Congratulations to our 2008 Youth of The Year Emily Collins!

The recipient of this year’s Thomas Sauer Memorial Youth of the Year Award is Emily Collins (15) a freshman at Sonora High School. She has been a member of the La Habra Boys & Girls Club since the age of 7.

 

She is an active participant in a number of extra-curricular clubs: For example: she

is a part of Sonora High School’s Friday Night Live, a club that helps students be

safe and avoid getting into trouble. She also helps out at a community-based

instruction class by mentoring other students with disabilities. At our Boys & Girls

Club, she is an active participant in the Keystone Club.

 

Helping out in the community plays a big part in her life, donating to the less

fortunate, participating with her fellow Keystoners at the La Habra Host Lions

Club’s Corn Festival where the Keystone Club operates a Tostada Booth raising

funds to help both the Boys & Girls Club and service activities done with and for

the community. She also contributes her time by walking in the cancer research

walk-a-thons to help raise money towards the elimination of that deadly disease.

 

According to what she wrote in her essay, she enjoys being at the Boys and Girls

Club of La Habra because we have allowed her to be herself. She states that The

Boys and Girls Club staff have given her many opportunities to serve others and herself.

 

Emily says, “My life would be very different without the Boys & Girls Club. I

cannot imagine my life without my friends at the club".