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We set up a time-lapse camera in the Toyota Center in Kennewick to capture the graduation ceremonies for Richland and Hanford high schools on Friday and Kennewick, Kamiakin and Southridge high schools on Saturday.
MABTON -- Cassy Almaguer's hearing aids used to be her worst enemy. No one else needed them at her elementary school and bullies teased her enough that she would break the expensive little devices or intentionally lose them.
Saturday was a special day for hundreds of young people around the Mid-Columbia.
Playing the piano is Isaac Chua's passion. He started when he was 8 years old and by the time he turned 15, the Richland High senior won first place in the American Protg International Piano Competition.
FINLEY -- Randy Fishman was thrilled to learn he earned the $32,000 Washington State Scholar award.
Caps flew, cameras flashed, and family and friends cheered as schools across the Mid-Columbia celebrated high school seniors who achieved their hard-earned diplomas.
KENNEWICK -- Jesus Larios Murillo stood in a metal shop wearing a welder's thick leather garb this week.
May 27
Richland High School senior Maddi Jacobs, 18, is graduating today. Jacobs, a Richland native who was student body president, also helped raise $10,000 for diabetes last year and was involved in Pennies for Patients. See story below.
RICHLAND -- When Maddi Jacobs talks about her four years at Richland High School, one word keeps coming up -- relationships.
Liliana De Jesus, 18, is a mother of two and soon to be graduate of New Horizons High School in Pasco. While at New Horizons she spent two years at Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick where she became a certified nursing assistant and took care of residents at several local nursing homes. She plans to go into nursing. See story below.
PASCO -- Liliana De Jesus had two good excuses not to graduate from high school, or at least not to graduate this week -- her two daughters, Suheilly, 4, and Dayana, 9 months.
Read the Tri-City Herald's 2011 high school graduation section as a freely accessible e-edition.
Washington State University Tri-Cities graduate Zixu Ha, second from left, came here as an exchange student from Beijing five years ago and never left. He has been staying with Renee and Bruce Kerr of Kennewick, back; his father Jianmin Ha, right, mother Shujun Wang, and sister Zijing Ha, left, are visiting for the first time. The Kerrs are used to a full house, though, as they have hosted 12 exchange students. See story below.
RICHLAND -- Zixu Ha plans to one day ensure fairness in the trade between China and the United States. Living and studying in the Tri-Cities gave him the tools to pursue that goal.
Parents and graduates are invited to submit their photos taken before, during and after graduation ceremonies so they can be included in the Herald's online graduation photo galleries.
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