When she got involved with the Neutral Zone, Ann Arbor’s teen center, Katherine Ford discovered something volunteers often find out. She got more than she gave. And she gave a lot. Ford became a tireless advocate for diversity and the arts and earned widespread respect from peers and adults with ...
Editor's note: The AnnArbor.com Young Citizen of the Year Award recognizes leadership and community service on the part of area high school students. Today, we present the winner and nine finalists. Before she discovered the Neutral Zone teen center in her junior year, Katherine Ford said she got poor grades ...
Related article: Young Citizen of the Year Katherine Ford knows the value of service The Young Citizen of the Year wins a $2,000 college scholarship from AnnArbor.com. The nine finalists each receive a $1,000 scholarship from the Robert Bruce Dunlap Fund of the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. Finalists, chosen ...
When Tim VanRiper was named AnnArbor.com’s 2010 Young Citizen of the Year, he was 18 years old. In his young life, he had already traveled to places like Tanzania and Biloxi, Miss., where he volunteered his services to those in need. He had also helped to raise money in support ...
Timothy VanRiper, 18, has taken his love for music to far corners of the world, from Tanzania to China and back to Ann Arbor. While VanRiper is an accomplished musician - he plays six instruments and has had the lead five Pioneer High School musicals (did we mention he is ...
Ann Arbor's Sarah Juster has one piece of advice for young students seeking success: Find your passion and run with it.
As dozens of Pierce Lake Elementary School third-graders leave the room for lunch, Viren Rana salutes each one individually. “Bye Maddie, see you, Chase,” he says. The kids enthusiastically say good-bye, some asking when is the next time Rana will bring them treats, others popping back in minutes later to ...
As a second-grader Ann Arbor's Annika Helber was told that her dyslexia was so severe that she'd never be able to read past the fourth-grade level. College was certainly out of the question. Indeed it wasn't until her senior year at Dexter High School that Helber was able to move ...
Reading Charlie Reischl’s list of accomplishments is by itself exhausting. One might wonder how anyone could ever get so much done in so little time. That is until they meet the ball of energy that is Charlie. “I can’t handle not having anything to do,” Charlie says. “Busy is good ...
David Shapiro has waited years to sit in the big chair. Each year, the students who run Breakin' Curfew select bring along one freshman to observe and contribute a little if they're up for it, Shapiro said, and four years ago he was that freshman.
Walking through the Saline Recreation Center, Julia “Rosie” Voss smiles at the receptionist, who waves her and a visitor in, no questions asked. After five years with the rec center, Voss knows her way around. And the warm greetings she gets from everyone she passes demonstrate just how much she ...
After agreeing to stay with an elderly neighbor while the neighbor’s family was on vacation, Nickta “Nicki” Sanii gave up an opportunity to take a trip of her own - to the White House Easter Egg Roll- in order to keep her promise. “It was a commitment, I couldn’t (back ...
You may have walked past Alexandra Prepsky on a frigid evening when she was a bell ringer for the Salvation Army. You probably wouldn’t have seen her when she volunteered as a reader at the Ypsilanti District Library or when she was tutoring children from low-income families. Alexandra’s volunteer work ...
What makes Emily Knafl remarkable is not that she can juggle her time to accommodate a million people and activities (though she probably can). Her passion and her caring heart are what set her apart, those who know her say. Those are also the qualities that earned her recognition as ...
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