By Joseph DellaValla, special to The Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY — It had been about two years since I’d seen my ninth-grade Spanish teacher, Sarah “Profa” Asbell, one of my all-time favorites. She didn’t reach out about Spanish, oddly enough, but about something new: MWV School to Career Camps. She had just taken the role of director of the summer camps and wanted to catch up. I’m so happy I said yes — not just because I admire her as a teacher, but because our interests still align in ways I hadn’t expected.
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