War, health, family concerns: St. Paul Optimist Club scholarship winners beat odds ‘to ...

One fled war-torn Ethiopia, one has a degenerative neuromuscular condition and another hopes to represent Haiti in the 2028 ...

Optimist Club scholarship winners are ‘focused on trying to make a better future’

One fled war-torn Ethiopia and arrived in St. Paul at age 20. Another has a degenerative neuromuscular condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. There’s one who hopes to represent Haiti ...