Youth United members (Front row, pom lep): Candace Mulherin, Grace Carter, Turner Myers, AUx
Rickabaugh, Jessica Speer, Danielle CantreU, Ay ana Southerland, Courtney Cash (back row) Jay Cavenaugh,
Morgan Mikkola, Ben Cowgill, Chris Heaty, Chris CuthreU and Harrison Toohey.
Habitat youth group wins national award
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The Youth United group of Habitat for Humanity
of Forsyth County recently received the 2012 Build
Louder Award from Habitat for Humanity
International. The group was honored for its advocacy
efforts to educate the public and lawmakers about the
need for quality, affordable housing.
Habitat Forsyth's Youth United group is made up
of students from local middle and high schools who
raise money for, and participate in the building of, a
Habitat house each year.
During the 2011-2012 school year, the group, led
by former youth programs coordinator Claire Wisely,
sent hundreds of house-shaped paper mailers with
messages about the problem of poverty housing to
state elected officials.* Some of the paper houses were
signed by people who attended a pancake supper fund
raiser thai the group held in Winston-Salem.
The students also created a visual display, using
soda can tabs glued to wood, to demonstrate that one
of every three people in the world lives in poverty
housing. The display was placed in public areas to
raise awareness about poverty and Habitat's mission
in Forsyth County.
The Forsyth County group received one of only
two Build Louder awaitis given this year at a national
Habitat youth conference in Peachtree City, Ga. The
other was received by the Habitat campus chapter of
Villanova University, which regularly sends a group of
students to work on Forsyth County Habitat projects
through the Collegiate Challenge program.
Accepting the award on behalf of Habitat Forsyth
were Molly Williams, current youth programs coordi
nator, and Youth United members Ben Cowgill and
Alex Rickabaugh.
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Old Richmond's original 1896 two-room school house still stands on the campus.
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freedom. They have pro
tected those rights all over
the world. They have
endured hardships that
many of us couldn't imag
ine so we could all enjoy
freedom."
Students had a few
things to say too. The
recorded voices of stu
dents played as a slide
show was shown depict
ing the service of local
veterans. The presentation
was gleaned from reports
students were assigned.
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chose to profile veterans
in their own families or
other people they know.
Thomas DeLoach did
hi* report mi his neighbor,
John Whitley, a Navy vet
eran who served as a chef
on a destroyer escort in
the Pacific during World
War II. Thomas said the
project gave him a greater
appreciation of veterans.
They help our coun
try have freedom, and
they protect our country,"
he said.
The program ended
with two musical num
bers. For the first, groups
of students performed the
official songs for each
branch of Armed Forces.
When they sang "Anchors
Aweigh," the Navy vets in
the crowd stood;
Thompson and other Air
Force vets rose as they
sang the famous opening
line of the "Air Force
Song:" "Off we go into
the wild blue yonder."
Array and Marine vets
also rose when their
themes were performed.
The final number
began with two first
graders, Eryn Johnson
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and Grayson Bacon,
singing "God Bless
America." Suddenly dur
ing the song the entire
school, led by Moore,
joined in, with each of the
students in the crowd
waving a small American
flag that they had been
patiently holding the
entire time.
Adams told the stu
dents that he and his fel
low veterans were
touched by all that they'd
seen.
"I don't care who you
are, If that didn't move
you, you can't be moved,"
Mud Adams.
Old Richmond, which
was founded in 1896 in a
two room schoolhouse
that still stands on its
campus, involves its stu
dents in a number of
community-minded activ
ities throughout the year.
The school has recycling
initiatives and holds a
Science Night to raise
money for the Humane
Society. It is also a 2011
2012 School of
Distinction, meaning 80
percent or more of its stu
dents are performing at or
above grade level.
Principal
Brian Brookihire
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