HARWOOD HEIGHTS — Last summer — in the weeks preceding their final year as elementary school students — Union Ridge eighth-graders-to-be Jenny Esquivel and Katherine Resche made a pact. They resolved to do something big before their graduation. They just weren’t sure what. Or how big. And they had no idea, when they started, that they would make in the life of a student from their own school. “We wanted to do something bigger and different than anybody else had done before,” Katherine said. The girls brainstormed and spent much of their break discussing options. Then Jenny met another teen …
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