Teen needs new teeth

I volunteer as a second year Confirmation teacher at St. Peter’s Catholic Church. I recently came in contact with a young man who I had heard about a few months back from my two teenage daughters who are in high school. They both know a boy in school who had been in a terrible skateboarding accident, and had tragically lost several of his front teeth.

On Nov. 17 at our youth group’s Large Group Gathering, I finally met Jesus Duran, who is still missing those teeth. The accident happened in April. His mother took him to the community clinic where he saw a dentist and they told her they would be...