Fort Morgan resident Raquel Marquez has always wanted to be a juvenile advocate. Her passion is to protect the rights and interests of children involved in the legal system — those who are victims of abuse, neglect, or crime. Her first step toward her dream was to go to college for criminal justice. In 2013, […]
It was 2013 and life was going well for Maria Marquez, of Fort Morgan. She was excited to watch her daughter, Raquel, enter her first year of college set on achieving big dreams. And then the unthinkable happened. A large cancerous tumor was found in Raquel’s brain. Since then, she has gone through many ups […]
In the Edge Café on the evening of Dec. 1, the audience was presented with a seemingly ordinary scene: three students doing homework together. Within these typical student environments, we often go to class and have no idea what the person next to us is thinking or has experienced. But on this stage, as each student.