Honors
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AWARDS
Employees and volunteers at the Larch Corrections Center recently received awards recognizing their work for the department, and were honored at a ceremony in Olympia. The recipients were Joseph Agloro, Innovation Team Award; Alan Anderson, Employee of the Year; Gregory Benjamin, Correctional Officer of the Year; Sidney Clark, Community Service Award; Donna Schafte-Brandon, Volunteer of the Year and Nancy Simmons, Diversity Award.
FULBRIGHT GRANT
Erin Carson, a Vancouver resident and a 2015 graduate of Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore., received a Fulbright grant to teach abroad. At Linfield, Carson majored in international relations and minored in Chinese studies, and studied in China during her junior year. She plans to be an English teaching assistant in Taiwan. In addition to her studies, she served as the student director of Language in Motion and played on Linfield’s softball team, which recently placed third in the NCAA Division III national tournament. In Taiwan, she hopes to work with youth and the community to connect through sports. She is a 2011 graduate of Camas High School.
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY, NEWBERG, ORE.
These local students were recently named to the dean’s list:
o Brush Prairie
Emily Hylton.
o Camas
Paige Bergstrom; Blake Christopher of Camas; Sarah Emerson; Emily Hoke; Jessamine Miller; Sierra Robertson; Katelin Wight.
o La Center
Jarod McKenzie.
o Ridgefield
Tayler Main.
o Vancouver
Nancy Arellano; Jade Becker; Katie Buffum; Erik Davies; Thao Anh Gailey; Shawna Gordon; Ariana Hall; Alex Hansen; Maddie Hays; Levi Jaspers; Lucy Lo’Re; Nick Miller; Anastasia Reinhardt; Krista Rey; Daniel Roberson; Evette Robles; Lauren Saunders; Monica Scigliano; Julie Semenyuk; Jessica Taylor; Caleb Turner.
