Tatihana DeHoyos, an eighth-grader at Skyview Middle School, tapes up a flyer with assistance from Kendra Rolence (far left) and Priscila Moreno (center), both seventh-graders at Skyview Middle School, to promote a pancake breakfast fundraiser for a school trip on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, in Soldotna, Alaska. DeHoyos and other eighth-graders from the middle school will travel to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Virginia, and New York City to visit museums and monuments and take in a Broadway show during the last week of May. They held a pancake breakfast at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Soldotna on Sunday from 12p.m. &

Tatihana DeHoyos, an eighth-grader at Skyview Middle School, tapes up a flyer with assistance from Kendra Rolence (far left) and Priscila Moreno (center), both seventh-graders at Skyview Middle School, to promote a pancake breakfast fundraiser for a school trip on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, in Soldotna, Alaska. DeHoyos and other eighth-graders from the middle school will travel to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Virginia, and New York City to visit museums and monuments and take in a Broadway show during the last week of May. They held a pancake breakfast at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Soldotna on Sunday from 12p.m. &

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Tatihana DeHoyos, an eighth-grader at Skyview Middle School, tapes up a flyer with assistance from Kendra Rolence (far left) and Priscila Moreno (center), both seventh-graders at Skyview Middle School, to promote a pancake breakfast fundraiser for a school trip on Sunday in Soldotna. DeHoyos and other eighth-graders from the middle school will travel to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Virginia, and New York City to visit museums and monuments and take in a Broadway show during the last week of May. They held a pancake breakfast at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Soldotna on Sunday from 12p.m. – 3 p.m.. While customers brunched on pancakes and sausage, the girls walked down to the businesses nearby to post flyers and encourage customers to come by. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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