Education5AFerndale Record | Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Cascadia Elementary School’s grade 2 and 3 music program has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. For more information, contact music teacher Beverly Dooley at Cascadia Elementary at 383-2311 or beverly.dooley@fsd.k12.wa.us.

CasCadia grade 2 and 3 musiC program resCheduled

Sumas duplex project also gets a boost from collegiate volunteers

From left, Fidel Carpio holds a ladder for fellow Clark College student Shon Harris as Dusty Laird provides direction at a Habitat for Hu-manity home in the Trigg Woods development. — Ferndale Record | MARK REIMERS

Spring break brings 50 college students to Ferndale Habitat build

FERNDALE — Ferndale High School has released its first-se-mester honor roll and the fol-lowing students were listed:

4.0 GPA Seniors — Leah Bowd, Konnor Erdman, Jacob Hoelzle, Emily Kyl-lingmark, Steven Rauch, Annalise Sayles and Kylie Williamson. Juniors — Katie Brudwick, Emily Bunch, Leah Burlingame, Michael Butayev, Mattie Carlson, Seth Dick-son, Laurel Erdman, John Gonzalez, Tanner Hanson, Jessica Kelley, An-thony Lapsansky, Alexandra Leegwa-ter and Chongjing Wang. Sophomores — Stepan Baydak, James Bernard, Erik Engels, Oksana Hanson, Samantha Hernandez, Tif-fany Le, Ian McElfresh, Alyssa Pe-terson, Tanner Robbins and Olivia Walker. Freshmen — Katelyn Baertsch, Sa-mantha Boxx, Monica Burlingame, Hannah Carlson, Nathan Derr, Sarah Erdman, Viktoriya Filimonova, Tra-vis Hanes, Paul Herbig, Mikaela Her-nandez, Mark Litovchenko, Adonis Reedboulos, Tanvir Singh and James Sweet.

3.5 - 3.99 GPA Seniors — Breawna Arestad, Der-ek Bandolon, Bekah Barrick, Nicole Beaulaurier, Yelena Belaya, Bryson Bellefeuille, Patrick Campbell, Taylor Clark, Sarah CovertBowlds, Megan Crider, Hayley Davis, Ryan Derr, Anna Dye, Nichole Ellis, Kayli Felbinger, Kyler Flaherty, Samantha Garza, Ted Genger, Jennifer Gon-zalez, Meagan Graveline, Gabrielle Hall, Tyler Hansen, Bethany Hasper, Cody Hewett, Lindsay Hicks, Minyen Hsieh, Breelynd Huntley, Savdeep Kahlon, Paige Larrabee, Haley Lock-er, Riley Locker, Robert MacDon-ald, Michael Maley, Danielle Marks,

Brianne Mattila, Allie McCormick, Logan McKay, Shaun Nelson, Tan-ner Olson, James Pearce, Taylor Prince, Jordan Quinn, Margaret Redelinghuis, Sergey Samoylenko, William Scott, Breanna Tilton, Bryce VanderYacht, Stephanie Viera, Cam-eron Walbeck, Brett Watson, Dillon Whitman, Kayla WoodruffStevens and Marinn Young. Juniors — Daisy Aguilera, Amber Amende, Alejandra Angulo, Brit-tany Anonson, Erik Arntsen, Lucio Ayala, Jacob Bartel, Kid Beckstead, Tess Benson, Patricia Castrejon, Sa-die Cearns, Tanner Dawson, Sabrina Delzell, Ashlee Dingle, Alyssa Don-aldson, Makayla Donaldson, Phil-lip Dye, Kacey Ferrier, Tori Fleming, Michael Ford, Jacob Frost, Watson George, Elena Golovin, Justin Graf, Collin Green, Greta Gustafson, Ty-ler Hanes, Tara Hanson, Christina Hope, Nicholas Kemp, Robert Kerr, Emily Kessler, Kalinda Kindle, Elisa-beth Lohafer, Moeko Machida, Jesus Martinez, Cody Mason, Cameron Mielke, Kayla Monson, Connor Neal, Jessica Noble, Jasdeep Pannu, Mayra PazToledo, Marissa Pemberton, Benjamin Peterson, Ross Robinson, Aaron Rowse, Jacob Schroeder, Me-gan Schulz, Hailey Shields, Kennedy Simpson, Gagandeep Singh, Jordyn Small, David VanegasLytle, Tatiana Villalon, Jessame Vrieling and Kyle Waldron. Sophomores — Alex Agafonov, Samuel Alexander, Joshua Alvarez, Luis Alvarez, Jacob Anderson, Jac-quelyn Anderson, Arielle Andrews, Daniel Andrukhov, Katie Annette, Cassandra Azevedo, Vladislav Balko, Kelli Bannerman, Angela Beaulau-rier, Grace Bills, Phonlawat Boon-nithi, Marcella Boulos, Tyler Brooks, Courtney Brown, Hayden Brown, Mindi Caldwell, Kira Cardoza, James Carson, Lucas Catrain, Kaylyn Chris-tensen, Alex Conley, Jessica Cruz,

