Housing and Development Newsletter
With about 14% of district students classified as homeless, access to Wi-Fi was important before the pandemic, but the need dramatically escalated during Covid, with more than half the 13,000 students in the district coming from low-income families.
SBEF mobilized quickly, raising more than $300,000 for students’ online and academic resources, in addition to procuring funding for art and music supplies, food security, and jackets to warm students attending school with open windows and outdoor classrooms.
“We were all focused on helping the children,” said Eryn Shugart, donor advisement officer for SBEF and a CTL alumna. “I certainly think it helped that many of our board members are graduates of a Leading From Within program (including Terri Allison, Eder Gaona-Macedo from Future Leaders of America, and Victoria Juarez).
By Kathi O Shea May 7, 2021 7:52 am
KGMI
KENNIWICK, Wash. New hope is being injected into the case of a girl who went missing from Kennewick just before her fifth birthday back in 2003.
A TikTok video of a woman who says she’s 22-years-old, says she was kidnapped as a child and she’s trying to find her family.
The woman in the video strikes a resemblance to age-progression photos of the girl who went missing, Sofia Juarez.
The woman in the video also said she doesn’t know where she’s from.
A family member of the missing girl, Victoria Juarez, says Sofia’s disappearance has been a toll on the family.
‘A new hope.’ Missing girl’s family still hurting 18 years after she disappeared By Cameron Probert, Tri-City Herald
Published: February 5, 2021, 1:30pm
Share: Sofia Lucerno Juarez disappeared the day before her 5th birthday on Feb. 4, 2003. The Charley Project website includes an age-progression photo showing what she may have looked like at age 17.
KENNEWICK Sofia Juarez’s disappearance left a hole in her family’s life that’s still apparent 18 years later.
“We plead with anybody that knows anything …. Please just come forward and let that light shine in that dark area because this family needs closure,” her aunt Victoria Juarez said through tears Thursday.