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schools march13 2012 Nate’s Notes: Getting Ready for Africa By Nate Izzett profit organization called KIZIMANI. We will visit three slums near Nairobi. The slums are called Huruma, Eldoret, and Kangundo. Our mission is two-fold; half the group, including me, will assist two different private Christian schools: New Dawn High School in Huruma, and Jamii pre-school in Eldoret, offering crafts and games to the kids while the teachers re- ceive professional training from a few This August, I will be getting people in our group. on an airliner with my mother and about The other half of our group will twenty-three others. I will be the only be setting up a medical clinic in both kid on the two week trip. I am going Kangundo and Eldoret. We will have where few Vernonians have gone before: three doctors and many cases of medi- to Kenya, Africa! cines making the journey with us! I will be representing a non- Kenya is a moderately-sized na- tion on Africa’s eastern half. Nai- robi, where we will be staying at night, is the capital. Kenya is a nd very poor country. According to the 2010 CIA’s World Factbook, Principal’s Honors 4.0 Taylor, Iryna Verhogliad, Jacob Vifquain, America is the 9th wealthiest in Makayla Adams, Yaraslava Denysenko, Stina Voss, Damian Young GDP per capita. Kenya ranks the Katie Ellington, Nicole Glass, Jeffrey 165th in the world. Goodman, Nathanael Izzett, Pavel Jiranek, Honors 3.49-3.25 The slums we will be serving Andrew Jennings, Alisa Levenseller, Ashlee Archer, Skylar Binford, Savannah don’t produce electricity and don’t Samantha Lindauer, Alyssa Loggins, Laura Brown, Robin Elliot, Amirkhon have paved roads. The schools are Rice, Leah Rice, Deziree Roberts, Ana Habibuloev, Adonis Hopkins, Jacob basic one-room shacks with very Scerbatii, Sicily Scott, Summer Snow, Levenseller, Lilliann Lindsley, Nathan few supplies and a mud field to Tynystan Talantov, Shyla Tungwenuk, McMillen, Daniel Rice, Sven Sandstorm, play in during the rainy season. Natalie Wallace, Samantha Wallace, Rowan Scott, Jessica Smith, Lane Sullivan, The students are also given a Brittany Young, Zhudyz Zhunussova Sarah Wagner, Kristian Wredstroem simple lunch of porridge and this High Honors 3.99-3.50 Honorable Mention 3.24-3.0 is the only meal many of these kids Kimberly Allen, Kayla Aronhalt, Austin Crystal-Ann Carreon, Stephanie Castro, get. It costs about $125 per stu- Best-Cutright, Marley Bower, Joshua Melissa Charbonneau, Dillon Dethlefs, dent for a year of school, but most Butcher, Nicolo Casale, Zi Xian Chen, Shylo Dooley, Mandi Hartford, Cierra of the students from these slums Andrew Cheney, Rowan Cheney, Lucrece Henson, Finn Hoeck, Sara McMahon, just don’t have that sort of money, Cheramy, Christopher Dass, Emilee Felicia Schirmeister, Robert Stringfield, and some who attend New Dawn Easlon, Janae Easlon, Jacob Eyrrick, Nicole Thompson, Logan Titus, Leon and Jamii are sponsored by those Julia Fletcher, Jessica Gardner, Timothy Wiegand who can afford to. The problem Jennings, Quin Johansen, Jerrid Johnston, is, without an education, they have Brandon Krause, Kendrick Leaverton, Progressive Honors—Raised GPA by .5 almost no hope at all of improving Alex Lembke, Andrea Lezama, Lea Mari, or more their situation in life. Jackson Miller, Kaitlin Paleck, Janek Jonathon Anderson, Jerrid Johnston, To make matters worse, if they Palovsky, Tasia Pond, Daniel Shaw, Kristen Leaverton, Jacob Loveland, miss even one semester of high Kelly Smith, Winter Snow, Sean Solberg, Brenden McNeill, Nicholas Rainbolt, Levi school, they have to begin over Meghan Sullivan, Ellyssa Szlavich, Dylan Taylor, Brittany Watrous again in 9th grade. For this reason, VHS 2 Quarter Honor Roll VMS 2 nd Quarter Honor Roll Principal’s Honors 4.0 Brad Ely, Annika Johnson, Jessika Goodman. Jacob Patton, Sheyanne Pedersen, Megan Rice, Jocie-Ranay Roberts, Chase Tolonen, Ian Torres- Petersen, Payton Wolf High Honors 3.99-3.5 