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READY FOR THE WORLD FOCUSED, CREATIVE, PASSIONATE: AREA GRADS TAKE THE NEXT STEP

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Graduates from our area high schools talk of life lessons and goals Colfax — Pg. 6 Colton — Pg. 13 Deary — Pg. 8 Garfield-Palouse — Pg. 12 Genesee — Pg. 13 Kendrick — Pg. 14 Logos — Pg. 11 Moscow — Pg. 4 Paradise Creek — Pg. 14 Potlatch — Pg. 10 Pullman — Pg. 3 Pullman Christian — Pg. 15 Troy — Pg. 12 Commencement details with each.

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An unusual journey

PHS senior Futse traveled back and forth to Africa over the course of her high school career

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M

ost students don’t spend a chunk of their high school career hopping back and forth between two countries, but Pullman High School senior Rosemary Futse is not most students.

Futse’s family moved to Pullman from Ghana when she was 10 years old because her father received a scholarship to study at Washington State University.

Then, at the end of her sophomore year in 2012, they moved back to Africa so her father could continue his research at the University of Ghana. She returned to a place much different from Pullman. It’s much more densely populated, and there’s an entrepreneurial spirit that is present throughout the cities there.

“Everyone has a store,” she said.

Last May, her family came back to the Palouse, and Futse, 19, had to go through senior year twice so she could complete her credits and her senior project.

“I had to start over again,” she said.

It was difficult, she said, but fortunately she was already familiar with high school life in Pullman and was able to reconnect with the friends she left.

Futse is thankful for her teachers for guiding her through her final year.

“They’re the ones who helped me get where I am today,” she said.

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After she graduates, Futse will follow in her father’s footsteps and attend WSU. She is thinking about studying nursing.

It seemed like a natural fit for Futse. She has an interest in child care stemming back to her younger days when she grew up in a big family and had to look

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For her senior project, she worked at a child care center in Pullman to watch the children and do activities with them.

Futse said she’s also interested in marketing. Her father has talked about starting a school in Ghana, and she wants the skills to help him in that endeavor.

In many ways, Futse is a lot like her peers. She works at McDonald’s, likes to ride her bike and enjoys hanging out with her friends at the movies. And on June 1, she will be like every other high school student to receive their degree.

But the journey to get there was anything but ordinary.

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Taking her talents to Coeur d’Alene Moscow High School grad hopes to play softball at North Idaho College

By Sunny Browning

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L

arissa Ogden has been playing softball since she was a little girl. She played catcher and thirdbase for the varsity all four years of high school and is hoping to continue to play when she heads north this fall to attend North Idaho College.

But softball is only one of her talents and interests. She has played trumpet in the band for the past six years and enjoys playing the guitar and singing on her own time. She can be heard each morning broadcasting Bear Facts on the local radio station. Along

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with three partners, Ogden has helped revive the Bear Facts committee which reports school and athletics information and reminders every day. She said last year the report was sporadic but together they have worked hard

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“We were driven to get it back,” Ogden said. “It took us until December to get it back up and running.”

Recently, she did her senior project on photography and took some senior pictures for her friends. She said in the past she has played around with photography and cameras but found a new love for it when she got updated software on her computer.

Her photographs look professional — so much so that WalMart almost refused to develop them because they thought they were copyrighted by a professional.

Even with all her extracurricular activities Ogden has managed to keep her grades high and has been accepted at NIC — the only school she applied for.

“I was so excited when I got accepted,” she said. “That is what I wanted, and I love the

Larissa Ogden campus.”

She is looking forward to doing something different and being far enough away from home to be on her own, yet close enough to come back when she needs to. She is very close with her friends and family in the area and wants to keep those connections.

“Friends are a huge part of my life. They come to me, and they trust me,” she said. “They are very important to me.”

For now, the plan is to get

through college and end up with an associate of arts degree from NIC and then transfer. Ogden is not sure what she wants to do in the long run but she does know she enjoys working with kids and wants a career working with children.

“My main goal is to do something I enjoy,” she said. “It is not worth it if you don’t enjoy it.”

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Heiner’s an expert at juggling act Colfax senior participated in sports and jazz band

By Anthony Kuipers Daily News staff writer

C

olfax High School senior Leah Heiner is as multifaceted as they come.

