• A special thank you to Nga Selbig and Stephanie Scott for envisioning and organizing our first ever Cascade Ridge Talent Show! The event was a huge success and we loved seeing so many students SHINE on stage!
• A BIG thank you to Madelyn Jansma for donating her time and expertise so that we could provide the Love and Logic series for our families. We appreciate your generosity of time, resources and expertise to share this important information with our community!
• Thank you Math Club coaches Mari O’Neil, Rajeev Goel, Sheela Pai, Sudeesh Pingili, Susan Sansing, and Thomas Alex. You’ve worked so hard throughout the year to make this program a huge success, and you’ve woken up before the crack of dawn every Monday morning to come in and work with the kids. Thank you so very much!

The Eager Reader program requires a lot of coordination and ongoing support over the 4-week duration. It could not occur without the support of so many parent volunteers and Cascade Ridge staff! A HUGE thank you to Ann Brooks and Peggy Rodman for coordinating, and the following individuals:

• Thank you to Rajeev Goel, the mastermind behind this year’s online Eager Reader! Rajeev single-handed brought the paper-based program online this year and spent countless hours developing, testing, improving upon and working out any issues that arose with the new program during the four week period. The new system received rave reviews from parents, who no longer had to keep track of paper logs and do math and students who loved the getting to enter their own minutes and check the progress of their classroom!
• Thank you to Angie Lukens and Kim McNesby who willingly and eagerly joined the Eager Reader committee! While both were new to the program (and school), these gals solicited the donations from Krispy Kreme, Red Robin and Panera Bread, created the fun lunchroom display, prepared all of the prize bags for the classrooms and just generally planned and executed this year’s program. They also get all of the credit for getting Jamba Juice to donate the smoothie party that will be enjoyed by Mrs. Wehner’s 1st grade class.
• Thank you to all of the Eager Reader classroom representatives, Krystl McCandlish, Katy Chung, Cecilia Youm, Jaime Foreman, Margot Purcell, Michelle Lyman, Kerri Shek, Melanie Kusmik, Melissa Grimes, Betty Sur, Erica Dunn, Sangeeta Peri, Kristin Hunter, Stacey Foreman, Blake Harnick, Janet Jacobson, Katrina Ostrander, Brooke Daggett, Ganga Pingili, Blythe Mercer, Margie Broderick, Joe Sexton, Laura Fortner and Kelly Taaffe! These individuals were the face of the program, presenting the new online system to their respective classes, generating excitement around the various prizes and classroom incentives, distributing the prizes each week, sending out reminders to parents to approve minutes and following up with any issues. The program could not occur without all of their support and they all put in so much time to ensure the success of the program!
• Thank you to Mardi and Jennifer in the front office for allowing us to interrupt them too many times to count with requests for keys, to reserve meeting rooms, to assist with supplies, etc!
• Thank you to Shawna Carrigan for all of her assistance with the ice cream social, both before and after the event!
• Thank you to Phyllis Turner and Sheri Studer for allowing us to store the ice cream social supplies in the school’s freezer! We so appreciate your willingness to assist the program.