Sentral Students Join Kossuth County Connections
November 07, 2006
Several Sentral students have become
part of the Kossuth Connections organization. They have made
the commitment to stay drug, alcohol and tobacco
free. They meet once a month at school, and once a quarter
with other students in Kossuth County for "Conversations with
Youth". This meeting is where Kossuth Connections host
an evening for area kids and community leaders to join together and
share ideas about how to make Kossuth County a better place. The
Sentral students will help plan and host a Christmas Dance December
29, 2006 at the Algona KC Hall with door and costume prizes. They
will be asking area businesses for donations to contribute to the
dance. Please support our youth in their quest to help make Kossuth
County a better place to live and give our county's youth an
alternative place to go. Students participating are pictured
above: Calee Underwood, Lexa Boeckholt, Mindy Meyer, DJ Meyer,
Tess Rockey, Corrin Rahm, Alysha Person, Caroline Brandenburg,
Caitlyn Nerem, Kyle Rahm, Shawn McCleish, Austin Bernhard, Jackie
Bierle, Dalton Boettcher, Chelsea Hansen. Thank you to these
students for making this commitment.
Kossuth Connections is an organization that
strives to make Kossuth County a better place to live. The
president of Kossuth Connections, Todd Holmes, said their mission
is to make Kossuth County a safe, healthy, drug and crime free
place to raise children, work and live. Other adult members of the
grant funded Kossuth Connections include school principales,
parents, YMCA personnel and other concerned county individuals. A
survey was taken throughout the county and found that one of the
most problematic areas of the county is its youth. Now that they
know there is a need for this type of program, they are trying to
provide activities that are of interest for the youth. The youth
provide them with the ideas; the adult members are there just to
provide the means. Kossuth Connections is working to implement
several things. One of these things is a smoke free environment in
all the city parks in Algona. This is being done in an effort to
try to cut down on underage smoking. Another project they are
trying to implement is a keg registration program. This would give
the authorities a chance to identify who provided alcohol for
underage drinkers and help cut down on underage drinking in the
community. The youth of Kossuth County is the current concern for
Kossuth Connections, but in the future hopes to have programs to
help all age groups in Kossuth County.
