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Maddy refuses to give up on a brighter future |
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January 18, 2018 |
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Madyson "Maddy" Peck and her mom came to Bonners
Ferry last August to get a new, fresh start.
Maddy's mom used drugs, her life crumbling into
chaos. Maddy had been doing poorly in school,
needing a mother who wasn't there, not in the
ways that mattered. The move was a good one,
though not perfect. And not for both.
Maddy, 17 and a senior at Bonners Ferry High
School, is now maintaining a near 3.0 grade
point average and is on track and looking
forward to graduating with the BFHS Class of
2018.
But while things here started well for her
mother, who got a job and got clean and sober,
Maddy watched, helpless, as mom recently slipped
back into a depression, beset by a sense of
isolation, no car, feeling like a burden
unwelcome where she was staying.
She left Bonners Ferry recently and moved to
Wisconsin.
Maddy, looking ahead to her future, realizes
that she likes what she's achieved here, and
that she's proud to be on the cusp of becoming
the first in her family to earn a high school
diploma. She'll be 18 in February, and while she
plans to return to Oregon and friends and
family, she is committed to staying here until
summer, and to standing with her new classmates
June 2 to accept her hard won, and so doubly
cherished, high school diploma.
But she doesn't want to be a burden, staying
here in the home of her nephew's Nana. Maddy
wants to pay her own way, and she's looking for
work so she can stay and earn that diploma, the
key to a better future, on terms she can live
with. She doesn't have a car, either, as she
can't yet afford the driver's ed class she longs
to take, but she assures that she will make
whatever arrangements are necessary to get to
work reliably and on time.
And she will, she promises, work hard once she's
on shift. All she wants is the opportunity to
prove it.
She has put in applications all over town; the
Kootenai River Inn, Subway, Safeway, Super 1,
Pizza Factory, and she said she checks on each
weekly, hoping for an opening, a foot in the
door, but so far without result. She is willing
to work, and do whatever work needs done, with
one caveat.
"I can do babysitting, house sitting/cleaning,
yard work, snow shoveling, pet walking/sitting,"
she said. "Any basic jobs I'm open to. I have
references as well."
The caveat is that her work can't interfere with
school, with her quest to attain her diploma.
"I'm available after school and most Fridays
through Sundays," she said.
If you have a part-time position for a smart,
dedicated young woman who has found her focus,
and who is still smiling bravely, message her on
Facebook or text her at (503)-433-3274. |
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