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Teenagers and centenarians are connecting with the time-tested practice of exchanging letters as pen pals in a nationwide effort to help seniors feel less isolated and provide companionship during the pandemic.
Green Valley and Sahuarita are in on it, too.
Local exchange
Tasked with finding community service projects to meet National Honor Society requirements, Sahuarita High School students launched a pen pal exchange with residents of La Posada senior community in Sahuarita last fall, surprising their co-adviser Michelle Betteridge in both number and earnestness.
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Grace Dixon never had âbecome valedictorianâ on her to-do list. The 18-year-old recent Sahuarita High School graduate just wanted to do well in her classes.
But the hard work paid off and Dixon finished high school at the top of her class. She graduated May 19.
âIâve always wanted to get good grades and take AP classes but it was never my goal to become valedictorian,â she said two days after graduating. âI just wanted to get good grades so I could get into universities.â
Gabe Elias remembers getting the letter in the mail in the summer of 2019.
A couple of weeks after turning 16, and just a few days before starting his junior year, the Sahuarita High School star wrestler and football player found out he was a dad.
His son, Giovanni, was born July 6; the letter from a lawyer was the first he knew of it.
The news could have been devastating to a young man whose life was built around sports and landing a college scholarship. Instead, it gave him motivation, focus and perspective. And with a lot of help from his family, he found he could still hold on to some of his dreams.
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Patti Kerr remembers sitting on the school bus one afternoon as it pulled up near her house in Arivaca in the 1960s.
From a distance she could see what appeared to be snow-white rags hanging from the clothesline on the five-acre property. All she could think was, âWhat in the world.â
She ran into the house and found her mom and grandmother boiling and plucking a mountain of chickens. Turns out, a truck hauling chickens had overturned near The Cow Palace in Amado and Kerr was looking at the spoils.