Namedropper 5-18-08

Yuma Youth Leadership grads; Karla Billdt; Anthony Busellato

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YUMA YOUTH LEADERSHIP GRADS

  A new group of students graduated Thursday from Yuma Youth Leadership. The program's goal is to prepare students to become future community leaders.

  Graduates from Yuma High School are Alexis "Lexi" Alka, Alejandra Calderon, Lorena Elizabeth Lopez and Quincy Jamal Young. Graduates from Yuma Catholic are Mark "Joe" Allegranza and Nicolas Joseph Rodriguez. San Luis High school graduates are Maura Alejandra Martinez and Bertha Yadira Morales.

  Kofa High School graduates are Stephanie D. Gonzalez and Justin Calvin Sutton; Cibola High School graduates are Danae Tera Figueroa, Luz Maria Lavonne Gaud, Daniel Christopher Little, Adam Martinez, Allison "Ali" C. Murray, Rose Chelsea Ostrowski, K-Eun "Kay" Son, Tasha M. Streich, Maria Ivette Garibay and Elizabeth Elvia Villalpando.

  Hannah Grace Lobato is the Calvary Baptist School graduate and Tiffany Mary Woodruff from Antelope High School.

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KARLA BILLDT

  Chef Karla Billdt of Karla's Kreations, A Personal Chef Service, recently participated in a master food styling class held in Durham, N.C., taught by Food Fanatics Denise Vivaldo and Cindee Flannigan.

 The class provided insight on what needs to be done with food to make it look perfect in magazine ads and on television spots.

  Billdt has been asked to apprentice at Food Fanatics in Los Angeles this summer.

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ANTHONY BUSELLATO

  Anthony Busellato has joined the Yuma branch of Farm Credit Services Southwest as a portfolio manager.

  Busellato was raised in northwest Oklahoma, where his grandparents still own and operate a small farm. Throughout school, he was a member of 4-H and FFA.

  He earned a degree in animal science with a minor in agriculture economics from Oklahoma State University. He was the Santa Cruz County 4-H program assistant in Nogales while earning his master’s degree from the University of Arizona.