The 17-yearold spent her high school career juggling sports, music and work, all while focusing on her grades.

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participates in track and field.

She also plays alto saxophone in the school jazz band.

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Heiner will be attending Brigham Young University-Idaho next fall. It was the right fit given her Mormon background, and it was the only school close by

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that offered the degree she was looking for: web design and development.

It was not a major she was interested in at first. She wanted to pursue interior design and architecture, but the more she researched those two topics, the less appealing they became.

For her senior project, she worked with a Washington State University architecture student to design and build a physical model of a house.

She did all the sketches and figured out the dimensions.

Then she used a computer-aided design (CAD) program to lasercut it, then put it all together. All in all, the entire project took 90 hours.

While she is proud of her work, she admits it wasn’t easy.

“It was definitely a learning experience,” she said.

She began to look more closely at web design after talking to her sister, who has a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and her sister’s friend, who is a web designer. Combine that with her love for computers and web design grabbed her attention.

Until college, Heiner will continue to keep herself busy with many responsibilities. She doesn’t mind, though. Heiner said the memories she made with her friends while participating in all these activities are what she’ll cherish most from her high school career.

Heiner said one of the benefits of living in a small town like Colfax is growing up with the same friends who will walk across the stage at graduation with her.

“I like being friends with basically most of my senior class,” she said.

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Lance is an outdoors guy. You can find him hunting, fishing and working on equipment every season of the year. He hopes to take his hobbies to the University of Idaho where he will study electrical engineering and material science.

Ronnie is a Guitar Hero expert, long boarder, baseball and football player, and a dancing fiend. He is active in sports and volunteers at the Potlatch Landing Community Center. He was just sworn into the U.S. Air Force.

This year, Byron has been representing Latah County on the Idaho Drug Free Youth Advisory Board. He is active in school sports and the school mentoring program. He volunteers at the Potlatch Landing Community Center. He will be studying engineering at the University of Idaho.

Casey enjoys playing guitar and spending time with his friends. He is active in sports, 4-H, and volunteers at the Potlatch Landing Community Center. He plans to study mechanical engineering at the University of Idaho.

Ben enjoys drawing, music and playing sports. He plans to study secondary education with an emphasis in history at the University of Idaho.

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Preparing for a life of fire

Senior leaves behind his love for Deary High School

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love my high school, so much,” said Scout Olson. “There are 61 kids, I know everybody. The teachers are amazing and lenient with us all.

When it came down to it, they all knew we could do (the work).”

Olson is one of three high school presidents, helping out with morning announcements and putting together movie nights for the school. He said all the candidates were so great the principal couldn’t say no to any of them.

His team went to state for football and, he said, in a heartbreaker of a loss, didn’t make it to state for basketball.

Along with four other seniors, Olson has set up the junior firefighters organization for the school to help out the local fire department. He said they have freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors in the club and, if members are 18 years old, they

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can go into a building for structure fires.

“It is a pretty good program we got going,” Olson said.

She will take his experience firefighting to Moscow in the fall, with plans to become a fire ecology major at the University of Idaho. He is feeling good about his opportunity to be on the Moscow Fire Residency program where he will spend his

time at Station 1 at Sixth and Main streets.

He will live at the station throughout his college career, receiving full training as a firefighter and being on shift once a week.

“I am really happy to be on it,” Olson said. “It is a great program to be a part of.”

Working with the local fire department, Olson has had the chance to get on a few brush fires and ambulance calls. He will be spending this summer on a timber crew at the Potlatch Ranger Station where he said he might see some fire.

In the long run he would like to work at control stations or be a crew boss for wildfires somewhere in the area.

“I just like being outside, a big chunk of my life is spent outdoors,” he said.

Olson loves spending time with his family — including their 18 hound dogs.

“My family has always been supportive of me and I have always been close to them,” he said. “I love them to death.”

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From video games to drone piloting Potlatch senior sworn into the Air Force

By Sunny Browning Daily News staff writer

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ollowing graduation most students will be spending the summer relaxing before heading into college life. But Ronnie Miller will be headed to Texas for eight weeks to complete basic training for the United States Air Force.

