UCA Teacher Sees No Comparison Between Public and Adventist Education Mariano de Oro spent the last 12 years teaching in public colleges and high schools. "I loved the kids I taught in the public school system,” he said. “But I couldn’t share Christ with them. That was always a heartache for me.”When de Oro had the ... Read more
Pond Restoration Project Educates WWVA Biology Students Walla Walla Valley Academy (WWVA) biology students have launched an educational adventure that promises to become a legacy.A property trade between Clara E. Rogers Elementary School and WWVA provided suitable land for the new elementary school and... Read more
Spokane Jr. Academy Renovates Inside and Out In today’s society, finding a school where teachers really care about students and desire to see them give their lives to Jesus is unusual at best. At Spokane Jr. Academy (SJA), students are encouraged to develop their academic skills in a top-not... Read more
UCA Seniors Honored for Academic Excellence Five Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) seniors were presented with medallions to add to their graduation regalia at the annual Spokane Scholars banquet held by local business people to encourage academic excellence.Each of the two-dozen area high schoo... Read more
UCA's Community Table Forges Personal Connections Though Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) is only about a mile from the little farming town of Spangle, Wash., the interaction between the academy and the community has been minimal. This school year, however, has been different thanks to a new outreach... Read more
KEEP Scholarship Leads to Baptism Meghan became a ward of the state when she was nine years old. Taken from her family, her parents in prison, her brothers and sisters in foster care with other families, Meghan’s life was a cyclone of confusion.In the public school that she attend... Read more
Students Helped Through Tough Questions at Renamed School David Moczarski was doing everything right. His ladder was anchored as he climbed with a drill in one hand. A non-believer, Moczarski was framing the new Rogers Adventist School when, in a freak accident, he fell head-first to the concrete floor 1... Read more
PAA Student Tests DNA for Senior Project For her senior project at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA), Cassie Lemke did DNA testing on three sets of twins to determine if they were identical or fraternal (non-identical). She found, to the surprise of many, that one set of similar-looking t... Read more
PAA Random Acts of Kindness Mission Trip to Portland Twenty-two youth, including 18 Portland Adventist Academy students, participated in a unique mission during spring break 2004 and visited the inner city of Portland to do "random acts of kindness.”In keeping with a mission trip format, they stayed... Read more
