Category Education

Sixth graders experience nature at Outdoor School

Music Director Sandi Green (right, with guitar) leads CMS sixth graders in some campfire songs during Outdoor School. PHOTOS PROVIDED/ SHIRLEY BURRUS Building birdhouses, painting rocks, examining owl pellets, riding a zipline, campfire skits performed by staff, campfire songs led by Music Director Sandi Green,…

So Long, Farewell’

Creswell Christian School’s Class of 2018 will be the school’s final graduating class before the school closes its doors. From left, top: seniors Isaiah Greenough, Amber Macauley and Kirin Pannu, and eighth-grader Elisabeth Goins. Lower: kindergartners Ethan Cheney, Nicholas Pierron, Jacob Stillion, Tynlee Chisholm and…

Creslane butterfly garden welcomes new Painted Ladies

Kindergartner Sarah Rivera waves to a Painted Lady butterfly perched on a flower as fellow kindergartners Nicole Jones (left) and Kendyl Mendonca look on, after Creslane kindergartners released the Painted Lady butterflies they’d raised from caterpillars into the school garden. GINI DAVIS – THE CRESWELL…

CMS bands give confident, energetic spring concert

Max Velarde plays vibes with the CMS Advanced Band during the Spring Concert. GINI DAVIS – THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE Creswell Middle School Beginning, Advanced and Jazz band students demonstrated how much their skills have evolved during their Spring Concert and Awards, held May 17 in…

Creswell Education Foundation may dissolve

Since about 2010, Creswell’s Carol Campbell and company have been keeping Creswell Education Foundation (CEF) afloat, after resurrecting the nonprofit from its dormant state some years ago. The current CEF crew is the second group to take hold of the nonprofit, but their time is…

School Board fills vacant seat

Kandice Lemhouse IMAGE PROVIDED At the May 9 regularly scheduled Creswell School Board (CSB) meeting, the board unanimously passed a motion to appoint Kandice Lemhouse to the board. Board member David Eusted was absent from the meeting. ”I’m excited to participate in this important community…

CG, Springfield students awarded scholarships

Faryn Dahlen and Jackson Perkins, from Cottage Grove High School, and Alessandra Weiss, from the Academy of Arts and Academics in Springfield, were recently awarded $1,500 scholarships from SELCO Community Credit Union. Winners were selected based on criteria that include both academic performance and community…

Kids, cars star in Creslane’s Soap Box Derby

Dawn Dean’s fifth-grade class’ ”Car for a Cause,” supporting a young cancer patient, races around the track during Creslane’s Soap Box Derby. Pushing (from left) are Slater Curtis and Cameron Couch. The rider is Sapphire Osorio. GINI DAVIS – THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE A tantalizing array…