As a high school freshman, she formed her school’s chapter of Future Business Leaders of America and served as president. By her sophomore year, she had landed her first job, working at Baskin Robbins because, as she recalled, she wanted to earn her own money. Two years later, she was managing the store and hiring…
A scorpion hangs from Ken MacNeil’s scraggly beard, hidden in the tangled web of his whiskers. An invited guest, it explores its newly found playground. All of the bugs and crawly creatures in MacNeil’s Tucson’s Exotic Pet Shop are friends and family for the owner, who turned his childhood fascination for bugs into a booming…
Set to become the first member of his family to attend college, 17-year-old Joseph Vasquez attributes his ability to move forward in his education to Sunnyside Unified School District’s One-to-One Computing program. “My parents were in shock that I could do so well in school,” Vasquez, a senior at Sunnyside High School, said. “My mother is…