Carrieann Deguzman, Amanda Del-aney, Manmit Dhami, Emile Diffley, Evelyn Dostal, Heather Duncan, Wy-att Dunn, Brittany Elmquist, Robby Enriquez, Chelanne Evans, Justin Ferguson, William Ferguson, Ve-ronica Finkbonner, Sarah Fleming, Makenzie Frazier, Madison Genger, Cece George, Bettina Gonzaga, Colin Gunningham, Emily Hansen, Dani-elle Herbig, Monica Hope, Keena Hudson, Lyle Hughs, Jessica Hull, Maleenia Huntley, Britagne Johnson, Vernelle Johnson, Molly Jones, Con-nor Jungkuntz, Logan Jungkuntz, Mary Kahle, Oksana Kasko, Joseph Kelstrup, Colt Kempinsky, Malcolm Kilgore, Taylor Knutson, Bryce Kober, Trevor Koehn, Nelly Kovalenko, Daco-da Lancaster, Elise Larson, Makalee Latta, Kirstie Leath, Meredith Levine, Brianne Locke, Rachel Logan, Mi-cah Lolkema, Miranda Long, Yuliya Lopatnikov, Sarah Lucke, Katie Mc-Cormick, Timothy McGuire, Hannah Melland, Kameron Mensing, McK-enzie Meyer, Nolan Miller, Allison Morgan, Nicholas Murphy, Benja-min Neher, Inna Pakhnyuk, Nicholas Parkes, Kaylin PearsonBarrow, Bran-den Peppar, Jamie Pettinger, Natasha Pitre, Taylor Reid, Garrett Remsen, Cheryl Ruiz, Mallory Sandoval, Katie Scheck, Matthew Scott, Elaine Ship-man, Zachary Shockley, Anastasiya Shportko, Yuliya Shportko, Iesha Sir-mans, Courtney Souve, Ashlee Stiles, Jacob Stocklass, Allen Sutton, Viktor Trubnikov, Kasey Truong, Derek Vaj-da, Bradley Vario, Michaela Vendiola, Kaitlyn Vevag, Alexandra Vine, Taylor Walton, Koral Weidkamp, Kamaran Williams, Logan Wilson and Anasta-sia Yudin. Freshmen — Erin Abbott, Nelya Alter, Abigail Asplund, Alexis Bagley, Kyle Baker, Miranda Baker, Krista Bergquist, Adriana Boulos, Brit-tany Breedlove, Ryder Brooks, Col-lette Brown, Lalana Cafarella, Zach-

