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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.