DISTRICT

The next school board meeting is at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2, in the boardroom of the auditorium building, 503 N. Sequim Ave. The public is invited to attend and time is set aside for public comment. To view the agenda and minutes of past meetings, click on “Board of Directors” on the district’s website at www.sequim.k12.wa.us.

Visitors from Sequim’s sister city of Shiso, Japan — students and chaperones — visit local schools Sept. 25 and Sept. 26. The visitors attend a Sequim High School Open House on Sept. 25 with host families, and then tour local schools the following day. The touring group from Shiso includes six boys, four girls and three chaperones.

The Sequim Education Foundation is accepting applications for student representatives from Sequim Middle School and Sequim High School. Foundation board meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month in the district boardroom. The first meeting for students will be Oct. 19. Find applications can be found in the main office at SHS or at www.sequimeducationfoundation.org. Applications should be emailed to sequimeducationfoundation@gmail.com or mailed to: PO Box 3065, Sequim WA, 98382.

GREYWOLF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Carla Drescher’s kindergarten class enjoys new chair organizers that several community volunteers are sewing for Greywolf classrooms. The organization is called Sequim Community Helping Kids and their vision is to have the Sequim Community provide necessary classroom resources to maximize the learning experience and potential. For more information about this organization or to help, contact Joanne Kidd at secondhelpingkids2@gmail.com.

Elementary Literacy Specialist Krista Chatters will be host an informational session from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, in room 142 at Greywolf Elementary, for those interested in becoming a reading volunteer tutor. This session is for those that have not already served as a reading volunteer at Greywolf. Learn about how to support the school’s K-5 readers. For more information, call Chatters at 582-3300.

HELEN HALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

When asked to write about something they did over the summer, students in Bettina Hoesel’s class had these responses:

Caitlin Gerdes : I got to pet a husky. It is 4-weeks-old. It is a baby dog. They are so cute.

Samantha Wickert: I saw a horse at the farm.

Grace Dormer: I went to Montana. I rode a horse. I rode it bareback and I rode it with a saddle.

Dylan Cynor: Once when my mom got out of the tent she saw me on the other side.

Reading specialist Betsy Smith is offering two fall training sessions. Second training sessions are from 3:15-4:15 p.m. Sept. 18 and Sept. 25 in the school library. Please commit to attending both sessions. For more information, call Smith at 360-582-3248 or bsmith@sequim.k12.wa.us. Individuals will need to become approved volunteers for the 2017-2018 school year. More information on that topic will be presented at the training sessions.

SEQUIM MIDDLE SCHOOL

We’ve all seen the destruction, the flooding, the water rescues … Those effected by Hurricane Harvey clearly need our help. With record breaking rainfall homes, schools and business were inundated with toxic flood waters. In our seventh-grade science class at Sequim Middle School, students came in the first day wondering how they might assist those in need.

Since Texas is too far way for us to go and volunteer, it was decided to take up a collection of money for a Help Houston! Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. Over the course of just eight days, coins and bills poured into a 1-liter graduated cylinder.

All totaled, seventh-graders raised $200 to send to the American Red Cross, the humanitarian relief agency.

Spontaneous generosity, benevolence and care for fellow humans in crisis are indeed alive and well among the youth of Sequim!

— teacher Joe Landoni

Key upcoming dates for Timberwolf students include: Back to School Night, 6:30 p.m., Sept. 21, and Honor Roll Dessert, Sept. 27 (last names A-l) and Sept. 28 (last names M-Z).

SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL

Congratulations go out to Sequim High School grads Ben Omdal, Kiehl Sundt and Allison Tjemsland — all three recently took and passed the Washington State Bar Exam.

A pep dance following the SHS football game is set for Sept. 22 in the cafeteria.

The Sequim High School Career &College Fair is set for noon, Sept. 26, at the SHS gymnasium. Find out about career opportunities and get information from representatives from universities, colleges, trade schools, military branches and more. Contact Mitzi Sanders at 360-582-3631 for more information.