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Sumner School District Students of the Month
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

District Rivals
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

Education meeting set THursday
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

Dance team competes
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

Big band dance, auction Saturday / Sumner High ASB to host annual Benefit Night
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

School District pleased with levy results
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

Sumner School District Students of the Month
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 17, 2010)

Daddy's little girls
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, February 10, 2010)

Athletes of the Week
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, February 10, 2010)

Sumner High School ASB to host fourth annual Benefit Night / Big band dance, auction Feb. 20 at Sumner Gym
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 10, 2010)

Mail ballot express booths open Friday
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 3, 2010)

Audience can fall under the gaze of Big Brother in "1984"
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, February 3, 2010)

Bonney Lake High student's muscles earn semifinalist spot in Intel Science Talent Search
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 27, 2010)

Student gets taste of movie promotion business
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 27, 2010)

New Lakeridge Middle School Building Under Construction
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 27, 2010)

Students of the Month
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 27, 2010)

Sumner School District levy earns grassroots support
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 27, 2010)

A winner in science
Bonney Lake High School senior happily receives $1000

Bonney Lake High School senior William Edwards has always been a self-described science lover.
When he was in the third grade, Edwards and his older sister, Theresa, entered the Daffodil Valley Elementary science fair with a partner project entitled “What kind of potatoes make the best battery?” It was a hit and in following years, Daffodil Valley teachers saw more and more students submitting similar proposals for science projects.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, January 20, 2010)

SSD partners with others to offer tech classes
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 6, 2010)

Sumner rotary provides dictionaries to students
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 6, 2010)

Top Story Cascadia Bankruptcy
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 6, 2010)

School district partners with others to offer tech classes
The Sumner School District, in partnership with the Puyallup/Sumner Chamber of Commerce, the Bonney Lake Chamber of Commerce, Pierce County Libraries and local senior centers, will offer technology classes beginning Monday and continuing through Jan. 15.

The classes, which are one- to two-hours long, cover subjects including how to identify cyberbullying and teaching safe Internet use for children. A Spanish-language course on the Internet is offered. A course on job hunting offers help with resume writing and applying for a job online. The library just subscribed to a new jobs database.
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, January 4, 2010)

Providing a place for kids
Winter break camp entertains kids, eases the minds of parents

For the Sumner School District’s children, winter break means two full weeks of no school. For many parents, however, that can mean the added stress of finding someone to care for their children during their work day. The Sumner School District and the Sumner/Bonney Lake Recreation Department recognized that early on and began holding a winter break activities camp for the district’s children in the early 1990s. The program, which is held at the Robert Miller Gymnasium behind Daffodil Valley Elementary, has rapidly grown in popularity, said Liberty Ridge Elementary Before and After School Club Site Director Alyssa Storm.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 30, 2009)

School board approves $58 million bond sales
$17.4 million school construction bonds given to only eight WA districts

The Sumner School Board approved two resolutions in December, authorizing the sale of tax-exempt bonds in the amount of $40,961, 211 and the sale of qualified school construction bonds in the amount of $17,445,000.

The sale is good news for taxpayers, explained Ann Cook, the district’s communications director.

“Construction bonds are tax credit,” Cook said. “Our taxpayers will save $5.4 million. It would have been that much more if we would have sold $17 million in the traditional way.”
The nearly $41 million that was sold the traditional way is saving taxpayers, as well, said Campbell. Since market rates are down, this is an ideal time to sell and the combined interest rate for the bonds is 3.03 percent less than just a year ago.

“It’s good news,” she said.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 30, 2009)

2009 In Review School Budgets
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 30, 2009)

Winter Break Camp Providing a place for kids
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 30, 2009)

School board approves $58 million bond sales
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 30, 2009)

Bonney lake Elementary Choir sings at Bonney Lake Tree Lighting
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 23, 2009)

Early Learning Math Workshop Offered
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 23, 2009)

SHS Leadership Students host holiday extravaganza
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 23, 2009)

Winter Break Camp
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 16, 2009)

Sumner School District shows Christmas spirit
The Sumner School District was full of Christmas spirit this year, collecting clothes, food and more for the community.
Senior centers, food banks and the Sumner Family Center received gifts and holiday cheer from students, staff and other community members.
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 18, 2009)

Sumner school board approves bond sale
The Sumner School District board of directors approved resolutions allowing the sale of $40,961,211 worth of tax-exempt bonds and the sale of school construction bonds totaling $17,445,000 at the regular meeting Dec. 16.
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 18, 2009)

Students give a gift to entire Sumner community
Sumner High School leadership students host a holiday extravaganza, complete with dinner, presents and Santa Claus
Many teenagers participate in food and toy drives during the holidays, but more than 100 Sumner High School students took it one step further: They created a winter wonderland for the entire community.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 16, 2009)

BLE Choir sing at BL tree lighting
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 9, 2009)

Holiday charity events slated at SHS
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 9, 2009)

VFE Choir sings at Sumner annual pancake feed
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 9, 2009)

Sumner School Board asks voters to pass replacement levy
The Sumner School Board passed a resolution that authorizes a ballot measure for the Feb. 9 special election. The measure asks voters to approve a replacement levy for 2011 through 2014.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, December 9, 2009)

