Yakima County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for several individuals who were riding in a car on Saturday, March 13 when two of the subjects fired shots at a Yakima County Sheriff’s deputy.

Junior Angelique Sohappy, a White Swan High School student served as a page in the state House of Representatives on Feb. 21 through 26. SoHappy was sponsored by 15th District state representative Bruce Chandler.

It wasn’t the way the Spartan girls basketball team wanted to finish their final run for the state Class 1A championship. The fire wasn’t there as Freeman beat Granger 56-35 on Saturday night at the SunDome.

The Granger Spartans boys ended a successful season, going 24-2 with both losses occurring at the Class 1A state tournament at the SunDome.

It was a movie-like ending for the Wapato Wolves as they captured the CWAC district championship on Saturday at Sunnyside, upsetting the No. 2 state ranked Ephrata Tigers, 78-76.  It was Ephrata’s second loss of the season, both games were losses to the Wildcats.  Wapato now takes the No. 1 seed into the Class 2A state tournament which begins Wednesday at the SunDome in Yakima.

Two men are hospitalized in area hospitals for gun shot wounds in separate shootings in Toppenish and Wapato.

The White Swan boys and girls teams both have had very successful seasons heading into district play with only one team to state in both.  The boys were able to down Riverside Christian 53-48 on Thursday, Feb. 25 in West Valley and secure a state berth while the White Swan girls fell short and lost to the top-ranked La Salle Lightning 69-61.  The loss ended the White Swan girls’ season.

WAPATO 77, SELAH 67
By virtue of a second place finish in CWAC league play, the Wapato Wolves had a bye and automatically qualified for a semi-final district game against Selah on Saturday, Feb. 27 at Wapato gym.

Emerald Care in Wapato crowned its King and Queen of Hearts during the annual Valentine’s Day celebration on Friday. Feb. 12. According to Emerald Care officials, after two weeks of balloting by residents, visitors and staff, Michael Lunsford was crowned King and Amy Orona was named Queen of this year’s celebration. This year’s balloting was a very close race. The Royal Court included George and Annie, Joe and Nancy, Alvina and Rogelio, Scott and Sally and Lester and Barbara. Pictured: Emerald Care’s Queen Any Orona and King Michael Lunsford take their places after being named the 2010 King and Queen of Hearts.

Wapato High School students make adjustments to Robo Sparks, the group’s robot project on Saturday, Feb. 20. The two-foot by three-foot by five-foot robot is being shipped to Seattle for the upcoming Robot competition in March. This is the second year Wapato students have participated in the event, which will include more than 60 teams from the United States and Canada. In its rookie season in 2009, the local team finished 21st out of 64 teams. Pictured (left to right) Yadira Arreola, lead mentor Christopher Beyrouty, Orlando Garcia Jr., Javier Duran Jr., and Andy Reyes make final inspections to the team’s Robot.