Please note: This scholarship is only available to Cascade High School students.
The 2012 scholarship application form and information will be posted here in early March.

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2011- Year in Review!

What were the big news stories of the year?  What were the top internet searches?

Yahoo!:  http://yearinreview.yahoo.com/

Google: http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en

Zeitgeist (German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ( listen)) is “the spirit of the times” or “the spirit of the age.”   Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, or political  climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era.

Zeitgeist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist

Google Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review:  

Welcome to 2012!

We wish all of you a very Happy New Year!  Thanks for all of your help and support, we appreciate all the nice things people have done.

In 2011 we were able to accomplish some great things and it was a team effort!

• We would like to thank all the individuals and business sponsors once more for their support of Brett’s Run/Walk 3 which took place on August 20, 2011 at Legion Memorial Park—through your generous participation and contributions, over $15,000 was raised–this goes a long way in our ability to award scholarships in Brett’s memory both now and in the future through Cascade High School and the Everett Rotary Club.

• This year’s winners were Annie Manhardt from Cascade High School–$3000 award; and Lucas Sontra from Everett High School–a $7000 Everett Rotary award–the Brett Jensen Memorial Scholarship Fund donates $3500 of this total and the Rotary Club matches their donation. Annie is attending Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and Lucas is attending Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.

• Please save the date for this year’s walk/run–it will take place at Legion Memorial Park on the morning of August 25, 2012.  Megan’s graduation class (2002) are planning on having their class reunion on the same weekend.

Again, we appreciate all of your love and support. We look forward to seeing you on August 25, 2012 for Brett’s Walk/Run 4.

The Dragonfly

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads,
there lived a little water beetle in a community of water
beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond
with few disturbances and interruptions.

Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of
their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and
would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their
friend was dead, gone forever.

Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge
to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would
not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what
he had found at the top.

When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the
surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so
warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body
changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful
blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body
designed for flying.

So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole
new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never
known existed.

Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking

by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and
explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been
before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.

But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could
not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he
understood that their time would come, when they, too, would
know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off
into his joyous new life!

~Author Unknown~

Brett Akio Jensen

Please check back soon for pictures!

We really appreciate those who serve on the committee:

Don, Jan, and Megan Jensen, Barb and Chris Lark, Liz and Don Healy, Mark and Martha Sadler, John and Sharon Hill, Tim Gravelle, Bill Stengele, Elaine Garcia, Kelly Rodgers, Dan Hansen, Joe Kendo, Linda Cray, Randy Hughes, Steve Bertrand, and Mike Therrell

Other Helpers:  Mike Wilson, Harry Stengele

Daycare:  Kelli Sparks and Summer Iversen

Some of the 2001 buddies!

Class of 2001, 10 year reunion, welcome!

Please see the posts below for a list of many individuals and the businesses who support Brett’s Run.

Brett's best friends leading the group in a round of Happy Birthday 2010!

You can still sign up for Brett’s Run 3 today, and any day up through this Saturday, August 20, the big day of the event: http://brettjensen.wordpress.com/bretts-run/