Shoutout to Ace Hardware of Yakima for donating 🛠 materials to our 8th-grade 🔬science students in Mr. Helseth and Mrs. Canham’s classes! This act of kindness enables our students to test the effects of potential and kinetic energy!

Davis High School auditorium will be undergoing new changes as demolition and renovation are underway. Many, including Superintendent Dr. Trevor Greene and Principal Heather Hastie-Ulery, are excited about recent events surrounding the improvements being made the high school auditorium. Earlier this month demolition and upgrades began which have many alumni, staff, students and community members optimistic about future school events. 

Dr. Greene highlights that the recent upgrades are a part of many throughout the years, but the overall auditorium renovation will allow many opportunities for the Fine Arts Program and the community. Original pieces such as chair frames, newly exposed windows and lighting fixtures will offer character and nostalgia of the older auditorium while the addition of new upgrades will truly update the space for the future. 

Superintendent Greene and Principal Hastie-Ulery are hopeful for a competed project withing the next year and a half depending on current supply chain issues, but they have shared mock-ups and a digital walkthrough in the meantime as the project progresses. 

Watch the official digital walkthrough here:

Davis Auditorium Upgrades Introduction

Join the Community Group here to stay up to date on auditorium news: 

A.C. Davis Auditorium Updates

Adrianne Garner (Director of Henry Beauchamp Community Center) and her team have partnered with Barge-Lincoln to support families in East Yakima.  Delia Torres (B-L School Counselor), Edgardo De La Torre (Barge-Lincoln Community & Schools Advocate) and Natalie Tinajero (Barge-Lincoln Student, Family & Community Advocate) connected with OIC of Washington/Henry Beauchamp Community Center who has provided the Yakima community service for 50 years.  Due to their parntership with the Yakima County Food Equity Coalition, OIC/Henry Beauchamp Center, Pacific Islander Coalition, Yakima County NAACP and Northwest Harvest they were able to provide 12 families a Thanksgiving meal on Monday, Nov. 29 that included bread rolls, egg noodles, vegetable oil, Mac n Cheese, gravy mix, walnuts, pinto beans, rice, pork n beans, sweet corn, sweet peas, butter, canned mixed veggies, cranberry sauce, 10 lb bag of potatoes and a 15 lb. turkey.  We thank our community for their continued support to the Barge-Lincoln community!

Natalie Tinajero, Barge-Lincoln Student, Family & Community Liasion connected with Federico and Margarita Lopez from Knights of Columbus 17257 who donated 55 coats to Barge-Lincoln students on Tuesday, Nov. 23.  We are grateful for their partnership with Barge-Lincoln and the Yakima School District.  

This year, one of the Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominees is called Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour. Lubna and her father are refugees and when they arrive in the refugee camp, Lubna clings tightly to the pebble she found on the beach when they made it to their new, temporary home. Lubna paints a face on the pebble and it soon becomes her best friend. When she and her father are able to leave the camp and be resettled, she knows the right thing to do is to pass Pebble on to another little boy in the camp. As the story ends, the new owner of Pebble is happy to have a friend and we know he will take great care of it. 

After the librarian, Ms. Rikard, read the story to the students, she told them of her idea for them to paint their own rocks, just like Lubna does in the story. When finished, students could keep their rock, give it to someone they care about, donate it to Garfield to be used outside in the landscaping, or to donate their rock to a real refugee child living in a camp. So, after securing a donation of rocks from Soracco Landscaping Materials, Ms. Rikard filled up two buckets, washed all the rocks and prepared to paint. Students took two weeks to finish their rocks and the end results are unique and inspired. Students learned a valuable lesson about how fortunate they are to have even the little things...like real friends to play with and a school and a playground...all the things Lubna did not have in the refugee camp. During this thankful season, they had a little time to reflect on their blessings and give back to someone else as well.