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around Blaine and Birch Bay
Wright
steps down from math championship program
After 25 years of starting and running the Whatcom County
math championship, former Blaine teacher Bill Wright
is stepping down.
Wright started the championship in 1983 after hearing that
the now-Conoco Phillip Refinery in Ferndale was looking
to be a sponsor of a community event.
The
annual math competition for kids in the fourth to eighth
grades drew as many as 600 teams when it was a state
competition. Even now, it drew nearly 100 teams with
more than 350 kids last weekend to compete.
Wright,
now retired from teaching, works in real estate at Century
21 – Bay Properties in Birch Bay.
Local student makes the grade
Blaine resident and Azusa Pacific University student
Abigail Schrag was named to the academic dean’s
list at APU.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Schrag, Schrag is
honored for a fall semester 2006 academic standing
of 3.5 or better grade-point average. Schrag is an
English major, and is joined by more than 1,470 other
students receiving the same honor.
Students
compete in history competition
Last weekend at Western Washington University a dozen students,
the dirty dozen as Jack Nighbert put it, participated
in the Regional History Day Competition. The students
(pictured on top right) were middle school and
high school students. Blaine freshman Michelle Berry won first place
for her paper and Hannah Shucard, also a freshman
at Blaine high school, won second place. Hannah and Michelle will
be competing at the State History Day Contest on
May 5 with a shot at nationals.
Blaine girls score first in run
Girls on the Run of Northwest Washington recently had their
end of the season 5K run January 27. Blaine elementary
students Brandy and Brianna Bruneau finished the race with
Brandy taking first place with a time of 24 minutes and
11 seconds. Brianna took third place with a time of
27 minutes and 28 seconds. Lynn Hoskins was the coach for
the Blaine elementary Girls on the Run program, which is
part of the Whatcom County family YCMA’s program. |