ary Cancino, Evan Chapin, Magnolia Collman, Kelley Crider, Laura Crui-kshank, Sydney Cutsforth, Liam Dickman, Michelle Dykstra, Nathan Ellis, Cynthia Flores, Cameron Ford, Victoria Fox, Breanna Fryer, Kyndra Garrison, Gebran Gholam, Carson Gibboney, Alexandra Gonzalez, Claudia Grimm, Hunter Grunhurd, Morgan Gust, Sara Haling, Robert Hardin, Melynda Hayes, Emma Her-linger, Louis Hunter, Harry Knechtel, Taryn Knutson, Timmy Kovalenko, Bailey Larsen, Saul Liera, Daniel Litovchenko, Diana Litovchenko, Andrew Littrell, Gabriela Llanos, Cody Marshall, Andrew McLaurin, Joshua Mielke, Emily Mihelich, Ser-ena Milam, Drew Mobley, Jeremy Montgomery, Sydni Morin, Cassidy Newman, Peter Pennylegion, Kirsten Philpott, Hannah Pitsch, Victoria Pollock, Daniel Riley, Tianna Robil-lard, Gagandeep Sanghera, Marceli-na Santana, Jaiden Schmit, Michaela Schulz, Robert Semu, Manjot Singh, Megan Sorgenfrei, Kaylee Stiles, Natasha Sulek, Annemarie Vander-Sypen, Jennifer Viera, Amber Weath-erly, Mckaela Williams, Nicolas Wil-lis, Caleb Wittmer, Zachary Young and Emily Zawicki.

—Mark Reimers

FHS releases first-semester honor roll

Mark ReimersFor the Ferndale Record

FERNDALE — If spring break is supposed to conjure up im-ages of a Mexican vacation or a road trip to Las Vegas, think again.

Some college students stayed right here in the Pacific Northwest once finals were be-hind them. What’s more, they were working, in the rain, for no pay. And on Monday, they were back in class. But it’s all for a

good cause. The students were from the University of Portland, South-ern Utah University, Portland State University and Clark College. Their job was a build-ing project with the Whatcom County affiliate of Habitat for

Humanity in Ferndale. A total of 50 college students made the trip to Ferndale to work on several houses located in the new Trigg Woods neigh-borhood off Portal Way. The last group of students, from Clark College in Vancouver, Wash.,

spent Friday at the future home of Dawn Hubbard, who will live there with a daughter and two granddaughters. “It’s amazing to see people give in our day,” Hubbard said as she came to the house to see the students off. She said it was exciting during the weeks to come by the house and see so much being accomplished. She said she is hoping to move into her new home in June. Student Loren Brown, 18, said half of the Clark College group of volunteers are Run-ning Start students like he is. Clark, Brown said, has a two-week spring break, so it was worth it for him to spend a week volunteering instead of staying at home doing nothing. Although some of the stu-dents knew each other from class previously, they didn’t re-ally get to know each other until they got to spend time building a house together, Brown said. Nick Ambs, a coordinator for Habitat for Humanity, said most students in the program find out quickly that memories made this way are more mean-ingful than a simple vacation. Plus, coming as friends from school tends to create a posi-tive energy among the work-ers. “They get a lot of work done,” Ambs said, even if skill levels vary. Ambs said the various chap-ters of Habitat can participate in the collegiate volunteer pro-gram if they can demonstrate that they will provide a mean-ingful volunteer experience for students.

One of the student groups also spent time working on the charity’s Sumas duplex proj-ect. At least one student had other plans before deciding to come with the group. But it wasn’t a vacation. Fidel Carpio, a student of en-gineering with a renewable en-ergy focus, said he had planned to travel to Mexico to help build a clinic for people with diabe-tes. However, issues at the bor-der prevented that group from crossing. “I was committed to help-ing and volunteering over the break,” Carpio said. So he got in touch with college staff or-ganizer Jody Shulnak, who in-vited him to come to Ferndale. Carpio said the local hospi-tality during the trip has been amazing, with the groups be-ing treated to breakfast every morning from members of the First Christian Church of Bell-ingham. Sophomore Shon Harris said he has wanted to work with Habitat for Humanity for a while, but quickly realized that he would be using new skills to get through the project. “I’m mainly an artist,” Harris said. “So I didn’t expect some things.” But learning new skills isn’t the only benefit Harris sees the group taking home. “It really expands you,” he said. “It makes you think about others and those outside of your community.” Email Mark Reimers at reporter@lyndentribune.com.

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