Students and teachers at Charles Wright celebrated groundbreaking for the new Language and Performing Arts Center yesterday in a very big way, complete with dancing monsters and an excavator. 

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After Wednesday’s Parent Association volunteer appreciation breakfast, farmhouse volunteers were back to sorting and packing treasures for the rummage sale to benefit construction of the new Language and Performing Arts Center. Kari Whitney reports:

This week we received many box-loads of collectable china and crystal, many of which you’ll fine at the big November rummage sale.

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Charles Wright’s symphonic band won two awards at the Heritage Festival in during an April trip to Anaheim, California.  Director Heidi Huckins said the festival was held at two venues and CWA competed against about two dozen other bands.  The Tarriers came home with a big trophy for winning the Outstanding Band award and a second trophy for the Silver Award. 

Charles Wright alum Nicolai Wohns ’03 has been named one of the Puget Sound region’s finest young classical musicians.  He and five others will be featured in a Winners’ Recital presented by the Tacoma Philharmonic this month.  Wohns, a violinist, is now a student at Northwestern University and is taught by Gerardo Ribeiro. Read the rest of this entry »