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John Barnett has been named Student of the Month for October at Yakima's Perry Technical Institute.
Barnett enrolled at Perry after graduating from West Valley High School in 2006. He chose the school's Information Technology & Communication Systems Program.
"I wanted to make sure I studied in a field where there were a lot of jobs available," he said in a news release. "This is a very promising field."
Barnett earns "excellent grades" and serves as president of the school's chapter of the Telecommunications Student Association, according to the release. He also works three hours after school each day in the Selah School District's Technology Department. He's on track to graduate in December.
"John has been an excellent student, maintaining high grades throughout his training," says Mike Smith, head of the ITCS Program.
A Cle Elum man participated in a panel discussion on the lives of coal miners at CroatiaFest in Seattle last Sunday.
Jim Barich, a retired school principal, grew up in Roslyn and worked as a miner in Ronald before attending college and beginning his career in education. He talked about working in the mines at the fifth annual festival, held at the Seattle Center. This year's theme was "Croatian Hands at Work."
CroatiaFest celebrates Croatian culture and local Croatian-American communities, including the former coal-mining mountain burgs of upper Kittitas County. A display documenting the lives of early Croatian coal miners in those towns was part the event.
Barich's parents, Vance and Pauline Barich, came from Croatia.
Frank W. Brozovich, the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Croatia, grew up in Cle Elum and worked in the mines of Upper Kittitas County before becoming a dentist in Renton. He was invited, but was unable, to be a panelist Sunday.
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