Cierra CarricoCierra Carrico, a 2010 graduate of Delta High School, has been selected to represent the United States by volunteering in South Africa next summer with International Student Volunteers (ISV), a volunteer and travel organization.

ISV is an internationally recognized organization that appoints university students from the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom to various countries around the world in an effort to impact entire communities and endangered habitats in need.

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Invited to the White House

Barbara Silverman and Janice Phillips attended a White House holiday reception and issues briefing last week in Washington, D.C.The invitation came as the result of having worked as volunteers in the Obama re-election campaign in the Cedaredge, Orchard City and Delta areas. Both said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to hear the president and first lady and to see the White House in its holiday finery.

Photo submitted Eddie Ricord (right) receives a farewell gift from the commander of SOCAFRICA, Rear Admiral Brian Losey.CWO4 Eddie Ricord is returning to civilian life and his home state of Colorado after a 34-year career in the U.S. Army which took him to Central America, South America, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East.

"I went on active duty to see the world, and I did," Ricord said in a phone interview from Germany.

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Patti KalaharPatti Kalahar is Delta County Memorial Hospital's new marketing and education manager, replacing 29-year veteran hospital employee Kathy Sramek, announced Jason Cleckler, the hospital's CEO and chief clinical officer.

Kalahar brings 35 years of professional marketing and communications expertise to the position.

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