Following basic training, Miller expects to head to technical school for specialized training in drone (unmanned aerial vehicle) piloting and control, an assignment where his love and hobby of playing computer and video games will come in handy.

“I play a ton of video games, and I am really into computers

and gaming,”

by BPA. he said.

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Ronnie Miller gathering donations,” Miller said.

He helped paint and clean up the area and volunteers there on the weekends.

He has volunteered all around the community working canned food drives, picking up garbage and hanging up Christmas lights at the park.

He is constantly busy, having

worked at a tree farm and the local community pool and playing football, baseball, basketball and wrestling.

Miller will leave for Texas soon after June 1.

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Logos senior from Nigeria headed to nursing school

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olu Olajuyige has only lived in the United States since 2011, coming to north Idaho last year to live with her uncle while the rest of her family went back to her home country of Nigeria. Because of the differences in the education system in the two countries Olajuyige ended up skipping a grade, allowing her to graduate high school at 16.

She has been accepted to the University of Wyoming in Laramie in the fall, hoping to pursue a degree in nursing. She has received a few scholarships for being an international student and found the university was an affordable option close to her only family in the states.

“Because I am so young, I didn’t want to go too far,” she said.

Last summer she took some courses through the University of Idaho to help make up credits she was missing from skipping a year. Many universities require four years in certain subjects, of which she only had three.

Olajuyige said she has a friend from Ghana who graduated from UI at the age of 19, taking summer classes all three years she was there.

“I was thinking ‘if she can do it, I can also,’ ” she said. “I look up to her.”

She will be living in a section of the dormitories with students who are also in the nursing program. She said this will give her an opportunity to get to know people who have similar interests and will also help her strive academically by working with people in the same courses.

The nursing program will take her four years to complete, after which she is planning on staying in the U.S. and using her nursing degree.

“You don’t have to limit yourself,” Olajuyige said. “People say you have to graduate at 18 but if you work hard and you are determined, you can get so many places in life. You just have to believe in yourself and what you put your mind to.”

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A future in history Drawing up plans for a teaching career

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sk Ben Schumacker a question about job interviewing, soils, cross-country or clay sculptures, and he will nail them all.

He has lettered in cross-country for the past four years, once in basketball and once in track. Schumacker has been a member of FFA since eighth grade, focusing on a variety of activities including forestry, soils, ag mechanics and parliamentary procedure.

His legacy will grow on in Duthie Park in Troy where he planted lilac bushes and grass for his senior project.

This year he found a love for art class where he had the opportunity to draw, paint and sculpt clay gargoyles.

When his sculpture — a snowboarder with a beard, goggles and a backpack — was sent to get fired, the company thought it was so good they asked to keep it. But he thinks he will hold

onto it.

As a sophomore, he was an officer in Business Professionals of America, going to state in high school for his research project on job interviewing.

He said he was best in this category, and it showed him what he needed to do in the future to obtain a job.

In his research he found a catch though — many businesses ask for experience in the market but it is hard to get experience without a job.

This will be something Schumacker will have to battle when he starts applying for jobs as a history teacher.

Inspired by his history teacher at Troy High School, he plans on attending the University of Idaho in the fall as a secondary education major with an emphasis in history.

“For the longest time I thought I wanted to be a pilot and then I realized I love history,” Schumacker said.

“Miss Weber was a tough teacher, but I learned so much in her class.”

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Capturing the world with her paints Gar-Pal senior combines art with love of travel

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alouse High School senior Katie Yoder could not imagine a better place to grow up than Palouse. But now that her high school years are coming to an end, she’s ready to see the world, literally.

“I like to think of myself as a worldly person,” she said. “I want to travel everywhere and do everything.”

She got a taste of what the world had to offer when she took a trip to Tanzania last May with her family.

She worked at a rabies vaccine clinic and went on safari on the Serengeti.

That experience left her with an even stronger desire to venture around the globe.

“It made me braver about going out and seeing things,” she said.

Yoder will be attending the University of Montana next school year and hopes to study abroad. Someday she would like to visit India and South America.

“If I can find a job that let’s me travel, I’m going to take it,” she said.

If she does, she will likely create not only memories, but more inspiration for one of her other passions: her art.

