This year 24 impressive young spellers earned entry to the NCW Regional Spelling Bee organized by the Washington Apple Education Foundation (WAEF). The regional champion represents north central Washington at the national Scripps Spelling Bee held annually in the spring in Washington DC. Students in grades 4th-8th from Okanogan, Chelan, Douglas...
This afternoon the Washington State House of Representatives passed SB6032 - our final hurdle to getting the new Washington apples specialty plates into law. We are so appreciative of our primary sponsor Senator Brad Hawkins and the dedication and work of our Yakima and Wenatchee area legislators. Below is the announcement...
Yesterday WAEF directors met in Ellensburg for their quarterly board of directors meeting. Directors present included chairman Chris Willett, vice-chairman Jeff Fagg and members Bart Gebers, Ben Jensen, Cory Groves, Dennis Bigness, Dwaine Brown, Frank Davis, James Foreman, Keith Veselka, Kristin Kershaw-Snapp, LaVerne Bergstrom, Larry Martin, Rolando Martin and Ruth Pringle....
Add you name to the petition sharing your support of the plate honoring Washington apple growers and supporting student success through WAEF - ipetition. In the 2020 legislative session, the Washington Apple Commission with support from Senator Brad Hawkins is proposing the creation of a Washington state license plate recognizing the...
Kathryn Sims (left) shared about her job as an engineer at Van Doren Sales with WAEF student Elizabeth Ruldo. Student career tours took place this week. We decided to change up the format a little bit for the spring tours. Instead of these being "exploratory" tours where students traveled together to...
