The document summarizes the volunteer work of 50 college students from various universities who spent their spring break working with Habitat for Humanity in Ferndale, Washington. The students helped build homes for low-income families, including finishing work on a house for a woman and her two daughters and granddaughters. The volunteer program provided students a meaningful experience and a chance to learn new skills outside their areas of study while helping the local community.

1. Education 5AFerndale Record | Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Cascadia Elementary School’s grade 2 and 3 music program has been rescheduled for Tuesday,
April 26, at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. For more information, contact music teacher Beverly
Dooley at Cascadia Elementary at 383-2311 or beverly.dooley@fsd.k12.wa.us.
Cascadia grade 2 and 3 music program rescheduled
Sumas duplex project also gets a boost from collegiate volunteers
From left, Fidel Carpio holds a ladder for fellow Clark College student Shon Harris as Dusty Laird provides direction at a Habitat for Hu-
manity home in the Trigg Woods development. — Ferndale Record | MARK REIMERS
Spring break brings 50 college students to Ferndale Habitat build
FERNDALE — Ferndale High
School has released its first-se-
mester honor roll and the fol-
lowing students were listed:
4.0 GPA
Seniors — Leah Bowd, Konnor
Erdman, Jacob Hoelzle, Emily Kyl-
lingmark, Steven Rauch, Annalise
Sayles and Kylie Williamson.
Juniors — Katie Brudwick, Emily
Bunch, Leah Burlingame, Michael
Butayev, Mattie Carlson, Seth Dick-
son, Laurel Erdman, John Gonzalez,
Tanner Hanson, Jessica Kelley, An-
thony Lapsansky, Alexandra Leegwa-
ter and Chongjing Wang.
Sophomores — Stepan Baydak,
James Bernard, Erik Engels, Oksana
Hanson, Samantha Hernandez, Tif-
fany Le, Ian McElfresh, Alyssa Pe-
terson, Tanner Robbins and Olivia
Walker.
Freshmen — Katelyn Baertsch, Sa-
mantha Boxx, Monica Burlingame,
Hannah Carlson, Nathan Derr, Sarah
Erdman, Viktoriya Filimonova, Tra-
vis Hanes, Paul Herbig, Mikaela Her-
nandez, Mark Litovchenko, Adonis
Reedboulos, Tanvir Singh and James
Sweet.
3.5 - 3.99 GPA
Seniors — Breawna Arestad, Der-
ek Bandolon, Bekah Barrick, Nicole
Beaulaurier, Yelena Belaya, Bryson
Bellefeuille, Patrick Campbell,
Taylor Clark, Sarah CovertBowlds,
Megan Crider, Hayley Davis, Ryan
Derr, Anna Dye, Nichole Ellis, Kayli
Felbinger, Kyler Flaherty, Samantha
Garza, Ted Genger, Jennifer Gon-
zalez, Meagan Graveline, Gabrielle
Hall, Tyler Hansen, Bethany Hasper,
Cody Hewett, Lindsay Hicks, Minyen
Hsieh, Breelynd Huntley, Savdeep
Kahlon, Paige Larrabee, Haley Lock-
er, Riley Locker, Robert MacDon-
ald, Michael Maley, Danielle Marks,
Brianne Mattila, Allie McCormick,
Logan McKay, Shaun Nelson, Tan-
ner Olson, James Pearce, Taylor
Prince, Jordan Quinn, Margaret
Redelinghuis, Sergey Samoylenko,
William Scott, Breanna Tilton, Bryce
VanderYacht, Stephanie Viera, Cam-
eron Walbeck, Brett Watson, Dillon
Whitman, Kayla WoodruffStevens
and Marinn Young.
Juniors — Daisy Aguilera, Amber
Amende, Alejandra Angulo, Brit-
tany Anonson, Erik Arntsen, Lucio
Ayala, Jacob Bartel, Kid Beckstead,
Tess Benson, Patricia Castrejon, Sa-
die Cearns, Tanner Dawson, Sabrina
Delzell, Ashlee Dingle, Alyssa Don-
aldson, Makayla Donaldson, Phil-
lip Dye, Kacey Ferrier, Tori Fleming,
Michael Ford, Jacob Frost, Watson
George, Elena Golovin, Justin Graf,
Collin Green, Greta Gustafson, Ty-
ler Hanes, Tara Hanson, Christina
Hope, Nicholas Kemp, Robert Kerr,
Emily Kessler, Kalinda Kindle, Elisa-
beth Lohafer, Moeko Machida, Jesus
Martinez, Cody Mason, Cameron
Mielke, Kayla Monson, Connor Neal,
Jessica Noble, Jasdeep Pannu, Mayra
PazToledo, Marissa Pemberton,
Benjamin Peterson, Ross Robinson,
Aaron Rowse, Jacob Schroeder, Me-
gan Schulz, Hailey Shields, Kennedy
Simpson, Gagandeep Singh, Jordyn
Small, David VanegasLytle, Tatiana
Villalon, Jessame Vrieling and Kyle
Waldron.
