Claire Ure: Senorita Sunshine
Yes, yes, JP, you’re a little ray of sunshine too…
Now, you might think this is going to be a happy birthday thing for former CHS soccer stud JP Ward, but you’d be wrong.
Sure, JP hits the big 2-1 today and he is a pitch legend and he is a lil’ ray of sunshine and all, so it would fit.
But nope.
JP gets to slide to the side so we can honor his girlfriend instead, the sunniest ray of sunshine in all the land, one Miss Claire Ure.
A former Coupeville star now wrapping up her high school days in Oak Harbor, Claire has also followed in the footsteps of big sis Jenna (pretty dang sunny herself) by working at Christopher’s on Whidbey.
Through easy shifts and slammed-to-the-wall nights, Claire is always like a breath of fresh air.
As genuinely sweet a person as you are likely to meet, she treats everyone the same — welcoming them with soft words, a calmness of spirit and a smile that would warm even the hardest of hearts.
To know Claire is to like her and anyone who would say a single ill word about her is likely to end up in a ditch someplace outside city limits, deposited there by her epically-sized fan club.
She is smart, she is kind, she is wonderful (she maybe needs to drive a little slower…), she is living, breathing proof that Jewel is not the only mega star to emerge from the wastelands of Alaska.
Wherever she goes, whatever she does after graduation, she will be amazing.
I hope, as she celebrates her birthday, Claire realizes how much everyone around her — from her family to her friends to her co-workers — thinks she is the bee’s knees.
The world adores you, Miss Ure, and you deserve every accolade.
Oh, and JP, you’re not too bad, either.
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