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A whistle blew and the race was on Wednesday for 60 students at Waynedale Elementary who participated in the Wonder Mile.
The Top 15 qualifying girls and boys in each of two grade brackets, second and third, and fourth and fifth, participated. Their family and classmates looked on from around the playground behind the school. .
Justuss Boice placed first overall for the boys with a time of 6:18. The fifth-grader said he looks forward to the Wonder Mile every year.
“I just work and try and do my best,” Boice said.
Fifth-grader Samantha Alexander was the top finishing girl with a time of 6:59.
“I feel really great,” she said. “I didn’t train at all. My parents say it’s because I have long legs for my age.”
Her name, along with Boice’s, will be engraved on a plaque inside the school. Students placing in the top three among each race will receive a trophy on the last day of school, said Mark Hageman, physical education teacher.
The top finishers among second- and third-graders were third-grader Mikayla Bailey with a time of 7:29, and second-grader Alphonso James with a time of 7:11.
•“Twenty-first Century Scholars Days” will be offered Tuesday at the Angola Library; Wednesday in IPFW’s Walb Student Union Ballroom; and Saturday at the Decatur Library.
•Concordia Lutheran School, 4245 Lake Ave., will have an open house on Wednesday.
•North Side High School student Kiley Good won a National PTA Reflections Program Award for dance choreography.
•The following Huntington University students received the Outstanding Senior Award: Spencer Batt of New Haven; Kaicy Guthrie of Roanoke; Matthew Schownir of Huntington; Sam Ryan of Huntington; Joshua Zinnel of Kendallville; Wayne Stephan of Huntington; Whitney Abbott of Roanoke; Abigail Allwein of Fort Wayne; and Ben Hopper of Huntington.
•The following Huntington University students won awards at the digital media arts program’s Spring Showcase: Ryan Barger of Warsaw, Technical Director of the Year; Jason Eberly of Fort Wayne, First Place Live-Action Film and Outstanding Music Video; Nathan
Hartman of Berne, First Place Live-Action Film; and Andrew Watson of Huntington, Overall Award in the 10-Second Animation Category.
•The following FWCS PTA units received awards during the Indiana PTA Convention: Forest Park Elementary, Indiana PTA Outstanding Unit of the Year and 2009 Indiana PTA Honor Unit; Price Elementary, 2009 Indiana PTA Honor Unit; Northrop High, 2009 Indiana PTA Honor Unit; Franke Park Elementary, Outstanding Journalism Award; Lakeside Middle, Outstanding Journalism Award; Elmhurst High, Golden Leaf Award; Kekionga Middle, Golden Leaf Award; Harrison Hill Elementary, Golden Leaf Award; Scott Academy, Golden Leaf Award; Northcrest Elementary, Golden Leaf Award; and Shawnee Middle, Golden Leaf Award and Membership Achievement Award.
•IPFW freshman Michelle L. Keplar of Roanoke won the Nineteen Eighty-Four Community Book Read and Essay Contest.
•Leo Junior-Senior High Principal Mark Daniel was named the Principal of the Year for EACS by the Indiana Association of School Principals and The Horace Mann Companies.
•St. Joseph United Methodist Children’s Ministries, 6004 Reed Road, is enrolling pre-school, extended care and before/after school care for 2009-10. Call 485-4022 for more information.
•Kelsey Marie Reynolds and Amanda Poynter received scholarships from the Huntertown Lions Club.
•Gregory Shannon and Andrew Hoffman, both of Fort Wayne, received a $1,000 Leadership Scholarship from Chick-fil-A.
•The following Elmhurst High students received the George B., Elma B. and Ruth M. Wimmer Scholarship: Nykole Fry, Arthur Mann, Samuel Sanchez, Angela Saraceno, Nicole Sztuk, Abigail Thomas, Tonya Trowbridge, Candi Witzigreuter, Derrek Yager, Kari Carrillo, Alvin Davis, Paige Edmonds, Kasie Lehman, Cristi Lehman, Kimberly Oakes and Tessa Stech.
