Boulder City High the ‘People’ champs

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Thursday, March 21, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

Boulder City High School's Government Honors class recently won the Nevada "We the People ... The Citizen and the Constitution" competition, defeating Reed High School in Sparks by 30 points.

The competition, a project of the Center for Civic Education, was established in 1987 under the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.

Boulder City High School, the only Southern Nevada school that has participated in the "We the People" every year since Chief Justice Warren Burger enacted it in 1987, has won district twice, advancing to state, but it has never won the state competition until now.

By winning, the 22 students of the Government Honors class earned the privilege of representing Nevada at the national competition in Washington, D.C. This, however, comes with a bill of $480 per student (about $11,000), which the students are required to raise by mid-April for housing expenses.

Donations to send the Boulder High students to Washington can be directly deposited at the Boulder Dam Credit Union under BCHS Government Class Account No. 19812-003, or sent to: Lynn Stewart, 1101 Fifth St., Boulder City, NV 89005.