Katie Yoder

Inspired by her Tanzania trip, she is currently in the process of painting a mural with an African scene in one of the classrooms. Last year, she painted an Alaskan scene in the hallway.

Yoder said she’s been drawing for as long as she can remember, but she became more ambitious in her art once she learned how to use watercolors in eighth grade.

She started making dream catchers, tried her hand at African-style pottery and started using acrylics and ceramics.

It appears art will remain a hobby, however, as she has other plans for a career. Though she’s not exactly sure what she will study in college, she anticipates it will be something related to wildlife biology.

“Kind of my dream is to be a field scientist to go out and study animals on the Serengeti or in the rainforest,” she said.

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Genesee graduate plans career in medicine

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eece Wayt can be found all over Genesee playing sports, participating in school clubs, volunteering for the Genesee Fire Department and working on the farm.

He was involved with Business Professionals of America, his speciality being web design. He also participated in FFA in prepared public speaking and extemporaneous public speaking. Both involve timed cases where the student must write and deliver a speech about an agriculture-related topic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both FFA and BPA were great programs where I met a lot of people,â&#x20AC;?

Wayt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will help me be able to meet people in college and become a

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Wayt was also active in athletics, playing varsity football, basketball and

track and his basketball team went to state all four years of high school.

He said he will most likely be involved in intramural sports when he attends the University of Idaho this fall where he will be studying biology and pre-medical studies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like being around people and working with people,â&#x20AC;? Wayt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am fascinated with life and I find living people to be interesting.â&#x20AC;?

Having been a part of the Genesee Fire Department, Wayt was able to get into the Moscow Resident Firefighter program where he will live at the station and be on call once a week.

He is hoping to work more on the medical side rather than the fire side while at the department. His goal is to attend the University of Washington in Seattle for medical school and be

Reece Wayt part of the WWAMI regional medical education program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I liked going to Genesee,â&#x20AC;? Wayt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it was small I had the opportunity to get involved in extracurricular activities and found a lot of

enjoyment in them. They helped me become a more well-rounded person.â&#x20AC;?

Sunny Browning can be reached at (208) 883-4639, or by email to sbrowning@dnews.com.

Never afraid of a challenge Multi-talented Colton seniorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life full of school and community involvement

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usy doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come close to describing Colton senior Heather Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time in high

school.

As a freshman, she took on writing the school newsletter by herself. That same year, she was class president and two years later became the junior class president.

Meanwhile, she lettered in both basketball and volleyball and, as a junior, competed for and won the Distinguished Young Woman of Colton competition.

She also sings and was invited to sing the national anthem at several sporting events. She sings in the church choir, as well.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only fitting then, that Young would end her high school career by tackling something big.

For her senior project, Young organized a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stuff the Busâ&#x20AC;? event in Colton to encourage people to donate school supplies. She collected over 200 individual supplies and $90, plus backpacks donated from Pullman. To

encourage people to donate, she also organized a barbecue that day.

Young, 18, will study English at the University of Idaho next year. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always had an interest in writing and has spent the past four years working on a fantasy novel, which has reached 178 pages. She writes poems, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like writing because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to express what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling at the moment,â&#x20AC;? she said.

She particularly likes fantasy because it allows her to create and shape characters from her own imagination.

Young aspires to be a professional writer for a business, but will likely continue working on novels as a hobby. She hopes to one day have her fantasy novel published.

Looking back on her whirlwind four years, she fondly thinks of her classmates and teachers with whom sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent 12 years of her life. She remembers participating in school activities with them and â&#x20AC;&#x153;being able to overcome challenges together.â&#x20AC;?

Anthony Kuipers can be reached at (208) 883-4630, or by email to akuipers@dnews.com.

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recent calculation showed Tierney Heath had accrued 148 hours of volunteer work inside and outside of school — since January.

“I am always helping somewhere, sometime,” she said.

Each day she rides the bus with seventh-grader Cole Heier to basketball practice. Heier has Down syndrome so Heath helps coach him one-on-one, giving the basketball coach a chance to work with the rest of the team.

After school, she and Heier take the bus to the elementary school in Juliaetta where she volunteers at the after-school program.

