Kiwanis honors two Eagle Cap students in Baker City

Baker City Kiwanis Club singled out Braydon Prevo and Breahna Gassner on May 13, giving public recognition to two students from Eagle Cap Innovative Jr./Sr. High School as part of its Student Recognition Program.

The honor put Eagle Cap, Baker School District 5J’s alternative, virtual school for grades 7-12, at the center of a familiar civic ritual in Baker City. The school operates at 2090 4th St. and serves students whose high school paths do not always follow the traditional classroom route. In that setting, recognition from a long-running service club carries a practical message: progress, persistence and achievement still matter, even when a student’s experience looks different from Baker High or other conventional settings.

That distinction is important in Baker County, where Eagle Cap gives students another route to stay on track academically. Public recognition from Kiwanis helps place those students alongside their peers in the broader community conversation, rather than leaving alternative-education students on the margins. For families and teachers, the gesture reinforces that the town is paying attention not just to graduation numbers, but to the effort behind them.

The May 13 recognition also fit a clear pattern. Baker City Kiwanis honored Eagle Cap students Remington Benson and Corbin Daniels on May 15, 2024, and recognized Baker High School students Oakley Anderson and Rocco Stone on April 10, 2024. The club also honored Baker High students Clark Norton and Lillian Gately on Feb. 7, 2024. Taken together, those recognitions show that the Student Recognition Program has become a recurring way for Kiwanis to spotlight students across Baker City’s school system, not just on one campus.

Kiwanis International frames its work around serving children in communities around the world, and the Baker City club’s student awards reflect that broader mission at the local level. In Baker City, that means more than a ceremonial handshake. It means students at Eagle Cap, including Prevo and Gassner, are being acknowledged in public for the work they are doing to move forward on a path that is often less visible, but no less important, to the future of the community.