SBLSD News

The 16th Annual Benefit Night Talent Show and Dinner Auction was a success, raising about $60,000 for the event’s beneficiary Seah Eggum, a longtime Maple Lawn Elementary teacher who has stage 4 metastatic cancer.

More than 750 people attended the two-day event held March 23 and 24, which featured 43 performers in the Talent Show and 104 items for the Dinner Auction. We thank Sumner High School’s core leadership students for their commitment in planning this annual event and all of the generous donors in our schools and community.

The last day of school for SBLSD students will be Monday, June 20, 2022. It will be a half day early dismissal with no late start.

It’s time for the 89th annual Daffodil Festival Parade this Saturday, April 9.

There are two Daffodil Princesses representing our district in the parade from Bonney Lake High School and Sumner High School. The parade will pass through Sumner at 2:30 p.m., when you can also enjoy the Sumner Main Street Association’s first-ever Street of Eats.

Learn more about our crowned Daffodil Princesses:

• Kaitlyn Bolland (BLHS): Heavily involved in band, Kaitlyn plays flute and is the drum major for the Panther Field Show Marching Band. She also enjoys helping out in the school's theater productions. In her free time, Kaitlyn enjoys painting with watercolors and completing diamond painting kits. Kaitlyn is a Running Start student who maintains a 3.4 GPA. Kaitlyn plans on continuing her college education to become a middle school science teacher.

• Maeson Sterrenburg (SHS): Maeson is very involved in FFA, serving as the Sumner High School FFA chapter president. During her four years with FFA, she has accomplished everything from raising livestock lambs to competing in FFA Career Development Events. Maeson is currently attending classes at Pierce College and maintains a 3.97 GPA. After high school, she plans on majoring in business or digital marketing with a goal for a career that will allow her to travel the world.

The Bonney Lake High School Dance & Drill Team, known as the Pantherettes, is an 8-time state champion.

The team won first place with their kick routine at the 2022 Washington State Dance/Drill Championships. The kick routine was the highest-scoring kick routine among 1/2/3/4A school categories.

The team also won second place for their military routine and third place for their pom routine in the 3A category. Amazing work!

Watch the winning kick routine below.

The Bonney Lake High School culinary arts team took home first place at the Culinary Arts State Championship in Spokane on March 26. They competed against five other schools across the state.

Students Lucy M., Mallory M., Alika A., Grace F., and Luke M. served up this mouthwatering menu:

• Starter: Pan-seared Alaskan halibut served over forbidden rice, topped with beurre blanc and microgreens
• Entree: Pan-seared, butter-basted, dry-aged beef tenderloin with pureed butternut squash, purple mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables
• Dessert: Gold-dusted chocolate bombe filled with raspberry mousse, passion fruit panna cotta, and chocolate ganache

If you think that’s impressive, they also had only 60 minutes to do it all, without electricity or running water. They rely on propane stoves, hand-cranked blenders and ice cream machines. Read more about the competition.

The win gives BLHS the opportunity to compete in the National ProStart Invitational in Washington, D.C. in May. The national competition returns this year after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congrats to our amazing BLHS culinary arts team!

For the first time, Bonney Lake High School hosted the FIRST Robotics district competition, with 32 school teams and over 1,000 students, teachers, mentors and families in attendance.

At the competition, Panther Robotics had nine wins, three losses and one tie. They qualified for the PNW District Championships in Cheney, Wash. as an under-ranked #20. If they can get to top 10, they will make the world championships later in April.

In one match in the district competition, Bonney Lake knocked the number one team out of first place. Watch them go head-to-head in the video below. Panther Robotics is on the blue team, #3218.

Next week, Bonney Lake High School’s Drama Club performs The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a hilarious musical featuring six quirky tweens who each want to win the spelling bee.

• April 14 and 15 at 7 p.m.; April 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• BLHS Performing Arts Center, 10920 199th Ave Ct E
• Tickets are $12 adults; $8 students/seniors (credit card purchases, call 253-891-5714; cash sales at the door)

Music & Lyrics by William Finn | Book by Rachel Sheinkin | Conceived by Rebecca Feldman | Additional Material by Jay Reiss | Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine

The Bonney Lake High School Car Show is back! From classic to current models, students and community members may enter their cars into the show, which is May 7 from 8 a.m. to noon in the school’s upper parking lot. Registration is $20 per car. Spectators may attend the event for free with an opportunity to vote for awards in various categories.

Proceeds from this event goes to BLHS ASB, which supports student supplies, assemblies, leadership development and more.

The City of Bonney Lake invites residents to name what’s temporarily called Midtown Park. The 40-acre park is located along South Prairie Road behind the Fred Meyer and Regal Tall Firs retail complex. In essay format, suggest a name for the park while explaining how the name is connected to Bonney Lake. Entry deadline is June 30.

Learn more.

The public is invited to attend School Board study sessions and meetings, which are held both virtually and in person. Please note that dates, times and locations are subject to change. Agendas are published a day prior to each meeting.

Study Session: April 13

• 6 p.m. at Central Office (1202 Wood Ave)
• Virtual meeting link (Passcode: 529516)

Board Meeting: April 20

• 6 p.m. at Maple Lawn Elementary (230 Wood Ave)
• Virtual meeting link (Passcode: 802454)

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