Sunnyside student gets Canam award

SUNNYSIDE -- A local college student has won one of Canam Steel Corp.'s education awards from the Employee Scholarship Program.

Kassaundra Guillen of Sunnyside received a $2,500 scholarship toward her college education at Yakima Valley Community College, where she will study business administration with an emphasis in social work.

Guillen is the daughter of Daniel Guillen, plant superintendent for Sun Building Systems at Canam's Sunnyside plant.

Canam's program has awarded scholarships annually since 1999 to randomly drawn names of employees' children who maintained a C grade average or higher in the previous school year.

Sunnyside Pediatrics' reopening Aug. 15

SUNNYSIDE -- Sunnyside Community Hospital and Clinics will celebrate the grand reopening of Sunnyside Pediatrics with a ribbon cutting and open house at 10 a.m. Aug. 15.

Longtime physician Dr. Anne Nealen, along with a second physician, Dr. Mario Tobia, has moved into a new expanded office at 812 Miller Ave.

The open house will coincide with a visit from the Washington State Apple Health for Kids Campaign. The Campaign Bus is traveling the state to promote the Cover All Kids bill signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire and passed by the Legislature last year.

The bill expands state health insurance coverage for children.

Apple Health for Kids will be at Sunnyside Pediatrics from 10 a.m. until noon as part of the grand opening and at Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health, 1319 Saul Road, from noon to 6 p.m.

Families who want to get signed up for health insurance are encouraged to attend. Information and help is available in English and in Spanish.

Valley woman to head volunteers group

SUNNYSIDE -- Carol Allen, director of volunteers for Sunnyside Community Hospital, has been named president-elect of the Association of Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals.

Allen, a Yakima resident, has been a member of the organization for more than 10 years. She has more than 18 years of volunteer services management experience.

Melodrama opens Friday in Prosser

PROSSER -- The Valley Theater Company's "Taming the Wild, Wild, West in a Dress" opens Friday at the Princess Theatre on Meade Avenue.

Show times for the melodrama are 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Aug. 15, as well as 2 p.m. Aug. 16.

Tickets are available at Sixth Street Gift and Art Gallery or at the door 30 minutes before curtain.

Grant goes to Valley education program

SUNNYSIDE -- Guerrero Foods plans to give $12,500 to a Mexican Consulate program that aims to raise the educational and income levels of first-generation Mexican immigrants.

The Dallas, Texas, tortilla manufacturer actually plans to donate $100,000 to the Institute of the Mexicans Abroad. But company executives will present a check for $12,500 at noon Friday in front of Sunnyside's Washington State Migrant Council office, the location of GED classes and other educational opportunities they want to bolster.

Some past scholarship recipients and Sunnyside community leaders will be present, along with representatives from the Mexican consulate.

The company plans to make similar presentations at six other locations throughout the country, said Pio del Castillo, a company spokesman.

The Migrant Council office is at 110 S. Fourth St.