

What Is There To Do In Tiny Highlands County?
Before my experience in the Mason G. Smoak Youth Leadership Highlands Program, my answer would be either "not much of anything" or "we...
Carson Angell


Government Day and Many More
Government day and many more. Every outing we did was tied into a leadership skill that we were suppose to take out of what we learned...
Ashley Engle


An Opportunity to Remember
As always, the day started early on a Wednesday morning. We pull up to the Sebring International Raceway, and a heavy fog hung over the...
Luke Halpern


Small County, Big Needs.
Over the past year in the Mason G Smoak Leadership group I’ve learned that even in such a small county, we have so much to do just...
Mary Young


YLH Class VI
Going into the YLH program, I did not have an idea of what exactly we would be doing or what would come out of it. All I knew was that I...
Chloe Fordham


Racing for the Heartland Food Bank
At six a.m. on Sunday morning our Youth Leadership Highlands group gathered at the South Sebring Publix to begin our grocery store race...
Julie Crow


Never in a Million Years!
The Grocery Race was the most stressful, yet exciting race I have ever done. Never in a million years did I think I was going to wake up...
Kirsten Oca