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Refugee Kids with Olympic-sized Dreams
Each summer, the Boise Park and Recreation Department hosts the "Hershey" games, where children compete in track and field events. Boise State Radio's George Prentice caught up with a group of future track stars at the Davis Community Center in North Boise. They also happen to be refugee children, from Afghanistan, Somalia and Russia. © Copyright 2009, idaho
(2008-08-22)
BOISE, ID
(idaho) -
Through the past two weeks of the Summer Olympics, we've been meeting some of the Olympians of tomorrow, or at least Idaho kids with world-class dreams.Each summer, the Boise Park and Recreation Department hosts the "Hershey" games, where children compete in track and field events. Boise State Radio's George Prentice caught up with a group of future track stars at the Davis Community Center in North Boise. They also happen to be refugee children, from Afghanistan, Somalia and Russia. © Copyright 2009, idaho