Sophomores — Alex Agafonov,
Samuel Alexander, Joshua Alvarez,
Luis Alvarez, Jacob Anderson, Jac-
quelyn Anderson, Arielle Andrews,
Daniel Andrukhov, Katie Annette,
Cassandra Azevedo, Vladislav Balko,
Kelli Bannerman, Angela Beaulau-
rier, Grace Bills, Phonlawat Boon-
nithi, Marcella Boulos, Tyler Brooks,
Courtney Brown, Hayden Brown,
Mindi Caldwell, Kira Cardoza, James
Carson, Lucas Catrain, Kaylyn Chris-
tensen, Alex Conley, Jessica Cruz,
Carrieann Deguzman, Amanda Del-
aney, Manmit Dhami, Emile Diffley,
Evelyn Dostal, Heather Duncan, Wy-
att Dunn, Brittany Elmquist, Robby
Enriquez, Chelanne Evans, Justin
Ferguson, William Ferguson, Ve-
ronica Finkbonner, Sarah Fleming,
Makenzie Frazier, Madison Genger,
Cece George, Bettina Gonzaga, Colin
Gunningham, Emily Hansen, Dani-
elle Herbig, Monica Hope, Keena
Hudson, Lyle Hughs, Jessica Hull,
Maleenia Huntley, Britagne Johnson,
Vernelle Johnson, Molly Jones, Con-
nor Jungkuntz, Logan Jungkuntz,
Mary Kahle, Oksana Kasko, Joseph
Kelstrup, Colt Kempinsky, Malcolm
Kilgore,Taylor Knutson, Bryce Kober,
TrevorKoehn,NellyKovalenko,Daco-
da Lancaster, Elise Larson, Makalee
Latta, Kirstie Leath, Meredith Levine,
Brianne Locke, Rachel Logan, Mi-
cah Lolkema, Miranda Long, Yuliya
Lopatnikov, Sarah Lucke, Katie Mc-
Cormick, Timothy McGuire, Hannah
Melland, Kameron Mensing, McK-
enzie Meyer, Nolan Miller, Allison
Morgan, Nicholas Murphy, Benja-
min Neher, Inna Pakhnyuk, Nicholas
Parkes, Kaylin PearsonBarrow, Bran-
den Peppar, Jamie Pettinger, Natasha
Pitre, Taylor Reid, Garrett Remsen,
Cheryl Ruiz, Mallory Sandoval, Katie
Scheck, Matthew Scott, Elaine Ship-
man, Zachary Shockley, Anastasiya
Shportko, Yuliya Shportko, Iesha Sir-
mans, Courtney Souve, Ashlee Stiles,
Jacob Stocklass, Allen Sutton, Viktor
Trubnikov, Kasey Truong, Derek Vaj-
da, BradleyVario, MichaelaVendiola,
Kaitlyn Vevag, Alexandra Vine, Taylor
Walton, Koral Weidkamp, Kamaran
Williams, Logan Wilson and Anasta-
sia Yudin.
