A new home: How a Ukrainian refugee settled in Grant County
Kuzhel plays with Mariah, the daughter of a friend, at a park near the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.
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Vitalii Kuzhel stands next to a row of books at Big Bend Community College, where he is currently attending classes to improve his English.
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Vitalii Kuzhel, left, sits next to Mike Lovyn, a fellow Ukrainian refugee who resettled in Moses Lake when he was a child. The two met at Source of Life Church, where many Pentecostal Ukrainian immig
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Kuzhel stands, beaming, in the hallway of the Big Bend Community College building where he attends classes to improve his English.
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Kuzhel stands next to the raging Prut River near the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.
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MOSES LAKE — One of only two refugees resettled in Grant County last year, 21-year-old Ukrainian-born Vitalii Kuzhel already thinks he’d like to spend the rest of his life in Moses Lake.
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