Chesterfield County, Virginia Excerpts from Board of Supervisors meetings, 23 Feb 2022

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From YouTube: 2022 4H Virginia Youth in Action winner Andrea Farag - Feb. 23, 2022 BOS Meeting

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Meet the 2022 Virginia 4-H Youth in Action winner, Andrea Farag. 👏👏👏 This Chesterfield teen is making a powerful impact in our community and beyond through her involvement with the youth organization 4-H. Andrea’s passion for social justice, empowering youth voice, and a more inclusive 4-H organization earned her the Youth in Action award for Civic Engagement. The Thomas Dale High School senior will also serve as the Virginia 4-H spokesperson at the state and national level.

Join us in thanking Andrea for her tremendous work in the community!

A

Next, I'd like to invite andrea farag to come forward with bethany eigel division manager for cooperative extension to share some exciting news about the impact of a chess phil teen in making that's making our community community with the youth organization, 4-h award and a prestigious state award that went with it.

B

Thank you, dr casey, good evening. It's my honor to introduce you to andrea farage she's been a member of chesterfield 4-h for about 10 years now and most recently, and this past month she was awarded one of the most prestigious awards in virginia 4-h, a youth in action winner for civic engagement.

B

Most importantly, I just wanted to underscore the work that she's done to bring forth social justice issues, not only here in the community, but also at the state level, to help create a diversity and equity committee.

B

That's taking a look at policy changes to make virginia forage a more inclusive environment and she's also helped to promote a teen summit that is a statewide event offered throughout the year and again helping to give youth more voice in their communities, and so it's a very well deserved award and I'd like to introduce you to andre at this time.

C

Good evening, everyone, I would just like to say a big thank you for um just giving me the opportunity to be recognized tonight. um I see and hear all the hard work that you all do, and it's very inspiring to youth like myself um and that's what I advocate for is for youth to have more voice in the community and to continue doing civil or civic engagement work. So thank you all so much for your time this evening.

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D

I uh I spent a lot of time in 4-h growing up, so I appreciate the work you all do. Thank you.