Helena High School Grad Gets Special Shoutout: 'She's A Winner!'

Helena, AL — Graduation is a major milestone and deserves to be celebrated! That's why Patch and T-Mobile have teamed up to recognize our community's outstanding 2024 graduates.

This submission comes from Shirley Boyd who nominated Karley of Helena.

Graduate’s name

Karley

What grade is the graduate finishing?

High School

What school is your graduating student graduating from?

Helena

How do you know your graduating student nominee?

She’s my second brothers granddaughter

Tell us why they deserve to be nominated!

[Karley is] now graduating from Helena High School with honors in the National Technical Honors Society and graduating this May 2024. Karley was Homecoming Queen 2020 of Helena High School. Her involvement in school activities was exciting and fun including being a member of the tennis team and excelled in a winning smile and attitude that made her many friends in school.

Karley has been working for the last two years at Chic- fil- a and now at Old Time Pottery. She will be attending Jefferson State for two years and plans to attend a nursing program to become a RN.
Yes this young woman’s life may not be extraordinary to some folks but to us her family, her mother and her adopted dad Brad her life is extraordinary! Karley made the very best of a difficult situation. She could have felt abandoned and hopeless like so many kids with similar hard life situations in our country who lose their way but instead she continued to thrive! Karley has accomplished much beyond what could have been a life of hopelessness and waste. But not our Karley! She’s a winner!🥇

What's one thing you want everyone to know about your graduating student nominee?

Karley made sweet ‘lemonade’ out of sour ‘lemons’!

Congratulations on your achievements, and all of our best wishes to you in the future, Karley!

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