Back To School Picnic :  Please join us at 5 PM on Monday August 30 for fun, fellowship, and sandwiches!  We’ll be serving Subway sandwiches, thanks to our friends at the Powell/182nd store.  Get a head start on your SHARE hours if you can help with set up, serving, or clean up.  Please contact Pam Merritt at extension 354 or pmerritt@portland-lutheran.org

Fall Fundraisers :  We welcome back the Entertainment Book Sale this Fall.  At $25 each, these books are super easy to sell, so start asking your family and friends for pre-orders!  We’d like to sell 400 books.  Cookie Dough sales will begin in October, for delivery just in time for Thanksgiving.  More details will be forthcoming.  Let your family and friends know that they can order their dough from you!  Fundraisers this year have a cool twist – students will be appreciated mid-sale for their efforts with treats and recognition in school assemblies.  Our top sellers will have an extra treat of entering the cash machine for prizes and $$$!

SCRIP :  It’s time to think SCRIP again.  September order dates are the 7th and the 20th.  Delivery is always the Friday of that same week.  Last year we profited over $4,300 and with your help, we can reach our goal of $8,000.  It’s a win/win fundraiser.  Let’s say you purchase $100 in Fred Meyer SCRIP – you’ll receive a $100 gift card to use for anything at any Fred Meyer store.  Your checks aren’t deposited until after the SCRIP is delivered, so you don’t have that “out of pocket/pay ahead” feeling.  It’s super easy and there is something for everyone on the order form.  Please contact Pam Merritt at extension 354 or pmerritt@portland-lutheran.org if you have questions.  All orders can be dropped off at any school office, and late orders can be accepted on Tuesdays before 9 AM.

PTO Membership :  Would you like to join us as we support PLS and our students?  We are always looking for new ideas and helping hands.  Please contact Pam Merritt at extension 354 or pmerritt@portland-lutheran.org

Portland Lutheran graduate Sean McGuire recently received a full tuition scholarship and stipend to conduct research in the Lasers and Applied Physics doctorate program at Princeton University. Sean graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane on May 16, with a double major in mathematics and physics.

To read more about Sean, click the link for the entire article from The Gresham Outlook.

Sophomore Lindsay LeBrun scored 24.5 of her team’s 48.5 points to help lead the Jays to the third place trophy after finishing 1st in the 200m, 2nd in the 100m (by .01 second), and 3rd in the 400m.  She also anchored the 4x100m relay team.  Other individual finishes include:  Ali Brauer (11), who paced her way to 2nd in the 3000m and 5th in the 1500m run; Denisse Cruz (9), who set a school record by throwing 105’3″ in the Discus, putting her in 4th place; Morgan Grubb (10), who jumped 15’8.75″ in the Long Jump, placing her in 7th place; and Ingrid Bergmann (12), who finished in a five-way tie for 2nd place at 7’6″ in the Pole Vault but received 5th place because of misses.  The 4x100m relay team comprised of Becca Phipps (10), Christine Jung (9), Morgan Grubb, and Lindsay LeBrun, finished in 7th place.

The boys team finished in 12th place out of 39 teams.  Shelby Grubb (11) placed in all three of his individual events and helped the 4x100m relay to a 3rd place finish.  Andre Martin (10) placed in his two events and anchored the 4x100m relay.  The 4x100m relay team improved its school record time by .01 second (45.82), getting nosed out by .01 second from 2nd place.