FAVORITE SONS & DAUGHTERS

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View welcomes announcements of recent achievements of Favorite Sons & Daughters who have attended local schools. Achievements may run the gamut from earning a college degree to successfully climbing Mount Everest. Please include student's name, age, area school attended and graduation year, parents' names and city of residence. Send announcements and photos by mail to: Lynn Benson, View, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070; by fax to 477-3852; or by e-mail, viewcalendars@viewnews.com.

Brittany Curtis, daughter of Dan and Patricia Curtis of Las Vegas, organized Operation We Care, sending care packages to troops in Iraq.

So far, with the help of family and friends, she has sent two shipments of items and plans to send another around Christmas.

Through the process, she has begun corresponding with a high school friend who serves in the United States Marines.

Curtis was inspired by her aunt Laura Mazzadra, who was sending items such as magazines, toothbrushes and gum to a friend stationed in Iraq.

Curtis, who will be a senior this fall at The Meadows School, is active in soccer and tennis, the National Charity League, volunteering at Summerlin Hospital and participating in her school's version of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Ty Anthony Hansen, 21, graduated from UAT in Tempe, Ariz., April 28 with a bachelor of science in software engineering with an emphasis on Web development.

Hansen, son of John and Debra Hansen of Las Vegas, is a 2004 graduate of Community College High School and completed his degree in three years while working full-time as a computer programmer.

He is spending the summer backpacking through Japan and Europe.

Laura Ashley Hansen, 18, graduated from Community College High School in June and simultaneously earned an associate of arts degree from the Community College of Southern Nevada in May.

Hansen is an illustration artist and some of her artwork was featured on a local billboard and in print campaigns in the U.S. and Canada.

She also was awarded a $1,500 national scholarship from Best Buy.

Hansen, daughter of John and Debra Hansen of Las Vegas, is going on her fifth mission trip this summer to Honduras and will spend three weeks with her brother Ty Hansen in Japan.

In the fall, she plans to attend NAU in Flagstaff, Ariz., majoring in art education.

Bernard Uhl, 18, graduated from Bishop Gorman High School, June 1.

Uhl plans to attend St. Mary's College of California in Morago, Calif., in the fall, where he will major in pre-med and psychology. He is son of Robert and Karena Uhl of Las Vegas.