Pemco Insurance representative Jim Menzies (left) came to Anacortes bearing gifts Tuesday afternoon. Actually, it was a single gift … a $1,500 check for Island View Elementary School delivered in the wake of Principal Bernard Selting’s selection as a KCTS Channel 9/Pemco “Golden Apple” award winner. Accompanying Menzies was Bruce Engebretsen (center), who serves as area marketing director for the School Employees Credit Union of Washington. Selting credited the school faculty, much of which was present for the noon event, for doing the day-to-day work that drew statewide honors. The school and other “Golden Apple” winners will be featured in a television program in February 2010. The statewide Golden Apple Awards program is sponsored by KCTS 9 and funded by PEMCO Insurance and the School Employees Credit Union of Washington. In April, KCTS 9 invited students, parents, teachers and community members to nominate individuals and programs epitomizing excellence in education in public and private schools across the state. The station received more than 150 nominations for this year