When Hutchinson community activist Esmeralda Tovar-Mora had the opportunity to visit with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office last week, she shared with him a recent stressful experience in her life.
Seated beside the president, she told him about when her permit issued under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expired.
The policy temporarily protects immigrants brought to the country as children from being deported and allows them legally to work and drive.
It was her fourth renewal, and Tovar-Mora, brought here by her parents from Mexico when she was 2, thought that she’d applied in plenty of time.
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Agent
Sheila Metzger of Hutchinson has been recognized by American Family as a Peak Harvest Agent because of her expertise provided to farm and ranch customers in 2020. Metzger has been an agent for American Family since February 2009. Her office is located at 1210 N. Main St. in Hutchinson.
Equitable Advisors, LLC has recognized Financial Consultant
William E. Small, ChFC, CLU, MSFS of Hutchinson in the Top 5 of the Senior Sales Force in the United States for his year 2020 production. Small has represented Equitable for over 37 years working in business succession strategies, advanced estate planning and charitable giving development.
He has served in past leadership and board roles with the Hutchinson Association of Life Underwriters, Wichita chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals and has been a life member of the Million Dollar Roundtable for over 25 years.
SAMHSA is an agency in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in the nation’s capital.
Horizons was one of only six community mental health centers in Kansas selected as recipients of the expansion grants. Approximately 340 agencies throughout the nation are CBHCCs or have made an application to become one.
To complete the steps required to be a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, Horizons will be required to provide a comprehensive number of treatment services that create access, stabilize clients dealing with crisis, and provide treatment and recovery services for those with the most serious and complex mental health and substance abuse issues.