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Helping with 4-H The best investment I’ve ever made is the time I spend assisting my daughter and other youth in my community with their 4-H activities. We spend endless hours for officer duties, presentations, public speaking engagements, community service activities and raising and showing lambs, pigs or steers in the 4-H livestock show. They paid off in big bucks and other ways. The diverse experiences give young adults their people skills. They can communicate effectively with the public. They have confidence and positive self esteem. My daughter’s numerous 4-H activities were a big contributing factor to her being awarded 13 academic scholarships ranging from $100 to $10,000 (enough to pay for her four-year education at North Carolina State University). Searching for scholarships and assisting in proofing applications required many hours of burning the midnight oil for me. Her presentations and experiences in 4-H helped prepare her for scholarship interviews. I am very proud of her now as an Environmental Engineer. What better venture could a mother make then an investment in our children who are the future leaders of our community and county? Mary Kay
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