Category Archives: Lake Oswego Schools

Curtain Goes Up on Lakeridge Company Variety Show This Week

Posted on April 15, 2013 by lovelakeoswego

The curtain goes up on the 2013 edition of the Lakeridge Company Variety Show this Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lakeridge auditorium. In the audience will be beaming parents, spirited friends, and you, if you’re lucky. It’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Why Lawrence Welk Would Think the Windjammer’s Variety Show is Wunnerful, Wunnerful

Posted on February 25, 2013 by lovelakeoswego

Lawrence Welk knew what American television audiences wanted and delivered just that over the 27 years his show ran from 1955 to 1982. Harkening back to “those good old days,” the theme for this year’s Lake Oswego High School Windjammer … Continue reading →

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WARNING: Watching Lakeridge’s Company Variety Show May Change How You Look at Today’s Teens

Posted on April 16, 2012 by lovelakeoswego

This weekend and next, the Lakeridge Company show choir is putting on their annual Variety Show. This year’s theme is “Taking Care of Business.” On stage you’ll see more than 32 talented performers sing and dance to popular tunes. For … Continue reading →

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Excellence in Education Has a Price and Lake Oswegans Prove Willing to Pay It

Posted on March 26, 2012 by lovelakeoswego

With school budgets cuts across the country, the creation of educational foundations to stop the bleeding is not unusual. “What is unusual,” explains Lake Oswego School District Foundation Director Mary Puskas, “is the success that we’ve had.” The numbers back … Continue reading →

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Discover Why Parents Have Camped Out Overnight to Get Their Kids into Lake Oswego School District’s Scholars’ Alliance Program…And Why You Don’t Have To

Posted on January 25, 2012 by lovelakeoswego

I hate standing in lines but my wife and I have done it four times for our kids. Once, to get our son a coveted Wii when stores couldn’t stock them fast enough, and the other was to garner each … Continue reading →

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Listen to Mark Twain and get to one of Lake Oswego’s two homecoming parades

Posted on October 20, 2011 by lovelakeoswego

The way Mark Twain saw it, a parade was important for two reasons—as a show and as a symbol. When reflecting in “Queen Victoria’s Jubilee,” on the procession in her honor in 1897,  he wrote  “…its minor function being to … Continue reading →

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Why the Lakeridge Pacers and Lake Oswego Lakers Deserve a Place in the Hall of Fame

Posted on October 5, 2011 by lovelakeoswego

I’d like to nominate a new sports team rivalry to enter the Sports Hall of Fame alongside the likes of the 49ers and the Rams, and the Ducks and the Beavers—that of our very own high school teams, the Lakeridge … Continue reading →

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Lake Oswego School District’s reputation adds to home values any way you look at it

Posted on September 8, 2011 by lovelakeoswego

Of all the factors that add to the real estate value of homes in Lake Oswego, the reputation of the Lake Oswego School District is one of the biggest. And if you’re a family with school-age children, it’s the primary … Continue reading →

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