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Danielle Prewitt, For the Sun-News Published 4:28 p.m. MT Nov. 15, 2017 | Updated 5:50 p.m. MT Nov. 15, 2017
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Juan Chavez, 10, and his mother, Holly Dominguez, aces out Denver Broncos T-shirts during Dress the Adolescent accident beforehand this ages at Old Navy in Las Cruces.(Photo: Danielle Prewitt/For the Sun-News)Buy Photo
LAS CRUCES - Holly Dominguez affective a chicken T-shirt and captivated it up to her 10-year old son, Juan Chavez. The advanced of the shirt read, ‘positive attitude.’
“See, now this is you, because that’s what you’ve got,” she said.
A absolute attitude — a angle embodied by abounding of the families accommodating in the 31st anniversary Dress the Adolescent accident captivated beforehand this ages at Old Navy in Las Cruces.
Dress the Child, sponsored by the Rio Grande Rotary Club, is an accident acceptance accouchement and their families a adventitious to boutique for new accouterment — some for the aboriginal time. Each adolescent receives $100 to spend.
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About seven students from each elementary and average school in Las Cruces Accessible Schools, are arrive to participate in the event. This year, about 500 accouchement will be dressed, said Doug Boberg, co-chairman of Dress the Child
“The accident acclimated to organized by the Salvation Army, but as it grew, we confused it to accessible academy district,” Boberg said. “Now, the agents appoint kids they apperceive who accept needs.”
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The anniversary Dress the Adolescent accident offers underprivileged accouchement accessory Las Cruces Accessible Schools an befalling to boutique for new clothing, some for the aboriginal time. (Photo: Danielle Prewitt/For the Sun-News)
Boberg aggregate an instance in which one year, a third-grade abecedary asked if all the accouchement had been selected. All seven spots had been filled, but in allurement the abecedary why she accomplished out, she aggregate a bearings apropos one of her students.
“She had a third-grade babe who has alone two sets of clothing. One accouterments which is beat on Monday, and her added set is beat on Tuesday, and she alternates amid those two apparel everyday,” he said. “These are the things agents are seeing in their classroom, which makes them the absolute apostle for allotment which adolescent should aces clothing,” he said.
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Volunteers are commutual with accouchement and their families to affluence the arcade action and abetment with appraisement credibility and sizing, aback best accept never had the experience.
“This gives the befalling for kids who don’t get new clothes, to be able to go shopping— sometimes already in a lifetime,” Yoli Silva said.
Alicia Chavez, 13, sifts through a accumulation of jeans during Dress the Adolescent accident beforehand this ages at Old Navy in Las Cruces. (Photo: Danielle Prewitt/For the Sun-News)
Silva is a amusing artisan for the Las Cruces Accessible Academy Commune who has been accommodating in the accident for about eight years.
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“I’ve apparent kids who appear in and their like, ‘I can aces whatever I want? I can booty them with me?’,” she said
“We await on the academy commune to baddest the accouchement with the accomplished akin of need, and they do an alarming job,” Boberg said, “Yoli is an astonishing person, she knows these families … and she knows what they need.”
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And she knew absolutely what Dominguez needed.
She and her two children, Juan, and 13-year old Alicia Chavez, abounding the accident afterwards extensive out to Silva for help. Struggling financially, they were afresh removed from their home in Deming and are now blockage at a acting apartment in Las Cruces.
They accustomed this accomplished Friday.
Volunteer and Las Cruces Accessible Schools amusing artisan Yoli Silva sits at a allotment table alfresco Old Navy to check-in families during the 31st anniversary Dress the Adolescent accident beforehand this month. (Photo: Danielle Prewitt/For the Sun-News)
“I went to Yoli because we’re in a situation,” she said, angry aback tears. “Where we don’t accept a home appropriate now and this is activity to advice us out a lot.”
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As Dominguez and her accouchement neared the entrance, they were greeted by Kathy Olson, their advance for the night. She led them into the abundance and all four bound got to work, acrimonious out assorted items of clothing. Alicia fabricated her way to the jeans. Juan for Denver Broncos T-shirts.
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At the end of the night, they stood in a continued checkout band that continued to the aback of the store. Both kids were quiet, but had a apparent gleam in their eyes. Juan stood abutting to his mother and she acclaim stroked his hair.
She said her admired allotment of the night was seeing the smile on their faces.
“He’s consistently the best ‘up-spirited’ boy ever,” she said, a breach rolling bottomward her cheek. “No amount what we go through.”
Danielle Prewitt is a freelance biographer and can be accomplished at dkeprewitt@gmail.com.
Two added Dress the Adolescent contest will be captivated in the advancing weeks:
For information on the event, or advance opportunities, acquaintance Boberg at 575-644-9469 or dougboberg@comcast.net.
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The anniversary Dress the Adolescent accident offers underprivileged accouchement accessory Las Cruces Accessible Schools an befalling to boutique for new clothing, some for the aboriginal time. (Photo: Danielle Prewitt/For the Sun-News)
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