Two Rivers student heading to bright future at St. Thomas Alessandra Valadez-Ochoa, 18, a senior at Two Rivers High School in Mendota Heights and three-year participant in DCTC’s Upward Bound program, is heading to the University of St. Thomas after being awarded the competitive Dease Scholarship. “I was genuinely so frazzled when I received the news, but I was so insanely proud of myself and my family. Because without them and our hard work, I...