The future looks bright for former Burns Lake resident Julia Varghese.
The 24-year-old overachiever has recently graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia’s (UNBC) northern medical program. She has now moved to Vancouver, where she will be doing her residency.
“Since a very young age she excelled in school and other extra curricular activities such as music and sports,” said her father Jose Varghese, who immigrated to Burns Lake from southern India when he was 19.
While
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