Contests: The Northwest Voice

Youth Athlete of the Month Nominating Wade Froehlich

I am nominating my son Wade Froehlich because of his amazing dedication to a sport that gets very little recognition. He practices year round on a Boys Gymnastics Team at American Kids Sports Center. His dedication to the sport amazes me. He loves all sports and does his best to juggle Flag Football and Baseball while continuing his year round sport. Most importanlty he has been a loving and caring son, a great student at school and church, and a wonderful example for his younger brother and sister. We are so very proud of him. We love you....Papa, Mama, Jake and Nicoletta !

Youth Athlete of the Month Aiden Faulconer

Aiden Faulconer is 5 1/2 years old and this was his first year swimming for RBG Swim Team. Aiden enjoyed swimming the Breaststroke, Butterfly and Freestyle. He always would swim with a smile and cheered for his friends. Aiden also enjoys playing baseball for Southwest Baseball League and can hardly wait until he is old enough to play football. We are very proud of the effort he brings to any sport and positive attitude he has towards his teammates.

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Athlete of the Month Winner: Kody Wright

Kody Wright, 11, has been playing travel baseball for over two years. In a recent tournament, Kody batted .555 for the weekend, including two doubles and three walks. Defensively, he played catcher for 11 innings — in one day — and had an out at home that involved a collision preventing the opposing team from scoring; he had no errors and five outs defensively. Kody maintained a 4.0 GPA for his first two semesters at Centennial Elementary. We are most proud of the effort and positive attitude that Kody brings to any situation.

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The Spickler family recently visited Maui, and we took the voice on vaction to Maui with us!

Take The Voice on Vacation!

My husband loves snorkling, he went every day with Brooke and Matthew, here he is with the Northwest Voice.

Take the voice on vacation!

Sally Wang and Mason Trueblood traveled to Las Vegas to represent Bakersfield at the West Coast Dance Explosion National Competition. The two dancers are from Civic Dance Center's performing company Troupe Civic. They were a part of the Elite program that performed behind R&B artist Deborah Cox at the Gala. They also competed for the national senior title. Sally was awarded 2nd runner up, out of 32 ladies. Both dancers received year-long scholarships to the dance convention for the 2009 season.

Take The Voice on Vacation photo contest

We went on vacation to Santee Lakes in Santee, near San Diego. Our campsite was right on lake 6 and you would usually catch me sitting in a chair, fishing, and reading. The Northwest Voice was a great read...as always.

Pati Jones for Educator of the Month

We want to nominate Pati Jones for Educator of the month. She has been our swim teacher for three years (she is also a first grade teacher at San Lauren). She has taught me a lot about swimming and how to be safe in the pool. She is a really good teacher because she taught me how to swim in the deep end without my life jacket. She also lets me dive down and get the rings. We can both jump off "the rock" and swim to the side now. She really improved our swimming!

Take the Voice on Vacation

Here are Trey Best, a Frontier High School Junior (Left to Right) and Landon (Sophomore) and Chase Borgsdorf (Freshman) , Liberty High students enjoying part of their summer vacation at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. And naturally, the Northwest Voice went on vacation WITH us and travelled 1800 miles ! Picture was taken on 7-17-08.

Taking the voice on vacation

Renee Smith and fiance, Jeremy Turner took the voice on vacation to Pismo dunes.

Traveling with The Voice

Renee Smith and fiance Jeremy Turner

Pismo Dunes, Riding quads while reading the Voice!

Take the Northwest Voice on Vacation - To Montana!

Cailee and Madalyn Luter took The Northwest Voice on their vacation! They traveled to Mono Lake, the Reno Volleyball Festival, Yellowstone National Park, the Idaho Potato Museum, and Zion National Park with their Mom and Grandma, and The Northwest Voice came along too. Here are a few pictures from the trip.

Take the Voice on vacation — to Mt. Rushmore!

Mt. Rushmore here we come with The Northwest Voice and The Southwest Voice.

Justin on the left, Jonathan in the middle and Joel (in the bomber jacket) on the right.

Take The Voice on Vacation — Colorado bound

Bill holding Northwest Voice and Southwest Voice magazines as we are leaving New Mexico for Colorado.