UCA Alumni Celebrate Service For this year’s alumni weekend, Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) featured a number of people who had rarely, if ever, even been to the campus before. They were representatives from service organizations that UCA has had significant partnerships with o... Read more
WWVA Students Pursue "Truth, Honor and Loyalty" Walla Walla Valley Academy’s (WWVA) school song opens with a pastoral vision of this academy, located “where the Blue Mountains rise to meet the skies, hills and valleys of green make a paradise." Additional lines extol not only the crops grown in... Read more
CCA Kids Keep Scripture in Hearts and Minds Shannon Fisher has been teaching at Cascade Christian Academy (CCA) for 18 years and has decided that one Bible text would never apply to her classroom. Sound suspicious?The Bible text that Fisher doesn’t want to apply to her classroom reads, “'Th... Read more
CCA Develops New Touring Group At the beginning of the 2004–05 school year, CCA’s choral director, Dan Kravig, and Vicki Downer, drama director, decided to combine their programs in a unique way. Instead of teaching separate disciplines, why not combine efforts to create a grou... Read more
UCA Students Selected as Spokane Scholars Each year a significant number of Spokane-area businesses and executives join together to honor scholastic excellence. They invite area high schools to send their top seniors in each of several categories to a banquet held in their honor at the Sp... Read more
Milo Student Journeys from Korea to Jesus When Mark Oh left Seoul, South Korea, to attend school in the United States, he thought he was embarking on an academic journey. But this trip led him all the way to his heavenly home.Oh’s hosts were the Duncans, residents of Medford, Ore. “Out of... Read more
Columbia Offers Unique Experiences Small schools like Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) are able to offer students some unique opportunities that are fun as well as educational.For example, freshmen in CAA's physical science class build "submarines" that they use to dive in and expl... Read more
Central Valley Students Raise Funds for ADRA I was sorting mail yet again when I came across a letter from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). I opened the letter to find statistics and facts that made the hair on my arms stand on end. Were other people really reading what AD... Read more
Livingstone's Hero in the Classroom If you combined the teaching experience of the rest of the high school staff of Livingstone Adventist Academy, it would just about equal the experience of Howard Hodges—both in years and subject matter.Hodges has taught since 1962 in eight differe... Read more
