BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay County Commissioners declared Oct. 2 to 8 as 4-H Week, adding that the organization has helped over 10,000 Clay County youth “become confident, independent, resilient, and compassionate leaders each year.”
The proclamation, made during the commissioners’ Sept. 27 meeting, says 4-H is the country’s largest youth development organization and provides opportunities through clubs, special interest projects, individual and family learning, mentoring, camping, and school enrichment. In Florida, 4-H is partnered with the University of Florida’s IFIS extension program.
In a second proclamation, commissioners declared October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The proclamation says that each day across the U.S. and its territories, nearly 70,000 victims of domestic violence seek services from domestic violence programs and shelters.
Before Commissioner Kristen Burke read the proclamation, Jennifer Rodriguez, CEO of Quigley House: the county’s sole certified domestic violence and sexual assault center, introduced her staff.
