{"id":12751,"date":"2020-01-22T04:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2020-01-22T04:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:03:46","slug":"zach-sabina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/zach-sabina\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Sabina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning from challenges, teaching others<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Eric Valentine<\/em><\/p>\n

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WRHS student Zach Sabina. Photo credit: Craig Sabina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Zach Sabina thinks about his hopes for the future, he looks back on his past, and that gives him an understanding of how \u201ccommunity\u201d works.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, the Wood River High School senior was a Hood River, Ore., middle schooler. Moving to Hailey at that juncture in one\u2019s life is not easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took time to adjust to the school,\u201d Sabina acknowledged, but \u201cI felt the most at home when I was running, skating, and skiing, and that is how I have made my best friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teaching those skills to youth is now a passion of Sabina\u2019s, manifested by his volunteer work with the Papoose Club\u2014a nonprofit focused on educational, cultural and athletic growth for children in the Wood River Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to travel and continue to teach things I love to the youth because it is important to me that these skills and activities I have had the privilege of learning are passed on to the next generation,\u201d Sabina said. \u201cI have skied and played tennis since I was very young and they are a large source of entertainment and happiness in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabina, whose father was a professional mogul skier, says the sports he\u2019s been able to enjoy in the Valley have helped him develop a strong work ethic. It\u2019s the same principle that drives him while taking A.P. Language, A.P. Microeconomics, Spanish, Algebra 2 and Band.<\/p>\n

Sabina doesn\u2019t have a particular school in mind yet, but he hopes to attend a four-year college and major in economics and\/or computer sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will miss the locals the most that welcomed me into the Valley so graciously when I moved here,\u201d Sabina said while contemplating what he\u2019d miss most about life here if school takes him outside the Valley. \u201cI have met some of the nicest people just by getting involved and participating in a variety of activities here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Education available for all people, regardless of race and gender, is Sabina\u2019s biggest hope for a better world. And he\u2019s clear on why.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like so much potential is being lost from the millions left without education. I imagine what the human race would be capable of if everyone had an education,\u201d Sabina observed.<\/p>\n

Sabina\u2019s mother lived in the Valley for 16 years before she moved to Oregon to be with his dad, who loved the steep, challenging terrain of Bald Mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was born in Hood River but I had been visiting Sun Valley my entire life,\u201d Sabina explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning from challenges, teaching others By Eric Valentine When Zach Sabina thinks about his hopes for the future, he looks back on his past, and that gives him an understanding of how \u201ccommunity\u201d works. Five years ago, the Wood River High School senior was a Hood River, Ore., middle schooler. Moving to Hailey at that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sponsored","8":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}