Western Nebraska Observer - Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Carina Chen, from Shanghai, China, is one of the five foreign exchange students at Kimball High School. Placed through the STS Foundation which has a goal to provide educational exchanges for young people wishing to visit the United States.

Chen was placed with Dawn Hickman and Robert Hinton and their seven-year-old son, Noah.

"They are just like family," Chen said with a smile aimed at Dawn.

She traveled more than 6,600 miles to get to Kimball in August and has gone from living in a city of 24 million to a town of 2,500. In fact, the high school she attended in Shanghai has more students...