News - 2007
November 20, 2007: North Kitsap Education Foundation Awards $5,885 in Grants North Kitsap Education Foundation (NKEF) announced this week the award of 16 grants to North Kitsap teachers and staff. Grant amounts ranged from $250 to $610. A grant evaluation committee of NKEF Board and community members evaluated the grant applications and selected 16 from 34 applications. See Press Release...
July 28, 2007: The Third Annual North Kitsap Alumni Golf Tournament at Gold Mountain raised nearly $20,000 for the scholarship fund. Seventy two golfers and many non-players enjoyed renewing friendships and raising money for a great cause.
June 7, 2007: Sixteen scholarships administered by North Kitsap Education Foundation totalling more than $17,000 were presented to recipients at the annual North Kitsap High School awards night. North Kitsap Alumni Scholarship recipients are: Jayson Stemmler, Jamie Allen, Nathan Bilbao, Jordan Camp, Sheila Cole, Jaclyn Getas, Mitchell Johnson, Alejandra Lopez-Perea, Leah Seim-Brown, Meagan Swanlund, and Lael Telles. North Kitsap Schools Administrators Association scholarship recipient is Joel Harrington. Don L. Johnson Memorial Scholarship went to Alyssa Christoff. The Alice Wood Memorial Scholarship winner is Lindsey Sprague. James T. and Emily S. Johnson Scholarship recipients are Elizabeth Almond and Devin Gottschalk.
April 18, 2007: North Kitsap Education Foundation has awarded the first Kyle Sizemore Memorial Scholarships for driver training to Poulsbo Junior High 9th grader, Ashley Marie Roach, and Spectrum student, Nicolle Esparo. Both have enrolled in the Driver Education program at North Kitsap High School.
January 12, 2007: NKEF Assists Kingston Junior High With Mental Illness Awareness In-service Training. NK Education Foundation joined with Kingston Junior High in presenting the Parents and Teachers as Allies program from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to KJH staff on January 12. Donations from the Kvistad family, Rotary Club of Poulsbo-North Kitsap, and Suquamish Clearwater Casino made the training possible. The theme of the training was "recognizing early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents." Nationally trained trainers from NAMI Orange County, California and two local parents presented the two-hour training. On January 11 the trainers presented a day-long "train the trainers" session at KJH which attracted more than a dozen people, some from as far away as Wenatchee. NK Education Foundation has established the Mental Illness Awareness Education Fund specifically to support programs of this kind in our schools.