Five Riverway Learning Community Win state wide charter school essay!

On Wednesday, May 4th 2011, Five talented students from Riverway Learning Community will be given the honor of reading their essays on the steps of the State Capital building. This ceremony is part of a week-long celebration of National Charter Schools Week. The Charter School Essay Contest is an annual event. This year there were over 2000 essays entered into the contest in three different categories. The topic this year was “Describe Your Best Day at School”.  The winners in the age categories are Zane Al-Saeed, Morgan Sultze, Emily Spaag, and Brooke Powell. The special award over all was won by Kayton McKern.  Congratulations to all the winners!

(Secondary 7-12) Bake Sale For Breast Cancer

A few students from Riverway's Secondary Class put together a date and time for a bake sale at Wal-Mart. Each student involved in this project as well as Riverway families and teachers made many different baked goods including different types of cookies, brownies, and bars. A lot of the baked goods even showed the pink spirit! We had a great outcome from this fundraiser. As a group, we raised $241.50. All the money will be going to Susan G. Komen for the cure. Also we will be making key necklaces. Some will be painted and others will have colored rhinestones on them.
written by: Brooke Powell

Riverway Potato Harvest

By: Dominick Adank

On September 30th, Jaime Harper and a group of Secondary 9-12 students went to harvest potatoes for Fairview Farms. Fairview has been supplying potatoes and many other types of vegetables for our school lunch program. Since they have been so generous to offer us their products, we decided to lend our time and effort to help them with their work. We left our school at around 8:30 and arrived at the farm shortly after 9. We met up with John, one of the farmers, and he gave us some information on potatoes and how their farm runs. After that we started our potato picking extravaganza. They said they were growing 58 rows of 23 different types of potatoes. When we finished, we had completed about 4 rows of potatoes, which was somewhere around 1900 lbs. After we finished, John and the other farmers let us take some potatoes with us. We had such a good time; we told them we would help him out again some time in the near future.