Jesuit Volunteer Corps: helpful people, to the corps

By LAURA AGUILERA-FLEMMING
UNLEASHED STAFF
Amy Nicola was a Regis University student who wanted to do something different. She wanted to step outside her regular life and see how others lived.
Through her school and professors who made it sound appealing, the 22-year-old learned about the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.
Now she lives with six other young women who have [...]

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We all need to fight global warming

By SEAN NAGLE-MCNAUGHTON
DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL
I’ve been interested in the environment as long as I can remember. I’ve written papers on pollution, put on skits in classes, and worked to reduce my own contribution by recycling, carpooling and reusing anything I can.
Last year, when I was in eighth grade at Discovery Lab School, I wanted to [...]

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Working: musician

By HANNAH KIVI
UNLEASHED STAFF
Inspiration, practice, gigs, audiences, rehearsals, listening, traveling, spotlights, recordings. Music.
Welcome to the world of the professional musician.
“By the age of 16, I was 100 percent sure I wanted to be a musician for the rest of my life,” says Jeff Leonard.
Originally from Yakima, the 28-year-old now resides on the west side of [...]

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Working: the school custodian

By ALYSSA PATRICK
UNLEASHED STAFF
His smile is what first catches people’s attention.
But if they somehow pass it by, students and teachers, faculty and staff are sure to notice the warm, round laugh that usually follows.
The way Vic Wood strides through the halls, sometimes with a ladder under his arm, sometimes a toolbox, it’s easy to forget [...]

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Working: firefighters

By HANNAH NAUGHTON
UNLEASHED STAFF
Your heart beats like a drum, growing louder and louder.
Sweat cascades down your face. Chapstick can’t save the Sahara Desert you call your lips, and it feels like nothing can quench your thirst. Your tongue feels swollen and your sandpapered throat stings. Your eyes burn like the building in front of you.
Orange [...]

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Working: choir teacher

By HANNAH BESSO
UNLEASHED STAFF
Four years, four choirs and one African drumming class.
That could sum up choir teacher Nichola Blink’s career so far at Toppenish High School. And yet, she’s done so much more in her short time there. Many say it’s easy to see the difference she has made.
“You should have heard what it was [...]

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Working: the piano teacher

By COLLEEN FONTANA
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Carole Franklin can’t remember a time when she couldn’t read music.
Having played piano since age 5, she feels like it’s something she’s always known.
“When I was 5, my brothers were taking lessons and I would tag along,” she says. “I wanted to be just like them.”
Now, more than four decades later, Franklin [...]

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Working: barista

By LETY CLARK-OLIVERO
UNLEASHED STAFF
Rich aromas fill the shop.
So do the sounds of whirring blenders and coffee grinders. Posters featuring the game schedules of nearby Eisenhower High School hang on the walls.
Behind the counter, Cassie Gordon is ready with a smile to make an espresso drink or blended beverage.
Her favorite is a caramel macchiato, unstirred. She [...]

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Working: fruit seller

By LIBBY YOUNG
UNLEASHED STAFF
At Yakima’s Washington Fruit and Produce Co., one of the largest produce companies in the state, apples, pears, cherries and other produce are sorted, cleaned and packed.
Across the street from the packing plant, fruit is loaded into trucks to be shipped all over the world.
Close by, employees coordinate sales of the fruit. [...]

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Working: lunch ladies

By JASMINE OKBINOGLU
UNLEASHED STAFF
A bell rings, shattering the calm.
The thunder of footsteps crashes against the cafeteria floor, and students pour into six lines to get lunch.
This is what the Eisenhower High School cafeteria is like during lunchtime.
Nine people deal with this onslaught of students, five days a week for nine months. They also have to [...]

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