Hazel

Life is taking off for a 2024 Mora High School graduate.

Hazel Carda returned to Mora, Minnesota recently to celebrate the holidays with her family, having left her aeronautical science and flight training at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

While the cold weather and dusting of snow may take some getting used to, she is happy to be returning - if even for a short break - to the home town where she has lived her whole life.

Carda first considered becoming a pilot after traveling to Europe with the high school German club.

"That experience of seeing the world open...