ACHIEVEMENTS.Byline: The Register-Guard Essay contest winners will advance to district level The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 293 and its Ladies Auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. have chosen winners of their essay competition for local middle and high school students. The winners were Nyssa Runyan, a senior at Willamette High School Willamette High School is a school in Eugene, Oregon. Willamette, or "Wil-Hi," is located in the Bethel-Danebo area of west Eugene, and is the only high school in the Bethel School District. , who won the Voice of Democracy award for her essay on "My Role in Honoring America's Veterans." In the middle school contest, Rochelle Pappel, an eighth-grader at Willamette Christian School A Christian School is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization. The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country according to the religious, educational, and political culture. , won the Patriot's Pen award for her essay on "Why I Am an American Patriot." Both girls advance to the district competition, with the possibility of winning a college scholarship or U.S. Savings Bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. at the national level. |
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