Freshmen — Erin Abbott, Nelya
Alter, Abigail Asplund, Alexis Bagley,
Kyle Baker, Miranda Baker, Krista
Bergquist, Adriana Boulos, Brit-
tany Breedlove, Ryder Brooks, Col-
lette Brown, Lalana Cafarella, Zach-
ary Cancino, Evan Chapin, Magnolia
Collman, Kelley Crider, Laura Crui-
kshank, Sydney Cutsforth, Liam
Dickman, Michelle Dykstra, Nathan
Ellis, Cynthia Flores, Cameron Ford,
Victoria Fox, Breanna Fryer, Kyndra
Garrison, Gebran Gholam, Carson
Gibboney, Alexandra Gonzalez,
Claudia Grimm, Hunter Grunhurd,
Morgan Gust, Sara Haling, Robert
Hardin, Melynda Hayes, Emma Her-
linger, Louis Hunter, Harry Knechtel,
Taryn Knutson, Timmy Kovalenko,
Bailey Larsen, Saul Liera, Daniel
Litovchenko, Diana Litovchenko,
Andrew Littrell, Gabriela Llanos,
Cody Marshall, Andrew McLaurin,
Joshua Mielke, Emily Mihelich, Ser-
ena Milam, Drew Mobley, Jeremy
Montgomery, Sydni Morin, Cassidy
Newman, Peter Pennylegion, Kirsten
Philpott, Hannah Pitsch, Victoria
Pollock, Daniel Riley, Tianna Robil-
lard, Gagandeep Sanghera, Marceli-
na Santana, Jaiden Schmit, Michaela
Schulz, Robert Semu, Manjot Singh,
Megan Sorgenfrei, Kaylee Stiles,
Natasha Sulek, Annemarie Vander-
Sypen, Jennifer Viera, Amber Weath-
erly, Mckaela Williams, Nicolas Wil-
lis, Caleb Wittmer, Zachary Young
and Emily Zawicki.
—Mark Reimers
FHS releases first-semester honor roll
Mark Reimers
For the Ferndale Record
FERNDALE — If spring break
is supposed to conjure up im-
ages of a Mexican vacation or
a road trip to Las Vegas, think
again.
Some college students
stayed right here in the Pacific
Northwest once finals were be-
hind them. What’s more, they
were working, in the rain, for
no pay.
And on Monday, they were
back in class. But it’s all for a
good cause.
The students were from the
University of Portland, South-
ern Utah University, Portland
State University and Clark
College. Their job was a build-
ing project with the Whatcom
County affiliate of Habitat for
Humanity in Ferndale.
A total of 50 college students
made the trip to Ferndale to
work on several houses located
in the new Trigg Woods neigh-
borhood off PortalWay.The last
group of students, from Clark
College in Vancouver, Wash.,
spent Friday at the future home
of Dawn Hubbard, who will live
there with a daughter and two
granddaughters.
“It’s amazing to see people
give in our day,” Hubbard said
as she came to the house to
see the students off. She said it
was exciting during the weeks
to come by the house and see
so much being accomplished.
She said she is hoping to move
into her new home in June.
Student Loren Brown, 18,
said half of the Clark College
group of volunteers are Run-
ning Start students like he is.
Clark, Brown said, has a two-
week spring break, so it was
worthitforhimtospendaweek
volunteering instead of staying
at home doing nothing.
Although some of the stu-
dents knew each other from
class previously, they didn’t re-
ally get to know each other until
they got to spend time building
a house together, Brown said.
Nick Ambs, a coordinator
for Habitat for Humanity, said
most students in the program
find out quickly that memories
made this way are more mean-
ingful than a simple vacation.
Plus, coming as friends from
school tends to create a posi-
tive energy among the work-
ers.
“They get a lot of work done,”
Ambs said, even if skill levels
vary.
Ambs said the various chap-
ters of Habitat can participate
in the collegiate volunteer pro-
gram if they can demonstrate
that they will provide a mean-
ingful volunteer experience for
students.
One of the student groups
also spent time working on the
charity’s Sumas duplex proj-
ect.
At least one student had
other plans before deciding
to come with the group. But it
wasn’t a vacation.
Fidel Carpio, a student of en-
gineering with a renewable en-
ergy focus, said he had planned
to travel to Mexico to help build
a clinic for people with diabe-
tes. However, issues at the bor-
der prevented that group from
crossing.
“I was committed to help-
ing and volunteering over the
break,” Carpio said. So he got
in touch with college staff or-
ganizer Jody Shulnak, who in-
vited him to come to Ferndale.
Carpio said the local hospi-
tality during the trip has been
amazing, with the groups be-
ing treated to breakfast every
morning from members of the
First Christian Church of Bell-
ingham.
Sophomore Shon Harris said
he has wanted to work with
Habitat for Humanity for a
while, but quickly realized that
he would be using new skills to
get through the project.
“I’m mainly an artist,” Harris
said. “So I didn’t expect some
things.”
But learning new skills isn’t
the only benefit Harris sees the
group taking home.
“It really expands you,” he
said. “It makes you think about
others and those outside of
your community.”
Email Mark Reimers at
reporter@lyndentribune.com.
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