Students find path to college through Mariachi music

By Christina Arreola, Latina

Eight members of the Wenatchee High School mariachi band have something to celebrate this week.

The students, who are all the sons and daughters of Latino farmworkers, were accepted to Washington State University. All eight are the first in their families to gain admission to college.

“They could be the next lawyers, senators, doctors, and the next president of the United States,” Ramon Rivera, their band director, told a cheering theatre crowd during one of the mariachi band’s shows this past weekend.

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