Wimpy Stebbeds Pathfinder Award Honors Former Springfield Director The Springfield (Ore.) Pathfinders gave the first Wimpy Stebbeds Award for donating the most community service hours to Samara Simpson, who completed 191 hours.The award, which is intended to be given out annually, honors the late Wilburt "Wimpy" ... Read more
Milo's Students Take Spiritual Temperature These quotes, taken from this year's end-of-the-year student survey, say it all when it comes to Milo Adventist Academy's "spiritual temperature."“I have just grown tremendously emotionally, spiritually and socially.” —Julie Crow“I’ve gotten to kn... Read more
Mid Columbia Children Welcome Babies Through Service Project Near the close of the 2003–04 school year, the first- through fourth-grade classroom of Mid Columbia Jr. Academy (Hood River, Ore.), with their teacher Gail Hill, brainstormed ideas for local community service projects. The list was long, reflecti... Read more
CAA Freshman Dive into Deep-sea Exploration The freshmen of Columbia Adventist Academy (CAA) dove right into deep-ocean exploration as their submersibles crept past jellyfish, shipwrecks, tubeworms, vent mussels and spider crabs. They maneuvered through a deep-sea trench where they saw stra... Read more
CAA Students Clean Lake for Community Service Day A small group of excited sophomores from Columbia Adventist Academy loaded up a school van and headed to Klineline Lake on May 12 as part of a special community service day set up by students. The students each received $20 from the Oregon Confere... Read more
Students Support Soldiers with Letters from Home Students in Sandy Mathis' third- and fourth-grade class at Rivergate Adventist Elementary School have been involved in a great project called "Letters to Soldiers" this past year. As a result of this project, a special relationship has been develo... Read more
PAA Senior Studies Robots During JPL Internship Most Americans have had the opportunity of seeing some of the amazing things that can be done with robots, but Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) senior Adam Wall got to see and experience the cutting edge of robotics by doing a summer internship at... Read more
PAA Makes Community Connection Through New Church Program Portland Adventist Academy launched an exciting new program this year to help make the Adventist churches in the Portland area better aware of the academy and its programs and to reach out to these churches in a unique way.The Featured Church prog... Read more
Community Service Leaders Survive Serious Accident Tad and Terri Harwood, Cave Junction (Ore.) Church community service coordinators were driving the community service truck from the Grants Pass food bank to Cave Junction on March 8 when a lady drove directly in front of them.Tad swerved to avoid ... Read more