Selkirk Schools Veterans Day Concert: Honoring Our Heroes Through Music, Gratitude & Community
Tuesday, November 11, we celebrate Veterans Day. Our community has a fine tradition of service and sacrifice and Selkirk is proud to honor that tradition with our annual Veterans Day concert. Yesterday, our school community gathered to honor and thank the courageous men and women who have served our country. Our students, under the capable leadership of our music teacher, Dave King, put on an unforgettable Veterans Day Concert with heartfelt songs and meaningful tributes that brought the audience to its feet.
🎶 Musical Highlights Included:
• 🎤 “Country Roads (Take Me Home)”
• 🎻 “Travelin’ Soldier”
• 🇺🇸 “God Bless the U.S.A. (I’m Proud to Be an American)”
• 🥁 3rd Grade – “Grand Old Flag”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-zNupQA8Q
• 🤟 2nd Grade – Leading the Pledge of Allegiance in American Sign Language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-jv5miIcjQ
💙 Thank you to all Veterans for your bravery, service, and sacrifice. We are proud to honor you this upcoming Veteran’s day and every day.
Dear Selkirk Families & Community Members,
On February 10, 2026, the Selkirk School District will place a renewal 3-year EP&O levy measure on the ballot for voters to consider (2027-2029). EP&O levies pay for programs that the state does not fully fund or fund at all such as extra-curricular, nursing, technology, food service, maintenance, etc. Selkirk School District has been fortunate to have received community support for EP&O levies for over 40 years and the current levy expires at the end of 2026. All three school districts in the county (Selkirk, Cusick, Newport) will be requesting renewal of their EP&O levies on the February ballot to share ballot expenses.
In accordance with RCW 29A.32.280, the district is seeking parents and community members interested in participating on a committee of up to three (3) district residents either in argument for or argument against the district’s upcoming EP&O levy measure. If you are interested in serving on either committee, please contact Superintendent Nancy Lotze (nlotze@selkirkschools.org or 509-446-2951) by noon on November 19, 2025.
Each for/against statement may be up to 250 words for the main statement. Rebuttals from each side may be up to 75 words and these statements appear in the Local Voters’ Pamphlet published by the county elections office. Contact information for the committees may be listed in the Local Voters’ Pamphlet.
The Play's the thing! Next Friday and Saturday, November 14 & 15, the Selkirk Theater Arts group will perform our fall productions at the Cutter Theatre. At 6:30pm, we will present Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Middle School (but were too busy being stuffed into a locker to ask), a comedy about the perils and pitfalls of life in middle school. This performance will last about 30 minutes, and is appropriate for all ages. At 7:30, we will perform 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse: The Musical, a hilarious musical comedy about a group of survivors trying, and mostly failing, to survive the end of the world filled with the walking dead. This is a more funny than scary play, appropriate for older children (or those not easily scared) through adults, and will last about 1 hour. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for students. One admission gets you into both shows. Come out and support the 33 students, grades 6-12, who have worked hard to make these shows happen!
Congratulations to The Lady Rangers Varsity Volleyball Team! With their win on Tuesday, they clinched the 4th seed into the Northeast 1B League Tournament! The tournament is today at 2:00pm, in Wilbur.
Tickets for the 1B League District Tournament can be purchased through the following link. $10.00 adults and $8.00 students/seniors.
https://gofan.co/event/5219865?schoolId=WA100347
It's Throwback Thursday! These beauties are also brainiacs. Do you recognize any of these brilliant Honor Society members from 1978?
The School Board has hired Northwest Leadership Associates to help find our next district leader. To provide input for the hiring process, please complete the survey here 👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Selkirk25
View the job posting at: https://superintendentsearch.com/listing/superintendent-9/
The 2025 middle school Halloween dance is in the books! Students had a great time dancing and playing games. Take a look at this assortment of cool costumes. These were the costume contest winners, but they were just a small sample of the many creative costumes from the evening!
The Homecoming court represented Selkirk in style! Blake Reed and Marisa Lyons took home the titles of King and Queen. The Freshmen won the spirit week competition. With that, the high schoolers are off to the dance and a great Homecoming week comes to a close!
Power Week was a huge success! On Monday, we served 192 slices of pizza courtesy of the local employees of Boundary Power House. Friday night we served up 204 burgers and 100 hotdogs courtesy of Pend Oreille Public Utility District. Halftime entertainment was provided by the flag football players, and we even had a visit from Watt. A huge thank you goes to PUD, Boundary Dam employees, the Food Court, and all the staff and community members who made this happen!
We are so proud of our elementary students who went above and beyond by reading over 10 hours during our Summer Reading Challenge! Yesterday, these dedicated readers were recognized at our Elementary Assembly and celebrated with "Leaders Are Readers" shirts 🎉
A big thank you to Stephany Petrich for generously donating the shirts for our amazing students!
During the assembly, we also honored our 3rd–5th grade students for their academic achievements in math and writing as well as Kindergarten - 2nd grade students for demonstrating outstanding character traits such as:
✨ Kindness
🌟 Leadership
💪 Courage
🔥 Grit
🎨 Creativity
Way to go, students, you continue to inspire us with your hard work, heart, and dedication!
Selkirk is a proud member of Washington's Farm to School Program, a WSDA organized program that fosters relationships between school food services and local farms. October 6th-9th is Farm to School Week at Selkirk, and we are pairing with nearby farms to supply the lunch program with fresh, healthy meat & produce for our students. Each day our talented cooks will be serving up fantastic breakfasts and lunches featuring these local products. It’s going to be a delicious week!
