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Message from the President
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Leader Dog Youth: What They Can Teach Us
- Published in: Update - Issue 3 - 2009
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Photo caption: Jessie Fouts gets a hand making her way through the ‘spiders web’ at our summer youth camp at Bear Lake Camp. The campers had to all link hands and make their way through without touching the web.
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It’s an old saying among actors, “Never work with kids or animals.” Needless to say, we don’t have many actors hanging around Leader Dog.
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This issue of Update is filled with kids. Young people who are challenging themselves to become better people, to have new experiences, to help themselves or help others. Some are working to accept and conquer their sight limitations by learning how to use new technology and work together as a team. Many are raising money to support people they have never met, people who live in other states and foreign countries. Others are raising puppies to be future Leader Dogs knowing that one day they will have to part with their canine friend just when that dog has wriggled its way into their heart.
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These kids are energetic, sometimes loud, but always motivated by what comes next. What new skills can they learn, what new people can they meet, and what can they do to help more?
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These kids are teachers. They show us to look beyond today to what we can do to make tomorrow better, to have a brighter future – whether for ourselves or for someone else.
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They are all to be commended. They are setting and accomplishing goals that would challenge many adults. And they’re doing it with huge smiles on their faces.
Kids, thanks for the life lesson. 
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