By Kasey Fowler, Staff Writer
Leadership Greater Enid, class 18, and Youth and Family Services hosted a barbecue and job fair for YFS youth Satur-day.
LGE class member Sean Byrne, with Youth and Family Services, said the LGE class has a project every year to help the community and this year they chose to help Youth and Family Services kids.
“It is helping them with career paths and schooling opportunities. They don’t need to be limited by what they may have been told they could do. We have leaders from Edward Jones, Oak-wood Mall, StarTek, Conti-nental Resources, the fire department and more,” said Byrne.
“All these people are here to tell them their options and mentor them. It is very neat. It almost brings a tear to my eye that this many people are willing to give up their Saturday to help these kids. It really says something about the community.”
LGE class member Lori Legere, with Garfield County Commis-sioners office, said the kids sometimes feel limited in job choices.
“Often they just want to go to work for Sonic or something like that. Not that it is bad, but we want them to see other options, career paths and school,” said Legere.
LGE class member Cara Evans, with CLM Manage-ment and Marketing, said the class chose this project to help the kids.
“We want to help them explore their career options and paths. It isn’t lecture style. You get to mingle one-on-one. We get to talk to them and they get to ask questions about our jobs and what we do,” said Evans.
LGE class member Leigh Vahovius, with Okla-homa State University, said the environment makes it easier to talk to the kids.
“I am so excited about today. It is a friendly environment to talk to the kids,” said Vahovius.
In addition to donating their time on a Saturday to talk to the youth at Youth and Family Services about career options, the LGE class also hosted a barbecue, donated the food and grill, as well as gifts for the kids.
“We each brought a gift for the kids. I did a Bath and Body Works girlie basket. There are also sports and food baskets. We are in hopes we will impact kids lives,” said Legere.
