Averie Wehr, business manager and staff writer for The Commander, is a freshman at University City High School. She’s usually busy trying to coordinate advertisements into the paper and communicate with clients. Wehr has been able to get a lot of money for the paper through the advertisements that she sells. She won’t be here during her sophomore school year, but she hopes to return and pick up where she left off.
Besides working for the paper, Wehr watches, and obsesses over, the BBC television show Sherlock. She also plays on the JV Softball Team as an outfielder. Wehr is a volunteer at a bird sanctuary in Del Mar. There, she helps handle and feed the birds, she teaches the public about the sanctuary and helps raise money.