of hundreds of ... Read more
"The Singing Christmas Tree" Performs at PAA Fundraising Banquet Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) featured the famous Portland Singing Christmas Tree (PSCT) choir in a fundraising banquet for the school's scholarship fund. The PSCT is a volunteer choir of 350 members, 70 of which performed at the banquet. "This... Read more
Central Valley Christian School Celebrates 50 Years Fifty years ago, in 1957, a small school, Corvallis-Albany Seventh-day Adventist Union School, started with 34 students in grades one through eight. Through the years, the name of the school has changed to Central Valley Jr. Academy and presently ... Read more
