UPDATE: In HQ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTvud3idOY
"YACHATS HELPING HANDS WINS STATE AWARD
Helping Hands, a youth community service group sponsored by the Yachats Youth & Family Activities Program was recently awarded the 2009 Rural Award of Excellence in the Youth catefory by Rural Development Initiatives. The award honored a "young person or an organization of young people in a rural community who have demonstrated leadership and commitment to community values or have undertaken an important community changing project in the last four years."
The award was presented at the state-wide Regards 2 Rural Conference, attended by over 300 people from all over the state of Oregon. To find out more about Helping Hands, visit their website at http://www.yachatshelpinghands.org ."
--South Lincoln County News, March 25, 2009, page B5.
Since we couldn't all attend the awards, we made this video as our acceptance speech.
This video is now on YYFAP's channel in higher quality. Username is YYFAP.
milograamans 2 years ago
wow. Respect and congrats! Seems like an awesome group!
xo noellia
ynot92763 2 years ago 2
Thank you for the comment! It's really great to have a group that gets along so well... We just updated our website, which has some more current news about what we're doing. The link is in the description box if you're interested.
Appreciate the invite / sub! Congrats on the contest!
milograamans 2 years ago