WWU Honor Band Allows UCA Musicians to Grow

Fourteen Upper Columbia Academy students and staff join musicians from eleven Adventists academies for the Walla Walla University Honor Band weekend. Credit: Timothy Kosaka Fourteen students and staff from Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash., joined musicians from 11 Adventist academies for a weekend of growing through music. Brandon Beck, Walla Walla University professor of […]

Students from around the Pacific Northwest join the UCA choir to create a mass choir of beautiful voices for the Upper Columbia Academy Choir Clinic: Credit Tamara Terry It was well worth the drive on snowy and icy roads to hear the Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) Choral Clinic finale performance on Jan. 19 in Spangle, […]

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UCA’s class, dorm and ASB leadership teams participate in the NPUC-sponsored leadership retreat The North Pacific Union Conference hosts a retreat for student leaders every other year. This year’s conference, held Oct. 13–16, 2016, at Camp Mivoden in Hayden Lake, Idaho, featured presenters A.J. Grant, a pastor and a lieutenant serving as an Adventist chaplain […]

Credit: Tim Kosaka Wednesday assembly time at Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle, Wash., is more than just announcements. It’s also a time to share life-changing information. At a recent assembly, Jim and Lisa Thompson shared the story of how they lost their son, Sam, because of distracted driving. One minute before the call to 911 that […]

Chloe Paago and Jack Dieter take the temperature and pH of the stream’s water. CREDIT: PAUL TUCKER Students learn a lot through textbooks, lectures, experiments and homework. But Judy Castrejón, Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) science and biology teacher, has a passion for making a difference for her students and for her local Spangle, Wash., community. […]

  The cafeteria staff and student workers creatively use paper cups to decorate the door to the Davis Fireside Room in the Wallace Dining Commons. CREDIT: ROB BEATON For the past two years, Associated Student Body (ASB) officers at Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash., have decorated the Campbell Administration Building for Christmas. Bright lights […]

Jordan Judge is a junior at Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle, Wash. This article is adapted from one he wrote for the November 2016 issue of Echoes, a student publication. To view more articles, visit ucaa.org. Fred Riffel’s Upper Columbia Academy Bible class went to the field by the school to dig potatoes on Oct. […]

Doug Wells presents the keys to FoudationONE to Mindy Weber. FoundationONE is pleased to announce Mindy Weber, a 1985 graduate of Upper Columbia Academy (UCA) in Spangle, Wash., was elected president during the annual meeting on Sept. 29, 2016. Weber follows three visionary leaders: Terrence Finney, a superior court judge; Tom Stanyer, a lead engineer with Boeing Co.; […]

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