Colby Charette talks with his mother, Monica, outside Messalonskee High School in Oakland on Wednesday. The Charette family announced a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against Harvest Hill Farm and will now move on with the work of the foundation they have set up in memory of Cassidy Charette, who was 17 when she died in a hayride accident.
Shawna Oliver, a friend of Cassidy Charette and a member of the ShineOnCass Foundation board, and Charette's brother, Colby, look at a tribute to Cassidy in the Messalonskee High School yearbook on Wednesday at the high school.
Colby Charette, Cassidy Charette's younger brother, and Shawna Oliver, a friend of Cassidy and a member of the ShineOnCass Foundation board, stand in front of and hold photos of the Oakland teenager killed in a hayride crash in October 2014.
Colby Charette points to a special tire cover he had made to honor his sister Cassidy, who was killed in October 2014. The family created the ShineOnCass Foundation to honor Cassidy and carry on the values she exemplified in her life.
The first recipient of the ShineOnCass Scholarship, Liz Larsen, left, who received it in 2016, congratulates Anna Dobos, who received it in June 2017 at Messalonskee High School.
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