Let's give thanks

and brag and give credit where credit is due. The YOUTH of our community

are absolutely awesome!

Thinking back on the

past school year, the accomplishments and contributions of our youth are

literally astounding. Their sports teams (not their W's), their bands

(not their "hardware"), their choirs and choruses and orchestras

and drama troupes (not just their All-Staters), their service organizations,

their scholastic achievements (not just their Valedictorians), their recent

superb Class of 2003, their lack of violence, their peace-loving law-abiding

spirit, their loyalty to family, their humor we could go on and on all

of these bring such blessings to us.

Thank You, God, for

the young people among us! Thank you, young people, for your outstanding

contribution to our way of life here! We're proud of you! We brag on you!

We'd put you up against any youth anywhere! You are AWESOME!

To you, the Class

of 2003, we wish you God's blessings as you open an exciting new chapter

in your lives. Some of you will be close and come back often. Some of

you will move far away and may never really live here again. To all of

you we say, "Way to go! Come