Tierney volunteers every day she can in between school and softball practice. She has also volunteered at the Families and Schools Together program, working with families with incoming and current kindergartners.

“We teach parents to play with their kids, which sounds weird but sometimes they don’t know how,” Tierney said. “We teach them how to let the kids lead and the parents follow.”

In the fall, Tierney will attend the University of Idaho, double majoring in psychology and child development.

She is a first-generation college student in her family.

She has received a diversity scholarship and a pride scholarship and plans to be active in the Gay-Straight Alliance and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Asexual and Ally organizations on campus.

Paradise Creek senior a 1st-generation high school graduate

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lejandro Mota, 19, came to Moscow in 2010 to start a new life.

The Paradise Creek Regional High School senior grew up in Riverside, Calif., a place that wasn’t exactly a breeding ground for bright futures. Instead, Mota said people his age become troublemakers, join gangs and have no eye toward an education.

Mota visited his former hometown with his father over spring break last year. What he saw left a lasting effect on him.

Nothing had changed since he left, he said. Only a few of his friends got their diploma while the rest were either working or drug addicts.

Mota said that could have been him, and he wasn’t the alone in that opinion.

“A lot of my family members thought I was going to be the kid that dropped out,” he said.

In early June, the first-generation high school graduate will prove them wrong when he’s handed his degree from Paradise Creek Regional High School.

“It feels great,” he said.

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Tigers Colors: Black/Orange Senior class: 28 Commencement: 4 p.m. June 1, Kendrick High School gym

“I absolutely love to help people,” Tierney said. “I have always been a person who loves to help people.”

Sunny Browning can be reached at (208) 883-4639, or by email to sbrowning@dnews.com.

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Alejandro Mota He credits his teachers for not only helping him get a good education, but being considerate of his unusual background.

“They understand where I’m coming from,” he said.

In September, he plans to attend the Universal Technical Institute in Sacramento to learn how to be a diesel technician. He chose to pursue a career in the auto industry because his father was a mechanic, and Mota grew up around vehicles. For his senior project, Mota wrote a paper on street racing and installed a new stereo system in his car.

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Though Mota hasn’t been on the Palouse long, he cherishes his time in Moscow. When he came to Idaho, he discovered a different culture, a different lifestyle and different people. He was especially struck by how supportive people in the community are toward each other.

“Everyone up here helps you out,” he said.

As he looks forward to a future that could have easily been out of his grasp, Mota expresses a sense of relief and gratitude.

“I’m just thankful for being here,” he said.

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Finding a school home Guenther thankful for her time in Pullman

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Daily News staff writer

rowing up, school was always a challenge for Pullman Christian senior Lydia Guenther, mostly for reasons out of her control.

Guenther was born in Syria, the country her parents are from. Her family moved to the Washington coast when she was 8 months old.

She grew up speaking Arabic and was raised to follow Arabic traditions. Because she didn’t understand English and didn’t know how to relate to people, it was difficult for her to make friends at school.

Due to some issues at home, she was eventually placed into foster care. She bounced around public schools for most of her life, before being homeschooled for three years.

During her first couple years of high school, her grades suffered so much her grade point average dipped below 2.0. It wasn’t until she ended up at Pullman Christian School she truly felt comfortable.

She has developed more friendships and

strong relationships with her teachers. Her grades have improved drastically and her cumulative GPA is currently around 3.0. Now she is planning on attending Washington State University.

What a difference a couple of years can make.

“I was a completely different person my first two years of high school than I am now,” she said.

At WSU, Guenther plans to study in the School of Hospitality Business Management.

One day, she would like to open a restaurant or become a head chef at one.

Cooking has long been a passion for Guenther. For her senior project, she hosted two dinners featuring authentic Middle Eastern cuisine for her foster parents, friends and her senior project mentor.

Food isn’t the only connection to her Syrian background that she’s maintained. She can still speak Arabic and tries to educate her peers on the culture because many of them are only familiar with stereotypes associated with the Middle East.

“My goal is to try to break that barrier,” she said.

Guenther is certainly seasoned at breaking her own barriers, and she credits the students and teachers at PCS for helping her education get back on track. The past few years have made her stronger, and taught her an important lesson about facing adversity.

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