Tristan Adams, Emily Bergerson, Lily Buchanan, Jacob Butcher, Coral Cook, Megan Ely, Breanna Gardner, Morgan Harral, Ashley Jackson, Amanda Jennings, Bryanna Larson, Ariel Mosag, Jacob Perry, Jamie Scott, Paige Smith, Clay Sullivan, Jarrett White, Cassidy Whitton, Mahaila Whilhelm Honors 3.49-3.25 Hayden Cieloha, Kaitlyn Eyrrick, Kassidy Fetch, Benjamin Fleck, Nichole Gardner, Casey Hathcoat, Storm Henson, Brett Jones, Cheyenne Kemper, Haley Lindsay, Megan Schirmeister, Benjamin Schulte, Sara Smith, Jessica Stringfield, Kole Titus, McKenzie Willard, Mekhi Williams Honorable Mention 3.24-3.0 Courtney Barklow, Brandon Clapshaw, Grace Coleman, Courteny Fennel, Hannah Fleck, Lauren Glass, Rachele Hanner-Knighton, Hera Hopkins, Katie Martinez, Jackhenry Masog, Jared Medearis, Amanda Rose-Sicard, Mikila Solberg, Autumn Sorenson Progressive Honors-Raised GPA .5 or more Cobey Brucken, Jamie Duyck, Courteny Fennel, Lauren Foster, Kodee Kelso, Mariah Miller, James Nichols, Sativa Shepherd, Shaylanna Shepherd, Kole Titus, Mckenzie Titus, Alex West, Cassidy Whitton Firewood Fundraiser to support VHS Forestry Program $50 per pick-up load, delivered $40 pick up yourself Call VHS office 503-429-3521 or instructor Byron Brown 503-366-4322 13 many of these students don’t graduate until they are in their twenties, and some- times they don’t graduate at all. While we can do nothing to change the over- all situation, we can make the schools themselves better, which is where the missions team comes in. And here’s how you can help. You see, each of us making the trip are responsible for bringing a veritable stockpile of items, which will all be giv- en to the schools and students we are go- ing to serve. Can you help? Below is a list of items that we need: Bars of soap New adult small and medium t-shirts (for high schoolers) New or gently-used shoes (All sizes) Black or blue pens (in packets) Coloring pencils (in packets of 12) Crayola markers (packets) Pencils( packs) Pencil sharpeners Spiral notebooks Glue sticks Scotch tape Crayons( packs of 12) Balloons (Need 200 total) Bubbles Preschool reading material (English) K-5 reading material (English) Chalk Chalk erasers Supplies can be brought to the VHS band room during school hours. In the meantime, I will periodi- cally write on our progress, just to keep you posted. Vernonia Students of the Month Rylee Pihl , February 2012 Kindergarten Rylee always has a positive attitude and follows directions well. She is a good role model for other students. She is always helpful with her peers and does her best in class. Rylee says she likes learning math in school. Rylee is five years old and has a twin brother, Mathius. She is a Girl Scout, also participates in the Mat Pack wrestling club, and likes to play T-ball. Rylee says her favorite TV show is “Wow Wow Wubbzy” and that she watches Ax Men “sometimes.” Autumn Sorenson , Grade 7 Autumn is a wonderful student who listens when lessons are being taught and instructions are being given. and gets her assignments in and on time. It is very evident by Autumn’s grades that school is important to her. “She is a complete joy to have in class and you can always expect to see a smile on Autumn’s face,” says one of her instructors. “She is a terrific young lady with a bright promising future ahead of her.” Autumn says she enjoys Language Arts class, plays clarinet in the VMS Band and is playing softball. Samantha Lindauer , Grade 11 Samantha is an excellent student with a 4.0 GPA and says her favorite subjects are math and science. She is the Treasurer for the VHS Student Council. Sami plays for the VHS volleyball team, girls basketball team and qualified for State in track and field in the 200 meters last year as a sophomore, winning a 5th place medal. Samantha is actively involved with St. Mary's Church and volunteers each year at the Quilt Fair. She says she would like to pursue a career in nursing and that she loves to cook for fun. Sponsored by Vernonia’s Voice
