Colfax High School junior Rebekah Huber places first in essay contest

When Colfax junior Rebekah Huber decided to enter the Seattle World Affairs Council's essay contest this year, she decided to draw from personal experiences in writing to the prompt.

The prompt asked for entrants to pick a country and write about what they would do if they traveled there and explain the steps they would take to make those travels sustainable.

This prompt was based on the United Nations declaration of 2017 as “The International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development.” Huber, daughter of Dan and Robin Huber of Colfax, decided to write the essay with Indonesia as her destina...