ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, June 12, 1996 TAG: 9606120012
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-10 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: DUBLIN
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
Loren Biggs, who is winding up her junior year at Pulaski County High School, has ambitions to be a lawyer. This summer, she will go to where laws are made.
Biggs has been chosen to work as a congressional page, after applying through the office of Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon. She will perform a variety of tasks, from answering telephones to delivering messages.
She has ambitions herself to hold an elected position one day, and wanted to see how legislators in Washington do their jobs.
"After graduation and after college, I intend to run for public office and I just thought it would be a good experience," she said.
She already has some experience. She was elected president of her class in her freshman and sophomore years.
Her family moved to Dublin from Beckley, W.Va., about seven years ago. She has a 21-year-old sister and a twin brother, Chase.
Loren has attended Girls' State and the Hugh O'Brien Youth conference. She had been accepted at a summer Governor's School program this year, but will have to forego that to go to Washington. As far as other teachers at the school know, this will be the first time a Pulaski County High School student has been accepted as a congressional page.
She has visited Washington three times, but not the Senate or House of Representatives. "I just love Washington," she said.
She said her ambition to become a lawyer is to assist others.
"It's just something I've always wanted to do. I mean, I've just always wanted to help people," she said. "I just see a lot of people who need help who aren't getting it."
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