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June 7, 2023
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Volume 36 • Number 6
Summer Survival Guide Slow down, stay cool | Special section INSIDE Local students receive Flinn Scholarships Hot Picks
BY LAURA LATZKO Tucson Local Media Staff
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wo local, family-oriented students, Samuel Gonzalez and Matthew Gibson, won’t have to worry about massive debt when they graduate from college. This spring, they were among 20 students awarded the Flinn Scholarship, a merit-based
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scholarship that provides a full-ride to a public Arizona university. Gibson and Gonzalez, who graduated from Desert View High and Pueblo High Magnet schools, respectively, will attend UA in the fall. The Flinn Scholarship, which is valued at more than $130,000, covers the costs of tuition, housing, meals and at least two study abroad experiences.
The scholarship also includes mentorship and networking opportunities, social and cultural activities, membership to the school of choice’s honors program and participation in the Flinn Scholars community. More than 1,000 applications were received last October for the scholarships. Students had
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Gold Star families honored with memorial, park BY KAREN SCHAFFNER Tucson Local Media Staff
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gifted athlete, Christopher Moon was an active kid who rode BMX bikes. Christopher was an artist and a good student. By all reports he was a bright light, a natural leader. One thing about him, he always wanted to be a soldier. Christopher graduated from Tucson High School and attended one semester at the UA. Then he enlisted in the Army. He served with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and was a sniper with the 2508 Parachute Infantry Regiment. His mother, Marsha Moon, knew he would enlist. She also knew she wouldn’t have her son for long. It wasn’t easy to admit, but it was always there. “I don’t know if moms have this connection with their kids, (but) even when he was a child and growing up, I always had this sense, and I didn’t like it, but I had a sense,” she said. “It’s like, why do I feel like I’m not going to have
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Marsha Moon was the keynote speaker at the dedication of the Gold Star Families Memorial Monument. Her son, Christopher Moon, died from injuries received in Afghanistan.(Karen Schaffner/Staff) him that long? It was something that I didn’t like thinking about. Well, you worry about your children, but for some reason, more so him than anything.”
She was right; she didn’t have him long. He deployed to Afghanistan, where he was shot at
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