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Despite having to cancel its Ceremony of Champions, Lompoc Valley Medical Center gets creative in order to fete longtimeCOURTESY nurse,OFPatti Field HERRERO ISAAC HERNANDEZ
ON THE MOON. LET’S DO THIS!’
Santa Maria High graduate Bryan Barriga
Overcoming the odds 16-year-old Santa Maria High graduate Bryan Santa Maria High Barriga graduate headed to Notre Dame
COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO
Overcoming the odds By MITCHELL WHITE
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
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They’ve done soexperience. much for me just childhood so I could have an education.” When he was 4, Bryan’s father was KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS Last month, received his diagnosed withBryan Meniere’s disease, Documentary filmmaker Steven Barber and his wife Tamara are shown with various Apollo 11 celebratory items, including a bust of Neil Armstrong, below. high schoolof diploma from Santa a disorder the inner ear, andMahas ria High School at the agesince. of 16.At He been unable to work ever 7, is first member of his family to histhe mother and younger sister were graduate school and in the fall deportedhigh to Mexico. COURTESY PHOTO he“I will be heading to theme,” University think it just drove Bryan Patti Field worked at Lompoc Valley Medical Center for more 30 years and was honored by her colleagues on Monday despite the center’s Ceremony of Champions being canceled due to Dame. COVID-19. of Notre told the News-Press during a recent Being the first“I inknew his family to atphone interview. that I needBy NICK MASUDA charge nurse in the post-anesthesiafrom paraplegic “She’s the glue and the heart of thisof loving soul who truly believed in helping tend college came future with itsfor challengathletes to the heroes itstive 50thand anniversary, Santa Monica-based By CHRISTIAN WHITTLE ed to have a better my parAbout DIRECTOR OF NEWS care unit.Steven Barber has taken a stat- the (operating andAccounting my feeling and many everyone. I and my family had several enes. Bryan the application proJoint POWroom), and MIA Comfilmmaker NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT ents and Isaid just wanted to help them series was difficult He loves good Istory biannual had to beto postothers, of the finding hospital.aWhen thinkand of Lom- counters, all special and spectacular. 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