Viral Facebook post helps Valley man receive CDL school scholarship – KRGV

Strangers came together to help a Rio Grande Valley man pay for trucking school. Roberto Yzaguirre just finished his first week at a CDL school. He’s tried going for several years, but it all became a reality last week. A Facebook post showing him in Weslaco went viral and changed his life. “I really wasn’t expecting that, it was really like overwhelming at first, but I got it as a sign from God, like ‘hey, calm down I got your back’,” Yzaguirre said. The picture showed him outside a convenience store next to his water cooler with a sign asking for donations to attend CDL school. Seeing himself online was a spotlight he wasn’t expecting. “At first I was kind of shy, I was kind of, I guess like nervous, because I didn’t know how the community would see it,” Yzaguirre said. “All of the positivity, positive comments, you know what I mean? All it did was to encourage me to keep going, never give up.” The Facebook post got close to 3,000 reactions and almost 500 comments, including some from CDL schools to help him with a scholarship. “It just made me feel like all of my hard work
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