Kyla Ritchey was a bit surprised when Ethan Mills expressed an interest in running for Washougal High School’s Associated Student Body (ASB) president position in February 2020.
“I had never had him in my ASB program,” Ritchey, the school’s ASB adviser, said. “He had done it in middle school, but he was never able to fit into his schedule (in high school). He came to me, and I was a little apprehensive at first; I was like, ‘Well, I don’t know.’ But he won, and a majority of the students voted for him, so obviously they knew him better than I did.”