The Ballyhoo Lions Club held their annual Easter Breakfast on Saturday, April 4 at the UCSD high school small gym. This is their main fundraising event of the year. They solicit donations for food, prizes, Easter baskets, and gifts. Breakfast is provided free of charge, but donations are accepted. This year, the Lions raised $3,800 from the steady flow of more than 200 people who attended the event and generously donated. The Ballyhoo Lions Club will use funds for various projects including scholarship awards, installing benches and garbage cans around town, constructing and maintaining school bus shelters, Operation Santa, and general assistance to people in need. Frank Kelty, President of the Ballyhoo Lions Club, encourages more local participation with this important community service organization. He says that interested individuals should attend a meeting, or chat with a Lions Club member about joining. The Ballyhoo Lions Club meets for lunch on the first and third Thursdays of the month at the Cape Cheerful Lounge in the Grand Aleutian Hotel.

The Unalaska Raiders traveled to Seward last week to compete on their first Native Youth Olympics (NYO) competition for the year. They had a strong showing during three day event, March 26-28. Eight athletes traveled with Genee Shaishnikoff, who is the coach of the girls’ team. She said, “It went very well. This was our first invite to Seward, they were very friendly. They had some state judges there that were very helpful and they had helpful tips for our students on how they could improve.”  (Read more here...)

Student of the Week for the week of March 2 - 6, 2015

The Junior High Department selected Alleri as Student of the Week for the following reasons:

"Alleri's friendly face appears early every morning to work on schoolwork, or read. She's an outstanding student role model for all: everything she does is to her best ability, and she is genuinely engaged in the subject matter. For Alleri, good grades are a result of in depth involvement with her reading and writing, and pushing herself to develop far beyond normal expectations. She sets the bar high for herself and her classmates. (Click through to read more.)