If what we're doing seeds a young person so that person can establish his or her roots in the community, then we've had an amazing success. |
It really was an epiphany that some of us had. Every year the Lions Club gives upward to six scholarships to kids who are going on to college. |
There is a percentage of kids who don't go on to college for a variety of reasons. And the irony is that, often, those are the kids that are staying in the community and not going away. |
We clearly don't want to send the message in this program that we don't want people to go to college or that this is a substitute for college. |