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Combs Recognized as 2006 Partner in 4-H Winner

Virginia Yopp, president, N.C. 4-H Development Fund Board of Directors; Michael Armstrong, Combs leadership coordinator; and Dr. Johnny Wynne, dean of N.C. State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences present award to Combs students Kaleigh Naylor, Amanda Nash and Ben Rowland.

July 2006 - Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School has been recognized as a 2006 Partner in 4-H winner. Several school representatives were recognized at a luncheon during State 4-H Congress held recently at N.C. State University and other Raleigh locations.

Combs was recognized for the school's leadership in 4-H's "Helpful Hands, Healing Hearts" service project in fall 2005. The school helped create and donate Clover Kits, activity kits for children in shelters following hurricanes in Mississippi and Louisiana. North Carolina 4-H'ers, and partners like Combs Elementary, created 8,500 Clover Kits and essentials kits of toiletries that were delivered to Mississippi and Louisiana in October.

The Partner in 4-H award is designed to recognize individuals, groups or business organizations, foundations, associations, governmental bodies and other institutions that have worked closely with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in supporting the 4-H program.

The 4-H program is conducted by North Carolina Cooperative Extension at North Carolina State and North Carolina A&T State universities. More than 187,000 young people between the ages of 5 and 19 participate in North Carolina 4-H activities each year with the help of 20,000 adult and youth volunteers.

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