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The INDEPENDENT, March 7, 2012
BHS releases 1st semester honor roll Curves Food Drive in March
The following students were
named to the Banks High
School academic Honor Roll
for the 2011-12 first semester.
Grade Point Averages (GPA)
are on a scale of 1-4, with 4
equaling a perfect score. An
asterisk (*) indicates a 4.00
GPA for this semester.
Freshmen – Valerie Acosta,
Kindel Bailey*, Avery Cackler,
Ryan Chave*, Kaitlyn Duyck*,
Lindsey Epifano*, Kirsten Erw-
ert, Jeffry Fellas, Keenan John-
son*, Scott Krieger, Benjamin
Larsen, Ericka Lepschat, Katie
Lyda, Jeffery Malmedal, Madi-
son Meeuwsen, Elizabeth
Monroe, Jesus Narvaez, Coryn
Nelson, Holden Partain, Kortni
Ragsdale, Evan Reynolds, Vic-
toria Schmidlin, Caitlin Sher-
burne*, Dallin Shurts, Emily
Smith*, Tiffany Snyder, Madi-
son Soper, Abigail Sprute*,
Oteka Todd*, Emily Vandehey,
Hannah VanDomelen, Haven
Waters, Ryan Weaver, and Ja-
son White*.
Sophomores – Celeste
Acosta,
Hazel Avendano
Gomez, Stefan Bradley, Annika
Bratton, Kyrie Coberley, Holly
Dotson, Lauren Draves, De-
siree Forcier, Jami Haren*,
Emma Heesacker, Amy Hilger,
Amaar Iqbal, Conner Kuehl,
Maribella
Lopez,
Garrett
Markham, Adrianna Moore-
Denslinger*, Tabatha Mur-
dock*, Conner Reed*, Kaitlyn
Selfaison, Aaron Streblow*,
and David Wren.
Juniors – Jessica Beatty*,
Johanna Blake, Thomas Blat-
ner, Matthew Borchers*, Emily
Cackler*, Alexis Chung*, Jas-
myn Denker, Mikayla Denker,
Chelsea Dunthorn*, Jordin
Duyck*, Samantha Duyck, Ste-
fani Evers*, Louis Fowler*, Ri-
ley Gerlinger, Kayla Hardie*,
Samantha Haren*, Maddison
Kellas, Dallis Kendall, Alaura
King*, Brian Lacock, Gavin
Lee, Haley Lipowski, Jacob
Lorenz,
Chelsea
Morton,
Christopher Munjar*, Makayla
Murry*, Aubrey Rue, Tucker
Sahnow*, Wyatt St. Marie,
Devin Sene, Kiana Shurts,
Michaela Shurts*, Eric Som-
merfeld, Jalen Todd, Kaylin
VanDomelen*, Riley Underhill,
and Laura White*.
Seniors – Odalis Aven-
dano*, Morgan Birr, Jessica
Bonnett*, Garrett Bossert, Ka-
jsa Bradley*, Chelsie Bunn*,
Alexandra Chave, Kaitlyn Cole,
Eric Evers*, Mitchell Evers*,
Andrew Fornataro, Marla
Gooding*, Abigail Hardie, Cort-
ney Haworth*, Alexander
Heath*, Cheyanne Heesacker,
Tyler Heesacker, Bonnie Helm,
Jennifer Hilger*, Alan Jordan*,
Kelsea Kemper, Luke Kinsky,
Natalie Larsen, Joshua Lenz,
Elisa Lorenz, Daniel Louie*, Ja-
cob Lyda, Savannah Lyda,
Melissa
Masters*,
Emily
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Meeuwsen, Justin Miller*, Mol-
ly Miller, Robyn Miller, Johanna
Mrosek, Beatrix Norgren,
Michelle Ornelas-Zepeda, Zi-
naida Polushkin, Amanda
Reaser, Shea Rue, Kelsee
Schoenky*, Kyle Selfaison*,
Joshua Sladden, Alexis Smith,
Macy Smith, Austin Soper, Kei-
th Spiering*, Adam Steele, Ja-
cob Stewart, Morgan Stone,
Kendra Thompkins, Melina
Thompson, and Devin Wyck-
off*.
Plan now to be
in the parade
Entries are pouring in for the
annual Murphy’s Saint Patrick’s
Day Parade being held Satur-
day, March 17, to benefit the
Boys and Girls Club of Hills-
boro.
This year there will be an
Honored Citizens Tent (canopy
courtesy of our local Edward
Jones office) at the corner of
Main and 2nd, reserved for
senior citizens and special
need spectators wishing to
view the Parade in “style”. Seat
RSVP’s can be made by email-
ing info@murphysfurniture.net
or by calling 503- 640-1124.
For more information about
this St Patrick’s Day event, call
Murphy’s Furniture at 503-640-
1124, or check online at mur
physfurniture.net.
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Recognizing that the need
for donations is greater than
ever at local food banks across
the nation, Curves International
kicked off the 2012 Curves
Food Drive on March 1 with a
challenge to all Curves Clubs
to meet or exceed last year’s
donations. Each club, including
Curves of Banks, is asking its
members to donate bags of
non-perishable food or cash
throughout the month of March
to support their local communi-
ty food bank. In addition,
Curves of Banks will waive the
joining fee for new members
who bring in a bag of non-per-
ishable food or donate $30 to
their local food bank from
March 12 to 25.
For more information about
Curves of Banks, located at
672 South Main Street, and the
2012 Curves Food Drive, con-
tact a Curves of Banks staff
member at 503-324-9262 or
curves.banks@gmail.com. For
more
information
about
Curves, please visit www.
curves.com.
Mayor Kinsky proclaims March as
Earthquake Awareness Month
Banks Mayor John Kinski, at
the February 14 city council
meeting, proclaimed March
2012 as Earthquake and
Tsunami Awareness Month, but
the need to be aware of Ore-
gon’s vulnerability to earth-
quakes goes far beyond any
political boundaries.
Oregon suffered consider-
able damage from a moderate
earthquake in 1993 and a
tsunami in 1964. Scientific evi-
dence indicates that the State
of Oregon is at risk for much
larger and more damaging
earthquakes and tsunamis.
A major earthquake associ-
ated with the Cascadia Sub-
duction Zone would generate
strong ground shaking and a
destructive tsunami, similar to
the event that occurred off the
coast of Japan in 2011, when
the tsunami crossed the Pacific
Ocean, causing damage on the
coast of Oregon and California.
The most recent event of this
type in Oregon occurred on
January 26, 1700.
Oregon enacted laws in
1995 and 2011 requiring
schools, state and local agen-
cies, and large private employ-
ers to instruct and drill students
and employees on emergency
procedures such as those re-
lated to earthquakes and
tsunamis. Oregon Military De-
partment office of Emergency
Management will be highlight-
ing these preparedness and
mitigation procedures, and pro-
vide increased earthquake and
tsunami information to Oregon
residents and visitors in March.