Sumner School District Authorizes Replacement Levy
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, December 2, 2009)

World War II veteran, 89, shares his vast wisdom with Bonney Lake students, staff
An 89-year-old World War II veteran stood next to a 17-year-old who had enlisted early in the United States Military — and a roomful of fidgety high school students were in awe.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, November 11, 2009)

Homecoming Queens and Kings of SHS and BHS
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, November 4, 2009)

Illness absences increasing in school districts
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, November 4, 2009)

SHS student brings marching band competition to stadium
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, November 4, 2009)

Students win honors, scholarship cash at national FFA convention
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, November 4, 2009)

Norlin receives award
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 28, 2009)

Casual gathering offers food, fun, perspective during school's late start
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 28, 2009)

Panther Captive
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 28, 2009)

Coping with Less - School Cuts
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, October 21, 2009)

Preparing for parent teacher conference
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, October 21, 2009)

SMS holds Teen Late Night on Saturdays
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, October 21, 2009)

BHS Homecoming coming up
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 21, 2009)

School officials discuss swine flue with health department
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 21, 2009)

SHS Homecoming Parade Pictures
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 21, 2009)

SHS Homecoming win
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 21, 2009)

Companies help high school raise money for football program
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 14, 2009)

Deadline coming for free lunches
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, October 14, 2009)

SHS FFA going to National competition
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, October 14, 2009)

Deadline for school reduced lunch applications Oct. 16
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 7, 2009)

First Day of School Pics
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 7, 2009)

Fundraiser for SHS FFA students Friday
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 7, 2009)

LRE Walkathon Picture
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, October 7, 2009)

Seeing bus drivers off on 1st day of school
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, September 23, 2009)

Program helps EHE provide supplies
(Published in the Bonney Lake Sumner Courier Herald, September 23, 2009)

District overhauls math curriculum for first time since 2000
During the last school year, a committee of 24 people affiliated with the Sumner School District, including administrators and teachers, met to discuss the district’s K-5 math curriculum.

“The premise was to learn more about math instruction,” said Kathryn Briggs, a teacher on special assignment with the district.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, September 16, 2009)

First Day of School at CWE
(Published in The Courier Herald, September 16, 2009)

EHE Open House Ice Cream Social
(Published in The Courier Herald, September 9, 2009)

Play at CWE focuses on bullying, violence prevention
(Published in The Courier Herald, September 9, 2009)

Gearing up for back-to-school rush on Sept. 9
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, September 2, 2009)

Kids have safe place before and after school
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, September 2, 2009)

Kids have safe place before, after school
Nancy Katzer knows firsthand how wonderful Sumner School District’s before- and after-school program is.
Katzer, a teacher in the Kent School District, has three little girls who will attend the program this fall. Her oldest daughter was involved in the program last year.

“It is such an awesome program,” said Katzer. “I drop kids off knowing they are safe and busy.”
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, September 2, 2009)

First day of school: First day of school is on the horizon for many students
At Maple Lawn Elementary School in Sumner, Principal Mike McCartin knows a lot about the first day of school, especially for kindergartners
“The first day of school is key,” said McCartin. “This is the first real cultural transition that happens for kids and I have a separate compartment in my mind for kindergartners.”
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, August 26, 2009)

School asks for changes in parking
The Puyallup Herald

“This springs from a request we got from the (Sumner) School District administration a couple weeks ago,” Sumner Community Development Director Paul ...

****Please note there is an error in the article referencing "an upcoming remodel ..."
There is no future work planned at Sumner High School.
The newspaper will print a correction next week and update the article online.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, August 26, 2009)

Back to school basics made easier in Sumner
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The Sumner School District has came up with an idea to pass discounts along to parents.
The Principal of McAlder Elementary in Sumner has bags of school supplies locked in a small room: the brainchild of thrifty school leaders who wanted to spare parents expensive back to school costs.

Brown Named Sumner Coach of the Year
(Published in The Courier Herald, August 19, 2009)

Little inventors, big inventions
Elementary-age students from Sumner and beyond get the chance to learn science creatively at Daffodil Valley

Seven-year-old Olivia Israel has brainstormed the perfect solution to putting up with her 1-year-old sister’s incessant pinching: The Sister Pinch Notification Center. With the help of Daffodil Valley Elementary music teacher Matt Smeller, Israel created a box out of an empty Bisquick hot chocolate container, which can detect her sister’s brainwaves and allow Israel to move out of the way pre-pinching.
(Published in The Puyallup Herald, August 12, 2009)

Sumner High School Marching Band performs at the Portland Rose Festival

The Sumner High School Marching Band participated in the 2009 Portland Rose Festival in Portland, Oregon, June 5-6, 2009.

The Marching Band performed their field show, "Disney's Fantasmic," in Portland's PGE Park at the Friday night Bandfest. They were voted winners of the "People's Choice Award."

On Saturday morning the 100+ members participated in the 4-mile long Grand Floral Parade, and earned the 1st Place Award for an Out-of-State Band, the highest placing they have ever received at this event.

The Sumner High School Marching Band is under the direction of Joe Carl.

SHS Seniors honored for efforts and talents
(Published in The Courier Herald, June 3, 2009)

SHS Earns Honors at State FFA Convention
(Published in The Courier Herald, June 3, 2009)

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