Devin Higginsstaff reporter
The North County Cheer Team took the top honors in the Junior
Rec Cheer category at the Jr. High/Middle School & Rec. Cheer
Championship, Feb. 2 in Covington, WA. The team, com-prised of
students entirely from the Battle Ground School Dis-trict, beat out
four other teams in the one-day competition. Recreation cheer
squads are usually associated with nonprofi t organizations like
the Boys & Girls Club, Parks Department, or a Pop Warner
football program, and come in many forms from cheering for a junior
football league to per-formance teams. “It was an amazing event for
us because one of the teams we competed with had won for the last
three straight years,” said sixth-year coach Jodele Mistretta. “It
gives us quite the boost to say we’re the best team in the state.”
The team competes in about 8-10 tournaments every year throughout
the Northwest and the west coast. Earlier this year, the North
County girls went to Las Vegas to participate in the 2013 Jam
Nationals and took home a fourth place fi nish in
their division. To prepare for state, where each team gets only
one attempt to nail their routine, Mistretta said the girls put in
over six months of training and practice. “It’s all about getting
down the muscle memory so you
know where to be on fl ips, throws, mounts, and every facet of
the routine,” Mistretta said. “It’s a lot of work, but the girls
are passionate about it.” The North County Wildcats Cheer Team
consists of Kailee Malone, Elli Cart, Gwenyth Mistretta, Samantha
Reyes, Malia Renfroe, Janet Herrera,
Camila Renderos, Emily Beh-rens, Aleya Williams, Maddi-son
Slate, Karly Tilden, Tiera Hays, Alyssa Hammers, Bryn-na Childress,
Shelby Riffel and Kayla Dixon. More information about the North
County Cheer program can be found at their website,
www.northcountywildcats.com/cheer.
John and Julie (Johnson) Lofgren of Yacolt celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary with family and friends on Feb. 2, 2013. The
two met while attending Clark College and were mar-ried in Battle
Ground in 1963. John is a retired accountant/offi ce manager and is
an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Julie is a retired credit union
man-ager and enjoys traveling and crafts. Julie and John have two
children, Eric (Kendra) Lof-gren and Amy (Ronnie) Mason. They also
have four grandchil-dren, Mallori, Haylee, Madelyn and Jonathan,
who they enjoy
spending time with and sup-porting in their many activities.
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You are invited to join in an afternoon of reminiscing with
The Kiwanis Hall: 422 SW 2nd Ave., Battle Ground, WA
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Hill 100th Birthday!
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Lofgrens celebrate 50th wedding anniversary
JULIE and JOHN LOFGREN
Beulah and Waylon Freese, Battle Ground, a girl, Lis Gabrielle
Freese, Nov. 26, 2012, 9 lbs., 5 oz. Elva and David Kulla, Yacolt,
a boy, Tanner Richard Kulla, Feb. 3, 2013, 5 lbs., 12 oz. Tasha and
Benjamin Lipe, Battle Ground, a boy, Owen Roger Lipe, Jan. 5, 2013,
7 lbs., 9 oz. Kelly and Patrick Sypher, La Cen-ter, a girl, Kayley
G. Sypher, Feb. 4, 2013, 7 lbs., 0 oz.
LIS FREESE
An article in the Feb. 13 is-sue of The Refl ector contained an
error. In the article “Riverview Community Bank presents the Clark
County Fair Court for 2013,” board member Pat She-affer had his
named spelled incorrectly (shown here cor-rectly) and Fair Manager
John Morrison’s title was stated in-correctly. Information
submit-ted to The Refl ector was incor-rect.
Corrections
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Cheer Team earns top spot in State championship
THE NORTH COUNTY WILDCATS CHEER TEAM celebrates after taking fi
rst place at the 2013 Washington State Rec. Cheer Championship on
Feb. 2, in Covington, WA.
80th birthday celebration Friends and family of Am-boy resident
Eleanor Hadaller are invited to attend an 80th birthday celebration
to be held Sat., March 2 from 1-5 p.m. at the Jazzercise Center
located at 7500 NE 16th Ave., Suite 1E, Vancouver. The open
house-like event
will include food, cake and other refreshments. The family asks
for no gifts please. For more information, con-tact Jan at (360)
600-1576.
(360) 687-5151
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