Close Up group travels to east coast

 

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Tanner Thomassen, Ryan Reeves, Alyssa Allen, Shayna Schultz, Andrea Gillen, Courtney Haggard, Lorenzo Silva, Brendon White, Hailey Reed, Joel Cole in Washington D.C.

The Wrangell students who attended this year’s Close Up have been working hard for two years raising money with the support of the community and their families. This year 10 high school students, all juniors, traveled to Washington DC, Philadelphia, Penn. and New York City March 24 - April 2.

It was an exciting week to be in DC with the Supreme Court hearing the health reform case and the Committee on the Judiciary hearing to examine the Special Counsel’s report on the prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens. The students participated in a mock congress, heard a domestic issues debate betwe...



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