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Stacy was born on October 2, 1979 at St. Agnes Hospital in Fresno, California. She was a very vibrant youngster: active and bright. At 3 ½-years-old, she was reading to her preschool class and performing with a gymnastics group. In elementary school, she placed second in the Fresno County Spelling Bee and won awards at the Peach Blossom Festival. Stacy grew up as part of the Kingsburg Methodist Church family and later became part of the Sanger Baptist Church.
She was a competitive gymnast for the Clovis Academy of Gymnastics through 8th grade when she was sidelined with a broken hand. Even though her hand was in a cast, she was able to anchor her junior high 400-Meter Relay team to victory.
In Defiance
I got an email this week from Sonya Hemmen, head of school at Ross Montessori in Carbondale. The subject line was “One year ago,” and attached were several cell phone photos she had taken on March 11, 2020 of students gathered shoulder to shoulder in the school’s spacious entryway.
The images were from the school’s “Peace Presentations.” There were fun hats, special certificates were handed out, a teacher was playing guitar and students were singing.
My how things have changed.
Such a gathering wasn’t even allowed for several ensuing months. Once students returned to classrooms in the fall, any such gathering would require facemasks, students would be separated into smaller “cohort” groups, spaced 6 feet apart … oh, and no passing of papers and certainly no singing!
Happy New Year . . . Penny Keeling (left) and one of her host mothers Monika Tanner celebrate a subdued farewell to 2020. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
When 16-year-old Penny Keeling boarded a plane for a year in Switzerland last January, Covid-19 was an obscure virus in China slowly worming its way into the public’s consciousness.
Two months later, almost to the day, the former St Kevin’s College student was being locked down along with the rest of the world. The only difference was, she was living with almost complete strangers who spoke a different language.
On January 12, Penny left New Zealand as part of the Rotary Exchange Programme.
Paul Gerald Costin altamontenterprise.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from altamontenterprise.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.