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HIGHSCH©©LSPOTLIGHT li By DEAN SIEMON Alex Ross, Shelton High School senior, may have an interest in starting his own business like his father, Glade, did with Rossware Computing, a software program- ming company based in Shelton. "I feel like I want to follow in his footstaps and start my own busi- ness," Ross said. Ross said he is going to major in business management when he graduates high school. "It opens up millions of different jobs," he said. "I think it's a very good skill to have." In addition, Ross said he has an interest in graphic design. Next se- mester at SHS, he said he wants to take multimedia communications and web design. Ross said his top choice for col- lege is Western Washington Uni- versity in Bellingham and said he has sent his application this week. "It's close to family and friends," he said. "Lots of people I know go there." Ross has been involved with the Leadership program for this year only. But in his junior year, Ross was one of eight students selected by SHS staff to attend a national con- ference in Florida. During his one year with the club, Ross organized the school as- sembly for January 26, an academ- ic acssembly. "Those few weeks were quite stressful," Ross said about the preparation of the assemblies. "Lots of after school hours work." For an assembly that ran twice in the day, Ross said the toughest part was writing the scripts. "I had to write down what every- one was going to say," he said. Outside of school, Ross enjoys snowboarding, wakeboarding and skiing. Two years ago, Ross discov- ered wakeboarding while on a sum- mer trip. "Got a boat and thought wake- boarding looked like fun," Ross said. "From that, I thought snow- boarding looked fun, too." For his senior project, Ross vol- unteered with Northwest 'Chil- dren's Outreach in Belfair and or- ganized collecting donated clothes and shoes, placing boxes at various schools in the area. "I needed to get whatever clothes they needed, in this case it was shoes, and try to raise enough to help them out," Ross said, noting the total value of clothes and shoes collected was around $750. Ross said not only will he miss the social aspect of life at SHS (i.e. hanging out with friends), but he enjoyed a lot of the teachers, in- cluding Antje Fortier and Daniel Messing. "They've just been an inspiration and they helped me throughout my high school career," he said. Alex Ross You Are Invited! A Valentines Day Benefit Dance is scheduled for 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 14, at Ev- ergreen Elementary School in the gym. Dance to a variety of ma- rimba and DJ music. Participate in the dance competition and you could win a prize. Admission is $4 for each individual. Children ages 12 years and under are free and must be accompanied by an adult. Snacks, beverages, photos, face painting, and other suprises will be available for an additional con- tribution. There will be a raffle drawing for a one night stay and buffet dinner for two from Little Creek Casino, a gift basket from Sensaria, and more. Tickets cost $1 per ticket or six tickets for $5. This event is open to the entire community so invite your friends. All of the money raised from this dance will be used to help fund the 5th Grade Outdoor Education Experience. Ten week Spanish Language class are offering a 10-week Spanish Language instruction series beginning March 2, 2011. The classes will be held each Wednesday in St. David's Church, 324 West Cedar Street. The advanced class is scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and the beginning class from 5:35 until 7:05 p.m. Both sessions are designed to emphasize conversational Spanish. For fee information and registration please call Jo Ewart 432-9474 or Carolyn Carlton 427- 5460. Register Now for 'Quality Care Golf Tournament' Mason General Hospital Foun- dation's Annual Golf Tournament +is now accepting registration for its shotgun Quality Care Golf Tournament, set for Friday, June 24, 2011 at Lakeland Village Golf Course, Allyn. Falcon Financial, Inc. is the Tournament Title Sponsor. The handicap and non-handi- cap tournament starts at 10 a.m. and cost is $140 per player. There are five players per team and reg- istration deadline is Wednesday, a St. David's Epi~c0Pal+ Chur~l~T J~e );+.':~: ..... + d Mason County Literacy ...... To +make a corporate ~ponsor- ship gift or to register please call Mason General Hospital Founda- tion at 360-427-3623. Download free music with library district's 'Freegal Music' You can now download - and keep - free music from the Tim- berland Regional Library Dis- trict's Freegal Music collection of hundreds of thousands of digital songs. Freegal music files require no special software to download and do not expire. They're com- patible with PCs and Macs and can be transferred to iPods, iPads and other MP3-compatible play- ers and devices. Freegal is easy to use. Log in to the Freegal Music site with your Timberland Regional Li- brary (TRL) card number and pin. Search half a million songs from the Sony Music catalog, over 100 music genres, and more than 50 record labels. Then download three free songs each week (Mon- day-Sunday). Freegal Music includes cur- rent hits such as Ke$ha's "TiK ToK," classic songs such as Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run," jazz standards like Dave Brubeck's "Take Five," and much more. To download free music from Freegal, you must go to www. TRL.org. Click on Library Collec- tion, then "Download Collection" on the drop-down menu. Search Freegal by song title, artist, al- bum or composer. Browse fea- tured artists or newly added art- ists such as Susan Boyle, Band of Horses and Britney Spears. Surf among 127 genres from alterna- tive, through blues, Christian/ Gospel, classical, country, folk, hip-hop, Latin, new age, R&B, soundtracks, and world music, to zarzuela (a type of Spanish oper- etta). Freegal Music is the most re- cent of the downloadable catalogs offered by TRL, including audio- books, e-Books, videos and more music. Peninsula Education Grant In 2010, Peninsula Credit Union introduced a new educa- tional scholarship program called PEG (Peninsula Education Grant) aimed at supporting educational initiatives. This program grants money to fund programs, mate- rials, and related financial re- sources for educators to assist in providing learning and growing opportunities for their students. Thirteen PEGs were given out ranging from special needs pro- grams to solar powered cars. In all, $6,000 was made available to our local educators. One of those recipients, Chimi- cure Primary School, received a $500 grant for a "Peaceful Play- ground" program, which they im- plemented this fall. We are happy to hear that through the grant, they were able to enhance their students' play and activities while promoting values of playing fair and working together. Peninsula Credit Union is pleased to announce that they are continuing the program for 2011. Grants are available to educators in all primary or secondary classes for both public and accredited pri- vate schools within Mason, Kitsap, Jefferson, Clallam and Grays Har- bor Counties. Grant amounts are awarded between $300 to $500 for implementation of new programs, continuation of existing programs, materials, equipment, or supplies. Application forms are available online at www.pcfcu.org and in all Peninsula Credit Union branches. For more information, call 800- 426-1601. Applications must be turned in by April 29, 2011. 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