Selah has a state champion, and Brett Blanshan is his name.

Blanshan is any track coach’s dream athlete and a powerhouse in the sport.

Pictured: Brett Blanshan

The Selah Vikings boys track and field team placed sixth at the state championships May 23-24 at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

Pictured: Kierea Meloy has a high jump of 4 feet, 10 inches in the preliminaries.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association will move the Class 2A state basketball tournament to Yakima next year. Selah is a 2A school.

The Yakima SunDome will host three weeks of championship basketball with 1B, 1A and 2A high schools.

The 2A tournament had been at the SunDome from 1999 to 2006, but was then moved to Tacoma.

In 2009, Yakima will host the 1B tournament Feb. 25-28; 1A March 4-7; and 2A March 11-14.

More than 100 senior meal volunteers were honored April 9, at a luncheon at the Wapato Community Center for their service to senior citizens across Yakima County.

Pictured: Evelyn Paquin (center) of Selah accepts the Volunteer of the Year Award, with program director Jerry Baldoz on the left and Yakima County Commissioner Ron Gamache on the right. Rob Chandler photo

Selah’s Jack McEntire, a.k.a. “Chainsaw Jack,” visited Satus Elementary School in Wapato a few weeks back and held some 40 small kids spellbound.

Pictured: Chainsaw Jack carved John Campbell Elementary School’s mascot, Cougar Jack, who greets visitors to the office at John Campbell Elementary School. Martha Goudey photo.